"Hipster" as pejorative.

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!

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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.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/13097/aliens-knife-trick - it's like this, but with fingers. and a vagina.

what a stupid linkbait article that is, and then they have the audacity to expect you to click through ten pages.

lmao @ slock's shitty blog ethics police

that's a valid point about alien though. i wasn't thinking.

i just hate those articles that split up like 300 words of text over 10 pages

THEY ANNOY ME

im not the police, just a regular guy standing up for what's right in this crazy world

http://www.cinemapolitica.org/files/cinemapolitica/pastfilms/norma_rae_union.jpg

^ me tbh

lol. i mean, I AGREE WITH YOU!! i just think you're being cute.

but yeah - it's total linkbait - my kneejerk reaction was to compile a similar list of the 10 least "hipster-y" movies ever

x-post awwwwww

least hipstery movies ever--
the pelican brief

On Golden Pond

the client is better

'the runaway bride'

1999 - "for common things: irony, trust and commitment in america today" by jedediah purdy

the best part of the client is when lil' renfro grabs a bunchaice cubes and drops them from his crotch and tells his little brother "look, it's an eskimo pissin'"

in fact that's the only scene i recall from that movie

awwww Renfro

rip

actually sounds like something an ironic racist hipster would do

oh god i can just picture it: hipster igloo parties

byo harpoon

picturing the soon-to-be-hated cocorosie album cover

if i were doing a linkbait listicle on hipster films im p sure id include a sofia coppola film and a michael cera film and not, like, 'fear and loathing in las vegas'

ya fear and loathing is more like the kind of movie that hipsters like before they "know better".

just like 'flavorwire' is the kind of website hipsters go to before they know better

hipsters dont use the internet fyi

they are over it

so Prince was right