Reaction - The Equalizer - First Time Watching
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Love this channel appreciate you man. If you manage to read this, for the second Equalizer, it's great, BUT be prepared I think you're like me and there's a ROUGH scene near the start in a foreign place. Just based on how it was rough for you seeing the bad guy take out the other young lady. The movie is still worth it to watch, just brace.
I have a small cat food can holding my ac to the perfect height! If it works💁🏻
Training Day, Book of Eli, Man on Fire, Crimson Tide, John Q., Courage Under Fire
I think Remember the Titans is still my favorite Denzel Film.
@@gk5891for sure
Good selection. Also Two Guns.
Crimson Tide.. absolutely a fantastic movie, a personal favorite. I completely recommend that one.
No one watches Malcolm X. It's like watching Tom Hanks movies and not watching Forrest Gump.
Denzel Washington is one of the greatest actors of all time, no doubt about it, he has every qualification to be an actor, voice, presence, ability and style, this is simply a recommendation but Fallen is not only a great film but an underrated supernatural classic that has a stellar cast and excellent performances with Denzel Washington as the lead, definitely worth a look.
NICE!
Based on the 1985-1989 TV series of the same name, starring Edward Woodward.
Denzel Washington plays a former CIA operative turned vigilante to help those in need of his assistance.
They asked Denzel to star in the show first, he turned it down as he was doing St Elsewhere.
I love the fact that early in the movie, he pranks his coworkers by telling them that he was a Pip.
Then right before the big store battle, he turns on the store speakers, and the song playing is "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
If you love Denzil, watch Training Day or America Gangster. He was amazing in those movies.
The Book:
"Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway
The book is “The Old Man and The Sea” by Ernest Hemingway. A movie starring Spencer Tracy was made of the story decades ago.
You will love all 3 of the equalizer movies ..
This movie is based on a TV series to from the 80s. The ending with Craigslist is a direct reference to it.
Also I'm surprised with you being a bookworm you've never heard of the Old Man and the Sea
James, glad you saw this movie. It's awesome. You should also watch and react to the two sequels- Equalizer 2 and 3! They are awesome as well. Also, if it's not on your list, you should watch and react to "Collateral" with Tom Cruise. It's a rarity in which Tom Cruise plays a bad guy. Tom Cruise almost always plays a good guy or a hero.
Also, the Equalizer 2 and are great, to me the Equalizer 3 is the best!
Fyi...the bad guys in Equalizer 3 are Italian...no Russians in sight ..
I've watched most of Denzel's movies. My favorite, by far, was his autobiographical movie, Malcolm X. It's long. But I absolutely think it was his best that he should've got an Oscar for.
Denzel has an amazing filmography, and has great director collabs, so you could do weeks of Denzel + famous director alone 🤩
Spike Lee - Inside Man, He Got Game, Malcolm X, Mo Better Blues
Tony Scott (RIP) - You watched their final collab with Unstoppable. Denzel was very much his muse before the end. Man on Fire remake, Taking of Pelham 123 remake, Deja Vu, and their first collab Crimson Tide.
Antoine Fuqua - Training Day, The Magnificent Seven remake, the other 2 Equalizers
And more...
Anything Denzel is AWESOME.
Equalizer 2 and 3 are a must see👍👍.
James, Denzel is one of the greatest actors. Some stand out performances are Training Day, Crimson Tide and Glory. That one is set during The Civil War and you liking history is for sure one that you will love. Training Day is one of my all time favorite movies. He won an Oscar for it.
Philadelphia, with two great actors in Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks. Great movie!!
Yes! I can’t wait to see his reaction to Philadelphia!
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
Your laugh is infectious! I love your channel. ❤ This is one of my favorite action films. And Denzel is badass in any role he takes on.
Thanks for watching!
No wiring work required, some models of cars provide the ability to roll down the windows with the remote. FYI. Love ur channel, appreciate all the smiles you provide :)
OK guys. This is an awesome Movie with Denzel Washington. but we have to get him to watch Man On Fire!!!! love your channel. please like if you agree...
Enjoyed your reaction. The Equalizer is based on a 1980s TV series starring British actor Edward Woodward, set mainly in New York. Quite different actor (he looked like a senior bank manager) , but the same premise - a former superspy using his skillset to help people in trouble, Most of them came to him via a regular newspaper ad (the "Odds Against You?" on Craigslist is a direct callback to that).
The approach was the same as here - he would start by approaching the bad guys (big company, street gang, corrupt cop, whatever), and politely suggesting they back off. In certain circumstances, he would even offer some kind of deal. When the bad guys inevitably refused his offer, he would then take their organization completely apart "Dollar by dollar, brick by brick, body by body." This movie is a worthy follow-on to that series.
The current iteration, with Queen Latifah, is also really good! If you decide to do series reactions for your Patrons, consider that series too!
American Gangster, with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, directed by Ridley Scott, is a great, great movie.
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
Training Day and Deja Vu are great ones.
Deja Vu for me! We're the only ones apparently.
Added
@awesomeusmovies , looking for another choice Denzel film, just in Time for spooky season?
FALLEN
Denzel has been in some of the greatest movies over the past 30+ years. When you can, check out his catalogue. His first Oscar win was from this drug movie called Training Day. He played a police officer training a newbie in his line of policing.
This is set in Boston. Oh, never mind, you will figure it out when the BPD gets involved later in the movie. 😂
Fun to see you notice the Sony product placement. Their films are always so obvious with it.
Mostly filmed in my hometown (East Boston) Massachusetts and a few surrounding towns like Chelsea and Lynn. Strangely, Robert's apartment in EB is the same street they filmed "Blown Away" & "Mystic River" in back in the day. Good times. Nice reaction!
Highly recommend "Unstoppable" with Denzel. You will love it. Based on real events. Right up your street I promise
Agreed, I talked about in the reaction. Already saw it: ua-cam.com/video/lsa8GYnJLe4/v-deo.html
I'm so proud of you for being so brave on your journey into movie land
Thank you so much. I'm enjoying it
Please do" The Magnificent 7" Denzel as a cowboy, enough said.
He was reading Ernest Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea. One of the great modern classics.
Check out the other two Equalizer films too, both great!
Did you notice David Harbor in The Equalizer film? He played the guy who Denzil tried to carbon monoxide. David Harbor played the cop Jim Hopper in Stranger Things, looks a little different without the beard.
Denzel -
Malcom X
Crimson Tide
Fallen
The Hurricane
Remember the Titans
Training Day
John Q
Man on Fire
Inside Man
American Gangster****
The Book of Eli
Flight
Magnificent Seven
Great movie. Fyi The Equalizer is based on a successfull 80's tv show. Another great movie by Denzel is John Q (Which is the best one he made in my opnion you really should see it). Also another movie like this is the first Jack Reacher movie.
Good to know thanks
Check out Two Guns, Denzel, Mark Walberg and Bill Paxton plus more. I don't think anyone has reacted to it and it's worth the watch.
Training Day would be a goooooood one. That movie is something else.
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
Glory, the movie that won Denzel his first Oscar.
Your going to love all three movies in the series, but for me I liked the third the best.
I remember the original 80s TV series with Edward Woodward as Robert McCall. Love watching your reactions
Since you mentioned train movies in the opening because of Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine - Denzel did another train movie the year before that, and with the same director as Unstoppable no less, in the movie The Taking of Pelham 123. It's a remake of a movie from 1974, has a great cast, and featured a long-awaited return for John Travolta to play a villain again (as he did gloriously in the 90's).
Denzel is one of the greats. John Q is probably his most underrated film. Philadelphia with Tom Hanks is great. But my favorite is Man on Fire! I hope you get to those movies one day but your 2 picks this week are also great.
the book is the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway , 1952
Flight - An award nominated movie. Its a Bob Zemeckis movie. Also equalizer 2 is great.
LOVE DENZEL!!!! 😁 Another great film is THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123.
It has both Denzel and a train! It’s a remake and came out ‘09.
Great reaction! Can’t wait for Friday.
The music in the store that comes on to indicate that McCall is there is Gladys Kight and the Pips' hit song Midnight Train to Georgia, harkening back to when McCall said he had been a Pip.
Love Denzel Washington, and The Equalizer franchise, is a definite favorite. Please watch the sequels, 2 & 3. Thanks for this reaction, James & Sons.👍🏼
All the books you read and ya didn’t read The Old Man and the Sea?! Hemingway man. ;-) That’s the fish him and the girl were talking about in the diner.
There are really SO MANY great Denzel Washington films... (it's actually kind of difficult to find bad ones)
Some of my personal favorites, Glory, Crimson Tide, Training Day, American Gangster, Man on Fire, Remember the Titans, and the Equilizer trilogy. Some of the more under-rated ones I would also recommend are John Q, the Hurricane, and Philadelphia (where he costarred with Tom Hanks)
He really is one the great cinematic treasures
The one where he is a Airline Pilot is a good one❤
The girl Denzel is protecting from the beginning is Hut Girl, in Badass
Training Day is a -must-watch and may be Denzel's best movie.
Since you liked this and you're a book lover... I recommend the 'Orphan X' book series by Gregg Hurwitz. Trying to maintain his humanity, a highly trained government assassin goes rogue to spend his time helping the helpless as "The Nowhere Man". We're up to book 9 now and they're really great reads.
Alonzo finally got his get back
One reason I like the original show over the movie and the remake of the show is that the original Robert McCall used to use a lot more of his brain. He did need to get hands on so much
Glory is the one you should watch next. About the Civil War. Denzel is great in it.
You'll really like the other 2 Equalizer movies. They are all great
9:57 thats th woman that played in "Magnificent 7" the newest one. If you haven't seen tht movie please do. Its very much worth the wqtch. Great Remake of Magnificent 7.
Philadelphia its great crying in the end of it 😅take care Annie
A few train movies are
Bullet train, train to Busan, 3:10 to Yuma, the great train robbery and, murder on the orient express.
Love this film and the sequels ,my other 2 favourites are The Bone Collector and Fallen.
The Kind of Hero our World needs , end the Predators, protect the Humans
Please do “American Gangster”
Another great Denzel-goes-BA movie is Man On Fire. Or a good emotional Denzel flick is John Q.
What you said about what is Good without Bad sounds like something out of Paradise Lost by John Milton. Just like the girl in the movie, I think I need to get into more books.
Alina's friend (the pretty redhead) is played by Haley Bennet. She has worked with director Antoine Fuqua before on The Magnificent Seven remake, and Denzel though they don't share any scenes here.
An early role of hers you would enjoy is Music & Lyrics, with Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant.
Magnificent 7. Newer one with Denzel and the 2nd girl in this movie. Very good remake of an older movie for silure. Has jam packed actors in that movie. Very much worth the Watch
Training Day , Book of Eli, not one movie Denzel was bad. Hes definitely the Best actor on the planet. Also another movie was Out of Time, Dejavu, and one of his best is "Man in Fire "Lwts nit forget, Phelam 123 ,Glory, and Remember 2024 , Gladiator 2 is coming very soon
The Book of Eli is another really great Denzel Washington movie
Best Denzel movie for me is Deja Vu from 2006.
The fish story? The Old Man and the Sea (famous book)
Man on fire, John Q, and Training Day are great Denzel movies
Denzel Washington's character in this is basically a retired spy kinda like Liam Neeson in Taken
Agreed
23:22 Two apartments in Boston?? 😂
And on a retail workers wage!
Right... man the hardward store PAYS
Fallen is also a really good movie.
(Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2016) For the list.
John Q 💜
Yes on Denzel. Can't go wrong. After watching this, you should see Nobody.
Actually I already did. Just hasn't been released yet
Just watched this recently and couldnt believe how great it was. Denzel is just the best. loved the 2nd one too. havent gotten to the 3rd yet.
2nd and 3rd movies were good as well
Be sure to do Equalizer 2 and 3!
"Man on Fire" is a great film and costars Dakota Fanning
I'd love for you to do a Robert Downey Jr week and see: Chaplin; The Judge; Air America; Heart and Souls; and U.S, Marshalls
Among the cheapest selections on Kindle, often free, are the public domain collections of books, Harvard Classics, The 100 Greatest Novels, American Classics, a few others. I prefer dead tree reads, but to carry a classical library in my pocket, I will compromise.
I used to work in a hardware store so, of course, I knew the floor plan quite well. The villains are so very stupid for trying to hit McCall on his home turf.
edit: 30:46 Ha! Dad joke FTW!!
Absolutely need to watch training day. American gangster is another solid second choice
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
20:15 That was theft, sir. 😂 Indeed!
You have to watch man on fire. And book of Eli.
You’d love Book of Eli. Denzel was excellent in this
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
Watch Training Day, Glory, American Gangster Flight, Philadelphia. I heard youre already watching Remember The Titans
You sounded just like Harold from The Red Green show at the start of this.
I always watch the commercials - I hope that helps generate more income for the channel. Some of those ads are Long! But I know that got nothing to do with you
Since you already saw unstoppable, you must check out the train movie Denzel did, before it called Taking Of Pelham 123. It is the only remake of a major film I think is as good as the original (which stars Walter Matthau, who was at his zenith.)
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
have a nice anniversary in Hawaii with your wife!
Happy Labor day James
Thanks
You dare come into my Business ... YOU DARE TO COME TO MY COUNTRY ...WtF
James, if you haven’t seen “SHOOTER” with Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty…. It’s 🔥!! Ask your sons. They’ll know! 😊
Already did it, go check it out: ua-cam.com/video/k2ycm2zZin4/v-deo.html
@@AwesomeUSMovies I’m pretty sure I watched the full length reaction on Patreon. I knew someone reacted to it. I wasn’t sure but I guess it was probably you! 😊 I love that movie. I’ll probably go there tonight and watch it again! Thanks!! 😊
Nobody EVER mentions “Out of Time” with Denzel, Eva Mendes and Sanaa Latham. I’ve searched and I believe nobody on the entire internet has ever reacted to it. It’s worth checking out but gets no traffic.
Some people like me can’t change my situation, too old, too poor, to much in pain
*Inside Man* (2006) is another top notch Denzel movie, that has some other really great actors in it, to cross familiarize yourself. There are lots though. And not many outright duds.
Added to my list, thanks for the suggestion.
18:20 sometimes you gotta quench a thirst, i guess?