# New "Naked Gun" movie starting Liam Neeson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612 "2025-04-04T13:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/41 "2025-04-05T00:18:02Z")
It is this scene that told me he would be perfect in the new _Naked Gun_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/42 "2025-04-05T00:27:31Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Exhibit B Haha, thanks. I had seen both exhibit A and exhibit B, but both long enough ago that rewatching them were funny all over again. Neeson can definitely pull off deadpan comedy in the Nielsen style as well as any actor these days. Spurred me to look up the ‘Derry Girls’ cameo that had been mentioned in this thread but not linked to, which I had _not_ seen, and it is similar deadpan comedy gold. Exhibit C: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LwwFTvzRyug/maxresdefault.jpg "Liam Neeson Vs The Girls | Derry Girls") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwFTvzRyug) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/43 "2025-04-05T00:38:01Z")
Nothing meaningful to add to the thread. But despite having correctly read many posters upthread speaking of the _Derry Girls_, somehow when I saw @solost’s vid cite I read that as _Dreary Girls_. In my defense, they did look sort of UK dreary, conventional, & boring. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/44 "2025-04-05T01:04:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Derry Girls For those who don’t know about this program, it’s a television series on the British channel called Channel 4. It’s set in the city of Derry (also known as Londonderry) in Northern Ireland. It ran from January 4, 2018 to May 18, 2022. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/45 "2025-04-05T01:08:56Z")
It’s streaming on Netflix. I’ve seen a few episodes of it, but not the Neeson clip until now. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/46 "2025-04-05T01:13:07Z")
There’s a clip with Liam Neeson doing some funny by being serious at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9NzhjcPsQQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9NzhjcPsQQ) . ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/47 "2025-04-05T01:15:27Z")
And there’s also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojzQncTbYQQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojzQncTbYQQ) . ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/48 "2025-04-05T01:19:05Z")
And there’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqG621-drmk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqG621-drmk) . ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/49 "2025-04-05T01:39:11Z")
And there’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZAUVOMoGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQZAUVOMoGk) . ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/50 "2025-04-05T02:11:14Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I just don’t like Seth MacFarlane But have you seen his Liam Neeson impression? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_L_ivANSxYw/maxresdefault.jpg "Wheel of Impressions w/ #SethMacFarlane: #LiamNeeson talks about Time Warner Cable. #FallonTonight") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_ivANSxYw) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/51 "2025-04-05T12:43:23Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Well, since Leonard Nemoy is no longer available the options for “L.N.” actors is pretty limited. How about a gender-flipped remake with Laraine Newman? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/52 "2025-04-05T12:48:02Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > How about a gender-flipped remake with Laraine Newman? I would pay good money to see a version with Lupita Nyong’o. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/53 "2025-04-05T17:49:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > Then seeing that pic of a certain former football player on their Wall of Fame-uhh, NO. > > That “mm mm” was the funniest bit in the trailer. Agreed. Besides it would be on everyone’s mind if they would acknowledge OJ’s role in the original. This way they put it right out front. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/54 "2025-04-05T18:14:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Agreed. Besides it would be on everyone’s mind if they would acknowledge OJ’s role in the original. This way they put it right out front I was too young to remember OJ playing football, so Hertz commercials and the Naked Gun movies were my main memory of him. We thought he was such a jovial, easy going guy. I saw him on Letterman one time and he was really charming and well spoken. And Nordberg is a pretty well acted part considering he wasn’t an actor. Then again…He obviously he had periods of hyper-rage and more or less psychotic breaks. I’m…still not entirely sure why he was so particularly mad at his ex-wife the day of the murder or the days leading up to it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/55 "2025-04-05T18:22:22Z")
He did have a lot of trauma in his life. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0K8s9cNqZO4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!: Police! Throw down your guns.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K8s9cNqZO4) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/56 "2025-04-05T18:39:08Z")
Man, I need to see these movies again. I barely remember that. Gag movies like this are rare, now. If this new Naked Gun can pull it off, it might work. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/57 "2025-04-05T19:18:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > If this new Naked Gun can pull it off _If._ Not hopeful of that. Didn’t find the trailer at all funny. Saw the jokes coming. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/58 "2025-04-05T19:53:26Z")
In memory of Val Kilmer (and because we needed a few good laughs this week) my wife and I watched Kilmer’s debut movie last night, _Top Secret_. Not quite as funny as _Airplane!_, but pretty funny. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/59 "2025-04-05T21:57:54Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Hey, has Liam Neeson successfully been in a full-comedy before? He was in **A Million Ways To Die In The West**. So no. But he was also in **The Lego Movie**. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/60 "2025-04-05T22:17:00Z")
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