jlechem's Journal: Millenium and B movies

So yesterday I was watching a movie called Millennium starring Kris Kristofferson the old man from blade. This movie was made in 1989 if I recall correctly. The movie started well with an airplane crash. During the investigation odd things are noticed. On the black box recorder on of the co-pilots says all passengers are already dead before the crash. During the investigation the lead investigator notices a strange blonde woman dressed as an airline attendant hanging around. She's pretty odd but cute and they end up having a hook up. He eventually finds an odd object in the wreckage and comes to find out the woman is a time traveler. She comes from the future where for some reason people are all sterile. They take people from airplane crashes in the past and move them to the future so they can somehow help with the sterility problem. The problem is somehow a time paradox is created and she has to stop it. Long story short she can't and the future she lives in ends up not happening. The first half of the movie is seen from the man's POV the second half from the woman's POC. Halfway through it got incredibly boring and lost its focus completely. The ending was ok they escape together into the future.

The movie was based on a short story. Maybe as a story it would have been better. My grips about the pacing and plot of the movie aside the idea of a time paradox happening is quite interesting. From the movie if I went back in time and killed my father before I was born what would happen. I would never have been born and thus not been able to build a time machine to go back into the past. If this kind of thing could happen should we ever travel in time assuming we could ever do so? Imagine a world where people could go back and change anything they wanted. Anyone with enough money or power could re-write history to their liking. This brings up another interesting question is time travel even possible? I haven't done any research into this but I find it extremely interesting to think about.