{"id":820,"date":"2013-10-15T17:15:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2024-02-26T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:29:28","slug":"my-favourite-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/my-favourite-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite actor is Harrison Ford. I&#8217;ve seen all of his movies all the way back to <strong>The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong> which was in 1980. He only films about one movie a year but he&#8217;s done an extraordinarily good&nbsp;job at picking movies &#8212; in 33 years he only made one movie that was truly bad.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his appearances&nbsp;as Han Solo and&nbsp;Indiana Jones, he&#8217;s also played the President of the United States, a doctor falsely convicting of murdering his wife,&nbsp;and a regular guy.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind some of the <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> and <strong>Indiana Jones<\/strong> movies would have been higher on the list the first time I watched them.<\/p>\n<p>Masterpieces<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blade Runner<\/li>\n<li>Witness<\/li>\n<li>The Fugitive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back<\/li>\n<li>The Mosquito Coast<\/li>\n<li>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood Homicide<\/li>\n<li>Crossing Over<\/li>\n<li>Extraordinary Measures<\/li>\n<li>Morning Glory<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/fortytwo\/\">42<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi<\/li>\n<li>Sabrina<\/li>\n<li>Air Force One<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/random-hearts\/\">Random Hearts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What Lies Beneath<\/li>\n<li>K-19: The Widowmaker<\/li>\n<li>Firewall<\/li>\n<li>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OK<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope<\/li>\n<li>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/li>\n<li>Frantic<\/li>\n<li>Working Girl<\/li>\n<li>Presumed Innocent<\/li>\n<li>Six Days Seven Nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mediocre<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Devil&#8217;s Own<\/li>\n<li>Cowboys &amp; Aliens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bad<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s next for Ford? <strong>Paranoia<\/strong>, recently in theatres,&nbsp;was hated by critics &#8212; I might check it out sometime anyway. <strong>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/strong> will be in theatres soon &#8212; I will definitely be checking that one out. And it seems like, against all odds,&nbsp;he&#8217;ll be reprising his role as Han Solo in the next <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite actor is Harrison Ford. I&#8217;ve seen all of his movies all the way back to The Empire Strikes Back which was in 1980. He only films about one movie a year but he&#8217;s done an extraordinarily good&nbsp;job at picking movies &#8212; in 33 years he only made one movie that was truly bad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[84,42,6],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-actors","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23023,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/23023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}