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What is up with his hate for his own characters?

posted 3 years ago by Heisenberg (6318)
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He wanted Han Solo dead by Return of the Jedi. Ok, that is a heroic exit, could have been a good artistic choice.
But it smelled of "I'm too good for this crap, enough of this kiddie stuff".

He then makes 3 great Indiana Jones, which turn him into a superstar. Again, he quickly gets fed up with it and decides 3 is enough. He has better work to do than that.

I am still waiting to see such important art from Ford. His top work is Frantic, Presumed Innocent and Regarding Henry. Which he could have done on the side while shooting other legit Indy movies, instead of retiring it to wait for posthumous, too little too late crap like crystal turd.

Did he really think he would be considered cool for rejecting not one but two iconic roles like they were below him? What an ungrateful poser.

[–] Mustang (5226) a year ago

I get the impression from some of his interviews especially on talk shows that he enjoys appearing really grouchy.

[–] Heisenberg (6318) a year ago

That's a good sign of a person who IS really grouchy.

[–] Mustang (5226) a year ago

Maybe, I find him amusing in that he doesn't do the same celeb shtick.

[–] Heisenberg (6318) a year ago

Yes, ok all the fake nicety from every other celeb is revolting.
But a not grouchy person could have picked a different shtick than "grouchy", there are tons of others, including "no shtick at all".

[–] Mustang (5226) a year ago

Reading this grouchy is probably fair after all in a way. Although I relate, I also tend to get bored easily and don't like small talk. His fans were assuming (defending?) by saying he has social anxiety disorder.

"When told about this fan diagnosis in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ford responded: “S***. That sounds like something a psychiatrist would say, not a casual observer.

“No. I don’t have a social anxiety disorder. I have an abhorrence of boring situations,” the 1923 star stated".

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/harrison-ford-interview-shrinking-apple-tv-b2278372.html

[–] DickusBiggus (176) a year ago

Well, we already have a fourth star wars, and a fourth and fifth Indiana Jones and looks like his heart was in the right place when he didn't want to continue

I don't know much about Ford, never was a fan of his job (don't hate him either just a little indifferent) but if something I think the dude at the moment showed some principles for wanted to end those characters in the best way possible in his highest moment I believe that is the right way to do it instead of stretching it until they break just to squeeze the last coin out of them

I think the mistake was come back, I don't think he hated the characters just for wanted to end them in the right moment

[–] Heisenberg (6318) a year ago

DickusBiggus, like you said, the mistake was to come back.
But NOT because after both trilogies he was "done". But because he SHOULD HAVE kept going with them when they still had the right energy and inspiration.

ROTJ is a good end for that epic, but IF there was a time to eplore what Han Solo does after the empire falls, it was then, not with that JarJar Abrams crapfest where he is seriously too old for this shit.

Indy is even a worse offender: the whole concept of Indiana Jones was "007 the adventurer". It was set up as a series of adventures since the beginning. Raiders feels like it. TOD too, although they were already going in the wrong direction with the prequel idea. Last Crusade was, again, stepping in the wrong direction, with the introduction of the "young Indiana Jones" so that Lucas could go on and make a shitty tv series.
Wasn't THIS already THE Indiana Jones series? Why the fuck did he think he needed a cheap parallel TV shitfest?
That was WHEN they should have kept making another 3 or 4 movie episodes with Ford, possibly 2 in the 90s and 2 in the 00s. Connery and Moore made 7 007 movies each. Indiana Jones could have gone the same, respectable, route.
What actually happened to it since 89 is a total debabacle, caused by the makers wrongly thinking they had better things to do.

[–] ccr1633 (1414) 10 months ago

I agree. I keep seeing YouTube vids from the usual culprits, many of whom are content creators I like (such as The Critical Drinker), all trashing this new Indy movie. All of them are repulsed by the annoying Phoebe Waller-Bridge, yet none have a word to say about Harrison Ford. He didn't have to do films like this and the garbage Star Wars reboots. At his age you'd think he might be more concerned with his legacy than with money, but obviously he's content to wander like a ghost through these laughably dull, artless sequels and cash his paycheck. I don't really much care, but it's sad to see him facilitating the creation of rubbish. If he wants to end his career as a pathetic joke then that's his business. What I mind is him feeding the machine that turns once entertaining franchises into dogshit. With AI, the machine probably will be content to pay his estate to continue turning out the trash after actors like him are dead.