Count me in!!!

[Trevor]

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. 🤔🤔

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.

[M.10rda]

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.

[claws]

From what I read, the International teaser is better than the U.S. teaser. Not watched the International one yet.

[zombie no.one]

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?

[LordGraal]

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.

[Trevor]

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.

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 😳😳

[zombie no.one]

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.

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. 

[M.10rda]

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.