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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. I Am Not a Hipster Trailer

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (26)



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The trailer for I Am Not a Hipster seems to without apparent irony be everything that is irritating about hipsters. The movie’s own website only has about sixteen words of text about the movie because most of it is given over to telling about the soundtrack. Nothing tells me that a film has an interesting story and nuanced characters like actually designing the website to say that the filmmakers didn’t much care about those little things, but that the soundtrack is totally killer. Says said website:

Based in San Diego’s indie music and art scene, I AM NOT A HIPSTER features original song performances and explores what it means to be creative in the face of tragedy.

That’s all that they can manage to give us to convince us that their film is interesting? That’s not a plot summary that hooks you in, that’s a tweet. Oh no! A tortured artist! How inspiring and original an idea that is! And how very not hipster!

SlashFilm reviewed the film (because apparently they haven’t been banned from Sun Dance) and had this to say:

I Am Not a Hipster is a musical, but not in the traditional sense… The film shows the personal journey from emotion to song, crafting a narrative from the soul. The music is beautiful yet raw and full of emotion.

So … it’s a very long music video?

Oh, it’s a very long, crappy music video.









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Comments

That header pic brings up tender feelings of nostalgia for the house I grew up in.

We had a room just like that. In fact many rooms just like that. The only thing that's missing is the chains that kept a thousand hipsters chained to a thousand acoustic guitars in a thousand separate rooms in the vain hope that maybe after a thousand days they'd come up with something at least as good as one Motley Crue song.

Alas they were all dead within a week. Apparently water is way too mainstream.

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 23, 2012 10:37 AM

Dear I Am Not A Hipster,
You are too totally a hipster.
You have sleigh bells for god's sake.
Give it up.

Posted by: JenVegas at January 23, 2012 10:56 AM

Apparently, people who "are not hipsters" don't wash. Much.

Posted by: klingonfree at January 23, 2012 11:25 AM

Oh, man. I just did that thing that happens when my husband starts to talk to me about computer programming or Marsenne primes and I suddenly realized that I just zoned out for several minutes.

P.S. WHY do I suddenly feel so maudlin?

Posted by: Hayden Tompkins at January 23, 2012 11:41 AM

To be fair, if the movie actually were a hipster, none of us would have heard of it. Because we have, the movie is clearly a soulless sell-out cog of the corporate machine.

Posted by: superasente at January 23, 2012 12:37 PM

Why do people in movies like this NEVER make their beds? I was young and cool once. I dyed my hair black and thought myself superior to the generic people who didn't. I worked in an alternative bar where indie music was played. I only dated guys who played in bands. But I had the fucking common sense to straighten out the duvet before I left the house in the morning.

Posted by: PaddyDog at January 23, 2012 1:40 PM

Well Across The Universe was beloved by faggos everywhere and that was the world's longest and most awful music video.

Anyways site by hipsters, for hipsters, and from hipsters is making fun of a movie called I Am Not A Hipster that is indeed about a hipster?

It isn't irony because me not being a hipster myself, I know how to actually use the word. But damn, it sure is something barely comical you hipsters will call hilarious.

Posted by: googergieger at January 23, 2012 1:56 PM

Let's look at the evidence...

Rides a bike everywhere, has scraggly hair, plastic rimmed glasses, throwback sneakers, can't sing, can't dress, thinks Wooly Willy with curled shoelace facial hair and some inflated pink dolphins are art, hangs out with a white guy with an afro, goes to 'breakdance' parties where the MC is a real mensch, languishes on the sidewalk in tortured artistic agony smoking what is most likely an American Spirit Light...

...fucking hipster.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 2:31 PM

and googoo...there's a HUGE fucking difference between the Beatles and some dickhead playing sleigh bells.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 2:35 PM

Can anyone guess who the Best Boy, ADR Mixer, or Sound Re-recording masters were?

They do fucking amazing work! But you've prolly never heard of 'em.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 2:38 PM

So is it going to be another "Once"?

Posted by: KV at January 23, 2012 2:50 PM

"Well Across The Universe was beloved by faggos everywhere and that was the world's longest and most awful music video."

Seriously? Faggos? Is there any part of your day that doesn't revolve around being an unbearable twat?

Posted by: Craig at January 23, 2012 3:04 PM

Pissball(since we aren't remembering names here): Alright. I'm ready to hear it.

Craig: Yes. Faggos. What about it? I'm not going to assume what your point is. Has nothing to do with being gay(which I am). Has all to do with people being faggy. We've seen the Louis C.K. bit on this haven't we? Or is it just the word? Cause I mean I'll take that word over the constant misuse of words you hipsters use all the effin time. Not saying you are a hipster cause I honestly have no idea who you are. Just saying next time say your point right off the bat. Maybe then I'll remember you.

Posted by: googergieger at January 23, 2012 4:02 PM

So is it going to be another "Once"?

You know, I thought the very same thing. But I don't think I'll have to hear about this one as much.

Posted by: Jay at January 23, 2012 5:06 PM

Ok, I’m officially over this hipster loathing. I wonder if people who wail on about how pretentious and horrible hipsters are realise how inherently hypocritical that position is. It’s just another kind of cultural elitism – defining a narrow group as the “other” and positioning yourself as superior by opposition. It’s dumb.

In the attempt to codify all of the physical and material attributes of “hipsterdom” you are establishing your own little form of elitism too: the “anti-hipster”. Undoubtedly, many of those you seek to label are ripe for criticism, but everyone is from time to time. Pretentiousness, shallowness, and navel-gazing – these are hallmarks of youth, and of humanity at large, not of one particular social group. It might be easy to assign labels, but it’s lazy too.

I wouldn’t try to guess where the loathing comes from specifically, but it’s probably the same place that bred hate for the beatniks, the hippies, the punks and the goths. For some it might be an attempt to give power to their own ideas and their own culture, and for others it might be a kind of self loathing, hitting out at those things they see and hate in themselves.

Oh, and while I’m happy to debate all of this with those who disagree, -50 points for the first douche to simply label me a hipster too. For shame.

Posted by: Ninja Toes at January 23, 2012 5:51 PM

wow googoo...you sure got me there. What wit you have.

I can't wait to see what other gems you can come up with cuz, whew! I can barely contain the guffaws.

Pissball...this guy! Ha!

Thank god you didn't call me Pissbark, or Pissband, or Pissbot! Yo go girl!

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 5:56 PM

I wouldn’t try to guess where the loathing comes from specifically, but it’s probably the same place that bred hate for the beatniks, the hippies, the punks and the goths.

Basically it comes from the fact that every hipster I have met seems to go out of his way to "know it all before you do" and then throw it in your face whenever given the chance. Then there's the terrible, terrible "fashion sense" ::shudder:: Plus...for me. It's fun.

-50 points for the first douche to simply label me a hipster too.

Only hipsters threaten to take points away. Because seriously, what's the point? A question whose answer is so obscure that only hipsters claim to know the answer.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 6:02 PM

So the answer to my question is "no"?

Posted by: Craig at January 23, 2012 6:34 PM

I posted replies to piss and I got an error several times. So no idea if my reply to you will go through. Either way, once again when being asked to simply back up what you say with actual words, people seem content with doing variations of the, "I know you are but what am I routine".

Oh wells.

Posted by: googergieger at January 23, 2012 6:39 PM

Only hipsters threaten to take points away. Because seriously, what's the point? A question whose answer is so obscure that only hipsters claim to know the answer.

Do you realize this right here reinforces my point? Threatening to take points away may be stupid and silly, but so is calling somebody a hipster for doing it. It’s a convenient and meaningless insult.

But seriously, get over it. For every person out there you “hate” there has to be a dozen more who “hate” you back. Where is it getting you? I don’t like Sleigh Bells or skinny jeans either, but I won’t lose any sleep over it.

Posted by: Ninja Toes at January 23, 2012 7:01 PM

I liked this movie before it was featured here, now it's not cool anymore.

Posted by: Adrien at January 23, 2012 8:41 PM

I don't lose any sleep either trust me. I'll freely admit to being an asshole and taking joy in belittling those who I think deserve to be belittled. And apparently you can't recognize when anyone is being sarcastic and just stirring the shit by doing EXACTLY what you say someone shouldn't do...

...fucking hipster.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 23, 2012 8:53 PM

Hey Ninja Toes, heard of any good bands that I've never heard of lately?

Posted by: superasente at January 23, 2012 10:18 PM

Superasente, nobody listens to bands anymore - tuvan throat singing is in right now.

and Pissboy, if that was supposed to be sarcasm, then I think you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: Ninja Toes at January 24, 2012 12:47 AM

It's days later and he won't be back, but I need to say "publically" that I LOVE CRAIG!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at January 24, 2012 12:48 PM

Pfft, I totally loved Craig before you guys even knew who he was..

Posted by: hipster at February 5, 2012 4:32 AM