# Is it just me, or is there a big trend of "hipster love" movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210 "2009-08-12T19:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/1 "2009-08-12T19:47:25Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Keen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Commander\_Keen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Keen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/2 "2009-08-12T19:53:29Z")
Of the movies you mentioned, I’ve only seen Juno. That movie the hipster garabe I’ve ever seen. I personally enjoyed it. (edit: uh oh, does that make me a hipster?) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/3 "2009-08-12T19:58:50Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Umm…I can’t remember the name but it has Jim from Office Space and Maya Rudolph. “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. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/4 "2009-08-12T20:04:58Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/5 "2009-08-12T20:13:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/6 "2009-08-12T20:16:09Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > 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. I thought it meant men in those tight ass skinny jeans. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/7 "2009-08-12T20:20:41Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I thought it meant men in those tight ass skinny jeans. No. The proper term for such a person is “[stupid emo faggot](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GGddRuqh_40/ShvziAFU1eI/AAAAAAAAAAw/JgNzdDI2dwE/S660/untitled.bmp)”. > [@Aesiron](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/8 "2009-08-12T20:47:11Z")
I always though of them as this century’s beatniks. The non-conformist lost generation type. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/9 "2009-08-12T20:50:26Z")
Just one example of what hipsters may look like: [http://www.no2emo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hipster2.jpg](http://www.no2emo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hipster2.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/10 "2009-08-12T20:54:15Z")
> [@myskepticsight](#): > > Just one example of what hipsters may look like: > [http://www.no2emo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hipster2.jpg](http://www.no2emo.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hipster2.jpg) [My eyes! The goggles do nothing!](http://www.videosift.com/video/Classic-Simpsons-The-goggles-do-nothing) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/11 "2009-08-12T21:19:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/12 "2009-08-12T21:21:02Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/13 "2009-08-12T23:29:34Z")
[Stuff White People Like](http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/) may not define hipsterism, but it comes pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/14 "2009-08-12T23:32:46Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > 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? Obligatory [“Look at this fucking hipster”.](http://www.latfh.com/) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/15 "2009-08-12T23:40:07Z")
It’s not just you and I don’t think it’s anything new. High Fidelity, that one movie with Eddie Vedder. But what do you expect? Movies are generally made by hipsters. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/16 "2009-08-12T23:46:39Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > 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. Yeah, making fun of Hipsters is one of the biggest sign that someone is a Hipster. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/17 "2009-08-12T23:48:28Z")
From Wikipedia > [@](#): > > Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes. Early hipsters were generally white youths adopting many of the ways of urban blacks of the time, 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. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/18 "2009-08-12T23:52:23Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > From Wikipedia > 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. 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. > [@](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/19 "2009-08-13T00:18:15Z")
See also:[Singles 1992](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105415/) ---
**Author:** ![Lottie\_D\_Urberville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lottie\_D\_Urberville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lottie_D_Urberville)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210/20 "2009-08-13T00:50:15Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-just-me-or-is-there-a-big-trend-of-hipster-love-movies/506210.md?page=2)