Movies That Hipsters Love

[Aesop Rocks]

Why isn't Never Let Me Go on that list?

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

I've always thought of a hipster as someone who wears the vintage clothes and the knitted hats and worn shoes because other people like it and he wants to blend in but be "edgy" enough...
me i have a style similar to a hipster(when i wear my favorite vintage sports team shirt or rock band...its because its awesome..not cause its cool to everyone else)..but ive been wearing it for years...i love seeing these kids with band shirts on and when i say "you guys like bob dylan" or led zepplin thinking theyd know about the people they wore on their chest...they give that puzzled "yes" and not know crap about their music...
they are poser "indie" people

so theyd probably like mainstream if all of their vintage wearing friends said "it had a good message"
so i wouldnt throw out the big names

 

[Watchman]

I knew a hipster. He liked the Godfather. Put it on the list!

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

well the list is kind of dumb anyway...hipsters range on what they like...if you're gonna say just indie films then just label this thread "indie films"
LOL

 

[bullets]

I don't understand the whole hipster thing. I must be getting old now.

 

[Wefflehouse]

A silly as this topic is, if anyone is having trouble figuring out what a hipster is...watch this:

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I[/YT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

And the fact that I could recognize so many of those films on the list should be indicative that hipsters wouldn't list them themselves. A conversation with a hipster involving film would go as follows:

HIPSTER: "So while I was sitting on the floor painting a newspaper, I was watching (insert unheard film title from the 70's-80's) because the rabbit ears on our television don't seem to work."

ME: "Oh yeah? I've never heard of that film, what's it about?"

HIPSTER: (smiling because they managed to bring something obscure into a conversation) It's about a man whose big toe sticks out of his sock because he has a hole in it, which is funny because all of my socks have holes in them, anyway--the sock itself represents our collective humanity, and his toe represents him punching through the barrier that society creates. Anyway the rest of the film is him doing lots of hallucinogens and meeting all of these crazy people."

ME: "Wow, sounds interesting."

HIPSTER: "Yeah well, it's a favorite of mine. Hey, I'm going to roll a cigarette."

 

[Rocketman]

A silly as this topic is, if anyone is having trouble figuring out what a hipster is...watch this:

[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I[/YT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

And the fact that I could recognize so many of those films on the list should be indicative that hipsters wouldn't list them themselves. A conversation with a hipster involving film would go as follows:

HIPSTER: "So while I was sitting on the floor painting a newspaper, I was watching (insert unheard film title from the 70's-80's) because the rabbit ears on our television don't seem to work."

ME: "Oh yeah? I've never heard of that film, what's it about?"

HIPSTER: (smiling because they managed to bring something obscure into a conversation) It's about a man whose big toe sticks out of his sock because he has a hole in it, which is funny because all of my socks have holes in them, anyway--the sock itself represents our collective humanity, and his toe represents him punching through the barrier that society creates. Anyway the rest of the film is him doing lots of hallucinogens and meeting all of these crazy people."

ME: "Wow, sounds interesting."

HIPSTER: "Yeah well, it's a favorite of mine. Hey, I'm going to roll a cigarette."

THANK YOU.

Guys, this thread is supposed to be silly and un-serious. Some of you are getting a little carried away, lol. Chill!

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

THANK YOU.

Guys, this thread is supposed to be silly and un-serious. Some of you are getting a little carried away, lol. Chill!

I think people are just joking around, not really being serious. I mean, the comment I made, if I was sitting in a bar and someone had said something like your op, i would have made the exact same kind of sarcastic comment, just for a laugh. No malicious intent, just a little ribbing, what the hell.

 

[chamber-music]

I was expecting Wes Anderson and close thread.

Agreed Wes Anderson's movies are Hipster Bait as are Sophia Coppola films and anything starring Micheal Cera.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Walt Disney was a hipster, therefore all films released through Disney are hipster films

 

[Rowsdower!]

Sofia Coppola's movies.

I guess people staring out a window for 5 minutes is art.

Sofia Coppola is one of the most overrated and untalented excuses for a director I have ever seen. It's easy to say that she's just riding her father's coattails, but it absolutely is true. No one in their right mind would have given her a chance as a director if it her father didn't just happen to f**king movie icon.

I'm glad people are starting to realize that she's a total hack. The ludicrous praise that Lost in Translation received made me want to vomit.

 

[Heffer Wolf]

Wow, according to this thread, I'm a hipster. I liked about 85% of the movies mentioned. Well, time to grow my hair all weird and listen to bands I don't really like and be more pretentious.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Sofia Coppola is one of the most overrated and untalented excuses for a director I have ever seen. It's easy to say that she's just riding her father's coattails, but it absolutely is true. No one in their right mind would have given her a chance as a director if it her father didn't just happen to f**king movie icon.

I'm glad people are starting to realize that she's a total hack. The ludicrous praise that Lost in Translation received made me want to vomit.

Yeah, she's riding the coattails of her father. Who, of course, has barely had a mainstream career in film for at least a decade, and movies have little to no similarity to hers. His status as an outdated American cinema icon is absolutely the only thing keeping her going.

 

[Anubis]

Sofia Coppola is one of the most overrated and untalented excuses for a director I have ever seen. It's easy to say that she's just riding her father's coattails, but it absolutely is true. No one in their right mind would have given her a chance as a director if it her father didn't just happen to f**king movie icon.

I'm glad people are starting to realize that she's a total hack. The ludicrous praise that Lost in Translation received made me want to vomit.

I loved lost in Translation you pretentious hipster *****e.

 

[Maximus One]

So, if we like these movies that makes us a hipster? Cuz honestly I've seen most of those movies, a few of the older ones just recently and I love alot of them. I think a hipster is just somebody who goes along with what meets their idea of "cool." Hell, these days being a nerd/geek is "hip" hell even being a juggalo (an ICP fan) has become incredibly trendy. But what could we expect in the dawn of the information age?? I read an article in Wired a couple months ago written by Patton Oswalt entitled "Wake up, Geek Culture. Time to Die" that talks alot about this subject and is just a damn good and funny read that leaves you thinking afterwards. But in the article he talks about how as a result of the information age we now have access to literally almost anything we want. He even coins and anagram term for this which is Etewaf (Everything that ever was, available forever.) Heres the article to anybody interested
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/all/1

 

[Tron Bonne]

I loved lost in Translation you pretentious hipster *****e.

Yeah, I liked it, too.

 

[Maximus One]

I had Lost in Translation on my dvr for a few weeks just so I could watch it when I gotta chance and then my damn cable box f'ed up and I never gotta chance to watch it. My taste in movies has really been expanded in recent years. I just recently watched A Clockwork Orange all the way through for the first time, tried other times when I was younger and just couldn't get into it, and was blown away. Same thing goes for Adaptation, I watched it on IFC a few months ago just because I had heard alot about it on here and I'd remembered some of the previews from when it was first released and damn I loved it.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Yeah, Adaptation is amazing. One of those rare films that seems to transcend the whole 'there are no new ideas' rule of thumb. And Nic Cage is utterly amazing, anyone who thinks he can't act should watch that.

 

[Maximus One]

Agreed, or Matchstick Men or Lord of War as well lol

 

[Doctor Jones]

Adaptation was pretty damn amazing. Cage made that film for me though. But Jonze's style was also a big reason.

But this thread seems kind of pointless. Apparantly, hipsters like the same movies as we do so.... what's the point?

 

[bullets]

We're all hipsters apparently. Only in terms of film taste though.

 

[DACrowe]

The term "hipster" has no real definition and it seems the original poster put a bunch of films that are popular with cinephiles who may also be hipster (liking Dr. Strangelove or Clockwork Orange has nothing to do with being a hipster). Some are broadly popular indies, Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, and some are just entire resumes of certain directors (Wes Anderson appeals as much to middle aged film critics as hipsters, so I think that is unfair). And some are just blockbusters like Alice in Wonderland.

Here are a few movies that I know hipsters love and I think for the record are great too:

-Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
-Fight Club
-The Boondock Saints
-Léon
-Harold and Maude
-High Fidelity
-Shaun of the Dead
-Donnie Darko
-Pi
-Requiem for a Dream
-I Heart Huckabees
-Heathers
-Serenity
-Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
-Thank You For Smoking
-Grizzly Man
-Election

And all of those are good movies. In fact I think they're just good movies that appeal to "hispters'" sensibilities. Still great.

 

[Maximus One]

I Heart Huckabees is another I've just seen within the last year. I LOVE that movie, it was Jonah Hill's first appearance ever too, he looks sooooo young in it too lol

 

[Rowsdower!]

I loved lost in Translation you pretentious hipster *****e.

Good for you. Now go eat a bag of turds.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Ooooooooooooooh daaaaaaaaaaaaamn!!