"Hipster" as pejorative.

x-posts Add it up is the song Ethan Hawke's band covers in Reality Bites. Coincidence? I think not.

I fucking love Reality Bites. I thought it was because I was 16 and a little in love with RL and Mr. Hawke when I first saw it but I watched it a couple months ago and still really liked it.

I couldn't watch more than 20 mins. of Me & You.

I hated Wet Hot American Summer which makes no sense because I love most everyone involved with it. I feel like I should give it another chance because like surely something just must have been wrong with me that day. From the way everyone talks about it, it seems like it would be my favorite movie.

Never seen fear and loathing and haven't watched clockwork orange since I was a teenager but I do pretty much love the rest.

*waits patiently for hipsters to get over these movies*

^^ crucial post

why exactly do these hipsters need to get over these movies

i mean, who the hell are YOU, flavorwire dot com

a site that provides valuable info on events hipsters should go to

I have never met anyone irl or online that likes Reality Bites.

Ha, I just watched it a couple weeks ago for the first time in 10+ years. It's not that bad!

― jaymc, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 4:27 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it really really is imo

the main problem with WHAS is that its just a sloppily assembled poorly written piece of shit. there's some good gags in there and everyone in the cast is great, but it barely qualifies as "filmmaking" it's so shoddily made.

Reality Bites otoh is completely unwatchable

janeane garofalo had some good lines tbh

Well, I'm glad there's at least one other person willing to admit to liking it.

(meant JMC but yes, she does)

in Reality Bites - never saw WHAS - are nostalgic summer camp movies more compelling for people that actually went to summer camp as kids, because I never did

I went to summer camp so I guess not.

WHAS is all-time and n e 1 who doesn't think so is mainstream/suburban

I really need give it another shot, huh?

it could mean that you're a true hipster who has gotten over it i guess

maybe we should each pick one of these movies that we weren't into and give them another shot, in an attempt to k.i.p.

never went to summer camp (totally irrelevant), didn't watch too many summer camp movies either, WHAS still really funny.

i mean, that's part of the joke, right, nobody is really nostalgic about meatballs or anything. it's a fond look back at a comedy genre that nobody likes.

Yeah, the thing about Reality Bites is that it's very much a product of its era, and more than that's it's super-conscious of being a product of its era, but I think it's still pretty entertaining both in spite of and because of that. I mean, having not seen it since I was 18, I was expecting to cringe a lot, but I didn't!

never went to summer camp (totally irrelevant), didn't watch too many summer camp movies either, WHAS still really funny.

Word.

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i mean, that's part of the joke, right, nobody is really nostalgic about meatballs or anything. it's a fond look back at a comedy genre that nobody likes.

― goole, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 10:23 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol yeah i watched 'meatballs' after i saw 'WHAS' to see what it was spoofing

'meatballs' isn't funnie

it's a fond look back at a comedy genre that nobody likes

I like this genre. Little Darlings for ex.

i totally missed the reality bites era but i remember loving this on tv when in was like 13

i saw reality bites in the theater at age 20 with my bf, and we both had a sense of overweening superiority because we could define irony

i also think that that was a classic "hipster" response

yeah, i could do this when i was thirteen, but i think alanis taught us all a lesson in terms of what to avoid.

reality bites came out before that alanis song "iirc"

and we both had a sense of overweening superiority because we could define irony

So you were Ethan Hawke's character, then.

yeah but i was thirteen like seven years after reality bites came out

xp jaymc: only if Ethan Hawke was also rolling his eyes and laughing at being in the clichéed golden-lit sex scene

Meatballs > WHAS
Reality Bites = Singles

Mid-90s flashpoints for irony-as-concept:

1994: Reality Bites
1995: Alanis Morissette
1996: "Homerpalooza" ("Are you being sarcastic, dude?" "I don't even know anymore")

Reality Bites was one of Hawke's least hatable roles until Training Day. That's not saying much.

Yeah, the thing about Reality Bites is that it's very much a product of its era, and more than that's it's super-conscious of being a product of its era, but I think it's still pretty entertaining both in spite of and because of that. I mean, having not seen it since I was 18, I was expecting to cringe a lot, but I didn't!

― jaymc, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 5:23 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i never saw it when it first came out, but at the time i was a 120 Minutes watching 12-year-old dork who thought Stiller and Garofalo were the coolest, so i always assumed it was at least kind of clever and funny if still corny, but when i finally did see it a year or two back it was like the 90s Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist

in a bad way

as opposed to all the good things about Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist

Less fingerbanging in Reality Bites

i just kind of felt 'in a bad way' was a 90s thing to say there

but really N&NIP isn't too bad

better than coffee and cigarettes and other much talked of hipster films

coffee and cigarettes is just apalling

movies with fingerbanging are always >>>> movies without, imo.

total challop, ian - there is no fingerbanging in Alien, which is thousands times better than Reality Bites or Nick and Norah

caught bits of Coffee & Cigarettes on TV recently and it really is a piece of shit, but that Renee French chick is banging

Coffee & Cigarettes and Broken Flowers are both terrible

doesn't Coffee & Cigarettes feature Meg White's boobs though?

I kind of liked Nick and Norah's, but no, Michael Cera three fingers deep in the daughter from 40 Year Old Virgin is not something anyone needed to see on a big screen.

you're half right

I think the controversial fingerbang sequence is in the "Alien" director's cut

^^i have the box set, and you are wrong Dan.