Denzel Washington vs. Wesley Snipes: Who had the better '90s filmography? Strictly 90s, between them two who was the bigger star? Explain why 🤔.

[voltronblack]

I vote for wesley snipes because I more into action movies.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Denzel, and I think fairly easily. X? Wesley doesn't have anything on that level. He's not even the star of some of the bigger hits on his list. Waiting to Exhale and Mo' Better which Denzel is the actual star of.

This.

 

[Cladyclad]

Denzel because he was the head of the snake in every movie.

Alot of Wesley movies he was co starring

But strictly i think X put Denzel over the top. I forgot Wesley. Dude 90s run aint far off which was surprising

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

Marvel went bankrupt in the late 90s. The comics peak was over by 97 and everyone was abandoning ship. Not to mention that making a movie about a relative unknown like Blade was a huge gamble

Comic books peaked in 93… development on Blade began in 92, but comic books movies ran well into the late 90s

Marvel Studios then started to develop the film in early 1992, when rapper LL Cool J was interested in playing the lead role.[10] Blade was eventually set up at New Line Cinema, with David S. Goyer writing the script.

Blade (1998 film) - Wikipedia

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An Oral History of the '90s Comic Book Boom... and Crash - IGN

Bob Layton, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, and Louise Simonson tell the story of the '90s comic book boom and crash.

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As someone who was around during that time, I remember X-Men (the animated series) running well into 1997.

The Spawn movie and animated series on HBO came out in 1997.

Comic book properties were still very popular in the late 90s, which is why we got movies like The Crow, The Mask, Tank Girl, The Phantom, etc.

 

[richaveli83]

Denzel Washington is one of my favorite actors, but Wesley Snipes had the more memorable career in the 90s IMO. Outside of Malcolm X, Philadelphia, and maybe He Got Game, most of his films are forgettable. Not saying they're bad films, but not memorable.

Wesley had New Jack City, Sugar Hill, The Art of War, Money Train, Passenger 57, Jungle Fever, White Man Can't Jump, Demolition Man, and Blade.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

I grew up on Blade and Demolition Man, so I'm giving Wes the nod. Learned to appreciate Denzel more watching Glory in history class during HS, Training Day. I did see Bone Collector as a kid but didn't really remember it.

 

[Rell84shots]

I give the edge to Denzel. This is a lot tougher than people realize, because both had all time classics in with Malcolm X and New Jack City. As great as Wesley was in the 90s Demolition Man isn't enough to make up for To Wong Foo.

 

[feelosofer]

Glory
Malcolm X
Devil In A Blue Dress

ALONE washes Wesley’s entire 90s catalog and I’m a fan of both and watched pretty much all of their movies when they released back then.

Fallen for the wild card
Bone Collector

Is Denzel the GOAT Black detective?

 

[Fresh]

Wesley

 

[LeaveMyHairLineAlone]

Lawrence Fishburne:
King of New York
Deep Cover
The Matrix
Boyz n The Hood
What's Love Got to Do with It
Just Cause
Higher Learning

 

[BossmanChad]

Denzel and it's not even close, he had better films, did more genres, had legendary performances and the accolades to match.

 

[Luke Cage]

Lawrence Fishburne:
King of New York
Deep Cover
The Matrix
Boyz n The Hood
What's Love Got to Do with It
Just Cause
Higher Learning

Only two of those movies are worth wiping off the dust and showing to your kids. Matrix and Boyz n the hood. Rest are really only for super fans of fishburne or the other stars of those films. not timeless classics. Plus honestly he had a better run in the 2010s then he had in the 90s, superman. justice league, John Wick, Antman all gave him more exposure than all those films except Matrix

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Denzel Washington was really a prestige actor be catered really to late boomers. He did do action movies like Ricochet, Virtuosity etc. But Wesley was a hitmaker/star, sure he did some comedies and dramas but action was his draw. So it really comes down to what you value more in in actor. Prestige or Marketability/Box Office. It's close though.

Yeah

I agree

 

[Luke Cage]

Yeah

I agree

Its actually curious that he leans more into action movies now, than he did in his prime.

 

[Primetime]

Probably Wesley

White folk got to live vicariously thru Arnold, Bruce, Stallone, Cage, Van Damme, etc., as the bad ass hero saving the day, beating the terrorists, defeating the supernatural, cuffin the bad bytch in the process, etc. For the brehs, it was often table scraps; some good meals here n there (Action Jackson) but few and far between or on shyt budgets.

Wesley came thru and provided sustenance to that, more-so than Denzel imo. Brotha gets to be a vampire hunter? Brotha gets to fukk prime J-Lo while being the good cop? Even as the villain, how innovative/cool was Simon Phoenix?

Hell, the more cookie-cutter thrillers like Murder at 1600 and US Marshalls were still underrated; a breh as the action lead of an ensemble cast dealing with ish on a national scale.

Again, Denzel had some of that but felt like he leaned more into that in the early 00s.