SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

gilaabramowitz I love this TV show very very much, but it was all over for me once Quinn left. The other Quinn (Malory) just didn't do it for me. Without the professor, wade, and then Quinn, there was nothing left. They should have ended it at season 4. Season 5 was totally unnecessary. The producers should have ended the series with Quinn and Colin finding their home world and their real parents, Maggie staying with them on their world, Remmy sliding back to his world, finds out that the humans defeated the krommags, and reuniting with wade. After that, Quinn and Colin and their parents find a way to improve and control the sliding, so Quinn, Colin and Maggie can visit remmy and wade, and vice verse. That would have been a perfect ending to an amazing show (well, almost perfect, since we lost the professor, whom I loved very much). I didn't even bother watching season five. I have it on DVD and I started watching three times, each time I stopped at the end of the first episode. It was just not interesting anymore. That's just too bad, a poor ending to a great show !!! I would have given it a ten out of ten, if the ending was different.

Josh Apple Sliders is one of my favorite science fiction shows of all time even in my childhood. Tracy Tormé and Robert K. Weiss created possibly the best sci-fi show of all time if the studio didn't stick their noses into it. about 4 individuals sliding to parallel earths to discover "what if" worlds, like what if USSR taken over USA, or a world were male population are almost extinct, just great stuff for a weekly episodes. the cast are all terrific: Jerry O'Connell (Quinn Mallory), Sabrina Lloyd (Wade Wells), Cleavant Derricks (Rembrandt Brown) and the awesome John-Rhys Davis (Professor Arturo) all share such a great chemistry, sense of humor and character development. 'Seasons 1 & 2' are simply amazing, thanks to good writing, the worlds themselves were creative and at times very clever, great chemistry between all characters and just pure fun entertainment. 'Season 3' was a huh... well a very mixed-bag season. it's around that season, the series saw some major changes. FOX network took creative control away from the creator/show-runner Tracy Tormé due to creative differences and being replaced with the executive producer David Peckinpah as the show runner, he is partially responsible for the series jumping-the-shark and the drop in quality. first problem i notice was the change in tone, it's more going for action packed season that falls between serious and silly at the same time, Quinn Mallory's personality changes so frequently and dramatically in this season. from a likable misfit to a cold self-centered jerk, helping other people is more important then he's friends which is so out-of-character for him. Wade also changed a bit, she's a little preachier, but has really great subtle moments. Rembrandt and Arturo are the only ones that are consistent with their personalities. first couple episodes are as good as the first two seasons, but then there are the painful "monster/movie rip-offs of the week" episodes. few of the movie rip-off episodes are watchable despite the poor writing, but unfortunately most of them are predictable, boring and borderline terrible, even by sliders standers. due to decline in quality John-Rhys Davis had enough and wanted the leave half-way through season 3. his departure (killed-off) was one of the saddest moments in television history for the original cast members and the fans. then we are introduce to Kari Wuhrer as Maggie Beckett replacing John-Rhys Davis for the second half of third season. Wuhrer's character at first was terrible replacement for Arturo, her wooden acting and her bitchy military personality always irritate me. the fact she become Quinn new love interest, always tags along with him, pushing Wade a side with Rembrandt feels just wrong on so many levels. Kari Wuhrer was clearly in the show to attract younger-male viewers (boost the ratings) but thankfully by season 4 she's more likable and fleshed-out character. i feel bad for Sabrina Lloyd who left the series after season 3 with a bad taste, because of the idiotic decision from the producer and not getting along with Kari Wuhrer's ego. since FOX practically ruined the series, they give it to the "sci-fi channel" for the last two seasons. 'Season 4' is an improvement in terms of writing and quality after the jumbled mess of season 3. it's faithful to the original concept, but darker and serious then the previous seasons and not as great as first two seasons but overall a good season. it involves "The Kromaggs" from season 2 as the main villains of season 4. Jerry O'Connell's brother Charlie O'Connell join the cast as Quinn's lost brother Collin Mallory. Collin is very enjoyable character for the most part. with the issues i addressed, i love this series so much, and i collected all four seasons of sliders. the reason i said all four is because that speck so-called 'season 5' doesn't exist to me, not only the worst season but complete chore to sit-through. with nothing left but a shadow of it's former self. without Jerry O'Connell there is no point continuing the series. jerry and his brother left the series, after a dispute with the network (sci-fi channel) but a fifth season was made without them anyway. almost the entire original cast gone, smaller budget then previous seasons, re-using the same location, poorly-written episodes and no closure. how sad when a series started out so great and promising and ended up derailed by idiots.

Dennis Laursen Sliders is an excellent show. Well, it is in the first two seasons. Hereafter it becomes very poor.Sliders is a TV-series about a group on 4 persons, who travel to parallel universes, where several historical events went different.Season 1 and 2 have some very interesting and (in most cases) well-explained worlds. For example: what if USSR won the Cold War? USA never become independent, and remains a British colony? Or if the worlds population where only 10 % of our worlds? For a history- and sci-fi-interested person like me, these two seasons are great! However, a couple of the worlds are also poor explained, and one of the episode, a vampire world, are even silly!In season 3 it goes downhill. The concept from season 1 and 2 remains, but now ALL the worlds are both silly, dull and very poor explained (if explained at all). Furthermore, many of the episodes in season 3 are copy of existing movies (like Nightmare on Elm Street).Season 4 actually becomes quite better than season 3. The worlds are still poor made, but season 4 introduce a new, overall plot, with roots in one of the last episodes in season 2. But this main story/plot only have a little development through the season, and many of the episodes are quite irrelevant for the overall plot.Season 5. Well, I didn't even watch this... Only the first episode. And we are now so far away from the original show, and it now becomes so bad, that I have no patience to watch the whole season 5.I would really recommend season 1 and 2! But you won't miss anything, by stopping after season 2. On the contrary, by stopping after season 2, you won't se the bad sides of the show.My season-based ratings: Season 1 & 2: 8,0. Season 3: 2,5. Season 4: 3,0. Season 5: Haven't seenMy overall rating is an average of my season-based ratings. Since IMDb won't let you rate TV-series on seasons, but only either a single season, or the show as a whole, I must do it this way.

ichwan_mil Of all Sci-Fi shows on TV, I've found only two proving to be fresh, most engaging, and innovative...the first one is Quantum Leap that I reviewed just before, and the second one being Sliders.Sliders has made a refreshing concept of 'alternative-reality' world - it did not join the already-crowded time-travel ship, instead it decided to set sail with its own, dubbed "dimensional travel". The creators must think that inter-dimensional travel should not be less engaging than time travel - "Same time, same earth, different dimension", as it is spoken in the opening credit.They were right. I was among the ones who found it to be very engaging, brilliant and could not miss any single episode.The premise is clearly explained in the Pilot, which, in my opinion - ironically, turns out to be the best episode throughout the whole series. A group of four with different motives - Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, and Maximilian Arturo - slide into a vortex which enables them to do inter-dimensional travel. The point is, they could not control into which dimension they will land next and they often end up being stranded in unexpected situations in earths they have no idea at all - a world where Russia rules America, another one where men are inferior to women, or one world where USA is still a British colony - the quartet slide from one dimension to another as I eagerly watched...Until the time came when they met their demise one by one; starting from Arturo who was shot, then Wade who was abducted by their archnemesis The Kromaggs, then Quinn followed when he was lost in the vortex - leaving Rembrandt alone. Well, actually he was not alone, there were others eventually came join him. Actually, the disappearance of a show's original protagonists is not something taboo - many shows actually do that without much sacrificing the quality of the show itself. What made this worse was, their demise is evoked by some dark motives behind the screen. Word has it that the actors who played the eventually-lost characters; O'Connell, Lloyd, and Rhys-Davies, were actually fired from the show or withdrew because of..well, say, conflicts of interest. Things only got even worse, when Tracy Torme, the show's mastermind, also withdrew and left the show's fate into a bunch of workers who -sadly- lacked ideas how to maintain an already-brilliant show.For the aforementioned reasons, my interest had decreased dramatically. The last season in which I watched every episode was Season 3, only a few of Season 4 that I watched, and I did not watch any of Season 5 (when all original casts but Rembrandt Brown had lost) at all.Rembrandt, while he was one of the starting lineups and stayed until the very end, was not enough. I don't by all means want to say that the replacement actors (Kari Wuhrer, Tembi Locke, Charlie O'Connell, and Robert Floyd) were bad - they've tried after all. Some episodes from the last two seasons actually had quite intriguing and potential plots, say "World Killer", "Genesis", and "Requiem" . But I think it's fair to say, that Sliders show has lost its spirit without Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, and Maximilian Arturo.The worst of all is, of course, the very last episode, "The Seer". The episode itself is not that bad, but it provides a very terrible conclusion for the show. I realize, it was initially intended to be continued with the next season. But - again, thanks to those conflicts of interest - it didn't. And so, the real victim is the viewers like me who was left clueless, like it all has totally gone into the thin air.Many viewers had drawn inevitable comparisons between The Sliders and Quantum Leap. The most glaring one is that Maggie Beckett, one of the replacement slider is a nephew of Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett (very interesting indeed, though never officially confirmed that I know of). Both provide refreshing approaches to Sci-Fi show world and deal with uncontrollable travel and "the endless hope of getting home" though none has managed to get home until the end. But Sliders' fate is much worse than that of Quantum Leap. In Quantum Leap, Sam and Al still stayed until the very end. While I also hate Quantum Leap's cliffhanger ending, it was not contaminated by the so-called conflicts of interest, and at least it did not lost its spirit throughout the show. Needless to say, all episodes in Quantum Leap's last season are as good as those in the first season.To sum it up, although it has been more than 10 years since The Sliders were gone, I still wish that I might see them again in the future. But let's clear it out, to me, NEVER change the starting lineups. There is some hope, for it's the good of inter-dimensional travel show - while one character dies, the same character in another dimension may be still alive. Bring Quinn Mallory, Rembrandt Brown, Wade Welles, and Maximilian Arturo back to the show - I want nobody else - and get rid of those stupid conflicts of interest. I have been waiting for too long.