# Great movies that somehow got by you

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**Created:** [January 6, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-somehow-got-by-you/846009 "2020-01-06T02:50:32Z")
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### Author: ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-movies-that-somehow-got-by-you/846009/21 "2020-01-13T15:13:18Z")

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> [@iguanas.com](#):
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> recently I saw the director’s cut of \*Léon: The Professional \*. I don’t know about the other cut of the film but this one had perfect pacing throughout, good characters. I felt that more people should know more about it. perhaps if this, the director’s cut, had gotten more attention.

Leon comes from the time before DVDs, and there might have director cut versions on Laserdisc somewhere. I was a fan of the film, and I think only Japan got to see a release of the directors cut for a long time before it was released in the US a number of years after the original films release. The additional scenes were perhaps dropped due to the nature of the film.

Weirdly I was sure I’d seen a different version on the original rental VHS I rented. Could be that I filled in gaps which weren’t there. But I’m sure there are scenes which I thought happened, which didn’t. It could have been a Tarantino ear trick. So when I saw the directors cut, it was different from the version I thought I watched.

However, the significant extra parts of the Leon directors cut (over 20 minutes) are taking Matilda on hits, a couple of extended scenes, and something which brought more ambiguity into the relationship. It’s a movie which some people half watch, or read about, and jump to conclusions as if the Europeans were much comfortable with paedophelia than the rest of us. When it’s clearly a young girl with a crush, and a lonely man needing to be a father. Leon wakes up in the same bed as Matilda one night, and those on the end of a ledge ready to jump to conclusions might have taken it as something else. It wasn’t.

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> also, _Pontypoo_l, which I suggest watching without getting spoiled on anything, which an out-there central concept, and _A Dark Song_, which I found a big overlong and not quite a horror film but worth a watch.

A Dark song was certainly one of the more interesting “horrors” of recent years, I reckon.

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