I guess it’s just indicative of the fact that producers know hipsters are a large audience with cash to blow, but over the past year or two I’ve noticed them a lot more. Off the top of my head, just this summer, we have:
500 Days of Summer
Paper Heart
Umm…I can’t remember the name but it has Jim from Office Space and Maya Rudolph.
If we go back a little further, we also have Juno, and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist.
Granted, I’ve never actually seen any of them, but they all seem to have a similar trend of “witty, snappy dialogue” that real hipsters like to pretend they talk like all the time, but come of as just pretentious (both the movies and the hipsters themselves.)
So is it just me? And am I letting my (probably irrational) hatred of hipsters cloud my judgment on what might be good movies?
“Away We Go.” That’s more of a ‘post-hipster’ movie - sort of like how “the Big Chill” dealt with baby boomers dealing with life after college hippiedom, the newer movie deals with two hipsters settling down to be ordinary middle-class citizens.
Can someone define hipster for me? I’ve seen the term thrown around by people here and other venues and I still can’t seem to figure out a concise definition. Or is it some sort of catch-all term?
It’s a very vague and nebulous term that generally denotes twenty and thirtysomethings with non-mainstream tastes and aesthetics that borrow heavily from other countercultures, and provides a convenenient “I know it when I see it” kind of scapegoat that people can look down on for being poseurs.
Nonmainstream tastes? Shit, no wonder I could never figure out the definition. I thought it was referring to people that kept trying to be “hip” (thus the term hipster) by following whatever hip-hop (again, note existance of the word hip) fashion trends were in that week.
My understanding of the term has grown immensely. Anyone else want to further it more?
Uh, there’s always a slew of hipster love movies; every generation has its fashionable “type.”
In other words there’s absolutely nothing new here: there have always been love story movies focused on the fashionable youth of the day. The only things that change are the details of the fashion and whatever they’re called.
Ditto this. I’ve also often noticed that the people most vocal about their distaste for hipsters tend to be people that other folks would themselves describe as hipsters.
For example, I have two good friends who, though I love 'em, embody the hipster stereotype to a T. They wear ironic, tight T-shirts that they buy second-hand (despite having quite large incomes). They grow out their hair. They’re live in Brooklyn. They spend a great deal of time and money making sure they look appropriately counterculture-y. And they love talking about how much they hate hipsters.
That general lack of self-awareness is, for me, the most important attribute of a hipster. All holier-than-thou, no brain.
As for Juno that was an awfuly poor movie. It basically was about self-absorbed Yuppies, from the parents, to the adoptive parents to the high school kids. The basic message being, have a baby and give it up and forget about it.
It’s just like having a broken arm, once the baby’s gone, your life goes back to how it was and it’s like nothing happened.
Did you even see the movie? Because that’s not what it was about. The idea that the movie was about hipsters is absurd. It’s about a young girl who gets pregnant. The parents were baffled by how to deal with the situation but they were actually pretty cool and supportive about it. The lady she gave it to was a much better and more capable parent than Juno would have been, and they remained friends.
Except that didn’t occur in the movie. Her life didn’t go back to the way it was.
It was a coming of age movie about a girl who gets pregnant, it was not more than that. It was character driven for pete’s sake.
Hipsters…so that’s what they’re called! I have a coworker who dresses just as described: skinny jeans, tight message t-shirt, random scarves, etc. Plus, he’s in a band and has a strange love of Urban Outfitters. We (my other coworker and I) were trying to find a way to describe him, since he vehemently denies being emo (don’t quite see the difference, myself) and describes his band’s music as being “indie-pop”. Hipster, eh? I shall have to remember this and report it to my work buddy.
