Rolling Out the Red Carpet, or The Oscars Suck Ass
Hipster Film
Hip*ster: one who possesses tastes, social attitudes and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term “cool.” A Hipster would say instead “deck”.)
The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not one of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream.
- The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
"Hipsters are film aficionados who take pride in their disdain of Hollywood fare that stars Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and Robin Williams. When it comes to trite cinema, these actors are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, although others such as Mel Gibson, Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Vin Diesel, and Whoopi Goldberg are quickly gaining ground. Weeding through the crap at the video store can be tough for Hipsters, given the abundance of titles like ‘Mr. Deeds’ and ‘Men in Black II’, but we want to help. Here are a wide selection of titles that comprise the Hipster canon of essential film."
Here’s Lanham’s must sees for the hipster crowd (it’s very sarcastic readers, don’t get your knickers in a twist about Valley Girl being on there; and if you actually like Mel Gibson then there’s no hope so you should keep quiet too because I will laugh at you):
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