This 'mumblecore' crap needs to stop. NOW.

Seriously. For everyone in their twenties or thirties or whose parents were a Baby Boomer. This "mumblecore" crap. It needs to stop and it needs to stop now.

People call this movement an emerging and culturally significant post-2000s American film movement. I call it a bunch of whiny twentysomethings making self-indulgent, plotless movies about unlikable characters that fit the exact same post-grad demographic the writer/directors' themselves fall into where they sit and pseudo-intellecually debate how complex and awful their lives are with absolutely no character development or story arc so that they can get into Sundance and win awards so they are worthy enough to give a blowjob to Jim Jarmusch.

I am 22 years old. I am a college graduate. My entire life is a frickin' mumblecore movie- boring, monotonous, lifeless, and filled with unlikable characters that never change. If I am the demographic that these movies are supposed to reach then I'm not really sure why someone expects me to pay $10 to watch people sitting around having the same pointless conversations I have with my friends except only to indulge myself. Please. This country is still at war. There is worldwide poverty. But no, THIS is what the people from MY generation want to see movies about.

First and foremost, these idiots very desperate need to rent themselves some lights and a tripod... and I swear to God I will murder the first my-parents-paid-for-my-NYU-film-school-tuition-and-I-threw-it-all-away-when-I-made-this-horrible-movie hipster with a Canon 5D that utters the word "organic" to refer to their pointlessly shaky, poorly lit, and out-of-focus camera work.

I am ashamed that this is the film movement that supposedly represents my generation in America's contribution to pop culture... but then again, what do you expect from a generation who's greatest musical icon is Lady Gaga, whose greatest historical event was two buildings being hit by a plane, whose greatest technological achievement was Facebook, and whose fashion, style, and all-around art is just a bunch of selectively plagiarized fads from previous styles and generations that we weren't even around to appreciate thrown together in a huge pile?

In short, this movement needs to stop. Filmmakers of the current generation need to make more mature films rather than trying poorly to recycle the same ones that have already been made, and made much better by Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Linklater, etc. "Mumblecore" (which doesn't even deserved to be called by its own trite, self-appreciating don't-you-dare-call-it-"ironic" title) needs to die. BAD. Continuing to make films like this only serves as a testimony to how completely self-indulgent and unaware of our own ignorance our American youth culture has become.

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