Over Rated + Boring

I recommend this movie to my friends and challenge them to sit through it. The rating of 8.0 and 6 Oscars also proves the point that crap movies can have high ratings and win Oscars.

I would like to know anybody who i) was over 22 when he watched this movie for the "First Time" ii) watched this movie for the first time After 1990s iii) wasn't already a Robert Holt fan iv) wasn't a fan of the main character beforehand i.e. wasn't hero worshipping the character beforehand- this could mean reading the play, history lesson, devout catholic, parents influence etc. If you fill all the above criterions and still like the movie then i would like to hear your perspective. For everybody else, I can understand why you liked the movie and you don't need to go into details.

All my friends fulfilled the above 4 criterion and found this movie to be a torture, slow, boring & pretentious (anything related to morality of kings, popes & church of medieval time is pretentious). Plus, the movie never seem to end and drags on & on. I'm willing to concede that the guy may be a hero but this movie was a drag.

P.s: my other bad movie recommendation is "lady In the water" but that is "I can't believe it's so stupid & horrible" bad. It's so bad that it's funny while AMFAS sucks the energy out of you and bore you to death. Now, the inevitable attack on my movie choices will start. I'll let you know that I've watched movies from 1930s era onwards and have a list of movies I like from every decade and that include slow movies and drama movies etc as well. I think this movie is such a bore and over-rated that I specifically made an IMDB account to write this post.