Harrison Ford says flops like Cowboys & Aliens had the “best of intentions”

Harrison Ford is one of the most iconic and bankable movie stars of all time, but even he has had his share of flops, duds and wherever Six Days Seven Nights falls.

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Harrison Ford touched on some of the movies that didn’t exactly fare well. And yes, he was characteristically…shall we say curt? When the interviewer asked him about one particular string of bad movies, Ford challenged him to name them–which maybe he shouldn’t have done because there are indeed plenty of lousy ones in that stretch. When they began rattling off titles–beginning with Firewall and Cowboys & Aliens–Ford cut them off, saying they were “all entered with the best of intentions.” Surely he means in this period only, as even Ford must have a hard time defending the Star Wars Holiday Special…

Harrison Ford chimed in on other poor movies, like the 1995 remake of Billy Wilder’s romance Sabrina, which the actor admits he was completely miscast in (but who can really compare to Humphrey Bogart?). There, too, was 2002’s K-19: The Widowmaker, in which Ford tries out one of the worst Russian accents in movie history, which he called a “good movie.” We assume, like the Holiday Special, he’s never seen it…

Still, Harrison Ford doesn’t let his lesser movies get him down. “It doesn’t usually make that much difference–I just go on and do something else. I wasn’t counting the hits and misses…Each film has its own destiny, and I don’t go back and parse the experience.”

And with the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny set for June, it was inevitable that the previous Indy entry, 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, would be brought up–chiefly how it was widely panned compared to the original trilogy (by just about everyone except Quentin Tarantino). Still, the actor did wonder, in a very Ford-esque way, “Where are [the critics] now?” On the reception, Ford made the point, “They were imposing their rules on what the movie should be.”

Despite the bad movies, Harrison Ford continues to love his craft. “I think it’s the place I feel most useful. It’s what I know the most about. I lost my chops as a carpenter…But I feel comfortable wrestling with how to make behavior out of words on a page and tell a story, and I’m still excited about the prospect of telling a story. I think this is a service occupation–telling stories. We need it.”

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