Very best movie i ever watch

As Good As It Gets

A lot of fun.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The Miniaturist teases you with the prospect of a proper mystery, but delivers only a tedious soap opera revolving around a group of characters apparently designed by a BBC diversity commission. Plausibility and realism are clearly not the priorities here: character 1) a freed slave/household servant who doesn't act like a servant but lips off the masters of the house, standing up for his rights and dignities in a way that makes us enlightened 21st-century folk feel great, but is radically unlikely for a 17th-century black man, and probably would have got him whipped or worse. Character 2) a homosexual man who supposedly has to hide his proclivities from society at large, but in fact spends nearly all his time having sex in semi-public places, resulting in his sexuality being known by pretty much everyone in town including, 3) his young wife, who after an extremely brief period of being upset about the fact that she was deceived into marrying a gay man, realizes that their marriage is not a lie, but just "different" and happily embraces the fact that her own sexuality and opportunity for motherhood has been effectively stolen from her. 4) The gay man's sister, who has her own dark secrets, namely, sleeping with a married man and getting pregnant. And so they all form a merry band of politically-correct 17th-century heros and fight against their common enemies (all the straight, white, non-adulterating people of Amsterdam). I'm personally pretty left-wing, but as a thinking person, I can't help but find this kind of heavy-handed liberal moralizing and historically-revisionist storytelling galling and offensive. And frankly, it just gives fuel to the right-wing wackos and so is counterproductive. With some subtlety and realism, these characters could have been portrayed to much greater effect.On the upside, the visuals are lovely and the miniatures are exquisite. The performances are also solid. If you can turn your brain off while watching, you just might enjoy it.

Brilliant tale, acting, direction and design. So the BBC can still do it after all!

It is insane, the miniaturist to which the series is titled has absolutely nothing to do with anything that happens. She is completely ineffective, nothing she does has any impact to the plot or the characters. She does not advise, warn, nothing, she only serves to create and additional, cruel and completely unnecessary added stress for the household, just as they deal with real crises, she just trolls them, then gives a wimpy excuse as to why she broke their balls for nothing.She is as useful as hindsight. However story is fine, dramatic with good but quite obvious lines.Also why did the former slave do nothing at all to save Johannes? Johannes saved him from slavery, then the former slave just stands there and watches him drown, jee great guy.

Often people lament that a movie was not like the book that preceded it. For those people, this movie must be like a godsend. It follows the book religiously. And due to this, it falls flat. It is one way to build up tension in a written story, but using that exactly same build-up rarely works on screen. With more liberty to mold the plot to fit the screen, this could really have been a good mini-series.