Meanwhile for real life in the Rockhouse, there's "Millennium," a movie with serious hotness from Cheryl Ladd but it still stays credible, at least for a while. She's cool at what she does but she's way, way too beautiful to be doing it.
Note: Ted Nugent would probably like to get naked while he watches this as much as he enjoys doing that when he watches Megan Kelly. Sorry but that's all we have for politics today.
This is a seventies movie with generally the same theme as "12 Monkeys" in which the future is sending operatives back to this time to prevent the future from becoming a poisoned and dying wreck.
In "12 Monkeys," the purpose is explicitly to change the past and this is anathema to all time travel stories because, oh no, the paradox, the paradox. If there is any change to the past then it will ripple to the future in strange and unpredictable ways.
"12 Monkeys" avoided the paradox since Bruce Willis never managed to kill the bad guy and thus change the future. However, at least one other operative looked like she was poised to finish the job and that left the paradox open-ended; we still don't know what really will happen to the future after she does it, assuming it's even possible for her to do it.
For "Millennium," the purpose is specifically to avoid introducing a time paradox since their only purpose is to 'harvest' humans to re-populate a poisoned and dying world. However, a change is introduced by a mistake which left one of their futuristic devices in our time so that set in motion ultimate discovery of what it did and thus our time is changed by the future.
The consequences they show in the future of a time paradox introduced now are earthquakes and explosions but that takes cause and effect and kicks it in the head. We see the cause with a gadget was left in the past and we see a consequence of explosions but there's not a hint of a reason for why that should happen.
Through the first half of the movie, it looked credible since the concern about a time paradox was huge and they appeared to take it seriously but the first uh oh came when it showed a huge love story developing between Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. There can be love in sci-fi but hardly ever a full-out flaming romance.
The cheese was revealed at the finale which was full of ridiculous 007 secret agent explosions, still for no particular reason, as the time paradox makes that future fall apart.
The future's answer to exploding and going all to hell was to take the people they had 'harvested' from this time during their operations and shunt them forward yet another thousand years into a future no-one knows where they can start over again.
So let's review that for a moment. Where were all these 'harvested' people ... in some time machine Tupperware or some such? For the end of the movie, they're all lined up in long rows to march them into yet another time machine to send them into the newer future.
The last one to jump into the new future is Kris Kristofferson but he won't go unless Cheryl Ladd will go with him and, oh God, we were just overcome with emotion at that stage. It was even accompanied by awful music.
This was doesn't get the Awful As World War Z prize because it was more like inept but with a promising start. Alas, it tanked on a cheesy romance.
Note: Ted Nugent would probably like to get naked while he watches this as much as he enjoys doing that when he watches Megan Kelly. Sorry but that's all we have for politics today.
This is a seventies movie with generally the same theme as "12 Monkeys" in which the future is sending operatives back to this time to prevent the future from becoming a poisoned and dying wreck.
In "12 Monkeys," the purpose is explicitly to change the past and this is anathema to all time travel stories because, oh no, the paradox, the paradox. If there is any change to the past then it will ripple to the future in strange and unpredictable ways.
"12 Monkeys" avoided the paradox since Bruce Willis never managed to kill the bad guy and thus change the future. However, at least one other operative looked like she was poised to finish the job and that left the paradox open-ended; we still don't know what really will happen to the future after she does it, assuming it's even possible for her to do it.
For "Millennium," the purpose is specifically to avoid introducing a time paradox since their only purpose is to 'harvest' humans to re-populate a poisoned and dying world. However, a change is introduced by a mistake which left one of their futuristic devices in our time so that set in motion ultimate discovery of what it did and thus our time is changed by the future.
The consequences they show in the future of a time paradox introduced now are earthquakes and explosions but that takes cause and effect and kicks it in the head. We see the cause with a gadget was left in the past and we see a consequence of explosions but there's not a hint of a reason for why that should happen.
Through the first half of the movie, it looked credible since the concern about a time paradox was huge and they appeared to take it seriously but the first uh oh came when it showed a huge love story developing between Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. There can be love in sci-fi but hardly ever a full-out flaming romance.
The cheese was revealed at the finale which was full of ridiculous 007 secret agent explosions, still for no particular reason, as the time paradox makes that future fall apart.
The future's answer to exploding and going all to hell was to take the people they had 'harvested' from this time during their operations and shunt them forward yet another thousand years into a future no-one knows where they can start over again.
So let's review that for a moment. Where were all these 'harvested' people ... in some time machine Tupperware or some such? For the end of the movie, they're all lined up in long rows to march them into yet another time machine to send them into the newer future.
The last one to jump into the new future is Kris Kristofferson but he won't go unless Cheryl Ladd will go with him and, oh God, we were just overcome with emotion at that stage. It was even accompanied by awful music.
This was doesn't get the Awful As World War Z prize because it was more like inept but with a promising start. Alas, it tanked on a cheesy romance.
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