The Bodyguard (1992) is unironically a good movie --- Sexy black 90s singer vs incel stalker and her strong cynical white bodyguard antihero Kevin Costner begrudgingly saves her

I recently got a bunch of VHS tapes for free and I remembered this movie being popular growing up in the 90s but little else, so I decided to see what it was like and I was surprised to enjoy it.

Whitney Houston before her coke days was sexy af and charismatic in this which makes it interesting

Said Cocaine days:

But what sells it is Kevin Costner, a cynical ex secret service who was supposed to protect Ronald Reagan, but was off duty that night during his famous shooting. Later on after another PTSDy shooting of a perp he retires and goes into private security. Filled with cynicism about protecting annoying rich buttholes and some deep anger/regret they subtley imply, but don't dwell on like lesser films would through with flashbacks or melodrama or whatever, you can tell he's seen some shit he can't delete from his brain.

Costner is noticebly very young and viril looking in this, like a male in his prime, and Whitney immediately gives him frick eyes the first time she sees him:

Whitney

Whitney is a bit sheltered in her famous life, she's being harassed by fans like most female super celebs, including some very serious looking death threats.

In one scene they show some superfan in a pre-4chan c*m tribute broke in and jerked off on her bed.

but her definitely gay but obviously straight IRL PR guy protects her from this and keeps information from her so she keeps making $$

Her PR handler:

chuddy antihero Kevin enters the picture

Here's the most dramatic pre-arc moment where Kevin tells her he'll kill her if she vaguely annoys him again

(literally watching on VHS, apologies for ruining the aspect ratio trying to resize it so this fits in rdramas mb size window)

This new uber serious Bodyguard gets her interest immediately but both play cynical standoffish to each other initially but slowly she gets to him

They slowly start having chemistry and she get mad because Kevin is a German style professional who doesn't mix business with pleasure, aka kitty bait because he doesn't immediately suck up to her but also acts like a protective father figure,

aka the main pitch of the movie...

Our incel (Real)hero

this isn't really a spoiler they show her incel-y stalker like 20% into the movie

Anyway I won't explain anymore of the film, I recommended rewatching it