Denzel Washington poll

would've voted st elsewhere

this. and i thought he was pretty ott in training day, but then that stupid epic final battle where they're both hitting each other with chairs ruined that movie for me.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Nicholas "Ricochet" Styles

Guess I should watch Mo Better Blues.

Sort of blows my mind he was in both Carbon Copy and this:

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"Hoskins plays police sergeant Jack Moony, a racist cop, and Washington plays Napoleon Stone, an adorable but sleazy ambulance chasing lawyer whom Moony hates. Moony's years of bad habits, such as overeating, smoking, and drinking, finally catch up with him. At the same time, Stone is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. After suffering a heart attack, Moony wakes up to find out that his new heart was once Stone's, and the dead lawyer's ghost has become his constant companion. Now, Moony will have to solve Stone's murder."

Glad to see He Got Game and Mo' Better Blues get votes. Mo' Better is far from perfect, and some of it, like this long anti-pop-music diatribe played by Denzel's band, is downright bad. But he's often great in it, and it's the only film I know where you get both Kind of Blue and A Love Supreme on the soundtrack. Plus Wesley Snipes when he was still and actor; plus-plus Cynda Williams.

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I love this man. Didn't see this until now but I would have voted He Got Game which I love or Malcom X but think this is pretty tough tbh. I actually really liked Man on Fire even though I feel like it wasn't well received.

surprised man on fire didn't fare better - i thought it had a (deservedly) fairly sizeable cult on ilx. mo better was unfairly hurt by being the followup to do the right thing and fairly hurt by its ott anti-semitism. it's still has alot to recommend it - great music, ernest dickerson firing on all cylinders, denzel in prot-easy rawlins mode, wesley snipes when he looked like another pacino instead of another seagal, cynda williams naked.

That broken link of mine looks stupid (I took it from Slant--it's all Dr. Morbius's fault), so here's a different one:

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Agree with everything about MBB in previous post. The film resolves itself in this long, Raging Bull-style home movie to "A Love Supreme"; love that section. Along with Denzel and Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito's quite good too. Sam Jackson plays "Madlock"...I have no recollection of this character whatsoever.

me either, i'm guessing the bookie's muscle?

Could be. As long as he says "motherfucker" four or five times, I'm sure he's as great as ever.

Safe House has grossed $126 M domestically, how the fuck did that happen?

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John Creasy deserves more consideration. Denzel tearing around Tony Scott-imagined Mexico City favelas in an Akademiks warmup jacket. Pretty darn entertaining.

<3 Man on Fire forever

Well-meaning, I suppose, but John Q just gets more and more ludicrous as it goes along. By the time Denzel left all his hostages unattended in a different room so he could have a heart-to-heart with his son, I was watching in a kind of trance.

wow does 'the equalizer' look horrible, the only intriguing things afaict is the presence of marton csokas and cousin johnny from 'justified' as villains.

RICCOCHET

― johnny crunch, Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this movie is incredible. so strange and funny and entertaining.