alden Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/11/28/leslie-nielsen-dies/ This sucks....he was such a great actor. Naked Gun was super funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon_lit_tears Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/11/28/leslie-nielsen-dies/ This sucks....he was such a great actor. Naked Gun was super funny. Wow! He was great. This has been a terrible year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brashleyholland Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/11/28/leslie-nielsen-dies/ This sucks....he was such a great actor. Naked Gun was super funny. You can't be serious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennie Bomb Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 You can't be serious... Way to botch the set-up. The joke doesn't work if you don't say "Surely". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brashleyholland Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Way to botch the set-up. The joke doesn't work if you don't say "Surely". I am fully, fully ashamed of myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHK1978 Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 About ten years ago FX used to run reruns of the 1960's show Rawhide (starring Clint Eastwood before he became a star). Anyway, there was one episode in it with two brothers one I recognized right away as being Martin Landau (after all he still looks pretty much the same). The second brother I had no clue who it was but the voice sounded familiar. Anyway, I read through the credits and it was Leslie Nielsen. He looked totally different from the guy that I was used to seeing in the Nake Gun movies. I was shocked. I will say that Leslie Nielsen was one of my favorite comedic actors (even if he started out as a serious actor) and he could pretty much take any part in crappy movies and make them good. So he will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genadi Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Back when we only had 3 real channels in total I can remember the Naked Gun movies were one of the films that would air every other weekend. Sad to hear of his passing today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alden Posted November 29, 2010 Author Share Posted November 29, 2010 O come now........No matter how much i love the office........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA&feature=related gotta stick with the original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningHamster Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Oh man, this is sad. I was just talking about him two days ago with one of my old film lecturers. It's a shame there doesn't seem to be too much of the silly humour Nielsen was known for around today but it kind of makes sense. To make comedy like that work you need performers who can pull it off. Making goofy, silly jokes funny takes a lot more talent than people realize. Neilsen was the kind of actor who no matter what he was doing, could always put me in a good mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genadi Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 O come now........No matter how much i love the office........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA&feature=related gotta stick with the original Agreed, you know that really should've been in the first post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20LEgend Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 This guy was a great actor, I hope they show all his films on TV now and Airplane is a great film The Mystery of The Undertaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brashleyholland Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 My favourite Naked Gun quotes: Police Commissioner: Ladies and gentlemen, I would now like to introduce a most special American. Tonight, he is being honoured for his 1000th drug-dealer killed. Frank Drebin: Thank you. But, in all honesty, the last three I backed over with my car. Luckily, they turned out to be drug-dealers. and... Frank Drebin: You're Rocko's girl, and in my book that chapter's called "look but don't touch." Tanya Peters: I could have two lovers. Frank Drebin: Kinky. But I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Self Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Watched the end of Scary Movie 3 the other day while waiting for Match of the Day to start. I enjoyed his performance immensely. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bus Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 R.I.P. Leslie, you were truly a great actor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comradebot Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Overwhelming sadness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djthefunkchris Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 I truly liked this actor, and been trying to think of something suitable to type, that show's how much I did like him, but... All I can think of is, I can't help to wonder how many times he died while dieing.... "Wait! One more thing!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy2 Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 i remember watching Creepshow and the story he was in, he was a evil business man and drowned a young couple on the beach, and he recorded the whole thing, was the only serious role i have seen him in and because of The Naked Gun films, i pretty much laughed everytime he said something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Casey Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Airplane was actually Nielsen's first comedic role - like almost every actor in the film, he was cast to play against type. He's also in Forbidden Planet. He's always going to be remembered as Frank Drebin, though, and why not? I might have to watch Naked Gun tonight - I've got Police Squad on DVD as well, so maybe an episode of that. RIP, sir, and thanks for some of the funniest moments ever put on film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellboy2 Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 i loved Airplane, The Naked Gun films where the first i had watched of his, i think after seeing them i would never take him seriously again he was brilliant, apart from maybe Mr Magoo i think it was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slack Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 "This woman is sick, she's needs to be sent to a hospital immediately." "A hospital, what is it?" "A big building with patients, but that's not important right now." Leslie Nielsen gave me and my dad a lot of laughs, and made my mom do a ton of eye rolls. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomfreeze Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 It's a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill, and these are our beans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisKid Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Rip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazorbeak Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 I recently read Mark Twain's "How To Tell a Story" which includes a description of the "humorous story" in contrast to the more traditional "comic story." Twain says: "The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through." Nielsen was a master of getting us to laugh by convincing us that what he was doing was very, very serious. Shirley he will be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntman Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 This is one of the recent articles I almost cried reading. I loved Leslie Nielsen and it just kills me to see that he passed away. I own the Naked Gun boxset, Airplane, and Spy Hard. I look forward to seeing him in The Waterman Movie. I might have a go at the Naked Gun trilogy tonight. Rest in Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjacko Posted November 30, 2010 Share Posted November 30, 2010 Mayor: Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side last year, that's my policy. Frank: Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's *my* policy! Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of 'Julius Caesar,' you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones! RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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