History YMMV / TheEnglishPatient

* HypeAversion: There's a throwaway joke from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' to the effect that a firework named for this film "looks beautiful, but it takes a very long time for (an) unsatisfying payoff" -- the joke being that watching the firework blow up is a similar experience to watching the movie, for many.
** ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' takes two shots at it -- once when Kahn, trapped in a cave, laments that he's going to "Die like English Patient girlfriend; long, painful, boring death!" and one in a side-book where Hank snarks that "You don't have to be English to watch this movie, but you sure as hell have to be patient."

* AwardSnub: Mainly remembered now as the movie that snubbed ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' for Best Picture and Director. Also, Creator/JulietteBinoche winning Best Supporting Actress over Creator/LaurenBacall (albeit more as an "overdue" win as her performance in ''Film/TheMirrorHasTwoFaces'' was considered good but hardly award-worthy) received backlash too.

* SequelDisplacement: The book is actually a sort-of-sequel to Ondaatje's earlier ''In the Skin of a Lion'', where Caravaggio and Hana were first introduced.

* AwardSnub: Mainly remembered now as the movie that snubbed ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' for Best Picture and Director. Also, Creator/JulietteBinoche winning Best Supporting Actress over the long overdue Creator/LaurenBacall received backlash too.

* SequelDisplacement: The book is actually a sort-of-sequel to Ondaatje's earlier ''InTheSkinOfALion'', where Caravaggio and Hana were first introduced.

** ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' takes two shots at it -- once when Kahn, trapped in a cave, laments that he's going to "Die like English patient girlfriend; long, painful, boring death!" and one in a side-book where Hank snarks that "You don't have to be English to watch this movie, but you sure as hell have to be patient."

* NeverLiveItDown: The film is now remembered almost entirely for being mocked on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. You'll have more luck finding someone who can quote "Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already!" than anything from the film itself. This actually persisted ''for years'' after the movie was mostly forgotten -- see SnarkBait.

* SequelDisplacement: The book is actually a sort-of-sequel to Ondaatje's earlier ''InTheSkinOfALion'', where Caravaggio and Hana were first introduced.
* SnarkBait: In addition to ''Seinfeld'', it was something of a mild meme in the late 1990s to mock this film for being exhausting to sit through. On ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', for instance there's a particularly funny moment when Khan sums it up as "Long, painful, boring death!"

* MisaimedFandom: There are people who think the Patient's affair with Katharine was a good idea. Doesn't help that the movie focused so much on that aspect of the story. That said, [[spoiler]]the husband decides on a murder-suicide after the affair is over and gets all three of them killed. [[/spoiler]]

* MisaimedFandom: There are people who think the Patient's affair with Katharine was a good idea. Doesn't help that the movie focused so much on that aspect of the story.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie is better known than the book, in as much as it's known at all, and the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode is known better than either of them, as mentioned above.

* HypeAversion

* NeverLiveItDown: The film is now remembered almost entirely for being mocked on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. You'll have more luck finding someone who can quote "Quit telling your stupid story, about the stupid desert, and just die already!" than anything from the film itself.

* SnarkBait: In addition to ''Seinfeld'', it was something of a mild meme in the late 1990s to mock this film for being exhausting to sit through. On ''Series/KingOfTheHill'' for instance there's a particularly funny moment when Khan sums it up as "Long, painful, boring death!"

* SnarkBait: In addition to ''Seinfeld'', it was something of a mild meme in the late 1990s to mock this film for being exhausting to sit through. On ''Series//KingOfTheHill'' for instance there's a particularly funny moment when Khan sums it up as "Long, painful, boring death!"

* SequelDisplacement: The book is actually a sort-of-sequel to Ondaatje's earlier ''InTheSkinOfALion'', where Caravaggio and Hana were first introduced.

* NeverLiveItDown: The film is now remembered almost entirely for being mocked on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. You'll have more luck finding someone who can quote "Shut up about the stupid desert and just die already!" than anything from the film itself.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie is better known than the book, [[DeaderThanDisco in as much as it's known at all]], and the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode is known better than either of them, as mentioned above.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Hey, [[Series/{{Lost}} Sayid]].

* DeaderThanDisco: The movie: won a bunch of [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture, now known mostly as an object of HypeAversion. [[AdaptationDisplacement As for the book...]] The film was briefly mentioned in Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel ''Damned'' as being a film played on a constant loop in Hell. Ouch.

* AwardSnub: mainly remembered now as the movie that snubbed ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' for Best Picture and Director. Also, Creator/JulietteBinoche winning Best Supporting Actress over the long overdue Creator/LaurenBacall received backlash too.

* HypeBacklash: despite receiving much acclaim when it came out, the film is now mainly remembered by some as the movie that snubbed ''{{Film/Fargo}}'' for many awards, including Best Picture and Director. Also, the fact that it became a joke on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' doesn't help matters much.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie is better known than the book, [[DeaderThanDisco inasmuch as it's known at all]], and the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode is known better than either of them, as mentioned above.
* DeaderThanDisco: The movie: won a bunch of [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture, now known mostly as an object of HypeAversion. [[AdaptationDisplacement As for the book...]] The film was breifly mentioned in Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel ''Damned'' as being a film played on a constant loop in Hell. Ouch.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie is better known than the book, [[DeaderThanDisco inasmuch as it's known at all]], and the Seinfeld episode is known better than either of them, as mentioned above.

* DeaderThanDisco: The movie: won a bunch of [[AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture, now known mostly as an object of HypeAversion. [[AdaptationDisplacement As for the book...]] The film was breifly mentioned in Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel ''Damned'' as being a film played on a constant loop in Hell. Ouch.

* DeaderThanDisco: The movie: won a bunch of [[AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture, now known mostly as an object of HypeAversion. [[AdaptationDisplacement As for the book...]]
** The film was breifly mentioned in Chuck Palahniuk's 2011 novel ''Damned'' as being a film played on a constant loop in Hell. Ouch.