Comments on: Charlyne Yi & Michael Cera Joyfully Hold Hands Down The Funtimes Road To Love N’ Stuff In ‘Paper Heart’ Poster https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Jenmonster https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-7502 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:00:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-7502 What's wrong with being "twee" or quirky? And I like The Shins.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-6644 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:12:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-6644 Before:
It contains every imaginable twee-as-fuck indie rock song EXCEPT something from The Shins

After:
We were all set to start this post with a sheepish, self-deprecating dig at ourselves for all the shit we’ve given Marc Webb on this movie, “500 Days of Summer” but he totally beat us to it and with much more sage and cutting grace than we could ever muster. We’ve been humbled.

After being humbled: Blogs like this

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-6639 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:22:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-6639 Other ways to recognize a lazy, unimaginative scribe writing about Charlyne Yi’s “Paper Heart” poster or the film — considering the film looks much more like “Sherman’s March” than any of these tossed off signifiers — is their use of:
– “quirky” or “quirkfest
– “twee”
– “Wes Anderson-like”
– “‘Garden State’-ish
– “whimsical”
– “hipster film”
– “etc.”

]]> By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-6636 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:11:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-6636 I’ll admit. it was cheap, i don’t hate the film or the players, i’ve just run out of ways to discuss the film (and we’ve posted about it A LOT, so i’m sure it balances out).

Anon is also absolutely right about hipsters/twee, they’re in two different stratospheres.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-6632 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:59:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-6632 Twee and hipster are not synonymous in the slightest. Where did people get that from? One is completely posing and aloof, the other is nakedly heart-on-sleeve.

]]> By: Brian https://staging2.theplaylist.net/charlyne-yi-michael-cera-joyfully-hold-20090429/#comment-6631 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:52:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=7692#comment-6631 Having seen this film, I can say that it is not a holocaust of twee at all. The “real” subjects of the documentary are touching, and the relationship between Cera and Yi actually has more to say about the documentary process than anything else. If you were at all familiar with Charlyne and her work, you would realize all of this knee jerk “twee/hipster” stuff is way off the mark.

You can reserve judgment and defend Wild Things, but somehow not this?

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