Where do you stand on Leon (The Professional)?

Vlad Analogue · Post by **Vlad Analogue** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:54 pm

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?

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:03 pm

love it to death

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:07 pm

Leon is definitely the one to get, not the Professional

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:10 pm

Andvil wrote:love it to death

Jizzy · Post by **Jizzy** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:23 pm

Random Sample wrote:
Andvil wrote:love it to death

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:21 pm

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

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:28 pm

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.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:38 pm

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:

kato · Post by **kato** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:57 pm

Jizzy wrote:
Random Sample wrote:
Andvil wrote:love it to death

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:20 pm

AWSOME MOVIE..AS IS LA FEMME NIKITA.

I even liked out of bounds (o.k. maybe that was just cause i love bridgette fonda)

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:29 pm

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?

CRASH DDZ · Post by **CRASH DDZ** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:53 pm

BAM ! YES, YES I DO !

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:04 pm

CRASH DDZ wrote:BAM ! YES, YES I DO !

^^^ vaguely unsettling somehow

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:55 am

http://home.worldonline.nl/~giso/photog ... leon-4.jpg

Dope character. I think he woulda taxed natalie portman too.

four_see · Post by **four_see** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:42 am

but he had only been with one girl

he would not have made a good lover (no homo)

Y@k Bollocks · Post by **Y@k Bollocks** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:09 am

drizzle wrote:

"I HAVEN'T GOT TIIIIIIIIME,
FORTHISMICKEYMOUSEBULLSHIT!"

Great film.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:03 am

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.

cuntface · Post by **cuntface** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:44 am

drizzle wrote:Leon is definitely the one to get, not the Professional

what's the difference?

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:07 am

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"

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:19 pm

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

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:39 pm

I love this movie although I much prefer the cut version.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:53 pm

Sigma wrote:I love this movie although I much prefer the cut version.

why?

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:22 pm

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.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:35 pm

^^^ valid argument, although I also saw the cut one first. To each is own i suppose, as long as we can all agree on -->>

Andvil · Post by **Andvil** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:36 pm

yeah I saw the cut one first as well, many times. I really could watch either though

blessingindisguise · Post by **blessingindisguise** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:29 pm

Bring me Evveeerrryyyyyonnnnneeeee!!

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:46 pm

As far as Leon goes, it's a great movie and somewhere in the top 50 favorite movies of mine.

AWAE · Post by **AWAE** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:32 pm

great flick.

Jizzy · Post by **Jizzy** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:48 pm

A sequel to this would be so ill. Luc Besson aint done shit worth mentioning twice since this movie.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:53 pm

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