Posted on 02/27/2010 8:56:19 PM PST by This Just In
Edited on 02/27/2010 9:10:16 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
This was the most dispiriting PSA ever. Watching Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan and Han Solo have his chest waxed for rain forest awareness was like catching your dad dressed in your mom’s clothes.
There just isn’t enough therapy.
And now we discover Ford’s just another elitist Hollywood hypocrite whose concern over “the tons of carbon” the rest of us emit into the atmosphere doesn’t apply to him.
In the last two decades, no movie star has fallen further than Harrison Ford. That appalling Indiana Jones’ sequel might have made money, but it was an embarrassment and since Air Force One way back in 1997, he’s made one awful choice after another. You get the impression that somewhere along the line he decided to stop being Harrison Ford, and now the most sure-fire star of the late 70s through the mid-90s can’t even open a film.
I knew it was over when he became one of those 50-somethings sporting an earring, but I kept hoping for a miracle — for American Graffiti-era Harrison Ford to pop out of a time tunnel and beat some sense into Middle-Aged-Crisis Harrison Ford.
Next thing I know he’s having his chest waxed.
At least it wasn’t snakes.
Harrison Ford on Letterman suggested that we save the rain forests by paying the natives not to cut down the trees! Of course they would take our money and still cut down the trees and sell them. Too bad we don’t have more liberal movie stars around to solve the world’s problems.
I have no problem with someone jumping in a 747 to go get a cheeseburger if that is what they can afford, and it is what they want to do.
I DO have a problem if that same person is lecturing others on driving an SUV, supporting drilling for oil or using incandescent bulbs.
And that appears to be the case here.
Starting out pretty low. (I didn't care much for the movie -- but don't remember enough to remember why.)
For some people, so is driving a car thay can afford, which might not be a hybrid or electric or whatever else the eco-nazis only approve of.
I am of the opinion that Harrison Ford has been one of the most overrated actors in Hollywood. He may have realized this as well,hence the earring, waxed chest hair enviro/activist gig, and young girlfriend.
His best role is on display as the publicly obscure figure.
Lights out, Indi.
Two words:
Calista Flockhart
I don’t view him as a particularly good actor, just a lucky one — and I really liked both the Star Wars and the Indiana Jones franchises
Two words:
Anorexic appearance and Collagen lips are not attractive to the sensible person.
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The first Star Wars was the best.
Indiana Jones is marginally entertaining, although, the last film was a sleeper; a real snore-fest.
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Frankly, I felt that witness was your typical Hollywood pipe dream.
Worldly wise man travels to backward, conservative Hickville, “liberates” repressed Bible thumper woman, and delivers the saved from the sinners.
This continuous liberal worldview theme is old. Very very old. Nothing entertaining about it, for me.
He’s always been a moonbat so I’m not surprised.No big loss.
So he likes to fly, and thinks up frivolous errands so he can pilot the aircraft he bought with his own money. IIRC, some of those frivolous errands involved firefighting and search and rescue missions.
Al Gore flies all over, too, but he expects me to subsidize his trips via taxation and legislation that forces me to enrich his carbon trading companies. Ford bought his own ticket with his own money, never asking me for a free ride.
Last I heard, it was perfectly legal to own and fly your own plane, almost anywhere you like, without approval from the PC police. If you don't like HF's lifestyle, don't go see his movies.
If that's what you read into it. Inasmuch as this film came about 4-5 years into the Reagan administration when there was a tension between the pacifist/anti-nuke movement and increases in defense spending it made me think of the quote, "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm," with the Amish free to enjoy their non-violent lifestyles because of others willing to protect them from outside violence. To each his own, I suppose.
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