I watched "What lies Beneath" last night and I am sorry, but the guy mumbles and cannot act ! I cannot for the life of me see what is so great about him! He acts the same in every movie he is in.
What say you?

I agree but I like him still. I also feel the same way about Al Pacino. He doesn't mumble but he is always the sme in his movies. I guess if it ain't broke...

Sorry but Harrison has passed his sell by date quite awhile ago.
They seem to put him with these young things now and its just creepy.

I liked him in Blade Runner, a lot. I think he was pretty good in the Patriot Games/Clear and Present Danger films. I thought he was also well cast as Hans Solo. Indiana Jones? Yeah, ok, not always believable, but he had good comic timing in those films, but it's a similar role to that of Hans Solo. I thought he was very creepy in What Lies Beneath. I don't think he has aged too well- remember last year's Golden Globes when he was drunk? Oh Lordy. How can Calista Flockhart stand him? (That's quite a pair to begin with)

I think he's one of those actors who plays one type of character well, and so long as he sticks with that character, he's fine. He was great as Indiana Jones, and I think he was fine in The Fugitive, too. As soon as he deviates from the put-upon action-hero, though, he's in trouble.

AMEN! He used to be gorgeous (right around the 2nd Indiana Jones movie) but now...well....

Loved him as Hans Solo - have found him pretty wooden since then. About a year ago, he was on the PR circuit for his latest film, and his interviews were almost painful. He's turned into an old man, and not a particularly charming one. He's had a great career - you think he'd be a little bit happier.

I tend to agree. He should'a taken a tip from Garbo. He was good in the Amish movie Witness, too.... He was a put upon detective in that one, I guess ;-)

I thought he was good in The Mosquito Coast...a very unlikeable character.

I love Indiana Jones best of all, but like Blade Runner a lot.

Bookworm you hit the nail on the head - Wooden!

Harrison Ford's career is indeed very similar to Al Pacino's. Both men were very serious about their craft early on, and both eventually got greedy and lazy as the big paychecks kept rolling in.

Ford's best acting period was during Indian Jones, Blade Runner, Witness and The Mosquito Coast. His Mosquito Coast role was quite daring for him, playing such an unlikeable character (and in a story that was anything but uplifting). Audiences and critics couldn't accept Ford as a non-hero at the time, so this film became an undeservedly forgotten gem. I was always disappointed with Ford for continually dissing Blade Runner and director Ridley Scott during and after its production; he kept complaining that the special effects were the real stars. I still love the performances and chemistry of Ford and Rutger Hauer in this film, and I'm glad that science fiction fans eventually built Blade Runner the respect it deserved, even if Ford was unwilling to do the same.

Even though there's plenty I dislike about Ford - both as an actor and as a person - I do feel that no other actor has ever succeeded his Indian Jones as a modern-day, macho adventurer and action hero, in the mold of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Lynnn.


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What amazes me most, is that according to the photos I've seen of Mr. Ford, he has kept his physique in onscreen shape, for decades. No small, feat. Errol Flynn, wondrous though his looks were . . . debauched himself to death, by age 49.

Indy was sexy. He was kinda cute in his first movie, American Graffiti, but he was very young then.

And I liked him in The Fugitive.

But yeah, he's looking mighty creaky.

The only movie I can bear to watch him in is Blade Runner. Other than that he is such a bad actor. He always looks so constipated with his big eyes and worried look on his face.

Yeah...agree that every role he plays is more-or-less the same role. I think alot of actors fall into that but the public adores that certain same thing from them so they keep doing it and banking. Can't blame them, really. It's moviegoers that will determine the types of roles and movies that we see in the future. They'll give the people what they indicate that they want with their boxoffice dollars.

Personally, I'm almost never interested in anything that he is in. He's kind of along the lines of Denzel to me....extremely popular and vastly overrated.

I think that he just may not like dealing with the press. My aunt and her friend, both seniors, ran into him in the lobby of the Park Hyatt(Chicago) last year and they said that he couldn't have been more charming. He spent more than ten minutes with them, taking photos, signing autographs and even making a phone call to my cousin and leaving a message on her answering machine.

He's always been uncomfortable in interviews, even when he was younger. He comes across as shy and even awkward and then makes a witty comment and smiles and then seems charming.

In his prime:



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Click to view attachmentTommaso, that is good to hear! I once ran into Dionne Warwick, at Bonwit's. Don't ask.

I don't mind if he ages, hell he can look like a basset hound, its just that the man can't act! LOL