Harrison Ford, Gothamist Doesn't Know You Anymore

Harrison Ford, where art thou? You're our Han Solo, our Indiana Jones...hell, our Jack Ryan (we need a good CIA hero in this day and age, we suppose). It seems you've been going through a three-quarter-life crisis. In love with Calista Flockhart? The earring? The crappy movies? It's so sad to Gothamist that you have to star in a movie with Bedhead (as for Hollywood Homicide, A.O. Scott likes it, Manohla Dargis doesn't). Yes, you're the most popular star on the earth, but we're waiting for Fametracker to do a Fame Audit.

Here are Harrison Ford's last ten movies. Of the last five, Gothamist has seen (we've got no plans to see HH, unless we're paid to), we've paid $10 at the movie theater to see NONE...we've had to see parts of some but not willingly(TNT, we love for you Law & Order, but stop Random Hearts and Proof of Life on every night - just more L&O). In Gothamist's opinion, his last good movie was Clear & Present Danger (saw Sabrina 'cause we loved the original; AFO was serviceable, had William H. Macy).

How many have you seen:

Hollywood Homicide
K-19: The Widowmaker
What Lies Beneath
Random Hearts
Six Days Seven Nights
Air Force One
Devil's Own, The
Sabrina
Clear and Present Danger,
The Fugitive

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on June 13, 2003 1:22 PM

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Netizenkane

"What Lies Beneath" was the most miserable pastiche of Hitchcock films I've ever seen. There's an important difference between homage and fromage.

I think he's one of the best older leading men Hollywood has, but Hollywood doesn't know what to do with someone like him anymore -- except, of course, graft him onto vehicles with vacant looking pretty boys in the hopes he'll pull in the over-30 demo.

jake

i saw harrison ford yesterday, going in to the sony building- he looked a little tousled and had the earring- he was also wearing sunglasses. i thought of notifying elizabeth spiers for gawker stalker, but then i was overcome with this startling sense of ennui and i decided to get a cup of tea instead.

Dahl

I agree with Abe on "What Lies Beneath" - didn't expect much from it and when I saw it in the theatre it scared the crap out of me.

greg.org

I saw part of Clear and Present Danger last night on USA because I gave up waiting for George Tenet to walk into the White House and say "How dare YOU, sir!" to GWB.

sakana

ok, why is k19 always getting shit on? has anyone actually seen it? because it's good. for real. no, really. it is. one of the most depressing movies i've seen for a couple years, but well done and pretty suspenseful and whatnot. plus, harrison is good, esp when compared to liam neeson who plays a sub officer who is unable to keep his shirt on.

abe

C'mon now. I think he is doing ok with the hair. But the earing is a bit too much. I fear that since leaving the ranch he has become too sucked into the Hollywood star scene. The earing by the way has been with him since he did Random Hearts.

I have seen all of these movies listed here and I think that he was good in What Lies Beneath simply because it was kinda' fun to see him as evil (not since the Mosquito Coast has he gone so mental on screen) and K-19 was actually very very good. Him and Liam Neeson (Sp?) really clicked well. Ok, he was the better blue-collar Hunt-for-Red-October Sean Connery Soviet sub captain...

j.

What's even worse than the earring is the spiked hair. This is a fashion practice that should be outlawed for all males above the age of 14.

Jen

To clarify the earring thing - earrings can look good on guys. But it looks lame on Harrison Ford. Seriously. I had dinner next to him at Cafe Luxembourg, and he really can't pull it off.