Léon (1994) (Uncut) [LD 36018]

I am absolutely thrilled to be giving a gleaming report about a PAL disc.

In 2000 I started collecting LDs because I could get them cheaper than the DVD. I slowly, and with the help of a great player learned their value. Now I approach PAL discs the same, mostly buying music discs that are too expensive in their Japanese counterparts.
So for the same reason I bought this French Gaumont pressing. And it looks just fine, and sounds great. I immensely prefer this long version to the one i know.. The shorter version just plainly doesn't give enough time for their relationship to fully mature, and I always thought, now why did he have to go get himself killed?? But this was just perfect.

Some may not know... This is the real name of the movie THE PROFESSIONAL

Léon is actually the original title, it is a French film by a French director in English that was shot in the United States. The Professional is the English title but is called Léon (or Leon) in most languages and by many people.

Does the PAL 4% speed up bother you at all? And have you ever compared a PAL disc release to its US or Japanese counterpart? Although I own a few PAL discs from the original 1982 launch and later 1990's pressings, I've never been able to watch them since I don't own a PAL player, but I've heard many complaints about PAL discs being conversions of NTSC titles instead of true 625 line 25fps transfers and want to know how they fare.

I have some PAL DVD's (the whole Bionic Woman set and Microsoft's test DVD) and the speed up of the sound drives me crazy - I just can't adjust to it. When I went on vacation in 1990 to England and France/Germany, etc... The speed up and 50 Hz flicker (flicker which I know doesn't exist anymore) of PAL and SECAM TV really bothered me - but I thought SECAM's pic quality was wonderful - too bad there was never any true SECAM discs made.

Do any modern sets do PAL-Plus, and if so, do you own any of the few PAL-Plus discs that were issued? Germany started the whole PAL-Plus program and utilized it the most so I've wondered if companies have kept it in modern sets. The closest the US got to a true EDTV system like PAL-Plus is the Faroudja SuperNTSC system and besides LD's, NBC and other networks used it, but it didn't add any resolution or have a 16:9 compatible aspect ratio.

Disclord, I don't know anything about this... It seems to me if its speed up then the pitch goes up slightly of the soundtrack as well? Your saying the film rate goes by faster ? If its really 4% then wouldn't a 120 minute movie only be 115 minutes in PAL?? I'm I following you correctly ?