Denzel Washington Walking Away from Something Exploding
Make no mistake, I still rock with Denzel, even if he’s firmly in the “Al Pacino as a football coach is the same as a cop is the same as a vigilante is the same as a teacher” point of his career. Nobody remembers what Denzel’s character’s names are anymore and that’s awesome for him, less so for the critical movie buff. But I digress. Denzel has walked away from more stuff blowing up than the Bush/Cheney administration. We might as well call him Denzel the Venture Capitalist, at this point. I realize that this must be in his contract for each movie like Tom Cruise running or 1990s Wesley Snipes having a messed-up haircut, but I think we’ve reached the tipping point, people. What happens when Denzel inevitably moves into the romantic comedy arc of his career? Are we going to get shots of Denzel arguing with someone in a restaurant, which leads to him storming out to the valet while the whole establishment gets the combustion special behind him? What about the Lean on Me remake in 2018 (which I totally just made up) when he storms out of the music class when they butcher “Fair Eastside”? It’s best to shut this down now before some innocent love interest whose grown son doesn’t get along with Denzel when he comes back from college, gets hurt.
Source: William Evans at BlackNerdProblems