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ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

butterific Quantum Leap is just purely a timeless series. While unfortunately now more considered one of the best "cult classics", it should be considered one of the best series television has seen. Of course watching today the effects reflect the era of TV it was from but it doesn't interfere with the premise of the show. I was still quite young when the series first aired and unfortunately looking back I wished I would have paid more attention to it. Thankfully due to the DVD sets being released I get the opportunity to fully experience it as an adult and am thoroughly enjoying rewatching it. While not what most would consider true Sci-Fi, it was close enough to it and was more fantasy based, although it kind of defies any pigeonholing of a certain genre. I think for this reason it may have been difficult for some to fully wrap their heads around. It had a very unique way of mixing in drama and comedy while at times also giving the viewer a look back into the past and giving a history lesson all at the same time Sam (Scott Bakuka) and Al (Dean Stockwell) have the perfect chemistry together. Sam's straightlaced, Boy Scout and always wanting to do the right thing matched with Al's well placed comedic relief and naughtiness with a sex crazed, one track mind (not to mention those clothes). It was just a match made in heaven. Their ongoing banter was always a highlight and often made more humorous by Sam often appearing either plain silly or almost crazy by seemingly talking to himself in such an animated way when he doesn't realize others are seeing him during these conversations with Al. The characters genuinely cared deeply for each other and I think as the series rolled on the offscreen friendship of Bakuka and Stockwell transferred to the screen. Scott Bakuka has remarked many times how much he learned from Dean Stockwell, seeing as this was his breakout into the mainstream after mainly bit parts and mostly doing theatre until QL. Dean Stockwell on the other hand, survived Hollywood as a child actor in the late 40s, and much like his character he really experienced a lot in his life and career. I really can't picture a better duo than these two actors for this show. Sure there were some episodes that weren't as strong as others, but that's going to happen in a long running series. For the few so-so episodes there were plenty of plain stellar ones to make up for them. I particularly always liked when Sam leaped into a woman. For one, it takes a confident man to be in drag as much as Bakuka was, and secondly, not only for his character, but I think for male viewers in general, it really did provide a different look into the struggles and situations that women faced throughout history, sprinkled with some humour in it as well. The final season did break the original mould a bit but still managed to stay true to the origins of the show. I know there is supposedly a script written for a movie adaptation, but I'm unsure if it would tarnish my memories and attachment to the show. I wouldn't mind seeing a reboot of the series if done properly and the right leads cast. With reboots of many popular shows from the 80s being done these days this might be one that might have some of the best potential of them all, especially with today's special effects. I'm admittedly a shameless Scott Bakuka fan, and really do think he is an incredibly underrated actor, especially with his musical abilities to go with his acting. Sadly he was handed a lot of poorly written scripts through the years (although he managed to do a lot with little in Enterprise, likely by not always taking it as serious as some actors might and having some fun with it despite some abysmal writing) but it's nice to see his ressurection in his early 60s on NCIS: New Orleans and starring in a hit show again. At the end of the day, Quantum Leap is his finest work to date and the series will always have a timeless element to it and can be enjoyed by people of any age. QL will always be a 10/10 for me. I can watch the episodes over and over and always enjoy it.

drystyx A lot of better writers had such a science fiction scenario in mind long before this show about a man's spirit (or soul, or whatever you want to call it) being inserted into a past person's body in order to alter future events.It's too bad that producers and publishers are deathly afraid of inspiration, talent, and creativity, because they simply have their hacks rewrite good scripts (which they reject from the original writers) into scripts with no life, no inspiration, no depth, nothing.That is apparently what happened here. This show should have been much better. First of all, it was heavily inundated with neo-Nazi ideology, meaning any woman with dark hair would probably be exterminated in favor of a blonde woman being saved. Needless to say, this was loved by the female audience, but seen as depressing by males.There is also the poorly explained bad science. The writers seemed to be on hallucinogenic drugs, because there was absolutely no format for the scenario. It was all just magic, and that would be okay if it was supposed to be magical and supernatural, but the writers made a huge mistake in trying to say it was scientific.This is about as bad as it gets. Again, the woman will love it, but the man will hate it.

generationofswine It came out when I was 9 and possibly because of that it will always hold a place of honor in my heart, the first real Sci-Fi series that I really got into.Some of the episodes were cheesy, that makes sense. Science Fiction can boldly go cheesy and need not make excuses for it. You had your heart warming episodes, the tear-jerkers, the action packed episodes...But it is really the format of the show that allows for its greatness. In Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell you have your anchor characters, the heroes that keep the viewers tuning in week after week. Heroes in a show with format allows for an anthology feel.Each episode--with exception of a few--is it's own unique story involving its own unique characters. Add in the concept of time travel and suddenly you have a show, that is an anthology but isn't, that allows for new and original stories about real people over the space of one man's lifetime.It is brilliantly done. The format allows for everything good that came from shows like The Hitchhiker, Tales From the Crypt, and the legendary Twilight Zone...yet gives views the anchor characters they need to make each episode feel familiar.Dive into it head first, well aware that there is no need to sweat the bad episodes, because the next ones are going to be completely different.

Prismark10 Oh boy, where do you start. Quantum Leap was an innovative enough science fiction/fantasy show but at its heart it was just a drama of hope, second chances and change.The idea behind the show was simple. Dr Sam Becket, a quantum physicist from the near future (late 1990s it seems)becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment. He leaps into other people's bodies, temporarily taking the places of them 'to put right what once went wrong.' Dean Stockwell played Al who appeared as a hologram that only Sam could see as well a some animals and young children. As well as trying to help Sam because Sam suffered from holes in his memory, he also provided humour as well.The series had an easy going charm and mixed humour, drama, social commentary and nostalgia which gave it broad appeal. There tended to be little science fiction outside its conceit.When the episode finished you will see Sam leaping into his next body. The series was strongest when it went into social commentary such as leaping into the body of a black man in the 1960s southern states. There were also sly parodies of films and Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell had good chemistry and made the series worked.There were flaws in the series, although it was set in the near future, all the leaps seem to take place pre 1989 when the series started apart from Al working from the present day with a supercomputer. Some of the stories could also become rather similar and the series makers kind of challenged that by having an evil leaper or politicians in the present trying to pull funding for the project leaving Sam stranded.The series finished in what can be regarded at a controversial conclusion. Sam who was lost in time and hoping to find his way back home in the present day ends up with a mysterious bar-keeper who informs him that he has a choice either to go home or to keep on leaping and changing people's life.