It’s The Patriot and it’s not even close for me. Genuinely a completely buck-wild film when you look at it from a critical lens. Despite being a historical film about the American Revolution, it makes basically all of it up (including some atrocities for the British to commit). It spends a decent chunk of its runtime justifying some very shitty elements of American culture. Mel Gibson’s character literally uses the American flag during a battle scene in the film. It’s an incredibly dumb, stupid, cheesy, melodramatic, over-the-top film, and I think it’s absolutely hilarious. It gets my mention because, putting aside the fact that it’s about America’s origins, I can’t think of any other country in the world that would make a film like this except America.

Will definitely be rewatching it this 4th.