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BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I actually really like that line. I remember watching the latest Star Wars trilogy and just nitpicking. I’m not a super fan, I don’t even own anything Star Wars. But, the movies kept pulling out stupid takes that my suspension of disbelief was gone and I kept focusing on hyper details.

  I also like that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Mark Hammil does an excellent Harrison Ford impression, so there’s a possibility that the “kid” is part of the impression, rather than a direct quote. Also, I was doing the quote from memory, so it’s also possible that I remembered it wrong.

    But I also like the thought that Harrison Ford calls everyone kid.

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He is the one to pull it off every single time with perfect naturalness.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Please remember that Star Wars was released in 1977. It absolutely blew people’s minds because they were doing something that had nobody had ever seen before. You can’t nitpick it the same way you can Marvel slop in 2026, there was so many ground breaking things, most of all it was a genuinely alien experience because we hadn’t really seen such a well designed intergalactic society and world building before, that all the minor stuff is genuinely just nitpicks for what the greater story was.

    It’s like finding flaws in a renaissance painting, or the Iliad, or classical opera- which is a fitting comparison considering SW is the definition of space opera, down to containing one of the most genuinely masterful, memorable, and well crafted scores of all time.

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    • bytejunk@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Actually, you can always nitpick some more.

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Geology rocks.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Rise of Skywalker gave everyone what they wanted.

    If you watched it wanting a fun action adventure movie, it gave you what to wanted.

    If you wanted a movie you could nitpick and complain about on the internet, it gave you what you wanted.

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• EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ford’s attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don’t like something, which you clearly don’t, why you do it in the first place?

  Hell, I’d argue his career wouldn’t be what it became without star wars and he should at least be able to acknowledge that.

  He always just comes off as “I’m better than you, I’m better than this franchise, I’m better than anything”

  Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who, and he never seems to say a negative thing about it. Plenty of MCU actors hate the MCU, they don’t talk shit, and I can’t see them talking shit about them for several decades either.

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ford struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome early on, and developed his tough, flippant exterior around that as a coping mechanism. So there are a lot of stories about him saying callous, tough guy things. But he’s quite a softie who really loves the art of acting, so I don’t think he’s really dismissing everything and everyone outright.

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  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think Ford’s attitude is similar to Guinness’ attitude - it’s not that he hates Star Wars, it’s that he hates that it’s completely overshadowed his other work and nobody ever talks to him about any other part of his career.

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    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You mean like Indiana Jones?

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  • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ford’s attitude about the films has always just pissed me off. If you don’t like something, which you clearly don’t, why you do it in the first place?

    I mean I don’t love my job but I keep showing up for the paycheck.

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I hate my job and I don’t even have a job.

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And you probably do a good job, just like Ford (although I’ve never seen a single star wars movie and it’s going to stay that way).

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Christopher Eccleston famously hated Dr who

    its my understanding that he hated Russell T Davis because Davis was abusive to the staff.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    why you do it in the first place?

    it paid more than carpentry. No, really.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      dumptrucks of money.

      Which is why sigourney weaver kept making aliens movies

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      • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And fucking ACED every one of them.

        That’s the sign of a consummate professional.

        Famously, Agatha Christi hated Hercule Poirot, yet she still wrote him into some of the best detective stories in the world.

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yep. I find it interesting, too, that the first appearance of ford is in some western tv show from 1967… it took a full decade for him to become a real star.

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ah but carpentry is rewarded in the kingdom of heaven.

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      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        yeah, if you’re really lucky people will notice you and you’ll nail your big debut

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    • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Or selling weed.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    MCU is genuinely mass market slop though. I cannot believe people watch that drivel, and I judge people who do. That’s all I have to say on the matter, good day, Sir, I SAID GOOD DAY.

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