This is going to be crude, stupid, and juvenile - and I'm going to laugh myself silly at it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N8IIq_8I
I like it already!
That looks much more promising than I expected
Looks great!
I'm not sure what to think of this: I've always liked Liam Neeson but I can't stand Seth McFarlane.
The original POLICE SQUAD tv series and the first NAKED GUN movie were great but I really don't know what to think of this. 🤔🤔
Not sure either. It's only a teaser, but there was nothing that made me laugh, or even smile. We shall see how this turns out.
Trivia:
Leslie Nielsen was 62 when he did the 1988 Naked Gun.
Liam Neeson is now 72.
Neeson playing Frank Drebin's son is a tough sell!
Quote from: Trevor on April 04, 2025, 11:12:53 AMI'm not sure what to think of this: I've always liked Liam Neeson but I can't stand Seth McFarlane.
The original POLICE SQUAD tv series and the first NAKED GUN movie were great but I really don't know what to think of this. 🤔🤔
I love all 3 NAKED GUN movies.
tbh this trailer seems so far removed from that universe... doesn't give me NAKED GUN vibes at all.
times change, I get it.
David Zucker:
(https://i.ibb.co/99VrYxvW/Sans-titre-1.jpg)
Uh... okay. "Police Squad!" is no masterpiece. The original AIRPLANE and NAKED GUNs are fun movies starring a more or less washed-up whitebread actor known best for playing bland good guys, who found a much more durable legacy being a (very good) onscreen clown. As I have zero interest in ever seeing Liam Neeson play another vengeful dad or cop, Frank Drebbin Jr. seems like as good a career move for him as any. I guess if one has a grudge against Seth MacFarlane or Akiva Schaeffer that would be an issue but I have no such strong feelings. It ain't the 80s anymore and the end of the posted trailer seems like it strikes exactly the right tone for a NAKED GUN movie in 2025: reverent and also irreverent.
Maybe Zucker just can't receive any negative feedback about OJ?
The wall of portraits is strait outa the cemetery scene from The Big Bus, but the picture of OJ nails it...
Quote from: M.10rda on April 04, 2025, 01:05:20 PMAs I have zero interest in ever seeing Liam Neeson play another vengeful dad or cop, Frank Drebbin Jr. seems like as good a career move for him as any.
he is a cop here, surely? :smile:
QuoteMaybe Zucker just can't receive any negative feedback about OJ?
well to be fair he seemed to have the same reservations about AIRPLANE 2 and there was no OJ sitiation there...
:bouncegiggle: Frank Drebbin is surely not just "a cop"!
Quote from: M.10rda on April 04, 2025, 09:32:29 PMFrank Drebbin is surely
don't call him that :wink:
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :cheers:
Quote from: Trevor on April 04, 2025, 11:12:53 AMI'm not sure what to think of this: I've always liked Liam Neeson but I can't stand Seth McFarlane.
The original POLICE SQUAD tv series and the first NAKED GUN movie were great but I really don't know what to think of this. 🤔🤔
I agree, I enjoyed early
FAMILY GUY but eventually it de-evolved into something quite annoying and
way too political.
TED was a disgrace, I couldn't stand it. Liam Neeson is awesome but I don't think he has the deadpan delivery of Leslie Nielsen which is what made him so funny; this looks more like a lame attempt at doing something more akin to
MACHETE, with the over-the-top violence and one liners.
Still, I may watch it just to see good ol' Liam kick some ass, it's been a while.
Quote from: Gabriel Knight on April 06, 2025, 03:13:33 PMQuote from: Trevor on April 04, 2025, 11:12:53 AMI'm not sure what to think of this: I've always liked Liam Neeson but I can't stand Seth McFarlane.
The original POLICE SQUAD tv series and the first NAKED GUN movie were great but I really don't know what to think of this. 🤔🤔
I agree, I enjoyed early FAMILY GUY but eventually it de-evolved into something quite annoying and way too political. TED was a disgrace, I couldn't stand it. Liam Neeson is awesome but I don't think he has the deadpan delivery of Leslie Nielsen which is what made him so funny; this looks more like a lame attempt at doing something more akin to MACHETE, with the over-the-top violence and one liners.
Still, I may watch it just to see good ol' Liam kick some ass, it's been a while.
As much as I like Liam Neeson, the last film I saw him in bored me to tears and I really didn't care for the movie. This was MARLOWE and it left me feeling absolutely nothing.
Yeah, good or bad, I think this will be a win for Neeson in that it's a change of pace for him after a long rut of highly similar and increasingly tiresome films.
From what I read, the International teaser is better than the U.S. teaser. Not watched the International one yet.
here he is doing some deadpan comedy, in the tv series LIFE'S TOO SHORT...
https://youtu.be/sqA577_IoBk?si=KzsEkdW9x7rc3bqE
prefer this to the over-the-top vibe of the NG trailer... - in fact he seems a lot more Frank Drebbin-esque here?
I really like Police Squad but the Naked Gun movies went too far into slapstick and were dumbed down for me so I have very low hopes for this one. It's like when they tried to remake the Pink Panther films with Steve Martin as Clouseau - terrible idea. Give me the two Airplane films and Top Secret any day.
Quote from: LordGraal on April 07, 2025, 02:14:27 PMI really like Police Squad but the Naked Gun movies went too far into slapstick and were dumbed down for me so I have very low hopes for this one. It's like when they tried to remake the Pink Panther films with Steve Martin as Clouseau - terrible idea. Give me the two Airplane films and Top Secret any day.
Agreed. The Steve Martin PP films weren't good at all. The first one had this excruciating DVD directors audio commentary by Shawn Levy where he kept saying "Now this is a funny scene" or "This scene coming up is funny"
If you have to tell your audience where to laugh or inform them that the scene is funny, sorry for you 😳😳
Quote from: Trevor on April 06, 2025, 04:11:51 PMAs much as I like Liam Neeson, the last film I saw him in bored me to tears and I really didn't care for the movie. This was MARLOWE and it left me feeling absolutely nothing.
saw one the other day where he's on a train, and he has to do a thing, because of a thing... 4/10
strangely I never actually mentally clocked it was him in THE DEAD POOL until the last time I watched it about a year ago. I must've seen that film at least half a dozen times over the years
also seen the first 2 TAKEN films, and I think that's about it. He ain't no Seagal and I think deep down he realises this. :drink:
Neeson is a single dad of children (now they're probably adults but they were children at some point in the past 20-30 years) and he's an actor who mostly ends up in the same kinds of roles in movies that are mostly not SCHINDLER'S LIST. I try to keep in mind that actors who fall into such uhh "grooves" probably do it because those are the roles they are offered and they feel like they've gotta' take those roles to keep putting food on the table (literally or figuratively). There's a spectrum and on one end there's maybe Sean Penn, who admitted in the 90s that he sticks his toe in his jacuzzi and if the water's cold, he begrudgingly agrees to act in a movie, and on the other end there's Michael Madsen, who was always perfectly transparent about having a BUNCH of kids and a stay-at-home wife so he takes any and every paying job possible to take care of them, and Tarantino only calls once every 5 or 10 years. Neeson might not enjoy doing one dumb thriller after another either.
Unrelated segue: Shawn Levy, what a hack when he came to comedy, ugh, I avoided his name like I'd avoid the biohazard symbol. Co-producing and directing STRANGER THINGS and then FREE GUY was a career Hail Mary pass for him. He's developing a new STAR WARS film now. :bouncegiggle: