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Originally Posted by blankall
Braveheart does not belong on that list.
I rewatched Braveheart. Now that I'm not teen who gets riled up by all the violence, the movie is trash. It's non-sensical.
The movie starts out with a middle aged Mel Gibson playing a romantic lead to a far younger lady played by an actress in her early 20s, and it's revenge porn from that point on. It's basically just Mel Gibson stroking his ego for hours. It's also horribly homophobic and misogynistic. All of the villains are mustache twirling caricatures of bad people and Gibson, despite being constantly unnecessarily violent, is depicted as always righteous.
It's a dumb movie.
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To each their own I guess, but calling an epic movie that won 30 awards worldwide including an oscar for best picture dumb trash seems well, a little dumb!, as is calling a film set in the 13th century horribly homophobic and misogynistic. This is like calling just about every western movie from the 60's-70's nothing but racist trash, I guess even a classic like Gone With The Wind is racist/sexist junk as well.
And unless things have changed, Mel Gibson was 38 years old when he made that film, hardly middle aged which historically starts at 45. I would bet 99% of people didn't even notice a difference in age.