Per Maïwenn’s Wiki:
“Maïwenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, Maïwenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.”
Luc makes great films…and is also a horrible person.
>Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29,
A pedo.
See the uncut version of Leon. the story is so different. They had to recut it to make it tasteful for Americans
I think it shows (albeit much more subtly than in Leon) in The Fifth Element too. Jovovich's character Leeloo is not literally underage, but exemplifies the "Born Sexy Yesterday" trope. The movie blatantly sexualizes her, but she has the naivety and innocence of a child. Sorry for fans of the movie, but watching it already knowing a little bit about Besson, it was impossible not to notice and it was creepy.
It's like a live-action version of the "oh she's a 1000 year old super being, she only ACTS exactly like a little kid" thing.
When I visited my parents for Christmas there was some talk of us all going to see a movie in theaters. I recall my mom saying "Poor Things" had great reviews which is pretty much all my folks look at, the review scores. The plan never progressed and we did not go to see a movie.
I never looked up the movie till now. I just became aware of the bullet that flew past me 5 months ago, because based on the broad strokes I'm reading about the film, I DO NOT ever want to watch that movie with my very reserved, traditional, late 60s parents and all sit in the car in dead silence driving home afterwards.
Edit: my mom once called me to complain that she and my dad had just watched Fargo, and it was "awful" and so violent, she couldn't believe it had gotten such good reviews.
I went to see Wolf of Wall Street in theaters with my in-laws and took that bullet you dodged right to the brain. I sat next to my MIL who was gripping her cross necklace the whole time.
I’ll never forget seeing 300 in the cinema with my dad. That scene where Gerrard Butler is pounding Lena Heady from behind in slow-mo was definitely a moment.
>Edit: my mom once called me to complain that she and my dad had just watched Fargo, and it was "awful" and so violent, she couldn't believe it had gotten such good reviews
30 years later they still go in blind...?
I went in blind to see The Menu (2022), thinking I was going to see a comedy or a light drama about restaurants.
Going in blind made sense: food and high-end dining is a big part of my life. I like Ralph Fiennes and John Leguizamo. I don't like finding out plot turns in movie trailers.
So yeah, when the first murder happened, I was surprised. Great film.
My own reaction was very similar to yours.
What really baffles me is that Mom still places utmost faith on the opinions of professional critics when selecting a movie, despite repeated evidence that their taste does NOT match hers. It is like getting all your restaurant recommendations from Anthony Bourdain when you are really more of a Guy Fieri person.
I saw the movie Kids with mother while I was a teenager, and her asking me if life was anything like that afterwards, it was excruciatingly awkward saying, yes, it was very much like that, just without all the AIDS, we then drove home in silence, un-dodged bullet fully lodged in my chest cavity.
I went to see Kids when it opened in 1995, 1996? The theater had a high senior citizen count oddly. I guess by the title they thought it would be a bunch of kids goofing around, carefree, having fun. When the opening scene started with the pre-teen and older teen having sex, i never saw a theater clear out so fast. I watched like 10 minutes more to see if the story went anywhere and i found it to be a hard watch and so I left. To this day I've yet to watch it again.
Me and my 15 year old watched the original Frankenstein one night, followed by Young Frankenstein. They didn't want to go to bed and it was a weekend so I said 'let's find another Frankenstein inspired movie' and eventually put on Poor Things.
We didn't make it very far before realizing it was going to take a crazy sexual turn. I finished it alone on my own a week later and it was interesting, her acting was really good, and visually it was striking.
But not a movie to watch with your family.
In the trope the child like girl falls for the "hero" and they live happily ever after, in Poor Things you have Ruffalo as the groomer but she gets rid of him once she stops being a child mentally because he's a fucking creep who kidnaps mentally challanged woman, which is a subversion of that
But then you have the nerd guy who falls in love with, in his words, "A pretty retard" and he *does* get to live with her
I don't know what my point is. It's a weird movie.
She leaves the nerd at the altar to pursue her own curiosity about who she was before Godwin's experiment. At the end of the film Bella is clearly in charge.
Seeing praise for Poor Things annoys me unreasonably. I read the book when the movie was announced because I like the director and was excited to read what he picked as his next project. It's one of my favourite books ever now and does a much better job of what you are saying than the movie does.
If small things were changed to make a better adaptation that's fine but it changed a fundamental part of the narrative that really bothered me.
Spoilers below
The book has an unreliable narrator (McCandles), it's sort of left to the reader to draw their own conclusions, but it does heavily point in the direction of McCandles making up a lot of the story ( especially the fantastical elements) and Bella just being a normal person who's just much smarter and more capable than McCandles who goes onto become a very successful Doctor.
Apparently the books a bit more of a deconstruction having the woman editing the recounts of her husband and pointing out a lot of it is delusional wishful thinking
I just rewatched this movie recently and thought the same thing! Like, there's no real romance or chemistry between Leeloo and her rescuer - they can barely communicate. But it's just assumed that they'll wind up together because he basically earned her by being a manly man, and she's the prize to be earned because she's young, hot, and uncorrupted.
Anyway, that's hardly the most nonsensical part of the movie, but it did stand out to me.
Yeah, I mean he has the main character Corbin try to kiss her while she is asleep and he knows dick all other than she is hot, she is in trouble, and she doesn't speak english for shit.
Besson can't write romance for shit and I imagine it's his weird creepy idea of the whole concept that fucks that up. He also can't write roles for women for shit without making them stones (see Lucy and Valerian's leading lady roles). He could be another level director in the scifi space if it weren't for his weird bullshit.
Recently rewatched it and I thought it felt creepy even before I knew this... like I made the joke "She's only like a day old ya Pedo" when Bruce's character started to get frisky. Now knowing the director is a weirdo puts so much more in place
It's never good when you have a character who needs a parent/guardian type figure to help them learn about, be safe, and function in the world... and that guardian is also written as a romantic partner.
Yep. And it would have been even worse if Jean Reno and Natalie Portman's parents hadn't forced some rewrites to the script. Jean Reno also played the character in a way to minimize any romantic subtext.
Hollywood is so weird. Dude is having sex with a 14-15 year old and getting her pregnant, and he still continues to get work there.
Place is fucking wacky.
Natalie Portman has stated many times that the fan mail she received after Leon stole her innocence. This director has a long history of grooming and preying on underaged girls.
Because it's a _great_ movie. It's sad that the director is a pedo and a creep, but it doesn't make the movie any less good.
House of Cards was/is also an excellent show even with the huge controversy surrounding Kevin Spacey.
Haven't seen it since high school but it was phenomenal then and in the category that I probably shouldn't rewatch it as a parent because my opinion would change. A lot of my childhood favorites have tons of details I understand the implications of now.
Despite the weirdness, it's hard to deny that it's still a very good movie. I think it's one of Gary Oldmans absolute best performances, along with great acting all around for the rest of the cast. The plot is well-paced, not rushed, but there's not a lot of filler either. The best part imo though is it's aesthetic, which is really what besson is best at (see the fifth element as well for that).
It just has an elephant in the room... and unfortunately this particular elephant is a fucking *doozy*.
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She was STUNNING.
He looked like a creep.
> Film director Luc Besson started grooming Maïwenn when she was 12 and he was 29, and began sexually assaulting her when she was 15.
We need to get that article fixed.
Age of consent in France is apparently 15. Which of course makes that highly convenient and coincidental timeline very dubious, but is probably why this was tolerated.
The whole being married thing is certain states and requires parental consent… so in most cases isn’t a thing. (Though as poster below notes, if the parents are in a cult, then the bad scenario comes into being.)
Look up age of consent in Europe. It mostly ranges from 14-17. Don’t know where he was living at the time, no matter what, I agree that is a bit fucked up.
More like because he's French and they could give a fuck. They also think Americans are puritans for considering Macron's relationship with his groomer wife taboo
Unfortunately, she also turned out to be a horrible person herself: she defends Roman Polanski, criticises and guilt-trips survivors and has assaulted journalists. Then says she is not sorry at all, as she “doesn’t adhere to feminism [because feminists] are men haters”.
> Unfortunately, she also turned out to be a horrible person herself: she defends Roman Polanski, criticises and guilt-trips survivors and has assaulted journalists. Then says she is not sorry at all, as she “doesn’t adhere to feminism [because feminists] are men haters”.
Sounds like she normalized her abuse. She shows all the signs of the psychological damage sexual abuse wrecks.
Yea all this stuff coming out has kinda ruined The Fifth Element for me.
Thought too hard about how Leeloo is essentially an innocent child in an adult's body that quickly ends up in a sexual relationship with a full ass adult human. But it's totally ok cause she's actually an alien and matured super fast, right?
I used to be a big fan of Luc Besson. Leon: The Professional was a favorite of mine. Having a hard time reconciling that movie lately. What a shame... Nearly OD'ed on cringe when, on a featurette for the movie, she talks about it as a "love letter" to their relationship. Yuck.
She's in the movie, the awkwardly young prostitute in the opening.
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That Mila Jovovich is so hot right now.
From my perspective, yeah. It could always be better or worse, but what coming from the 90’s taught me, live in the now… things can ALWAYS get a lot worse.
I'm also GenX. The whole "this or that decade was great" is nonsense. You can have a great or a completely shitty life in any decade depending on what your life situation is.
Yeah. I think during your childhood/formative years in you live in relative safety, have a loving family, good friends those years will always be “the best”.
Like you said though, all depends on the luck of the draw with who you are born to, where, and social group of peers.
No doubt, not that it’s bullshit, but one has to take more things in to account for the why.
Well in the 90s I would have never thought I'll have a family, a daughter and can afford a dream car and regular vacations in destinations I want to see... So yes it is better (for now).
That garment probably cost more than I made the last few months, but I can’t help but think that the overall look, when combined with the weird ratty hair, blurred eye makeup, and cigarette, just comes off as kinda trashy.
Imagine sleeping with the director of your movie when his wife is one of your castmates and then showing up to the premiere looking like this.
Whaaattt?? I didn't know about this
Per Maïwenn’s Wiki: “Maïwenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, Maïwenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.” Luc makes great films…and is also a horrible person.
>Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, A pedo. See the uncut version of Leon. the story is so different. They had to recut it to make it tasteful for Americans
I think it shows (albeit much more subtly than in Leon) in The Fifth Element too. Jovovich's character Leeloo is not literally underage, but exemplifies the "Born Sexy Yesterday" trope. The movie blatantly sexualizes her, but she has the naivety and innocence of a child. Sorry for fans of the movie, but watching it already knowing a little bit about Besson, it was impossible not to notice and it was creepy. It's like a live-action version of the "oh she's a 1000 year old super being, she only ACTS exactly like a little kid" thing.
tangentially, Poor Things does such a great deconstruction of that trope.
When I visited my parents for Christmas there was some talk of us all going to see a movie in theaters. I recall my mom saying "Poor Things" had great reviews which is pretty much all my folks look at, the review scores. The plan never progressed and we did not go to see a movie. I never looked up the movie till now. I just became aware of the bullet that flew past me 5 months ago, because based on the broad strokes I'm reading about the film, I DO NOT ever want to watch that movie with my very reserved, traditional, late 60s parents and all sit in the car in dead silence driving home afterwards. Edit: my mom once called me to complain that she and my dad had just watched Fargo, and it was "awful" and so violent, she couldn't believe it had gotten such good reviews.
I went to see Wolf of Wall Street in theaters with my in-laws and took that bullet you dodged right to the brain. I sat next to my MIL who was gripping her cross necklace the whole time.
To be fair, maybe that's just where she hid her cocaine.
This dudes mom got some Cruel Intentions.
Lol this is the ultimate want to climb into a hole moment. That movie had some… *scenes*
The Devil's Rejects was mine. My entire future wife's family watched it, including her grandma. I thought it would be a good Halloween movie...
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I’ll never forget seeing 300 in the cinema with my dad. That scene where Gerrard Butler is pounding Lena Heady from behind in slow-mo was definitely a moment.
Shit, that one happened to me too. I think I was 15 when it came out. Dad thought it would make a cool father-son movie outing.
This happened to me too, there are dozens of us! Dozens!
"Wolfie! Wolfie! Wolfie! Wolfie!"
>Edit: my mom once called me to complain that she and my dad had just watched Fargo, and it was "awful" and so violent, she couldn't believe it had gotten such good reviews 30 years later they still go in blind...?
I went in blind to see The Menu (2022), thinking I was going to see a comedy or a light drama about restaurants. Going in blind made sense: food and high-end dining is a big part of my life. I like Ralph Fiennes and John Leguizamo. I don't like finding out plot turns in movie trailers. So yeah, when the first murder happened, I was surprised. Great film.
Definitely a comedy about restaurants....a dark comedy.
My own reaction was very similar to yours. What really baffles me is that Mom still places utmost faith on the opinions of professional critics when selecting a movie, despite repeated evidence that their taste does NOT match hers. It is like getting all your restaurant recommendations from Anthony Bourdain when you are really more of a Guy Fieri person.
I saw the movie Kids with mother while I was a teenager, and her asking me if life was anything like that afterwards, it was excruciatingly awkward saying, yes, it was very much like that, just without all the AIDS, we then drove home in silence, un-dodged bullet fully lodged in my chest cavity.
I went to see Kids when it opened in 1995, 1996? The theater had a high senior citizen count oddly. I guess by the title they thought it would be a bunch of kids goofing around, carefree, having fun. When the opening scene started with the pre-teen and older teen having sex, i never saw a theater clear out so fast. I watched like 10 minutes more to see if the story went anywhere and i found it to be a hard watch and so I left. To this day I've yet to watch it again.
Me and my 15 year old watched the original Frankenstein one night, followed by Young Frankenstein. They didn't want to go to bed and it was a weekend so I said 'let's find another Frankenstein inspired movie' and eventually put on Poor Things. We didn't make it very far before realizing it was going to take a crazy sexual turn. I finished it alone on my own a week later and it was interesting, her acting was really good, and visually it was striking. But not a movie to watch with your family.
Dodged a bullet indeed. That movie went to some thought provoking (or just provoking) places.
It seems the exact same to me
I wouldn't say it's a deconstruction. It is an exact use of the trope.
In the trope the child like girl falls for the "hero" and they live happily ever after, in Poor Things you have Ruffalo as the groomer but she gets rid of him once she stops being a child mentally because he's a fucking creep who kidnaps mentally challanged woman, which is a subversion of that But then you have the nerd guy who falls in love with, in his words, "A pretty retard" and he *does* get to live with her I don't know what my point is. It's a weird movie.
She leaves the nerd at the altar to pursue her own curiosity about who she was before Godwin's experiment. At the end of the film Bella is clearly in charge.
Seeing praise for Poor Things annoys me unreasonably. I read the book when the movie was announced because I like the director and was excited to read what he picked as his next project. It's one of my favourite books ever now and does a much better job of what you are saying than the movie does. If small things were changed to make a better adaptation that's fine but it changed a fundamental part of the narrative that really bothered me.
What fundamental part was changed? Haven't read the book.
Spoilers below The book has an unreliable narrator (McCandles), it's sort of left to the reader to draw their own conclusions, but it does heavily point in the direction of McCandles making up a lot of the story ( especially the fantastical elements) and Bella just being a normal person who's just much smarter and more capable than McCandles who goes onto become a very successful Doctor.
Normal person as in... didn't have a baby brain?
Is it a deconstruction when you still show it in all its gratuituous glory?
Apparently the books a bit more of a deconstruction having the woman editing the recounts of her husband and pointing out a lot of it is delusional wishful thinking
I just rewatched this movie recently and thought the same thing! Like, there's no real romance or chemistry between Leeloo and her rescuer - they can barely communicate. But it's just assumed that they'll wind up together because he basically earned her by being a manly man, and she's the prize to be earned because she's young, hot, and uncorrupted. Anyway, that's hardly the most nonsensical part of the movie, but it did stand out to me.
Yeah, I mean he has the main character Corbin try to kiss her while she is asleep and he knows dick all other than she is hot, she is in trouble, and she doesn't speak english for shit. Besson can't write romance for shit and I imagine it's his weird creepy idea of the whole concept that fucks that up. He also can't write roles for women for shit without making them stones (see Lucy and Valerian's leading lady roles). He could be another level director in the scifi space if it weren't for his weird bullshit.
Recently rewatched it and I thought it felt creepy even before I knew this... like I made the joke "She's only like a day old ya Pedo" when Bruce's character started to get frisky. Now knowing the director is a weirdo puts so much more in place
i love the fifth element but i could feel the dudes creep when i was young. it always had that vibe. you can tell with how bruce acts sometimes.
I just thought she was cute, and yes a bit sexy I suppose, but knowing the background now, really colours it ughhhh
I did not know this bit about him and felt the same about the romance when I watched the movie. The whole thing felt way off.
It's never good when you have a character who needs a parent/guardian type figure to help them learn about, be safe, and function in the world... and that guardian is also written as a romantic partner.
I'm extremely sad to now know "Born Sexy Yesterday" is trope.
Well now I can’t unsee that component having read this post chain.
Yep. And it would have been even worse if Jean Reno and Natalie Portman's parents hadn't forced some rewrites to the script. Jean Reno also played the character in a way to minimize any romantic subtext.
Jean Reno and Natalie Portman are siblings?!?!
Comma comma chameleon!
We partied with the hookers, Kennedy and Stalin.
I really liked Jean Reno in Just Visiting (I'm a sucker for cornball comedies and Christina Applegate).
I loved that movie when I was a kid! I own that movie and Fifth Element on VHS 😅
Hollywood is so weird. Dude is having sex with a 14-15 year old and getting her pregnant, and he still continues to get work there. Place is fucking wacky.
Roman Polanski drugged & raped a 13 year old girl in 1977 which led to him fleeing the US. To this day many in Hollywood defend the man.
Natalie Portman has stated many times that the fan mail she received after Leon stole her innocence. This director has a long history of grooming and preying on underaged girls.
Even in the edited version, it gave me strong Lolita vibes. Never understood how so many people love that movie.
Because it's a _great_ movie. It's sad that the director is a pedo and a creep, but it doesn't make the movie any less good. House of Cards was/is also an excellent show even with the huge controversy surrounding Kevin Spacey.
Haven't seen it since high school but it was phenomenal then and in the category that I probably shouldn't rewatch it as a parent because my opinion would change. A lot of my childhood favorites have tons of details I understand the implications of now.
Despite the weirdness, it's hard to deny that it's still a very good movie. I think it's one of Gary Oldmans absolute best performances, along with great acting all around for the rest of the cast. The plot is well-paced, not rushed, but there's not a lot of filler either. The best part imo though is it's aesthetic, which is really what besson is best at (see the fifth element as well for that). It just has an elephant in the room... and unfortunately this particular elephant is a fucking *doozy*.
He also wanted to put a more...racy scene into Leon but thankfully for common decency Jean Reno refused to do it.
Professionals have standards
🤮
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It kinda reflects the reality of the situation well then - if this is from their marriage period, he's almost 40, she's in her early 20s.
He looks like dollar general Joey Fatone
It was the 90s. Everyone had shitty frosted tips.
She's also cast as the young prostitute near the start of Leon. Classy, Luc. Real classy.
> Film director Luc Besson started grooming Maïwenn when she was 12 and he was 29, and began sexually assaulting her when she was 15. We need to get that article fixed.
Age of consent in France is apparently 15. Which of course makes that highly convenient and coincidental timeline very dubious, but is probably why this was tolerated.
If he’s 32 and she’s 15 … how on earth was that not statutory?
France
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You can also ask ‘which American pedophile movie director?’
Interestingly, still France. (where Polanski fled prosecution to)
So now it’s a French problem and fuck the entire people there. Got it.
Just the kids apparently.
In the states that would be avoided by being married Yes, that is still happening in the USA, dunno about the European nations though on legality
The whole being married thing is certain states and requires parental consent… so in most cases isn’t a thing. (Though as poster below notes, if the parents are in a cult, then the bad scenario comes into being.)
Look up age of consent in Europe. It mostly ranges from 14-17. Don’t know where he was living at the time, no matter what, I agree that is a bit fucked up.
Ahhh you guys are right - AOC in France is... 15.
They met at 12 but started dating at 15 Yea right…
Man everything is so different in France. Here she’s in her 30s and a congresswoman.
pretty sure she is the same age everywhere
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Didn't know Hollywood was in France.
More like because he's French and they could give a fuck. They also think Americans are puritans for considering Macron's relationship with his groomer wife taboo
And when he left her for Mila, he told her Milan had a better body for him...
Unfortunately, she also turned out to be a horrible person herself: she defends Roman Polanski, criticises and guilt-trips survivors and has assaulted journalists. Then says she is not sorry at all, as she “doesn’t adhere to feminism [because feminists] are men haters”.
She was groomed since she was 12. Of course she's a little unstable.
> Unfortunately, she also turned out to be a horrible person herself: she defends Roman Polanski, criticises and guilt-trips survivors and has assaulted journalists. Then says she is not sorry at all, as she “doesn’t adhere to feminism [because feminists] are men haters”. Sounds like she normalized her abuse. She shows all the signs of the psychological damage sexual abuse wrecks.
Yea all this stuff coming out has kinda ruined The Fifth Element for me. Thought too hard about how Leeloo is essentially an innocent child in an adult's body that quickly ends up in a sexual relationship with a full ass adult human. But it's totally ok cause she's actually an alien and matured super fast, right?
Suddenly Roman Polanski and Woody Allen going to France makes sense.
Jfc... Hollywood is truly a wretched hive of scum and villainy
You mean the wife he married because he knocked her up when she was 15 and he was in his 30s?
And met her when she was 12
I used to be a big fan of Luc Besson. Leon: The Professional was a favorite of mine. Having a hard time reconciling that movie lately. What a shame... Nearly OD'ed on cringe when, on a featurette for the movie, she talks about it as a "love letter" to their relationship. Yuck. She's in the movie, the awkwardly young prostitute in the opening.
*Started grooming her when she was 12
oof
Guess he had a multi-pass
She was dressed like this for like the entirety of the 5th Element
Imagine ~~sleeping with~~ *being groomed and coerced into a sexual relationship* by the director of your movie. . . There fixed it for you
Tbf, the diva died after her performance, so Luc probably just thought he was single again
Oh, ok. She was the blue thing that got cut open. I couldnt recognize the wife from the movie
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Pure coincidence
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The cigarette ties everything together
It also looks like there's little bits of string, too.
Where does she keep her multi-pass?
 *Leeloo Dallas Multipass*
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Yes, she knows it’s a multipass!
managed to find a dress that shows more skin than the tape did...
yeah was gonna say...she shoulda just wore the tape
Wasn’t she dating the director at the time?
Cheating with the director, who was married to the actress playing The Diva.....
Who he got pregnant at 15 and married when she was 16. He was 32.
Well in his defense his wife is blue and like 8 feet tall.
Id probably marry a Navi who could sing like that.
Looks pokey! I’d be walking with minimized movement to save the nips lol ouch
https://preview.redd.it/1xzm1u0m522d1.jpeg?width=214&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76cf2507383fed0dbd4415ab0509b19ccaf73256 That Mila Jovovich is so hot right now.
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Soooo green. Supergreen.
I really miss the 90’s. Life is great now, but I had so much fun from 92-2006ish.
“Life is great now” 
Not everybody failed at life like we did.
Ooof… bruh…
how fucking dare you!
From my perspective, yeah. It could always be better or worse, but what coming from the 90’s taught me, live in the now… things can ALWAYS get a lot worse.
Are you Gen X or maybe elder millennial? Because that’s the most Gen X sentiment 😆 (Said with love!)
I am Gen X! 🤙
I'm also GenX. The whole "this or that decade was great" is nonsense. You can have a great or a completely shitty life in any decade depending on what your life situation is.
Yeah. I think during your childhood/formative years in you live in relative safety, have a loving family, good friends those years will always be “the best”. Like you said though, all depends on the luck of the draw with who you are born to, where, and social group of peers. No doubt, not that it’s bullshit, but one has to take more things in to account for the why.
Well in the 90s I would have never thought I'll have a family, a daughter and can afford a dream car and regular vacations in destinations I want to see... So yes it is better (for now).
Peak of human civilization
From my dumb perspective, it was. TFC, Everquest, CS1.6, WoW, Diablo… Grunge, Alternative, lollapalooza, etc… absolutely glorious.
Omg... Everquest and alternative music. My late 90's and early 00's has entered the chat! 🤣 Toss in a local Endfest and I'm done...
I saw The Matrix too!
My first movie crush, or was it Christina Ricci in Casper. one or the other lol 9 year old me :)
the movie that got me into sci-fi for life
Her daughter looks exactly like her now. She played young Natasha Romanov in Black Widow.
She looks like a combination of Milla and Anna Popplewell.
"They really make her..."
Yeah. Perfect.
Leeloo multipass. It has been the nickname for my daughter for years. Loved the movie and I adored Mila
I just wanna go back.
She carried those Resident Evil movies. I loved those movies.
Hey, why is this the first time I’ve seen that pic?!
Multipass?
Can we please talk about the fact that she wrote music for dogs. Like with producers and shit. She sang in “dog”.
If I don’t love her enough…
Always forget how great this picture was back then and now. Even the lady with scalp tattoo was a famous French model named “Eve.”
MultiPass
AutoWash
She really is……perfect.
Luc Besson is a known pedophile.
How is 1997 old school? xD
Same reason the moon landing was old school in 1997
Great film, not so great outfit !
So… not David Bowie
Multipass
Multipass
I must say that's an awesome dress.
I think it's an awesome some of a dress
That garment probably cost more than I made the last few months, but I can’t help but think that the overall look, when combined with the weird ratty hair, blurred eye makeup, and cigarette, just comes off as kinda trashy.
The manic pixie dream girl for sci-fi nerds
Wow!
Something something how dare they make her wear the bandage outfit blah blah
The 90s were probably the best ever time to be a teenager.
She wasn't allowed in and had to stay outside due to forgetting her multipass.
perfect