My brother, Daniel, is always giving me interesting movie recommendations. One of the things he likes is older, obscure, low budget films. The last one of his recommendations I saw was *Westworld* by Michael Chrichton, sort of a predecessor to *Jurassic Park* in that it involved an amusement park where engineered beings get out of control. I really enjoyed it.
So I don't know why I've never told him about this movie *Millennium*, starring Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd, which I really love. The thing is, I don't know why I love it. It really isn't very good at all.
The last time I posed the question, "Why do I like this movie?," Michael jokingly answered, "It's got to be the clothes and hair." Most of the costuming and hair is truly awful, and I'm not even talking about the sequences set in 1989, although those are pretty bad. Yes, this is a sci-fi film set in an appocolyptic future.
There are a few things I like that I can identify.
1) I like Kris Kristofferson. He isn't even a good actor, but I like him. Maybe it's his beard. Maybe it's the way he talks, or the expression on his face when his dinner date tosses her cigarette out into the restaurant air, the way he sort of rolls his eyes in amazement. Probably the only other movies I have ever seen him in are *Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,* which I probably didn't get and didn't care for, and *Blade,* which I probably only liked because it was a vampire movie, but for some unidentifiable reason I like him in this movie.
2) I like Cheryl Ladd in the movie too. Her character has to make rapid adjustments in a world she doesn't really understand, and the way she does this is endearing to me.
3) It's sort of unexpectedly funny. There are some cheesey jokes in the film that always make me laugh.
4) I like it because it is a slightly bizarre type of sci-fi.
5) I think my favorite thing about the movie is how they show the same sequence of events from to very different perpectives, allowing the view to read those events first one way and then another. I think they do this very, very well.
When I say I love this move, I really mean it. I have an affection for it; for some reason I became attached. It's a movie that I am just about always ready and willing to watch. I wonder whether Daniel will like it?
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From Pam: Perhaps you love this movie due to the way the characters interact with one another? Would you enjoy this movie as much if it were with other lead rolls? Maybe not...?
Also, you mentioned how you enjoyed the different perspectives...may I offer up the movie Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow? In this movie it shows what the lead characters life would be like if she had made the train that morning and, at the same time, what her life is like having NOT made the train. Then they tie both "lifes", if you will, together at the end...intriguing yes? Enjoy.
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