It’s just his face. He’s not “on” all the time. 

Exactly. Also if people filmed your life not stop I am sure they would catch times when you and your SO were butting heads. It fucking happens. Its called life. It reminds me of when I was a kid and I had one friend who, any time his parents had a fight, would come to me crying that they were “Going to get divorced”.…

Um, so we don’t think that Ben was just super annoyed at the paps? I mean that look and “what the fuck” hand gesture pretty much tells that story. Leave these people alone on this whole “will they get divorced soon” thing. It’s like “when will she get pregnant? Is she pregnant?” Jennifer Aniston news. Just fucking…

I think it’s odd that there’s so little discussion about the simple fact that French values and sensibilities are just a lot more libertine than America ones.

i like when he yells “EVERYONE!”. also that weird thing he does when swallowing pills

I didn’t find it cringe at the time (especially since I’m A: roughly the same age as Portman, and B: have never found her attractive) so maybe I just never registered the movie as sexualizing her, but I can see how some might find it cringe now especially with the context of current knowledge about Besson. I still…

Gary Oldman is spectacular in this movie.  

Why the fuck would you want to “show it to your kids”? I wouldn’t show The Last Temptation of Christ or The Godfather to my kids. They were intended for adult minds.

We’ve entered a new age of puritanism, it’s simply secular puritanism this time around. The film shows a child with a crush on an adult and the adult…

Still a brilliant movie.

I mean, it was creepy and weird at the time, too, not least of all because of the weirdos who were obsessed with Natalie Portman specifically in Leon and, like, Beautiful Girls.

I thought that her role in “Beautiful Girls” was 1000 time cringier.

Was there not a similar dynamic in Beautiful Girls, but in a light-hearted, small town comedy sort of way? I believe Portman’s character refers to herself as an “old soul” so that’s, you know, not great.  Too bad she seems to have served as an outlet for a certain stripe of creepy adult fantasy at that point in her…

good lord.  ewwwww

i just figured it was a french thing

movie’s poster has become a stable of dorm room walls

I’m with you, it was definitely cringey at the time. I always thought part of the point of the movie was that the relationship was all kinds of unhealthy for both of them?

I never really got it was a romance movie at all. What I took from it was this girl lost her family, mostly shitty except her little brother, and ended up being given care and consideration by this man. Since she never felt that sort of connection with anyone except her brother, she was confused by what it meant and…

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…

I love how Richard Dreyfuss managed to somehow use the topic of representation in casting to show his ass AND compare himself to Sir Laurence Olivier in the same breath. He climbed all the way up his own ass on this one.

“When asked about the criticism he’s received for being openly Christian, Chris Pratt quoted and compared himself to Jesus Christ:”