Elwood P. Dowd
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They were really pushing this show during the NFL games this weekend. Doubtless it will go on to become the smash hit of the year.
Queen Latifah is The Equalizer. - Who thought this was a good idea?
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How could you possibly be famous for like 30 years, and still stay a fat fuck through all that time? We wuz not queenz.
Poor Edward Wooodward. First Nicholas Cage shitted on Wicker Man and now Latifah is shitting on Equalizer.
If she sat on a dollar, she could turn it into 4 quarters, true story.
This show will get canceled faster than Harvey Weinstein at a toddler beauty pageant.
This show will get canceled faster than Harvey Weinstein at a toddler beauty pageant.
Why remake The Equalizer?
I liked Queen Latifah in Living Single. I think she is talented. But I think this will be cancelled in less than a season. No one wants this and the target demographic won't watch it. It's just pandering. We all know why this was made and we all know those people won't be watching. They just want it to exist so they can cry misogyny and male fragility when it gets inevitably cancelled.
What I'm not getting is this: As The Equalizer her character has to do all this involved physical activity. You know, because she's fighting for people who need her help. Thugs are literally trying to kill her every day. Yet here she is fat. She would have to be chowing down every second of her down time to not lose a few every week. It's like those fat hikers who huff and puff a couple of miles for instagram photos then congratulate themselves with a fast food feast. If you are getting a lot of exercise and don't lose weight something does not compute.
Barring a rare condition you are gonna get in shape. Plus as a protector of the innocent Latifah would need a training regimen. Which would, of course, make her loose weight.
It's unrealistic that a fat person could handle this job. Maybe she could just sit on people?
But we get plus size WOC vigilante shero. Also, isn't Latifah a lesbian? Wonder if her character will be too.
I liked Queen Latifah in Living Single. I think she is talented. But I think this will be cancelled in less than a season. No one wants this and the target demographic won't watch it. It's just pandering. We all know why this was made and we all know those people won't be watching. They just want it to exist so they can cry misogyny and male fragility when it gets inevitably cancelled.
What I'm not getting is this: As The Equalizer her character has to do all this involved physical activity. You know, because she's fighting for people who need her help. Thugs are literally trying to kill her every day. Yet here she is fat. She would have to be chowing down every second of her down time to not lose a few every week. It's like those fat hikers who huff and puff a couple of miles for instagram photos then congratulate themselves with a fast food feast. If you are getting a lot of exercise and don't lose weight something does not compute.
Barring a rare condition you are gonna get in shape. Plus as a protector of the innocent Latifah would need a training regimen. Which would, of course, make her loose weight.
It's unrealistic that a fat person could handle this job. Maybe she could just sit on people?
But we get plus size WOC vigilante shero. Also, isn't Latifah a lesbian? Wonder if her character will be too.
Get Denzel Washington back. Or at least hire his son, John David.
My friend and I went and saw The Equalizer movie back when it came out and the both of us just had a blast the whole time. It was Denz doing what he does best, shoving guns in people's faces and making boring, mundane things seem badass when used in fight scenes.
I love Queenie but this isn't a role that suits her. At all.
My friend and I went and saw The Equalizer movie back when it came out and the both of us just had a blast the whole time. It was Denz doing what he does best, shoving guns in people's faces and making boring, mundane things seem badass when used in fight scenes.
I love Queenie but this isn't a role that suits her. At all.
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Because Denzel Washington was in a movie remake back in 2014 that was successful and got a sequel in 2018 (also successful). Granted these are R-rated action movies where he turns a hardware store into a maze of death traps and fights hardened government agents in a hurricane, so going back to a network TV series is a weak move.
I could watch her fat ass run out of that building all day. Holy shit it is like watching Shelley Winters climb that fucking Christmas Tree in the Poseidon Adventure.
Come on Hollywood there is only so far I can suspend my disbelief and it ends about halfway around Dana's gut.
Come on Hollywood there is only so far I can suspend my disbelief and it ends about halfway around Dana's gut.
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Seems weird to do a tv show reboot of this, they just did two movies of this starring Denzel Washington which both did well for their budgets.
Also is the Equalizer just a black thing now?
Also is the Equalizer just a black thing now?
Old TV show about a guy who beats people up cept he's not Batman. Had two reboot movies in the past 10 years starring Denzel Washington that weren't terrible.
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Queen Latifah will bring the 2016 Ghostbusters curse to the Equalizer.
WE WUZ QUEEN SIZED
They're eating their own now. Which is apparently right up Queen Labeefah's alley. Why bury Denzel's character like this?
Queenie Tha Glownigga
I didn't know those existed.
Maybe they didn't think a new film series with her would work. I prefer her in comedy myself.
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I'm sure the new version has a theme as distinctive and memorable as the original, composed by Stewart Copeland of The Police, he said sarcastically.
The original series was in some ways typical 80s action-adventure fare, but it stood out in part because Edward Woodward brought a no-nonsense approach to the main character, an ex-spy who has killed many times, and is implied to have done questionable things he seeks to atone for by helping out people who find themselves at the mercy of other people the forces of law and order can't or won't touch. "Shooting them all" isn't a solution, as he often explains, so he pulls mindgames and gambits on his opponents that leave them in a compromising position at the very least.
This may have been something of a callback to a series Woodward had starred in back in the late 60s-early 70s, "Callan", where he played a reluctant agent of a shadowy branch of British Intelligence, "Section" whose whole job is to assess potential enemies of the state and how to deal with them, Callan is the best they have when it comes to blackmail, extortion, and when need be, termination. But he hates the job but can't leave because first off, to borrow an episode title "Where Else Could I Go?". He's unemployable in any other field, and Section does not accept resignations. Pretty grim stuff, grimmer than even other entries in the genre like the later "The Sandbaggers".
Though not without it's lighter moments.
The original series was in some ways typical 80s action-adventure fare, but it stood out in part because Edward Woodward brought a no-nonsense approach to the main character, an ex-spy who has killed many times, and is implied to have done questionable things he seeks to atone for by helping out people who find themselves at the mercy of other people the forces of law and order can't or won't touch. "Shooting them all" isn't a solution, as he often explains, so he pulls mindgames and gambits on his opponents that leave them in a compromising position at the very least.
This may have been something of a callback to a series Woodward had starred in back in the late 60s-early 70s, "Callan", where he played a reluctant agent of a shadowy branch of British Intelligence, "Section" whose whole job is to assess potential enemies of the state and how to deal with them, Callan is the best they have when it comes to blackmail, extortion, and when need be, termination. But he hates the job but can't leave because first off, to borrow an episode title "Where Else Could I Go?". He's unemployable in any other field, and Section does not accept resignations. Pretty grim stuff, grimmer than even other entries in the genre like the later "The Sandbaggers".
Though not without it's lighter moments.
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