Naked Gun (reboot)

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It's been a while since I watched the Naked Gun series, but I remember enjoying them as I did most slapstick movies from my youth. I'm wondering how well those movies would hold up to modern scrutiny and what that means this will end up looking like.
 

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It's been a while since I watched the Naked Gun series, but I remember enjoying them as I did most slapstick movies from my youth. I'm wondering how well those movies would hold up to modern scrutiny and what that means this will end up looking like.

Same here. Haven't seen The Naked Gun since I was a teenager. Been meaning to revisit it, but I also don't want to tarnish my memory of it.
 

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Will Naked guns comedy work in todays day and age or will this just be hyper raunchy instead like most other releases?
 

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They must have thought, "Well, we can't duplicate Leslie Nielsen, but how close can we get to his name?"
I feel like Nielsen was the king of this type of comedy, but, who knows, maybe the writers were the magic. I would think the "nathan for you" guy would be a good choice for some deadpan/slapstick humor.
 

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I’ll give it a shot. I wonder if people forget that before Nielsen was the king of spoof comedies, he was an overly serious (not necessarily meaning good) actor.

Neeson playing the world straight while everything around him is ludicrous could work in the right hands. But man, that is a REALLY tough tone to duplicate.
 

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I’ll give it a shot. I wonder if people forget that before Nielsen was the king of spoof comedies, he was an overly serious (not necessarily meaning good) actor.

Neeson playing the world straight while everything around him is ludicrous could work in the right hands. But man, that is a REALLY tough tone to duplicate.
That's great if we want to give him a shot. Just let's not do it in another stupid remake.
 

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Can't compete with Leslie Nielsen.
 

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From the trailer this looks like a loose sequel sort of reboot. It might have been better to label it as something like Naked Gun 69
 

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I dunno fellas....I was never a huge naked gun fan...but that trailer?? It got me, Im in, looks ridiculously funny.
of course...that might all change once I get back on my meds...or tomorrow...or whatever
 

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When you have to go and there is nowhere to go. It has to be one of the worst feelings in the world.

What to throw away and what to keep. :)
 

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