Dumb

It's previously been noted that 1994 was a significant year in film, at least for Generation X. While Boomer nostalgia tale Forrest Gump came out early in the year, it was Tarantino's Pulp Fiction that really made an impression and heralded the new kids in town.

(Although, yes, there was also Shawshank and Bullets Over Broadway and The Lion King and some other notable films, if you really want to dig into it....)

It was also the year that Jim Carrey made a splash in movies, after several years on In Living Color. First was The Mask (with Cameron Diaz), then Ace Ventura Pet Detective, and finally Dumb and Dumber.

Which has a sequel coming out ... twenty years later. Probably a little late, and not only because it's been twenty years.

Let it be noted, again, that the book Generations gives "stupid" as a "word of high praise" for Gen Xers. Still, here within the Crisis, and this Nomad generation in midlife, a movie about being stupid beyond mere words may be difficult to internalize. Really smart people have had trouble over the last five, ten, fifteen years: The survival of these two may be asking for too much suspension of disbelief in the modern world.