The Royal Tenenbaum’s is a fantastic film, a classic, and Little Miss Sunshine was ok, I didn’t regret watching it. But even with that, crap like Juno leaves me with no desire to watch any of the other films listed. (I did see Eternal sunshine once, it bored the piss out of me)
I think there are three kinds of films that can be called “hipster movies” - movies made by hipsters; movies about hipsters; and movies hipsters like. I doubt the three groups overlap that much.
As with Ellen Page, she acts like a woman who is far less attractive than she really is and is rarely in Big Hollywood Blockbusters[sup]TM[/sup].
Semantics mostly. As Sage Rat pointed out, technically an “indie” film is any film not made by a major studio. However, for the purpose of this thread, we are really talking about quirky Gen X and Gen Y coming of age cofeehouse movies.
Wes Anderson seems to make films about eccentric rich people. Zooey tends to play a sort of quirky artsy girl next door. But otherwsie yes.
I always think I will, but then I usually don’t. I watched “Margot at the Wedding” and it was ok, but I only liked the funny bits, (Nicole Kidman treed like a kitten, any scene with Jack Black). I started watching “The Squid and The Whale”, but couldn’t go on.
So. Depressing. I hated every character in the movie, even the 9 year old.
When I clicked on the “Greenberg” trailer, I thought, Hey I meant to see that, I should put it on my Netflix, and then thought, ah but perhaps not.
Wes Anderson is pretty hit or miss for me. I really enjoyed “The Darjeeling Express” but hated “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”
I’m glad I’ve seen enough of this type of movie that I could properly enjoy one of my favorite threads on the Dope ever, msmith537’s Help me write my generic indie film for Sundance.
X-Men 3, Inception? (Ellen Paige)
and Zooey Deschanel has been very Hollywood since the beginning, from Will Ferrel and Jim Carrey comedies to sci-fi (Hitchhikers Guide) and M Night Shyamalan films.
All three look like something I would like, so I guess I do.
No movie without a Sinatra - Frank, Frank Jr., or Nancy - in it is hip.
I watch them while drinking Pabst…but only because The Onion told me to.
I’ve watched a lot of designated “quirky,” “edgy” movies on NetFlix, but for my tastes, most of them don’t go far enough in going too far.
how is that relevant?
Misguided attempt to use “hipster” as a pejorative term.
I forgot all about that!
As GovernmentMan pointed out, Ellen Page sold out, but I’m still willing to get her pregnent. Also the entire soundtrack will be Eddie Vedder playing the recorder.
I’ve bolded all the ones I’ve seen. I liked every one of those I saw.
Let me see - would “Pieces of April” fit on there? What about “Easy A”?
I don’t think My Blueberry Nights belongs on that list.
How does it not? It’s basically Snorah Jones on a road trip and hanging out with Jude Law in a coffee shop for the entire film.
I’ve never seen Pieces of April.
I’m not sure about Easy A. It comes awfully close to typical mainstream high school comedy. Then again, it does have Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow which is pretty indie.
Easy A is kind of flirting with the genre described in this thread without quite succumbing to it. It has characters and a premise that would fit well in an indie hipster flick, but presents them with the tone of a mainstream high school flick.
Also don’t recall it having a soundtrack heavy with obscure indie bands.
A pretty good movie, though, regardless.
Not really. I’m not big into fashion and unless it’s a topic I care about (realist Munich-school phenomenology, music without lyrics in general, French symbolist poetry, early 20th-C logic), I don’t give a shit about their Hello Kitty ironic T-shirt and funny glasses. We’d have nothing to talk about, and she’d give me plenty to be annoyed about, what with her wasting my time with drivel.
I don’t really want to defend Squid and the Whale or Greenberg since they’re not personally important, but Margot at the Wedding is a masterpiece and there’s nothing “quirky” about it.
I’ll never understand why some consider characters who “reside in Los Angeles / Brooklyn / New England and went to liberal arts colleges” to be a point against a movie. Who cares about something like this, as long as the movie is good? I’m not sure what viewers who deride movies for having relatively privileged characters really want - monochromatic stories full of stone-faced poor folk tryin’ to make ends meet?