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Where do you stand on Leon (The Professional)?
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:54 pm
by Vlad Analogue
Hardly gets any mention around here, just seeing what folks have to say. The director's cut is a fine, fine piece of work IMO. Definitely one of my faves, what say you?
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:03 pm
by Andvil
love it to death
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:07 pm
by drizzle
Leon is definitely the one to get, not the Professional
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:10 pm
by Random Sample
Andvil wrote:love it to death
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:23 pm
by Jizzy
Random Sample wrote:Andvil wrote:love it to death
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:21 pm
by Smooth Lou
drizzle wrote:Leon is definitely the one to get, not the Professional
Yep. DOPE cover art too. I am possibly the only one hoping for a sequel (with Matilda as an assassin, but only if they can get NP to do it).
I used to have a movie poster of it that was a painting of Leon with his glasses on looking up at a building in Manhattan (Possibly the WTC? I don't remember) and it was a really really dope poster. An ex-girlfriend ruined it in a fit of rage many years ago, which is why she is an ex-girlfriend.
Love,
Smooth "BITCH DON'T FUCK WITH LEON!!!" Lou
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:28 pm
by EMCEE DARTH MALEK
This movie is dope and leon is a OG. You know if he survived he probably would have taxed natalie portman as she got older.
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:38 pm
by drizzle
EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:This movie is dope and leon is a OG. You know if he survived he probably would have taxed natalie portman as she got older.
so wrong yet so right
also, let's give it up for the supporting players who can get overlooked in the shadow of leon's dopeness:
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:57 pm
by kato
Jizzy wrote:Random Sample wrote:Andvil wrote:love it to death
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:20 pm
by CRASH DDZ
AWSOME MOVIE..AS IS LA FEMME NIKITA.
I even liked out of bounds (o.k. maybe that was just cause i love bridgette fonda)
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:29 pm
by drizzle
CRASH DDZ wrote:AWSOME MOVIE..AS IS LA FEMME NIKITA.
I even liked out of bounds (o.k. maybe that was just cause i love bridgette fonda)
do you mean point of no return?
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:53 pm
by CRASH DDZ
BAM ! YES, YES I DO !
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:04 pm
by drizzle
CRASH DDZ wrote:BAM ! YES, YES I DO !
^^^ vaguely unsettling somehow
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:55 am
by EMCEE DARTH MALEK
Dope character. I think he woulda taxed natalie portman too.
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:42 am
by four_see
but he had only been with one girl
he would not have made a good lover (no homo)
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:09 am
by Y@k Bollocks
drizzle wrote:
"I HAVEN'T GOT TIIIIIIIIME,
FORTHISMICKEYMOUSEBULLSHIT!"
Great film.
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:03 am
by Icesickle
Gary Oldman's far and away the best thing about the movie. It's a shame he didn't get more screen time, cause he outshines everyone else in the cast.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:44 am
by cuntface
drizzle wrote:Leon is definitely the one to get, not the Professional
what's the difference?
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:07 am
by Andvil
about 20 more minutes of Leon and Mathilda in "Leon"
I don't really think there's THAT big of a difference, but yeah I prefer "Leon"
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:19 pm
by drizzle
Andvil wrote:about 20 more minutes of Leon and Mathilda in "Leon"
I don't really think there's THAT big of a difference, but yeah I prefer "Leon"
*SPOILERS*
it's a fairly big difference I think, they completely cut out the part where she tries to seduce him and this removes most of the "meat" of their relationship. The notion of just how freaky and weird the whole situation is gets totally sterilized into action movie cliches
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:39 pm
by Sigma
I love this movie although I much prefer the cut version.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:53 pm
by drizzle
Sigma wrote:I love this movie although I much prefer the cut version.
why?
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:22 pm
by Sigma
drizzle wrote:Sigma wrote:I love this movie although I much prefer the cut version.
why?
I watched the cut version several times cos I really liked it. I wasn't even aware there was an uncut version at the time. Perhaps it's me misinterpreting the movie, but in the cut version I got the impression Leon wasn't really training Matilda to be an assassin - more that he was just humouring her kind of thing. He teaches her to fire the sniper rifle at the jogger sure, but only with an ink pellet. In the uncut version she's going on missions with him and shit. That and the way their relationship is discussed in more depth changes the whole feel of the movie for me. Maybe you would need to see the movies in the same order I did to think the same, I dunno.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:35 pm
by drizzle
^^^ valid argument, although I also saw the cut one first. To each is own i suppose, as long as we can all agree on -->>
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:36 pm
by Andvil
yeah I saw the cut one first as well, many times. I really could watch either though
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:29 pm
by blessingindisguise
Bring me Evveeerrryyyyyonnnnneeeee!!
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:46 pm
by Psychosis
As far as Leon goes, it's a great movie and somewhere in the top 50 favorite movies of mine.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:32 pm
by AWAE
great flick.
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:48 pm
by Jizzy
A sequel to this would be so ill. Luc Besson aint done shit worth mentioning twice since this movie.
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:53 pm
by drizzle
Jizzy wrote:A sequel to this would be so ill. Luc Besson aint done shit worth mentioning twice since this movie.
Fifth Element was after this and it was the shit
He mostly produces and distributes now instead of directs, he's actually the reason most people even heard about Ong Bak. He's had a hand directly or indirectly in a ton of awesome non-US action movies over the last 7 years or so