Love, Simon is a Great Teen Movie! (Movie Commentary & Reaction)

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  @trinaq · 3 years ago

  Fun Fact: Simon's mum's speech of "You get to exhale now, Simon" wasn't in the original script, but Jennifer Garner wanted a scene where she connected with Simon.

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  @DarleneLesmana · 3 years ago

  i know people like clowning on this movie, but it was a great way to show my mom the community without showing her media that is hella sad, graphic, or explicit

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  @7_ty_ · 3 years ago (edited)

  I have never hated a character more than Martin. I know they try to make him sympathetic but as a queer person, I literally don’t care. What he did has literally ruined lives. Ugh, he gives me such the ick. Also, you guys should totally watch Everything Everywhere All at Once. It has great LGBT+ representation, Asian American representation, and it’s just an amazing movie. Michelle Yeoh is awesome

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  @SpookyBibi24 · 3 years ago

  In the book Cal is bisexual, which adds to his gesture of reaching out to Simon after he's been outed. I would have like if they've shown it in the movie too.

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  @icelily1761 · 3 years ago

  I absolutely LOVE the point Stef makes about Simon being gay but not "appearing" gay--I'm also bi but I (a woman) married a man and I dont do "typical" queer things. I very much am what they call "straight acting", but I'm not. It's just a part of me, although when I began my journey of discovering this about myself, I often wondered if I was really bi? And wondered if I was queer enough to be counted as part of the community? But I've realized how thats a load of bull, I am who I am and I don't need to fit the stereotypes to be considered part of the LGBT+ community

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  @YehShuhu · 3 years ago

  I read the book before the movie and it pissed me off how they made Leah like Simon because in the book she has a crush on nick and for that reason she doesn't get along with Abby that well at first. And in the second book Leah on the offbeat, she realizes she's bisexual and actually has a crush on ABBY

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  @AHealthyDoseofFran · 3 years ago

  I both love and hate this movie cause, really?? Simon had to apologise when his friends abandoned him after being outed cause two of them couldn’t date straight away??? REALLY??

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  @mitchellhp · 3 years ago (edited)

  Love that Stef knew he would hate Martin the second he opened up his mouth 😂<br><br>Apparently Keiynan Lonsdale was not yet out when they were making the movie, but his involvement inspired him to come out afterwards.

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  @browneyedgabi6030 · 3 years ago

  I really love this movie. Despite what some people have to say about the main character being white and middle class and how that&apos;s not very representative of things. I do like that this is just a sweet movie about a queer kid. It&apos;s not super dramaful…wellll it is, but that&apos;s because it&apos;s high school and people have hormones and act shitty and stupid. But it&apos;s not like someone&apos;s dying or getting physically beaten up; it&apos;s literally about teenage crushes and love and I just really like this movie. It gets me in my feels which isn&apos;t something that happens often but this is one of the movies that will.

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  @laurajaynenolan2149 · 3 years ago

  I remember being at a sleepover with 9 school friends and one girl said “statistically 2 of us are gay” flash forward to now and we are all still friends and only one of us is straight 🤣 this was over a decade ago but it really makes me laugh now because the girl who said it was bi and everyone thought at that moment “oh my god, it’s me” 🤣🤣🤣 you are never as alone as you think you are 💖 the straight one was the only boy in the group as well (who everyone assumed was gay because he only had female friends).

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  @Mishaaaah76 · 3 years ago

  Not sure if anyone else has noted this fun little bit of trivia but I always loved that the French version of Simon Says is “Jacques a dit” so Simon&apos;s alias is actually a pretty clever way to be hidden in plain sight.

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  @valentinafangirling · 3 years ago

  We were kinda robbed of Nick and Simon in this movie. Nick was genuinely such a good friend even after the truth was revealed 😭😭 i think the gay bar scene was a deleted scene tho they did film it

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