Why is this movie never praised?

Because Pitt is always saying it's one of his worst performances therefore ppl like to say it's really bad. I've always loved it as well and feel he did a very good job in this movie. This is the movie that really made me think that maybe he was more than just eyecandy.

This was one amazing film, and I did not find it too long at all. I enjoyed it immensely. I may be a liitle biased because I have been to the Himalayas, so I can vouch for the authenticity of the contacts with the Tibetan people.

Hmm, let me think, maybe because this movie is full of lies and so much inferior compared to the book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years_in_Tibet_(1997_film)#Reception_and_controversy

There are a number of significant differences between the original book and the 1997 film.
Harrer in the film is hailed as a 'German hero', and replies "Thank you, but I'm Austrian". To have said that in 1939 would have been extremely bold, since Austria had been part of Greater Germany since the Anschluss of April 1938.[1] Harrer says nothing about any such remark. Harrer at the train station in 1939 appears hostile to the Nazi Party, taking their flag with reluctance. The real-life Heinrich Harrer admitted he had been a Nazi SS officer before World War II.[2]
The film makes his son a key theme, but in the book Harrer does not mention his wife or son. He had in fact been married and divorced, as the film shows. But his ex-wife's new husband was killed in the war and Harrer's son was raised by his ex-wife's mother.[3] Harrer in his autobiography gives details of his contact with his son, but nothing to support what the film shows. In the book Harrer says there was little to tie him to home as one of the reasons for staying in Tibet and not returning to Europe.[4]
The pre-invasion visit of Chinese Communist negotiators to Lhasa, arriving at an airfield constructed by Tibetans, and their departure for China after a brief conference with their Tibetan counterparts—including the desecration of the sand mandala as well as the "religion is poison" remark--- as depicted in the film, do not occur in the book or in any of the numerous histories that have been written about the matter. There was no air link until Lhasa Gonggar Airport was constructed in 1956 - when the Dalai Lama visited Beijing in 1954, he used the still-incomplete road system.[5]
The whole sequence of negotiations and the installation of the Dalai Lama as ruler are out of sequence. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama was enthroned as the temporal leader of Tibet on 17 November 1950. After the Chinese crossed the Jinsha River and defeated the Tibetan army in October 1950, a Tibetan delegation was sent to Beijing and agreed on the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet.[6] Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama left Lhasa and took refuge on the border with India and Sikkim. The Dalai Lama disliked the agreement, but returned to Lhasa and for several years tried to work within its terms.[4]

Its not a very good film!

Its that man again!!