Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

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Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Those are fair points. I really wasn't saying that there are ZERO good/non-quirky indie movies (although I don't consider foreign films like Let The Right One In to necessarily be "indie"), but was decrying the push for quirky that seems to pervade amongst higher profile indie films.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

I have to jump on the bandwagon here.

At some point there was a transition from making movies with characters who have little quirks to making movies about characters' ridiculous quirks. I can appreciate that somewhere out there might live a fifteen year old with the vocabulary of a Rhodes Scholar who drives a watermelon-shaped car and spends all day talking with like-minded friends about existentialism and the cultural implications of dragons being blue instead of green, but it gets old fast to see a half-dozen new movies every year with that.

It's just the usual waxing and waning of genres, though. One thing makes big money, studios spend the next few years making it again and again until it stops being popular. What exacerbates this particular situation is everything being promoted the same way, as in the half-photo, half-illustration, handwritten font posters, or "THIS YEAR'S JUNO!" critic's quotes.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Then I guarantee you'll love (500) Days of Summer. (She plays Summer, so you'll get 500 days of her in it!)

(That and it's the best movie of the year so far*)


(*IMO)

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

I'm hating the trailers with the twee indie songs - ugh talk about cliched.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Loved Napoleon Dynamite...loved Garden State...love Michael Cera. Love Wes Anderson movies.

I'm glad they're making these types of movies.

(did not like Juno or Nick & Norah at all, so maybe the genre is just getting too polluted)

= J

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

I actually like some of these movies, but I hate the way they are shoved in my face months before I even get a chance to see them. With Juno it went from being a film nobody had ever heard of to this ridiculously buzzed about thing overnight, where EW spent every issue celebrating Diablo Cody and Ellen Page as if they were the biggest stars on the planet before the movie even came out. Same thing with Napoleon Dynamite... our Hot Topic was shilling the catchphrases and quirky elements on t-shirts within weeks of the movie's limited release -- long before we actually got the movie in our area.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

You need to move to a new town.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Quit reading EW and going to Hot Topic...works for me :shrug:

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Wow, 'The Hired Hand'.

Good stuff.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Ha, I knew someone would post something like this.

Re: I'm sick of indie quirk
 

Tell me what "twee" means.

And then please find a less annoying word that means the same thing.