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by
jim
1. RETURN OF THE JEDI
Screw you guys, it's still my favorite STAR WARS movie. I've extalled
it's virtues about a thousand times, so rehashing it here would be silly.
Harrison continues to rule as reluctant hero Han Solo. Keep reading, you
may see this character
represented again.
2. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Now here is where things get sticky. See, I like A NEW HOPE more than
EMPIRE, but you can only deny that this is a top notch Harrison Ford performance
for so long. He's great in this movie and Solo really steals the show.
3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
So, people knock the acting skills of Ford, but he's brought to life two
of the coolest heroes ever to grace the screen. Indiana Jones and Han
Solo are the kind of guys that kids grow up wanting to be. Solo edges
out Indy in my heart, but only by a slight margin.
4. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
More fun than TEMPLE OF DOOM, this one reveals the truth about Indy's
origins. Ford and Sean Connery play off of each other magnificantly. I
could watch this movie about a thousand times...actually, I think I might
have.
5. AIR FORCE ONE
Sure, I could have gone with the film that originated the Han Solo character.
Sure I could have chosen BLADE RUNNER or WITNESS. However, I can I pass
up Harrison Ford as the mother fucking President of the United States
and kicking ass. This one of the great popcorn movies ever made. "Get
off of my plane!" Come on, how can you not love it?
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by
pat
1. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Indiana Jones is quite simply the greatest hero in cinematic history.
He's tough, he's brave, he's smart, h'es funny, he can make mistakes but
he can pull his ass from the fire, and he knows that a gun beats a sword,
and that beats wasting time. Ford has sometimes been accused of having
a limited range, but no matter the range of any actor out there, nobody
could have been Dr. Jones like he could.
2.
WHAT LIES BENEATH
Without dropping any spoilers, this was a groundbreaker for Ford in quite
a few ways. He has spent his career bouncing between action fare and common
man dramas, with the occasional unfortunate comedy. This thriller one
of the best Hitchcockian films since the master himself died, and Ford
is one of the big reasons. It restored my faith in him after too many
"Random Hearts."
3. INDIANA
JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
The greatest hero gets a proper second adventure. Unlike the formulaic
"Temple of Doom," this film expanded on our hero, his origins, his faults,
and his motivations, all of which made him that much cooler. Also, he
turned down Eternal Life. Allan Quartermain woldn't have had balls that
big.
4. THE
FUGITIVE
One of my favorite shows growing up, and due to the resurgence of popularity
from the movie, one of my favorties of all time. I was nervous about anybody
stepping into David Janssen's shoes, and thought the whole thing was a
bad idea. I was way wrong, Top 5 wrong. David would have been proud.
5. BLADE RUNNER
Is he a robot? Is he human? Did he sell the ambiguity just right to make
this one of the definitive Sci-Fi films of the CyberPunk generation. For
all of the grim, dirty, pessimistic, revolutionary visions of the future,
this is still a story about Deckard, and had he not pulled this off it
could have been just another "Ice Pirates." Well, not that bad, but you
get my point.
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by
AG
1. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Coolest Profession Ever: Pirate. Cooler Than That: Space Pirate. Cooler
Still: Harrison Ford as a Space Pirate who shags a Space
Princess.
2.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Second Coolest Profession Ever: Archaeologist, but only if you're Harrison
Ford at the time.
3.
THE FUGITIVE
And of course, let's not understimate the mad skills required to be a
vascular surgeon who can run really fast. To say nothing of HF's ability
to pull off a largely silent and introspective role. In any other year,
The Fuge shoulda walked off with that Best Picture Oscar. Not its fault
it went head to head with Schindler's List.
4.
AIR FORCE ONE
What Star Wars/Indy boy didn't totally go apeshit upon hearing that HF
was gonna play an ass-kicking president? Sure his diplomat-cum-spy turns
as Jack Ryan were the very portrait of good ol' American (albeit right
wing) gravitas, but though AF1 is something of a goofy little exercise
in not-entirely-intelligent anti-terrorist rhetoric, Harrison did us proud
in spades.
5.
THE CONVERSATION
Adding a little edge to nebbish Gene Hackman's paranoia, the then pre-Star
Wars Harrison gives up a nasty little turn as sinister g-man Martin Stett,
making a meal out of a role that asks him to do not much more than sneer
and make threatening phone calls.
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