I like Braveheart a lot. It's been a while since I saw it and it's not something I'd go out of my way to watch but basically:

Well directed, well written, well acted ... some cracking fight scenes and a decent ending. Angus McFadyen (sp?) as Robert the Bruce steals the show completely IMO but that's fine.

That said, I don't think it's a great movie, just a competent one (although that is all too rare these days). Any anti-english overtones don't worry me unduly.

Now... The Patriot is an entirely different matter. One of the worst hours I have ever had to endure (that was as long as I managed to watch it before forced to go and do something more interesting like... I don't know, watch back to back episodes of Trisha or something). The script was character free, dialogue heavy tosh, it was excessively and unpleasantly violent and where the English villains in Braveheart had motivations for their actions, here being English seemed sufficient justification in and of itself for whatever injustices were to be perpetrated.

BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD

I really liked Braveheart, I havent seen the Patriot but my dad likes to tell me everytime it's advertised on telly how inaccurate it is and proceeds to tell me what was supposed to have happened (i wouldnt know i never took history).

Maybe I shouldn't comment as I haven't seen either film. But then I'm way too egotistical for such humility.

Anyway, the well documented historical inaccuracies (is that a PC way of saying lies?) were enough to put me off seeing either film. Both looked pretty bad to me. From what I know I can't understand why anyone would like The Patriot (which seems the worst of the two) but not Braveheart. But then watching either doesn't appeal to me, so what do I know.

As for the anti-Englishness, personally I couldn't care less. If your not used to the fact that Hollywood's preferred method of making someone look evil is to give them a (bad) English Accent then you shouldn't go to the cinema. Besides, historically, we deserve it.

Braveheart is a pretty cool film apart from the places where the battles took place, and it does have one of the (IMO) coolest lines in cinema.
"Where You Going?"
"I'm going to go pick a fight"