Why I mention hipsters

I saw Cloverfield last week, which I enjoyed quite a bit despite the fact that there was an element I was NOT COMFORTABLE WITH. (Someday, for this blog, I will fully document MY GREATEST FEAR. But that day is not today.) And the bulk of the media coverage has been spinning the movie as 'a hipster horror film,' by which they mean that the film is a post-modern take on the traditional monster movie, and the main characters are twenty-something urbanites with cutting-edge taste in music and fabulous exposed-brick lofts.

As I've been reading reactions, though, I've slowly come to realize the genius behind Cloverfield's premise -- genius that is no small part of its critical and financial success.

How hipsters and/or people who know and like hipsters react to Cloverfield: "Hey, cool, a movie about me and/or my peer group. Their complicated love lives remind me of my own! And this song is so great that I downloaded the whole album, not just the single!"

How everyone else reacts to Cloverfield: "Hey, cool, a horror movie about hipsters. HAHAHAHAHAH THEY'RE GONNA DIE. And I GET TO WATCH."

Cloverfield: Bringing America Together.

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posted by Liz  # 11:32 AM

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I'm trying to figure out, now, what it meant that I sort of had both reactions in my head at the same time. (Well, that along with unbelievable nausea.)

If anything, Cloverfield and World War Z make me realise that when the monsters or zombies come, my friends and I are nearly all doomed.
# posted by  Karin : January 22, 2008 1:51:00 PM PST 

"there was an element I was NOT COMFORTABLE WITH"

What, there was a giant spider in it or something?
# posted by  Jeff : January 22, 2008 5:41:00 PM PST 

See, I feel like I'll do fine in a disaster scenario, but only until cannibalism becomes necessary. Then I will die -- not because I'm too good to eat humans, but my stomach literally turns itself inside out at the thought. I'm all about forming a sustainable agrarian society, at this point. Go farms!

(I've been giving this some thought because I'm reading World War Z RIGHT NOW. Had to stop last night because I was going to throw up all over my bed. Stupid cannibals.)

And I keep forgetting that there are those who know me who read this, and that those who know me can probably guess what I mean by MY GREATEST FEAR. Jeff has cracked the code!
# posted by  Liz : January 22, 2008 5:56:00 PM PST 

Hey, I just finished reading World War Z this week! Book friends!
# posted by  Jeff : January 25, 2008 5:12:00 PM PST 

All the cool kids are reading about zombies!
# posted by  Liz : January 25, 2008 5:42:00 PM PST 

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