Also checked out (mostly blind) the new Ben Stiller dramady While We’re Young. Stiller and Naomi Watts are a married, childless Gen X couple who meet and start hanging out with a millennials played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. It’s about the disconnect between a couple starting to feel their age and young 20 something hipsters. Can they navigate their life of their older freinds who are just starting to have children and this young, hip couple and their young, hip NYC life? And I got the point early on… and the movie just chugged along, spinning its on-point and obvious wheels.

It does add in the question of whether or not art… true art (man)… is about honesty (man). It has a lot to say about whether documentary film making should be manipulated or truthful and I couldn’t care less. I mean, I get the point they’re making but the movie seems to think this is way more compelling than it actually was. That it had something to do with the ideals of the 40something generation and the 20something generation.

I hate to say it, but I think the only people who will really get something out of this film/documentary debate are film/documentary makers. Which makes me feel like a knuckle-dragger… and I do think the debate might have worked had the film been more interesting or a different overall story with greater stakes had been told.

Score: 65