Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
03-02-09, 03:33 PM
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Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
Denzel Washington, I think, flourished in the 1990’s with films like Malcolm X, Philadelphia, Crimson Tide, and the Oscar-nominated The Hurricane. These high-profile films helped establish his career as an A-List actor, even if the films themselves weren’t his best.
For my money, I’d list the following films as my Top-5 favorite. Not only does his acting have to count, but the other ingredients of what makes a good movie into a great one have to apply here as well. And it doesn’t matter if A) it bombed at the box office; B) he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar – a movie in my Top 5 transcends all of that. At the same time, just because Denzel was up for an award doesn’t make it great, either. An example of this, IMHO, would be The Hurricane. Yes, he was nominated for an Oscar. Yes, it was based on a real-life person. Yes, he was very good in this film. But, for my tastes, it was overly sentimental (and not entirely factual, which I found out later).
My Top 5 Denzel films:
01: Glory (1989)
02: Philadelphia (1993)
03: Crimson Tide (1995)
04: Training Day (2001)
05: American Gangster (2007)
For my money, I’d list the following films as my Top-5 favorite. Not only does his acting have to count, but the other ingredients of what makes a good movie into a great one have to apply here as well. And it doesn’t matter if A) it bombed at the box office; B) he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar – a movie in my Top 5 transcends all of that. At the same time, just because Denzel was up for an award doesn’t make it great, either. An example of this, IMHO, would be The Hurricane. Yes, he was nominated for an Oscar. Yes, it was based on a real-life person. Yes, he was very good in this film. But, for my tastes, it was overly sentimental (and not entirely factual, which I found out later).
My Top 5 Denzel films:
01: Glory (1989)
02: Philadelphia (1993)
03: Crimson Tide (1995)
04: Training Day (2001)
05: American Gangster (2007)
03-02-09, 04:55 PM
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Glory
Man On Fire
Devil in a Blue Dress
Crimson Tide
Malcolm X
Man On Fire
Devil in a Blue Dress
Crimson Tide
Malcolm X
03-02-09, 05:30 PM
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Malcolm X
Glory
Mississippi Masala
He Got Game
Training Day
Glory
Mississippi Masala
He Got Game
Training Day
03-02-09, 06:25 PM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
1) Glory
2) The Siege
3) Training Day
4) Out of Time
5) American Gangster
2) The Siege
3) Training Day
4) Out of Time
5) American Gangster
03-02-09, 08:06 PM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
My list -
1) Malcolm X
2) Training Day
3) He Got Game
4) Devil In a Blue Dress
5) Crimson Tide
03-02-09, 11:47 PM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
To be honest, other than Man on Fire, I really can't think of any Denzel movies I care about. I've enjoyed him in many movies but I just don't care about many of them.
I do love, love, love him in Man on Fire though so I think that counts for something.
I do love, love, love him in Man on Fire though so I think that counts for something.
03-02-09, 11:58 PM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
Malcolm X
American Gangster
Training Day
Man on Fire
Inside Man (I just noticed that I don't really see a lot of his films)
American Gangster
Training Day
Man on Fire
Inside Man (I just noticed that I don't really see a lot of his films)
03-03-09, 12:12 AM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
No order
He Got Game
Training Day
American Gangster
Man on Fire
Malcolm X
Not his biggest fan, though I will be in line for the next Hughes Bros. film.
He Got Game
Training Day
American Gangster
Man on Fire
Malcolm X
Not his biggest fan, though I will be in line for the next Hughes Bros. film.
03-03-09, 09:30 AM
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No love for Ricochet?
Here are my 5, in no particular order...
American Gangster
Fallen
Ricochet
Out of Time
Training Day
Here are my 5, in no particular order...
American Gangster
Fallen
Ricochet
Out of Time
Training Day
03-03-09, 09:47 AM
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Virtuosity (I want this on bu)
Remember the Titans (Will Patton IMO was the better lead actor of the two)
Mississippi Masala
Crimson Tide
Inside Man
Remember the Titans (Will Patton IMO was the better lead actor of the two)
Mississippi Masala
Crimson Tide
Inside Man
03-03-09, 09:52 AM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
1) Deja Vu
2) Training Day
3) Man On Fire
Not the biggest fan of his movies in general, but I do enjoy the 3 I ranked above.
2) Training Day
3) Man On Fire
Not the biggest fan of his movies in general, but I do enjoy the 3 I ranked above.
03-03-09, 10:06 AM
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Re: Your Top 5 Favorite DENZEL WASHINGTON films
I disagree, he has been in a lot of good films. Has he been in a lot of blockbusters? No but good quality films, Definitely. And the memorable films, he's got those too. The ones you named in your top 5 at least 3 of them are what I would term memorable. I guess it is a matter of how you classify memorable. If it is an actor that you remember a classic line from a movie or an actor where you go 'yeah I remember him in that movie he was very good'
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