All this sounds pretty run-of-the-mill even in the ‘90s! I feel like if your tendency is to carefully check for a go-ahead signal, then your tendency would also likely include just flat out asking.

And the assailant was reading The Perks of Being A Wallflower AND A People’s History of the United States while attacking Allen!  Woke Culture is killing us!

More like NO-ana, amirite?

He’s the new Tina Fey!

My 13-year-old can sing/rap Hamilton in its entirety, and now rolls her eyes when someone intentionally listens to it in the car. She tells me no one listens to Hamilton anymore.  I’ll never be cool.

I’d add I also don’t know what Eric’s age is supposed to be, so it’s possible he might be a huge 16-year-old. I didn’t really think of their ages until now.

So, this is a real question to today’s singles from an old married man who hasn’t dated in decades: in practice and in people’s experiences, is it standard to verbally ask to kiss, and anything short of that is problematic? I’m Gen X, so I know I have some dated ideas on all sorts of things, but I still see nothing…

All I want to know is whether or not they kept in the bishop’s erection during the wedding ceremony.

I also think it should be Cannes’s.

He was my hero, then he threw in that misused apostrophe.  What a downfall!

Shall try my hand at scabbing? “Something something Russian playwright something...CHEKHOV!”  “Something Danish astronomer something...TYCHO BRAHE!”

Yeah, there are many other people with smart pro-labor thoughts for me to listen to.  I shun you, Sarandon!

I’ll add that I should just shut up about this because even though I know how I felt, I may be filling in my memory gaps with worse images than what actually ended up on screen.  Again, I should rewatch it and figure out if I even know what I’m talking about.

No, I’m in agreement with that. We can’t have only morally ‘clean’ characters, but what I remember to be the problem was that the audience (i.e., I) was being made to gaze at Mathilda as someone desirable sexually. That’s different from Leon The Character looking at her that way.  It’s icky to me to see Besson moving…

I can’t say you’re wrong. It’s clearly open to interpretation, and the best thing is probably for me to just watch it again.

I generally don’t like that mature-beyond-her-years thing movies do a lot. The Nice Guys is one of the kinda recent examples I can think of.  It plays with this idea that an “old soul” is someone you can talk to at your level, which really means the older man feels okay (and the audience is made to feel okay about)…

Or like just leaving dog poop on the sidewalk?

From what I remember, and again it’s been a while, Mathilda is supposed to be the mature one, while Leon is emotionally stunted. That isn’t a bad thing to explore, but it Portman was being sexualized, I think unnecessarily. She was shot like a sexual object/being, with slow pans from the feet, up to the legs, up to…

This is all pretty interesting. I only saw it once, and really have no desire to watch it again, but there are ways to portray that well or not well at all and I don’t know how successful Besson was. (To even go near that topic takes all sorts of either guts or just carelessness.) Leon being uncomfortable might or…

I’m not saying that my ethics radar was better tuned than most people’s even back then, or that I was more worldly, or that I graduated high school and can read, or that I don’t go poopsie in my pantsies once in a while, et cetera, but I actually thought that movie was cringey at the time. Portman was 12 or 13 when…