Submitted by Bluest_waters t3_11ba2eu in television
The most recent ep that just dropped features a stoned Ford at a party being fucking hilarious! Something about the way he just deadpans sarcastic lines is just too funny
He isn't meant for baudy or loud or over the top comedy. He just has a way of looking at someone totally seriously and then smacking them with a dry one liner that just cracks me up hard. Jason is theoretically the star of this show, but I watch for Ford and Jessica Williams.
>Also the look he gives the sword guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark before shooting him
He was sick as hell with food poisoning and was supposed to do a fight scene with him. They improvised the shooting because he felt so bad. That look was probably real.
Ford and most of the crew had dysentery
Spielberg had a footlocker of Spaghetti Os he was living off of and didn't get sick. IIRC.
And he missed out on all that delicious North African cuisine as a result. I'd rather take my chances of getting dysentery.
I probably wouldn't risk it until after they wrapped. A sick director is a huge expense.
The smart move would be to travel as part of the advance team. If you're going to get sick, do so early on so you'll hopefully be over it and unlikely to have a recurrence once you move into production with everyone on site.
Or just eat spaghetti-o’s
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>I'd rather take my chances of getting dysentery.
Says person who's never had dysentery.
You are correct. People always screw up this story.
This is one of those comments that you can guarantee will be in a thread if the article mentions Harrison Ford
Goddamnit, people please. No one asked about this. I get that you want it to be the new/even older "Leo cut his hand", but please stop. It doesn't have to be thrown into every thread about Ford.
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I'll bet you didn't know Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11
And to think you wasted your time typing up a whiny post about it
Priorities
> Some of his line delivery’s in the Star Wars movies are some of the funniest stuff in SW.
Also see his skits with chewbacca on Jimmy Kimmel.
“She was my wife!!!”
Shit I think the look on his face after all the guys pull guns on him in the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is hilarious too.
You must have hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that!
The Fugitive too! That one armed man joke kills
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It isn’t Hollywood that chose not to put Harrison Ford in comedies. That was his choice.
He’s in an obscene amount of comedies anyway, so the OP makes no sense.
Even the action movies he did, only a handful didn't have some element of comedy to them. The Fugitive, the Jack Ryan movies and Airforce One (which was basically just another Jack Ryan movie.)
That's what I thought too, I was very confused
Also, Shrinking is pretty bad.
“Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”
It's the cheesiest thing I've ever seen, and all the characters are annoying as fuck. They tried to make another Ted Lasso but forgot about making the people likable.
I'm not sure I see the parallels to Ted Laso, how so?
Two of the same creators with overly sentimental characters with totally unrealistic human interactions amongst them. It works for Ted Lasso while it absolutely doesn't work as well here. His neighbor is one of the most unlikable characters I've seen in a long time.
The whole storyline between his daughter and Sean... my god... how could anyone watch that, "You're so beautiful" line to end the episode and not gag?
It's not the best show but I am liking it a lot.
I like it except for the language. Every single person in it is unnecessarily foul mouthed, including the kid. It feels contextually ok inTed Lasso because it's a sports team but feels really out if place for a bunch of counselors to be talking like that all the time. Especially to patients.
that is how a lot of regular people talk though
maybe not your friends, but me and my friends pretty much talk that way all the time. It seems very normal to me.
Harrison Ford is known to be very selective of the scripts he accepts, so maybe it's his fault not Hollywood's
I have also seen him in quite a few comedies, mostly romantic comedies, am not sure if those are considered comedy roles or not
I love Brett Goldsteins story about getting Harrison Ford for Shrinking.
And anchorman 2
Yes those rom coms. They have a totally different vibe. No room for dry one line zingers or Ford just being grumpy and direct.
Hollywood homicide wasn't a romcom
Another type of role Ford rarely does is playing the villain. What Lies Beneath was the first movie that I saw where he was the bad guy and one of the few instances in which I saw him die in a movie
Like Tom Cruise as Vincent in Collateral. He should play more villain roles.
yesss, he needs more villain roles
also, it still holds up
He played a great focused, calm bad guy so well. It’s scary because it makes you kind of like the guy lol. That’s way more interesting than some obnoxious lunatic.
its Michael Mann of course it hold up!
Still a great movie to this day.
Les Grossman is another great role for Cruise.
I genuinely believe that Tom Cruise could've done a better job in Django Unchained, than Dicaprio did. I can't really remember Cruise ever having done a convincing accent, but outside of that, he would've been fantastic
Say what you want about Scientology, and rightfully so, but the guy genuinely seems like a decent person and a lot of people say he’s really respectful to the crew on sets and gets to know most people…. And hes a great actor. He really is. He puts out hit after hit so he’s doing something right. He’s shown plenty of range before. Now he’s at that age like many A listers and they pay him to be him. Like DiNero, Denzel and Pacino.
Mosquito Coast
Tropic Thunder. Tom’s greatest villain role.
He was obsessed, nearly a mad man, but he wasn't evil. He truly believed in what he was doing, he was not malicious. He just didn't understand how his obsession would turn out all wrong.
Spoiler Alert! (Lol, j/k).
I adore Harrison Ford, and have done since I saw Return of the Jedi when I was 9. I’m loving seeing him in Shrinking, his sardonic humor is on full display in that role. One of my favorite roles was his very subtly played villain in What Lies Beneath, which I think is a very underrated thriller.
Yes! I have adored this man since I was a child too, and he can do no wrong!! My husband likes to counter that he is a terrible pilot, but I just give him the death stare and he shuts up!😆
To be fair, he did tell us all "Fly? yes. Land, no." like 40 years ago.
aka what OP just said.
I think that helped the movie since I just didn’t see the twist coming because it was Ford.
Well he's about to be a major villain in the MCU. Wonder if that's part of why he took the role. Ross is a real asshole.
Only other villain I can think of is evil Indy in Temple of Doom
What Lies Beneath is a great movie, and I will never understand why the trailer completely spoils the twist.
Iirc (and I haven't seen it in decades) is he was pretty creepy too.
Very good in The Conversation as well. Slick and dangerous
There's a old movie starring him that you'd love... The Frisco Kid. A western buddy comedy with Gene Wilder (playing a Polish rabbi trying to cross america alive with the help of Ford's character - a bank robbery).
That's one of the best. When they're trying to stay warm in the barn. "C'mere, darling." LOL Or discussing the last prairie chicken at dinner. "You think you got a chance?" "I think I can say with complete confidence, none whatsoever." And then Ford just grins and gives him the last of the food. Or running from the law waitonvfor sunset "Now?" That movie is just excellent.
I’ve loved this movie since I’ve been a kid, I still quote it. “Well I come from the Texas” and “I’ll try to BE AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE!” It’s a great movie that holds up even now
Did he want to be in more comedies?
I think he wanted to get paid and laid, and then be left the fuck alone. So if they could provide those things, I'm sure he'd have been willing.
He was low-key hilarious in Morning Glory, if you want another example.
Came here to mention this. Great curmudgeon!
Before there was Mike Pomeroy, there was the guy that can do this
Frrrittatta.
See, I can never read that word the same after watching The League.
yesssss, underrated movie
The scene at the start of the ep, where he is just staring at Jason Segal (Jimmy), but insists he is talking to Sean. So goooood.
"Oh gosh, so needy"
"That one was for me"
His chemistry with Jason Segel is amazing on this show. I've always really liked Jason Segel but never thought of him as a particularly great actor but this show definitely gives him the right material to really showcase his talents.
Even though this past weeks episode handled some heavy shit for a lot of the character’s (Ford’s included) he was the highlight of the episode and every line of his dialogue was amazing.
The “oh my god I can’t drive” bit from a few episodes was great
This was the episode that will have me be really surprised if he doesn't get an Emmy nomination next year.
Yes, I loved the scene where he brought a case of beer and asked two questions and suddenly the marine can finally talk about his past.
The show is very thin on drama or any "heavy shit".
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I wasn't expecting "heavy shit"?
My bad. I think I just misread your comment.
Watch his appearances on Conan
Its very unfortunate that "comedians" on average don't get paid as much as serious actors.
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Often times my favorite guest starring roles are when serious, drama actors show up on comedies for a small role. See: Matt Damon, Selma Hayek, and Peter Dinklage on 30 Rock, Jon Hamm on 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt.
Matt Damon’s best small role in a comedy is in Eurotrip.
Thor 3 is a close second
Scotty doesn't know.
*It's Salma Hayek.
I've just seen so many people call her Selma recently.
Autocorrect?
Maybe, but we need to normalize proofreading before sending.
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You're right. Pele was better than Maradona.
Jon Hamm does a ton of comedic roles along with dramedies. It's to the point that it often seems like he prefers it to dramatic roles.
I'm sad Confess Fletch flew under the radar so much. It's a great film and John Hamm is awesome in it.
Because they buried the release.
That's getting worse and worse when something will get picked up by one particular streaming service. At least when a film only got a release in a handful of theaters for two weeks it could pick up a following on video. Now they're stuck on some niche service to die. Even if you're interested, most people are subscribing just for one thing. So that further hurts the word of mouth that cult hits need to propagate.
I really like Hollywood Homicide for this reason. It’s arguably a stupid movie but seeing him being silly is just kind of great.
I really love this movie. I kind of feel like it rhymes with Atlanta.
God I haven't thought about that movie in yonks. Adding it to my list.
I mean like at least 50% of his best scenes as Han Solo and Indy are comedic scenes. Probably more than 50%.
About time for a Grumpy Old Men reboot
Ooooo tell me who else should be in it, I'd watch this
Samuel L. Jackson.
Although Kevin Pollak (66) is also almost the same age Jack Lemmon was (68) when he made the first film.
I'd also be down for a Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen version. A British take on it would be an interesting element that would help to reinvigorate the material as well.
Mark Hamill.
Yes.
Danny Glover of course!
This show is surprisingly so great! I really haven’t enjoyed a new TV show in so long
I wasn't sure when I heard they were making a comedy about grief, but it's been really good so far. And co-created and written by Roy from Ted Lasso!
He was fantastic in this episode! We were cracking up.
I've seem him in some interviews and he's funny AF. Now that he's older and can't do quite as much action, I'd love to see him in some comedy movies!
He's a perfect "straight man" in Star Wars (mostly just the first one), and especially as Indiana Jones. So much of what makes Last Crusade work is Harrison Ford's natural sense of comedic timing as a straight man.
If he isn't at least nominated for Best Supporting Actor Emmy I will be pissed
Hollywood didn’t fuck up. Ford picks what he wants to do.
The roles he is most famous for have him being funny, han solo and Indiana Jones.
He needs to go full Leslie Nielsen and become a deadpan comedy movie star. Leslie was a "normal" actor his entire career until Airplane in 1980
Shrinking is just lovely.
Really such a great show all around, but yes, he is hilarious in it
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> He held his own on Whats Up Doc
I f'love that movie and he did, indeed
(Also, Madelaine Kahn absolutely stole every scene she was in)
I need to rewatch that this weekend LOL
I haven't seen the latest episode yet but I do love this show and I especially love his performance!
This is pretty much his real life persona. I'm sure they just filmed Harrison Ford being Harrison Ford and edited it into the show.
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Agreed. As much as I’m enjoying the show in general, the takeaway I’ve been telling people about the show is that I’m upset I haven’t been watching Harrison Ford in more comedy over the last forty years. Granted it’s also this comedic skill that has made his action characters so likeable.
I was just watching 1923, and in the first episode He's walking into a bar and one of the women protesting for Prohibition stops him at the door. He points out the sign also says "Soda". The woman counters that the prostitutes work out of a building called a Dance Hall, and the mock look of surprise on his face and his "You don't say!" just killed me.
He's always been dead pan funny, but that was always mixed in dramas.
Check out Harrison Ford 6 days 7 nights movie
The best part about him on the show is I’m pretty sure this is the closest thing to a “normal dude” he’s ever played. He’s great. The scene of him jamming to sugar ray in the car was great
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You should watch more movies he is in, most of his acting roles have some comedy in them.
I know …
You didn't think Witness was hilarious?
More comedies? He was already in Anchorman 2 how much more do you need
He was great in the rom-com Six Days, Seven Nights.
This show is so excellent. At times I get some Scrubs essence from the writing/editing, and it makes me so happy Bill Lawrence is still making quality TV.
Plus the addition of Segal and Goldstein? I hope the three of them make a hundred different TV shows together.
I think if Donald or Zach cameo on the show my head will explode.
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He's hilarious in Shrinking lol.
He's so good in Shrinking. I'm really enjoying the show so far.
We don't need another DeNiro which career is f**ked up by the amount of bad comedy flicks. Ford do some good or mediocre, like Morning Glory which is really fun movie.
Obviously not as good as the first one, but I loved his small part in anchorman 2
OP is 13 and has only seen Star Wars apparently.
I really enjoy the show. All the characters are endearing.
I had exactly the same thought watching it.
Amazing how difficult it is to pull off deadpan when you're baked all the time.
Never forget, while the Hollywood elite was criticized for giving the pedophile fugitive Roman Polanski a standing ovation, it was Harrison Ford who made the special trip to Paris to hand deliver the award to his best buddy.
Anyone else feel downright uneasy watching this show?
The way every character frantically makes self-aware comments about themselves, as if they're the audience reacting to their own behavior in real time, is painfully annoying. It takes you right out of it, sucks all the oxygen out of the scene, leaving no room for a breath of sincerity. The writing is overly self-conscious, too eager to make meta commentary on everything going on at all times, which ends up coming off like a basic sitcom desperate to sound clever.
Psychologists are generally pretty self aware and since the show is about psychologists and their friends/family it kinda makes sense.
But they could convey that self-awareness without making the dialogue so contrived.
Yes, I gave up after two episodes. At first I liked the premise but then saw the show is endless scenes of people feeling sorry for themselves or being cringe in some other contrived way, mixed with crass random swearing and toilet humor. Go to the subreddit and any criticism is downvoted to hades, then there's a bunch of mindless astroturfed enthusiasm.
It seems like a lot of shows are like that these days: they try to be sentimental and sensitive, but then they throw a bunch of gross "humor" in there too. Or there's a lot of superficial political correctness, but at the same time all of the characters are horrible people who treat each other like crap. It's so jarring and tone-deaf.
Gloomy_Travel7992 t1_j9wszkk wrote
Some of his line delivery’s in the Star Wars movies are some of the funniest stuff in SW. Also the look he gives the sword guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark before shooting him is hilarious. He knows how to do funny.