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Welcome to
GRUMBLECORE.COM
Grumblecore? What the heck is that?
It's like mumblecore, except it's for
audiences that are a bit more mature.
Are You Ready to...
Grumble?
It's time for senior moviemakers to step up
and show the mumblecore movement how
to stop muttering into its angst and
actually say something worth hearing.
Okay, okay, so I'm being a bit sarcastic
about the surging outbreak of
ultra-low-budget movies featuring
twentysomethings talking, talking, talking
about relationships and sex and then about
sex and relationships, while, like, you know,
not quite finishing their sentences. Like.
We seniors could call our new movie
movement grumblecore, because many of
us have plenty to complain about:
multi-decade marriages gone south; jobs
moved overseas; new careers we can't
compete for, nor even comprehend;
retirement savings that won't last one
"golden year"; no long-term care insurance;
family members scattered across the nation
and universe; and guaranteed short-term
futures as a varsity players in shuffleboard
hell.
We also could call our movement
stumblecore. We have, after all, managed
somehow to stumble a long way through
life, figuratively and literally. Now we may
be having real balance problems when we
walk or when we try to put two thoughts
together as we we talk.
We could call our movement crumblecore,
as well. Hey, you think you've got angst,
mumbledude? Try riffing about sex and
relationship woes when you don't have your
false teeth pasted firmly in your mouth,
when every joint in your body aches, and
when your impotence medicine suddenly is
making everything and everybody look blue.
Likewise, try getting on with your life's next
great chapter knowing that it's, like, death,
and it really is, like, just ahead.
Will it be a cardiac roadside bomb? A sniper
attack by the Big C? A no-joke stroke? Or
just one of a million other sanguinary
surprises?
Mumble, mumble, mumble; mutter, mutter,
mutter; grumble, stumble, crumble....
Cut! That's definitely a wrap!
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