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Quantum Leap (2022)
I think this is great.
I love this show and have watched every episode. I enjoy each of the characters and love the subject matter. Of course, it isn't the same as the original, which I also enjoyed, but it is certainly very good. Give it a chance on its own merit. It doesn't have to be either or.
It has drama with natural humor, which I really like. It has good people trying to make a difference. When so many shows are so dark and depressing, this one gives you the good winning over the bad in every episode, yet it still has some questions and intrigue. Looking forward to every episode to help answer some questions that go back to the first episode.
Love the show.
Cursed (2005)
An October Favorite...
I honestly don't understand the bad ratings that some people have given this movie. It is a favorite of mine and one that I watch every October when I am watching my Halloween collection of movies. The well-known actors (Christina Ricci, Joshua Jackson, Milo Ventimiglia, Jesse Eisenberg, Portia de Rossi, Judy Greer, Michael Rosenbaum) are great, not to mention the dog Zipper (Solar). The movie is certainly not the same-O, same-O werewolf movie. And it is kind of fun having it take place in the Hollywood Scene with some actors and singers playing themselves. I recommend it to anyone who wants to see a good movie for the Halloween Season. My only problem with it is that they never made a sequel.
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
Great Thanksgiving Story...
I think that the problem that most people have with this movie is that it is so far removed from Louisa May Alcott's story that the only thing they have in common is the title and the name of the family. And on a more personal level, my maternal grandmother being a Bassett from the old New England family, I didn't like that they turned Ellis Bassett into an Irishman, when Bassett is one of the oldest and well-known Norman-English names in England and Old Yankee names in New England. And so as not to make anyone mad, I do have some Irish in me and I don't have a problem with being Irish. It is just the turning of a name into something it isn't. It would be like calling the Kennedy family English.
So, now that I gave what I didn't like about the movie, this is what I loved. The movie was excellent. The costuming was out of this world. The homes in the movie were perfect. The plot line was good. The actors were great. And like with most Hallmark movies, I really felt good at the end of the movie.
So if you watch this movie just on its own, not comparing it to the original story by Louisa May Alcott, then you're going to love it.
I purchased the movie and it will be one of the movies that my family and I watch every year near Thanksgiving Day.