Washington Riding the PELHAM with Scott

Scott and Washington are an awesome team, I have enjoyed all three movies they have done together... particularly Man on Fire

Yeah, Man on Fire in my opinion is the best of the three with Crimson Tide coming in second. Its funny. Washington has become Tony Scott`s Russell Crowe and now ironically both men are in American Gangster directed by his brother.

I'm not excited by this one. It just seems like one more of the string of recent Denzel Washington movies that will get lost at the box office again. Plus, I don't think we should be giving terrorists and crazies ideas on how to make our daily lives worse than they already are!!!

I'd love to see Denzel do a comedy though...or a fantasy film where he isn't playing himself for once...and plays a character who is very different than we would expect. Now, although not a comedy or a fantasy film...a remake of the old Cliff Robertson movie Charly would be great. Charly is a lost classic...and a real heart tugger. Think of it as Forrest Gump played real. Charly is a mentally disabled man who is very thoughtful and trying to make something out of his life...but his disability holds him back. That's when he receives a dramatic reversal of fortune. He begins to become extremely brilliant and learns that he has been the subject of a radical experiment that has made him increasingly more intelligent. Developing a high IQ, he starts upon a new life, however, he soon discovers that lab mice that were initially experimented on by the doctors who changed his menatl abilities...are now reverting to their original dimwitted state. Charly begins to notice that he is losing his intelligence...but is struggling to deal with the impending loss of his new life...and perhaps his life as a whole.

Such a role would give Denzel a good chance to stretch...and get away from the cool, serious and romantic type that he is always playing--and it would certainly give him another trip to the Oscar as an Academy Award nominee and Oscar winner.

I'm fed-up seeing Denzel play a man with a gun/cop...or a person of authority in overly tense films. He has just played a cop 4 times already in the last 7 years, 5 in the last 8 years...and this will be the 3rd time in a row since 2006, and the 6th time Denzel has played a cop all together. I am tired of it, and judging by his faltering box office, so are his fans. Enough with all the damn cop roles already!!! How about a change for once???

He`s played a cop 4 times in his whole career. He does tend to play authoritative roles in most of his movie, like Russel Crowe plays the struggling tough,every man and Norton play the intelligent, sometimes slightly unhinged guy. These guys all have the same sort of roles, all in different stories. Even in Glory, his character was a leader, all be it at the end of the movie. This is what his personality conveys. He should keep on doing what he is doing. He is one of the best actors out there.

Do you guys remember Washington and Crowe working together in Virtuosity back in 1995? I believe that was their first on-screen collaboration. Anyway I think that Denzel Washington should go for the title role in the upcoming "Gemini Man" project. This film is being worked on (pre-production) by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer The story centers on an over-the-hill assassin forced to do battle with a younger clone of himself. Obviously this will involve extensive CGI interplay. Washington is the right age. He should go for it.

Another unneeded remake!? Help, Jane! Stop this crazy thing!
The original is one of those classic I've loved for years. As a kid, it was one of those movies that gave me my first ideas of what New York City was like. Busy streets, oddball characters with their funny accents, the works. Whenever I've visited NYC and get on the subway I find myself humming the great theme music to this film DA-DUM DUM DUM!
A TV remake was made about 10 years ago starring Edward James Olmos in the Matthau role and it just didn't compete for great direction, good dialogue and humor, and that wonderful NYC feel. To me it stand alongside The French Connection as a great 70s Cop/Caper movie. Rent it sometime. They should just come up with their own original story of Denzel as NYC police detective negoitating with hostage holding robbers.
Wait, that was Inside Man.

This sounds cool,,,,i love Scott's style lately and really loved Man on Fire, Domino and Deja Vu....Pony, not that it really matters, but I can think of a few more then 4....The Mighty Quinn, Fallen, Deja Vu, Viruosity, Trainning Day, The Seige, Richoet...thats all I can think of

He played a cop in Training Day, Deja Vu, The Inside Man, Siege, Out Of Time, Fallen, The Mighty Quinn, Ricochet, and Virtuousity...and now he's playing a cop in this new movie.

If it weren't for you guys questioning my count I would've completely missed several of the films which I am now counting by name.

All together, including the new film, Denzel Washington will have played a cop in movies 10, count 'em...10 times!!!

My point is this, can't he play a doctor, an astronaut, a race car driver, a politician, a fireman, a garbage man, an architect, spy, a janitor...a business man, a maintenance man, a singer, a helicopter pilot, a movie director, a scientist, a teacher, or anything else...other than a cop???

And yes, Denzel is one of the best actors out there, one who, save for a hand full of roles, keeps playing the same character over and over again. His career is becoming Ground Hog Day!!!

You're right about Denzel,metalwater. If they're going to do this it would actually be better if Washington played the lead hijacker Mr. Blue, originally played by Robert Shaw, instead of the police detective. The character was a diabolical and cold-blooded individual and a great contrast to his other roles.

That sounds like a great idea Monkeyfoot!!! It would be refreshing to see. I think Denzel has only played a bad guy once in his career, in the movie Training Day...so your idea would be welcomed.