I love this movie so much

Must See Movie...

As Good As It Gets

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A great story with fantastic acting. So sad they didn't make more seasons.

Only one thing to say. WHERE ARE THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE? Another example of "terra nullius" i.e. the British legal confection that assumed that the Australian continent was not occupied at time of contact; this legal lie was finally laid to rest by the Mabo Decision in the High Court of Australia in 1992. This is a poorly researched "history" which misses out the most important point of British colonial expansion into this country i.e. dispossession of the Indigenous people - not to mention perpetuating the fabrication that this country was not occupied. All the early journals (e.g. Watkin Tench, John White) have pages and pages of observations of Aboriginal life so - obviously - the two populations were interacting from day one. So, WHERE ARE THEY?? Scandalous.

despite shortcomings good take on imperialism. well done in terms of locations, characters and story, but somehow fails to gel. never the less, it is another in the long line of exposing British brutality. it often takes eons to probe into a nation's past and to expose the crime and cruelty perpetrated on lower classes.Downton Abbey, Mutiny on the bounty etc all paint a picture of British cruelty and jimmy mcgovern hits this message. if you read "fatal shore" by Australian writer/critic robert hughes, you find that most people were deported were poor, disenfranchised irish.I look forward to seeing more of this admission of guilt on the part of the British empire in Ireland, Africa, India, the Caribbean, Asia and Australia. There is such a rich, dramatic history of cruelty and perhaps this will serve as an introduction. perhaps McGovern's writing's subtext is that so many have have suffered for the benefit of so few. This holds true for Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. Today this story plays out with Amerika and China exploiting poor folks in ways the more devious than the British could not even imagine.

Dear America (and anywhere else that Auntie Beeb tries to sell it)Sorry.Our BBC normally produces better than this. This time it failed and on behalf of Britain I apologise. I can allow for "bending" of the facts to help a better drama but historical inaccuracies in an "Historical Drama" are just not acceptable. As well as these glaringly obvious errors, victims of floggings recover amazingly quickly, others are "starving" because they have not eaten since breakfast and the female lead has such perfect teeth. Most of us in the UK in 2015 still don't have teeth as good as this let alone in 1788!As for us Brits. This is being on BBC2 - BE WARNED it is NOT a BBC TWO drama! At best this is BBC1 fare but more likely this would be something that you would find on "the other side" (and I don't mean Channel 4).It is a reasonable yarn and the idea is a good one (and why I have given it as high as 4/10).Admittedly my opinion is based on the evidence of the first episode only but so far it is soap-opera tosh. I WILL give the second episode a chance in the hope it is improves but for me this show is very much living on borrowed time.Sorry, we are so sorry.