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(Reuters) Interesting Movie studios fail to realize that all you have to do to market to hipsters is tell them the movie sucked   (reuters.com) divider line 147
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heavythumb 2009-07-02 09:34:53 AM  
i'm still not going to see The Hangover

 
Tatsuhiko 2009-07-02 09:35:42 AM  
Who goes to the theaters anymore?

 
Ikam 2009-07-02 09:37:15 AM  
Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

 
SkeetNinja 2009-07-02 09:37:58 AM  
Ikam: Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

You sound like a hipster.

 
The Cornballer 2009-07-02 09:38:21 AM  
Silly movie studios. Hipsters are make-believe--like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

 
T-Luv 2009-07-02 09:38:47 AM  
SkeetNinja: Ikam: Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

You sound like a hipster.


You might be a hipster if you make fun of hipsters...

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:39:12 AM  
FTFA:

They're making smart, quirky movies for a sophisticated young audience.

The pics are trying to be the next "Garden State," a 2004 film that, like other hipster pics, can be generally defined as trafficking in moody music, casual style and characters who are disaffected.


Ok. You must realize that if you keep saying vapid, idiotic shiate like this in the msm, you are going to breed hipsters like farking gremlins.

Wow. A movie studio and a columnist just got into a synergistic vortex of suck. I think a new black hole may just form. I'm going to go shower in hammers now.

 
Gothnet 2009-07-02 09:40:40 AM  
I liked garden state and I'm a cynical ex-goth.

WTF is a hipster?

 
Rapmaster2000 2009-07-02 09:40:40 AM  
T-Luv: SkeetNinja: Ikam: Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

You sound like a hipster.

You might be a hipster if you make fun of hipsters...


I'm a hipster. So that means I'm not a hipster.

 
Thisbymaster 2009-07-02 09:41:40 AM  
I like the idea of cheaper smaller movies for smaller demographics. I still hate hipsters.

 
The Dot And The Line 2009-07-02 09:44:20 AM  
the authors constant use of the term hipster just shows how big of a d-bag he is

 
psychicmachinery [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:44:38 AM  
www.thelocal.de

They have them in Germany too

 
Rapmaster2000 2009-07-02 09:44:39 AM  
Gothnet: I liked garden state and I'm a cynical ex-goth.

WTF is a hipster?


A style that went out 6 years ago.

 
Arkanaut 2009-07-02 09:45:12 AM  
Rapmaster2000: T-Luv: SkeetNinja: Ikam: Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

You sound like a hipster.

You might be a hipster if you make fun of hipsters...

I'm a hipster. So that means I'm not a hipster.


*head asplode*

 
KrispyKritter 2009-07-02 09:45:39 AM  
boobsrgood Dig it. This came to mind: - "I didn't think it was physically possible for something to suck and blow simultaneously." - Bart Simpson

 
spacechicken170am 2009-07-02 09:46:39 AM  
Haha, I love this urban dictionary defintion of hipster.

"Someone who thinks that they are being "special" and "unique" for liking some underground bullshiat no one else cares about. And they pointlessly look down on people who don't know anything about indie culture, because that's the only thing they know anything about. They're quick to call the rest of the world conformists when in reality, they are the ones conforming by partaking in a "too cool for mainstream so i am going to reject it by looking and acting like a grungy asshole" way of life only to seem uber-fashionable. They just end up looking like idiots. "

 
LittleSmitty 2009-07-02 09:46:58 AM  
I don't know about hipsters, but usually when critics say a movie sucks, it usually turns out to be pretty good

 
cartersdad 2009-07-02 09:47:13 AM  
Do you think they used the word hipster too much?

 
Jjaro 2009-07-02 09:50:57 AM  
heavythumb: i'm still not going to see The Hangover

Your loss.

 
Mr. Vincent Vega 2009-07-02 09:50:58 AM  
I find it funny that they have to label people who prefer small, well written movies as "hipsters" and try to trick them into seeing their films.

Here's your marketing plan:

A) Make a movie that doesn't suck.

/It was either Kierkegaard or Dick Van Patten who said: "If you label me you negate me".

 
Xlr8urfark 2009-07-02 09:51:25 AM  
Hah, non-conformists. We all know what pops up first in the GIS

www.windycitizen.com

 
Robo Beat 2009-07-02 09:52:13 AM  
Arkanaut: Rapmaster2000: T-Luv: SkeetNinja: Ikam: Oh goodie a 'hipsters suck' thread.

You sound like a hipster.

You might be a hipster if you make fun of hipsters...

I'm a hipster. So that means I'm not a hipster.

*head asplode*


The Hip that can be quantified is not the true Hip.

 
itsfullofstars 2009-07-02 09:52:29 AM  
i185.photobucket.com
Target audience

 
Ikam 2009-07-02 09:53:06 AM  
SkeetNinja: You sound like a hipster.

I'm too old to be a hipster, but I live in a neighborhood with a bunch of them. Some are okay, some (the sorts that take themselves seriously) get on my last nerve.

 
geekluv [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:54:05 AM  
God I farking hate hipsters..... If I have to see another one walk into my Cancer Research Lab I am going to scream!

spacechicken170am: Haha, I love this urban dictionary defintion of hipster.

"Someone who thinks that they are being "special" and "unique" for liking some underground bullshiat no one else cares about. And they pointlessly look down on people who don't know anything about indie culture, because that's the only thing they know anything about. They're quick to call the rest of the world conformists when in reality, they are the ones conforming by partaking in a "too cool for mainstream so i am going to reject it by looking and acting like a grungy asshole" way of life only to seem uber-fashionable. They just end up looking like idiots. "


That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.

 
EbolaNYC [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:56:30 AM  
www.deafdc.com

Sally must be a God to hipsters.

I hate hipsters. Farking city is crawling with these twats.

 
T-Luv 2009-07-02 09:57:44 AM  
Ikam: SkeetNinja: You sound like a hipster.

I'm too old to be a hipster, but I live in a neighborhood with a bunch of them. Some are okay, some (the sorts that take themselves seriously) get on my last nerve.


I agree, not all hipsters are bad. I hang out with a few "hipsters" and they are pretty cool, but when I go with them to bars where hipsters congregate, I get to feeling like punching most of them, and I'm not even a violent person. There are just so many obnoxious hipsters who think they're the shiat, but really, they aint shiat. All groups of people have assholes, but it just seems like there is a greater concentration of them among hipsters.

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 09:57:50 AM  
Gothnet: WTF is a hipster?

As far as I can tell, a hipster is anyone who doesn't think driving cars around in a circle really fast or watching two guys beat the shiate out of each other is "neato".

Also, if you cast a dim eye on corporate sponsored versions of reality packaged as "news", you might be one.

So, it's pretty much anyone with a pulse and a room temperature IQ. But I may be setting the bar too high.

 
Rapmaster2000 2009-07-02 09:58:53 AM  
geekluv:

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.


Where do you live where the hipsters wear flip-flops? I never see hipsters in flip-flops. Vice magazine condemns it.

 
PJ_the_Barbarian 2009-07-02 10:02:51 AM  
So am I in before the "No True Scotsman" wharrgarbl?

(Hint: if you're arguing that there's no such thing as hipsters, it's because deep down you suspect that you might be one. It's ok, just admit it, because calling yourself one means you aren't one)

 
dittybopper [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:02:59 AM  
psychicmachinery: They have them in Germany too

No, you're thinking of Hapsburgs.

 
PJ_the_Barbarian 2009-07-02 10:05:07 AM  
As a grammar nazi, I'm glad to see they got "Batten down the hatches" right.

If I hear one more person express the opinion that hatches are for buttoning, I'll be slightly vexed.

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:06:21 AM  
What's the age limit on being a hipster? At what point does a hipster turn into an eccentric?

 
arghyematey 2009-07-02 10:07:20 AM  
geekluv:

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.



Unless you live in Florida, hipsters don't usually wear flip flops. Hippies on the other hand...

/friends with lots of hipsters
//lives in florida
///doesn't wear flip flops
////thought garden state was overrated

 
Rapmaster2000 2009-07-02 10:07:21 AM  
PJ_the_Barbarian: As a grammar nazi, I'm glad to see they got "Batten down the hatches" right.

If I hear one more person express the opinion that hatches are for buttoning, I'll be slightly vexed.


For all intensive purposes, it's a perfectly cromulent phrase.

 
PJ_the_Barbarian 2009-07-02 10:07:32 AM  
boobsrgood: Gothnet: WTF is a hipster?

As far as I can tell, a hipster is anyone who doesn't think driving cars around in a circle really fast or watching two guys beat the shiate out of each other is "neato".

Also, if you cast a dim eye on corporate sponsored versions of reality packaged as "news", you might be one.

So, it's pretty much anyone with a pulse and a room temperature IQ. But I may be setting the bar too high.


It's more than that: you forgot affection for Apple products, taking "disaffected" to its highest possible level, and being way into "indie" anything.

 
Celebrity Ninja 2009-07-02 10:07:50 AM  
Marketing to the unmarketable. Missing the days of subliminal messaging.

/Hipster turned buddhist
//seemed like a hip thing to do at the time

 
boobsrgood [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:07:51 AM  
geekluv: God I farking hate hipsters.....

Just curious. Do you enjoy mainstream American culture? Are you enthralled by American Idol and bible summer camps?

 
GoodOmens 2009-07-02 10:08:08 AM  
Rapmaster2000: geekluv:

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.

Where do you live where the hipsters wear flip-flops? I never see hipsters in flip-flops. Vice magazine condemns it.


He might be confusing hipsters with hippies ...

 
bstud 2009-07-02 10:08:15 AM  
Jjaro: heavythumb: i'm still not going to see The Hangover

Your loss.


This. Funniest movie I have seen in a while.

 
geekluv [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:09:30 AM  
Rapmaster2000: geekluv:

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.

Where do you live where the hipsters wear flip-flops? I never see hipsters in flip-flops. Vice magazine condemns it.


Hershey, PA the only hipsters I have seen wearing flip flops are the ones who go to Penn State's Med School/Grad School in Hershey. Their facebook & MySpace profiles are worse than the high school kids trying to be hipsters which I never thought could be done.

 
dragon927 2009-07-02 10:09:51 AM  
We're getting off the subject. How do you get people to see your independent film? You've got Zooey Deschanel in your movie - have her do a nude scene. Problem solved.

 
mizkc 2009-07-02 10:10:58 AM  
To Quote Sam the Eagle in "The Great Muppet Caper":

You are all a bunch of weirdos!

 
geekluv [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:11:55 AM  
boobsrgood: geekluv: God I farking hate hipsters.....

Just curious. Do you enjoy mainstream American culture? Are you enthralled by American Idol and bible summer camps?


I hate American Idol... My ideal night is watching Comedy Central, E! Entertainment & then watching X-rated stuff late at night.

 
arghyematey 2009-07-02 10:13:36 AM  
bstud: Jjaro: heavythumb: i'm still not going to see The Hangover

Your loss.

This. Funniest movie I have seen in a while.


Another overrated movie.

Drag Me To Hell was the funniest AND scariest movie that I've seen in a while. It's too bad that it hasn't gotten much buzz but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up becoming a cult classic.

 
geekluv [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:13:38 AM  
arghyematey: geekluv:

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.


Unless you live in Florida, hipsters don't usually wear flip flops. Hippies on the other hand...

/friends with lots of hipsters
//lives in florida
///doesn't wear flip flops
////thought garden state was overrated


Yeah I know it confuses the hell out of me when I see a hipster wearing flip flops. When I see that I just shake my head in disgust & then go back on my merry way to my work in the lab.

 
PaisleyHunter 2009-07-02 10:15:55 AM  
I know a secret about hipsters. They listen to Bright Eyes. I know this because I work at a bar across the street from a hipster music venue. Also, they do NOT wear flipflops.

 
Celebrity Ninja 2009-07-02 10:16:43 AM  
dragon927: We're getting off the subject. How do you get people to see your independent film? You've got Zooey Deschanel in your movie - have her do a nude scene. Problem solved.

Almost Famous - Check
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Check
Yes Man - Check (but just barely)

I think you maybe onto something. Or would showing some titty then make her a conformist a sell out?

/Going to the bathroom to ponder this question

 
I Invented Crack 2009-07-02 10:17:08 AM  
dragon927: We're getting off the subject. How do you get people to see your independent film? You've got Zooey Deschanel in your movie - have her do a nude scene. Problem solved.

I might be unintentionally undermining your valiant campaign. I'll see any movie with Zooey in it, regardless of her state of undress. Maybe we should form a Union, and strike until our demands are met.

 
zedster [TotalFark] 2009-07-02 10:17:15 AM  
arghyematey: Drag Me To Hell was the funniest AND scariest movie that I've seen in a while. It's too bad that it hasn't gotten much buzz but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up becoming a cult classic.

It's Rami and not spider man, of course it will by a cult classic

 
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