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This went up...good God, 15 months ago. But it's still funny. Not just the verbal repetition but the same emotional infusion stabs, over and over and over. Easily the equivalent of Shia Lebouf's "no, no, no" video. (Thanks to Slashfilm.)

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 12, 2009 at 6:47 AM

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Phatang! says ...

meh

Posted by Phatang! at August 12, 2009 7:27 AM

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mccool says ...

Jeff, you've got to start making links open in a new window .... don't want your readers always leaving the page....

here's how to do it ...

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_open_link_in_new_window.cfm

Posted by mccool at August 12, 2009 7:28 AM

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Steven Kar says ...

They parodied him on The Family Guy as well.

Posted by Steven Kar at August 12, 2009 7:58 AM

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moveable hype says ...

So, this must be why he signed on to film "They Killed My Family with My Wife's Suitcase"

Posted by moveable hype at August 12, 2009 8:05 AM

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Gogocrank says ...

Harrison Ford hired to look and act like Harrison Ford shockah!

Posted by Gogocrank at August 12, 2009 8:43 AM

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Pynchon8 says ...

With a healthy dose of the Harrison Ford finger of doom.

Posted by Pynchon8 at August 12, 2009 9:21 AM

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DarthCorleone says ...

Pynchon8 >> Exactly. There was a hilarious "finger of doom" website several years ago.

Posted by DarthCorleone at August 12, 2009 9:30 AM

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LexG says ...

Heh... definitely funny, but I think you could probably work up a package like that for just about any "star" actor with a recurring shtick and a long enough filmography -- Costner being all aw-shucks, Gibson being crazy-eyed, Eastwood doing his thing, Reynolds sipping a beer, McConaughey being chill.

Can't argue that Ford has done the grumpy indignant monotone thing almost nonstop for twenty years... but I also think he gets a lot of cheap shots just because a lot of Han Solo and Indy fans are still stuck in 1983 with their attachment to those series, and see everything since as some Lucas-level violation of their childhood memories. At some point, I think it's kind of unfair to Ford (and Lucas) to always hold them to something they did when YOU were eight years old.

Also:

Wow, check that 1997-as-hell WB un-touched-up full-frame transfer on FRANTIC. I remember when DVD first hit big, and WB had put out all these library titles... the transfers were FAR WORSE than the movies generally looked on cable. I still have cardboard-case versions of Last Boy Scout and Pale Rider that despite being widescreen look worse than VHS... hell, worse than any movie ever looked on WSBK in 1981.

Posted by LexG at August 12, 2009 9:36 AM

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mccool says ...

Lex, I thought the same thing about the clip of Frantic. Hilarious. Actually caught a bit of it on tv a few months ago. Wow. The scenes where Ford is barefoot are ... well, makes one wonder why Tom Selleck couldn't get more gigs.

Posted by mccool at August 12, 2009 10:38 AM

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joncro says ...

this one's funnier.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GwtRsOYSI

Posted by joncro at August 12, 2009 11:17 AM

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Movie fan09 says ...

two things:

It's a shame they didn't end with Tommy Lee Jones' response: "I don't care!"

and also-
too bad he turned down Cape Fear..but then he would have messed with his confident on screen persona..and might shake things up a bit and have a career.. oh well..

Posted by Movie fan09 at August 12, 2009 11:25 PM

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