While We're Young (2014)

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God
great movie that raised a few good points, plus music by james murphy so you can flex that booty while watching. 8 years 10 months ago
Siskoid
In While We're Young, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts plays a somewhat aimless fourtysomething couple that attaches itself to a couple of twentysomethings (played by Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) who give them new energy and focus. It's a midlife crisis played together instead of starting with a break-up. As such, it has something to say about youth (and not-so-youth) culture, and how it both entrances and disabuses other generations, but the movie soon becomes about dueling documentarists (Stiller and Driver) and two attitudes towards "truth" and the medium they work in. Don't get me wrong, this is more interesting than the comedy of manners writer-director Noah Baumbach was initially occupied with, but it almost turns into a thriller for an instant, which I don't think is where we want to go with these characters. The film nevertheless ends on a grace note, and then ends again on a sugary and extraneous piece of Hollywood pap. Feels like Baumbach compromised his vision there. 7 years 8 months ago
stoduk
Despite the premise sounding pretty terrible (or at best, run of the mill) the trailer made this film look very funny. The film lived up to the trailer. Can't really ask much more than that :) Bonus points for spotting adrock. 9 years ago