Generation Wealth
audience Reviews
, 53% Audience Score- Rating: 5 out of 5 starsIm kinda confused some people have negative about this movie. Maybe this one is only for people who enjoyed only masterpieces
- Rating: 5 out of 5 starsI bet you’re gonna think about this movie a lot after watched. Just watch 🍿
- Rating: 5 out of 5 starsI was so surprised to see the bad reviews of this film! I do understand the criticism that Lauren spent too much time on her own family and herself, but I felt that it helped personalize her quest to understand what American values have become. She was looking inside her own life and loved ones to see what mattered to them, and how the constant greed around them effects their view of the world. I saw some people also took offense to her criticism of the "younger generation". Personally, I felt she was speaking out for them more than anything. She was showing the stress and depression so many young people deal with under the pressures of hyper capitalism. Overall, I thought this is a fascinating and important film. Also uplifting in it's own way, as you see many people sucked into a world of destructive greed pull themselves out and find a way back to themselves. I highly recommend this film to everyone, but especially to those feeling constantly weighed down by the ego and superficiality all around us.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 starsA series of unrelated vignettes intercut with the filmmaker's examination of her life and family, this disjointed documentary only partly delivers on its premise. Lauren Greenfield promises the viewer a cautionary tale about America's obsession with money and wealth, but what we get instead is an incoherent stew that seems to have been cooked up from scraps left over from previous projects. This is somewhat evidenced by several references to her chance encounters that birthed other projects. Ironically, Greenfield never fails to ostentatiously lord her entitled life of a Harvard legacy over the audience, with a less-than-subtle hint of her older son (crew, perfect ACT score as it is emphasized several times) being Harvard-bound as well. With the final scenes depicting a coffee table book of her photographs being printed and bound, one cannot escape the feeling of having been duped into watching a two-hour commercial.
- Rating: 4.5 out of 5 starsFantastic documentary into the lives of rich, famous, and mostly, the money hungry! Great flick.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 starsI think it was brilliant. I love how the director reflects back the excess of western culture to the viewer. I'm surprised the reviews are so low. I really learned a lot from it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 starsThis documentary wasn't what I expected given the title and description. It jumped around to several different topics which could be confusing. It was just ok.... 3 stars.
- Rating: 0.5 out of 5 starsViewers find the narrator and filmmaker irritating immediately as she claims anyone younger than baby boomer has lost the values of hard work, frugality, and discretion. This woman is old, out of touch, and her film is filled with useless misinformation. Its too bad to even be entertaining as white noise in the background
- Rating: 4 out of 5 starsHad Lots MORE Potential – but still interesting What interesting subject matter spanning decades of following kids born with silver spoons. And there definitely IS some interesting photography and inter views, but the biggest issue is that it fails to draw any big conclusions around the central theme. It feels a little bit like, "here is some info from my work as a journalist/photographer and make with it what you well." Which is fine, but it lacked follow-through thematically.
- Rating: 0.5 out of 5 starsNo narrative thread means this is all over the place confused hash. Nothing whatsoever to do with wealth. Good photographer doth not make good documentary maker make.