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Speaking of Parkey Posey, did any of you ever see the 90s movie called "Kicking and Screaming" that featured her, Olivia d'Abo, Cara Buono, Eric Stoltz, Josh Hamilton, Chris Eigeman, Samuel Gould,  and was directed by Noah Bambauch?  This is NOT the 2005 movie with Will Ferrell, nor the 2017 movie of the same name.

It was a real sleeper of a movie, about a group of college friends and roommates and what happens in the aftermath of finishing college and trying to figure out where to go afterward.  It lands a bunch of GenX 90s nostalgia.  Worth checking out if you've never seen it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_kicking%20and%20screaming

Never seen it. Sounds similar to Reality Bites. 

Yeah we saw Project Hail Mary last night and I thought it was great.  I was fine with the pace, it was a long movie with a great deal of fluidity and I felt like it needed to be.

I'm a fan of Marvel and Star Wars so I'm not on the same boat as all of the folks who rage over Hollywood almost exclusively producing franchise films and sequels and remakes and reboots.  I like those too.

But I'm always really happy when the studios create movies from original stories, and I'd always like to see more of those.

Yeah my 16yo son read the book PHM for his literature class about a month ago.  He loved it, they had several weeks to complete it and he finished it in a few days.  It's next up on my reading list.

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I liked Nuremberg pretty well, though I still prefer the 1961 classic Judgement At Nuremberg which was about a separate set of trials, and which featured a young William Shatner.

Speaking of Captain Kirk, that brings me to the sci-fi portion of the conversation.  As utee94 noted, movies like Interstellar cover the concept of time dilation pretty well.  There was a two-part story in the British sci-fi pillar Doctor Who back in 2017 or so where the entire premise was this massive ship, like 300 miles long, which was in fixed point near a black hole.  The ship's engines were perfectly equal to the gravity of the black hole, so it wasn't sucked into it, but it couldn't escape it either.  The decks furthest from the black hole watched the decks closest to it on monitors, and the people on the monitors only moved a little bit per week/month/whatever.  Time moved so fast nearer the black hole that the crew evolved over thousands of years and a whole separate society developed.  Who eventually went to war with the decks further out.  The decks with time moving slower had the advantage of better technology and resources in that part of the ship, but their enemies had centuries to develop new technology to fight them.  It wasn't super fleshed out of course, because it's Doctor Who, but it was an interesting premise. 

There's also a ton of sci-books I read as a kid which dealt with this.  Robert Heinlein's Time For The Stars comes to mind, which featured twins, one of whom got sent into space at near light speeds.  He returns just a few years older, but his twin was an old man by then.  I grew up with so much of that stuff which did address time dilation that it doesn't hurt my brain at all, and in fact I kinda get irked if stories don't take stuff like that into account. 

I tend to agree with utee, mostly I just want a good story, but the concept of time dilation makes for an interesting premise, so I like it as a plot device.  However accurate it is or isn't......meh.

Just finished the book. The time dilation issue is, if not central, an important plot point. I'm curious to see the movie, but having read the book, don't need to (but almost certainly will).

I can tend towards being a book snob, so I'm glad I didn't read it first.  As someone who hasn't read the book, I thought it was a good watch.  But as noted, the time dilation issue doesn't really come up in the movie, though it's alluded to at the end.  I just assumed seeing the lady noticeably older was a nod to that, because I'm familiar with the concept from elsewhere.  If I were a casual movie observer who didn't automatically think in those terms, I probably would've wondered what was up with the lady looking older.  It was such a small scene at the end, and there was no explanation, so my wife wondered what was up, and I had to tell her I thought it probably alluded to the time thing which was likely covered more in the book.  Although....utee might remember.....the film may have something about that, somewhere.  If it did, it was quick and probably not something that would clue in the average audience member.

I suspect there was a lot covered extensively in the book that goes pretty fast in the movie.  I probably wouldn't mind that part, though, because just like Lord of the Rings, some things have to be fast-tracked in film to adapt to the medium.  I also suspect it could be very interesting to read the longer process of how Grace learned to communicate with Rocky.  Obviously there's only so much time the film could commit to that.