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Hipster Porn, that's what this is!


I wish everyone involved in this movie would stand in a horizontal line so I could walk along it punching each one of them in face.

This is the dumbest, most worthless, and incredibly pointless doc I have ever seen. It is basically a treasure hunt / cult adventure featuring San Francisco's finest, that's right, the gayest of the gays and the hippiest of the hipsters. Besides having brightly died hair, 1950's style eye glasses, a love of Starbucks and fedora hats these hipsters have shown viewers one other thing they have in common, they have proved to us how easy they are to manipulate, how moronic their thoughts and ideas are and how utterly useless their kind are all together, they have shown us that when it comes to the modern hipster their strength in numbers is really the more of them the dumber they become. You got to thank them for the laughs though, it's quite funny how deeply they fall in love with what is probably just an experiment some rich artsy fartsy hippy millionaires have concocted in order to laugh and poke fun at these useless and artificially idealistic members of society who they probably see as a young useless generation standing in the shadows of 1960's hipsters, thats right, HIPPIES. They show us how in numbers they are slaves, when told to they will follow a group of strangers, protest nothing for the sake of nothing, listen to a radio channel because hey they were told to, go here, go there, pick this up, put that down, do whatever cuz hey, they have nothing better to do anyways.

The funniest part of this whole thing is when the mystery has completely unfolded and nothing significant or compelling has come from the experiment and everything is said and done including a very sad hippy dance in a what looks like a dimly lit hotel conference room, No one is even pissed off. There is no out cry for the wasted time, nothing happens, they don't seem to care, they were mice in a maze that didn't lead to cheese but an old man that didn't do anything but talk for a few minutes sitting in a chair about how he is "real" and how they are "real". Those interviewed actually feel sad when it's over, one gets a commemorative tattoo for the experience, one says for a month she went into a slump.

These people are the lowest forms of society. Too bad the final act wasn't poisoning all who contributed to this queer after school special for current hipster zietghiest. When they old man hints at it as a joke it's quite cruel to us grasping at straws that something, anything interesting came from the wasted 2 hours spent watching this garbage.

The Institution.

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But Seriously Your Opinion Is Wrong

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I fell asleep halfway through your post.

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So your saying...you made it farther into my post...than you did the movie! YES!

But Seriously Your Opinion Is Wrong

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Uhm, I don't get exactly what your problem is?

It was just a game, and people had fun playing it. Whats the difference to playing an RPG on the Computer, or doing sports, paintball, larping, or whatever for fun?

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unhappy people make unhappy posts online. that's all this thread is about.

"I've seen your light. It burns bright forever. No more blue tomorrows... you on high now."

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I have to agree.
You are spot on about this project having the vibe of imitating the 60's, I mean, there are direct mentions of that. Not sure they wanted to make fun of anything though. Not in the "ha-ha" way. I think the creators were just acknowledging some of the momentum of the 60's, albeit without any consciousness of why and how it actually happened. The whole thing seemed almost minimalist and mistrustful of that sort of thing.
Needless to say, they omitted the whole psychedelic part of the revolution which would have turned this misery on it's head.
Thankfully I skipped like 70% of the movie after I realized how pointless it was in it's stupor.

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Best and most accurate review I've ever read

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Why hello there!

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