The kids from Arrested Development (and that Juno girl) should do NOTHING ELSE.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’m convinced that hipsters don’t exist. I’ve been called one many times, the term is thrown around all the time and if you’re on the internet, chances are everyone hates it. As far as I’ve picked up, “hipster” is everything on stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, so in conclusion, a hipster is just a well dressed white person in their 20s. Okay, big deal. But yet it irks me to kingdom come that this whole “hipster” phenomenon has hit the 50 year old jewish producers who hit the phone and throw their money at…this. And who’s there to take all that money? Michael Cera and Ellen Page, in a post-Juno world. Juno is fantastic, yes yes yes, but good god, everything that either of them have done since then and Arrested Development is a shitpile. Nick and Norah sucked, Paper Heart sucked, Whip It sucked, Scott Pilgrim better not suck, etc. But regardless, they all have something in common, that they’re all HIPSTURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Right. Oh, and Alia Shawkat, the other ugly child from Arrested Development, has joined the fray, both in Whip It and in a show that her and Ellen Page might star in and are definitely producing/writing. That’s right, a show about HIPSTERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
The might be HBO show Stitch ‘N’ Bitch, where one of the girls is Stitch and the other is well, Bitch. A single camera comedy about “two painfully cool hipster girls as they relocate from Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood to Los Angeles’ Silver Lake enclave in hopes of becoming artists — of any kind.” It may or may not be based on Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook (http://www.knithappens.com/content/view/13/1/), I’m guessing it is but I don’t have clarification, as it screams that faux-hipster thing at me.
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Tags: Alia Shawkat, Arrested Development, Drew Barrymore, Ellen Page, HBO, hipster, hipster comedy, Juno, Michael Cera, Stitch 'n Bitch, Whip It
October 9th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I disagree. Nick & Norah certainly wasn’t terrible. Whip It! was charming and got great reviews from critics. For someone to say ‘hipsters’ don’t exist, you certainly got a bit of hate on them. It’s pretty much white people in the 20s, dressing in flannel (which any store will sell – whether its American Eagle, Urban Outfitters, Target…doesn’t matter), listening to ‘indie’ music that’s pretty much mainstream anyway like Death Cab for Cutie or the New Pornographers.
The films are certainly going after a quirky ‘tone’, but Ellen Page and Michael Cera’s ‘hipster’ ness is like calling Winona Ryder from the 90s ‘emo/gothic’ because she did Tim Burton movies & Heathers. Three-four years they’ll be too old for it anyway & we’ll all be missing those films while everything we watch appears to be a board game or a Hasbro toy.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:26 am
People wearing flannel who listen to Death Cab for Cutie…a well dressed white person. Yes.
As misanthropic as I may seem, I don’t hate “hipsters”, I just don’t believe that they actually exist. But Hollywood does. And this ruse of pandering to audiences that don’t exist that are allegedly hit on the scene is…lulzy. And they’re the posterchilds, Page and Cera.
October 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am
I’ve never heard “well dressed” and “flannel” in the same sentence before. Also, I really have only heard the term “hipster” from you, so I concur that they do not exist. And Winona Ryder was never emo because emo didnt exist then (shouldnt exist now) and did more than Tim Burton/Heathers to be considered goth, tho I wouldn’t have classified her as anything but strange.
October 10th, 2009 at 10:32 am
“And Winona Ryder was never emo because emo didnt exist then (shouldnt exist now)”
‘Emo’ came about in the 1980s, so yes, it did exist when Beetlejuice and Heathers were made.
And shouldn’t exist, now? Emo sprouted talent like Brand New.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Emo largely gets confused with the spawn of emo, “scene”. So yeah. Emo “doesn’t exist” in the way that most people think it exists.