Harrison Ford showing off some leg 😮💨
A girl on twitter was giving self-defense advice to a women and she gave the usual old sock-on-the-baseball-bat trick and some guy responded “actually, you never want to be close enough to an assailant to use a baseball bat”
anyway men are *stupid* - in a bind, and if you need it, any weapon that creates distance (a baseball bat absolutely does this) is a GOOD self defense weapon - knives are the worst, guns aren’t useful unless you’re trained to use them, hammers are too small (distance wise) etc. - a bat or a shovel is great because you can create space. fuck off man with ur dumb opinions.
Anonymous asked:
what about the tedbecca mess?
I don't really know what this means, I'm not in the fandom, I don't look stuff up or participate in discourse, I just watched the show
I know that "tedbecca" is obviously a ship name but I don't know what this is referring to. Like to me personally they never had any chemistry or interest and I viewed them like Jack Donaghy and Liz Lemon so I don't know what you're asking - am I supposed to be mad because they didn't get together? Mad because they were together or had an emotion-filled goodbye? I genuinely don't know what your question is because in my opinion there was nothing in that finale that was "tedbecca mess"
not to be too real world interests on main, but lately i have read a lot of books (fiction & nonfiction) that either centrally or from an angle feature the Vietnam war (All The President’s Men, The Last of the President’s Men, And the Mountains Sing, Build Your House Around My Body, The Gatekeepers, Conduct Unbecoming, To End a War) and hoo BOY every single additional thing I learn about that war has me like “truly WHAT THE FUCK were we doing there”
Peter Mayhew, Alec Guinness, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars (1976)
There’s like 90 minutes left in my shift and I need it to be over so f u c k i n g badly.
42 (2013)
“42” - In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defies major league baseball's notorious color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) to the team. The heroic act puts both Rickey and Robinson in the firing line of the public, the press and other players. Facing open racism from all sides, Robinson demonstrates true courage and admirable restraint by not reacting in kind and lets his undeniable talent silence the critics for him.
“42” Trivia:
- The young woman who babysits for Rachel Robison is Branch Rickey’s great-granddaughter
- “42″ is the only number to be retired by ALL of baseball
- Four of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers players were still alive when this movie was released
- Broke the record of best opening weekend of a baseball movie
- The role of Branch Rickey was intended for Robert Redford, not Harrison Ford
- Branch Rickey was influenced to use his power to correct some of baseballs injustices when a Black player on his college team was refused a room at the hotel they were staying at. Rickey worked out a deal so that the player could stay in is (Rickey’s) room, but not official register. When he went up to join the player, he found him crying, tearing at his hands, and wailing that “if only his skin was different, he’d be the same as everyone else.” The incident stuck with Rickey, and he felt he did not do enough to help.
- Rachel Robinson, Jackie Robinson’s widow, was involved in the making and production of this film. She had lots of say in the portrayal of Robinson. She was very satisfied with the final product.
Verdict: I love this movie but it is difficult to watch. It is twice as difficult to watch now, because Chadwick Boseman has passed away - gone so many years before his time, and he’s so beautiful in every way in this film.
I was watching this more critically now than I think I did the first time I watched it - since watching “The Help” and enjoying it, but also thinking hard about the critique leveled at it by Black critics as well as Viola Davis herself, I try to make sure I watch movies set in the Civil Rights era with as wary/critical eye as possible and make sure they aren’t softened to be a “but let’s also make white people feel good” movie.
I think this one does a good job of not pandering to thin-skinned white people! For one, it doesn’t just set Branch Rickey up as some pious do-gooder who is struck with ahead-of-his-time-progressivism; it’s revealed later that he’s struggled with racism in the past, but it’s also made clear that he’s a businessman, and he’s well aware there is more $$$ to be made in integrating Baseball - so this take that capitalism drives greed drives inadvertent progress is present and interesting throughout the film - similar to how WW2 drove women into the workplace, not out of social justice reform, but because they fucking had to be there.
There’s also a subtle but significant representation of the different kinds of racism people espouse, and how exhausting it is for Black people to navigate that - like sure, Ben Chapman (the heckling coach of the Pirates) is obviously a reprehensible monster; he’s yelling slurs - sure, the KKK that runs Robinson out of town, they’re monsters - but those monsters are obvious. But this movie also portrays the embedded racism and micro-aggressions that were present in Robinson’s teammates even as they began to support him, rally around him, and see him as a man, just a man. There is a beautiful scene when his Kentucky team mate hugs him on the field (to a chorus of boos) and says he needs his family to know where he stands, but right before that, the same guy had joked that the south should have won the civil war and Robinson was like “.....” - so in many ways like that, the movie doesn’t turn away from complex, hard truths.
Another good scene in which one player says he’s received a threatening letter, and he’s scared to play, and isn’t it enough he only got one threat? Rickey pulls out a filing cabinet full of the heinous threats Jackie’s been getting and is like “cry me a fucking river, pal” which to me did a bang up job of illustrating how fragile white people can be, and how clueless they are about what actual oppression is -
ANYWAY - this is a good film, a solid biopic that takes some liberties with history to tell a more succinct. story, and Chadwick Boseman is a pleasure to watch - it feels weird to even call this a Harrison Ford movie, but he is a major billing in it, and this is the Harrison Ford Movie Review - he does a bit of a cartoonish, but good, job in this film, and I like watching it.
I cry through like, 80% of it, but it’s good.
It’s just one of those things were you watch it, and you KNOW people were like that, and you know people are STILL like this, but if you’re any kind of even remotely decent person it’s just horrifying to think - are you serious? Are you really fucking serious? Jackie Robinson was a human being with more guts than half the planet and you treated him with such vile cruelty just because he was BLACK?! And of course, that vitriol was applied to ALL Black people - still is, in some places. I didn’t grow up around that kind of overt evil, so it boggles the mind, but then I feel naive for letting it shock me - and I am by no means saying I’ve got no flaws myself; I grew up in the South, I’ve been unlearning micro-aggressive opinions and structural racism for YEARS.
I’ll stop waxing on now, but suffice it to say - good, good film. Worth it 100%.
Was Harrison Ford hot in “42”? - he absolutely was not and i’m almost positive he was wearing prosthetics. he was playing a historical figure so...i’ll allow it.
Do you see the booty? - No and like ... thank god, lmao.
Would I have watched this movie if Harrison Ford wasn’t in it? Yes. Love hist fic and biopics.
Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill filming The Empire Strikes Back
lol my friend sent me this thing he found online and said “thought of you 💖” and i’ve never been so flattered
INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” - It's the height of the Cold War, and famous archaeologist Indiana Jones, returning from his latest adventure, finds out his job at Marshall College is in jeopardy. He meets Mutt, a young man who wants Indy to help him find the legendary Crystal Skull of Akator, and the pair set out for Peru. However, deadly agent Irina Spalko is searching for the powerful artifact, too, because the Soviets believe it can help them conquer the world.
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Trivia:
- Several weeks into production, Harrison Ford saw a blonde woman on the set and asked who she was. He was told it was Cate Blanchett, who he had never seen out of costume and did not recognize without her black wig (this is the funniest fucking thing I have ever read)
- Harrison Ford has kept himself in such good shape over the years that his costume measurements for this movie had not changed from those in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (OKAY SIR)
- While the odd-numbered movies in the franchise focused on finding a relic, the even-numbered movies involve returning the relics to where they belong
Verdict: I don’t really like this one, but in terms of “plot,” I’d watch it over “Temple of Doom.” Like, apparently Matt and Trey (of South Park fame) say that this one is disrespectful to the original three, but it’s impossible to disrespect “Temple of Doom,” which is a disrespectful movie in itself.
I mean, aesthetically, Doom takes the cake - but I digress.
The alien shtick is cool, and the pivot to Cold War/Russian villains vs. the usual Nazis is refreshing. Is it MASSIVELY MASSIVELY STUPID that Indiana Jones survives a nuclear blast in a fridge? Fuck yes. But this is a film series where people’s face melt off because God, and a magic cup makes you immortal. Cry me a river about the nuke fridge. It’s hilarious.
I also think the humor in this one is better; it sees itself for what it is and leans into it. Indiana sinking to his death in a sand pit and refusing to grab the snake until they say it’s a rope - iconic. I died laughing.
I love Oxley in this, and it was nice to have Marion back, even though she kind of acts like a dipshit fool this whole movie, too moony-eyed over Indy with too little reckoning.
There’s a lot I don’t like about this movie, though. Mutt Williams/Shia LeBeouf - don’t like that character, don’t really like that story. Like yeah, it tracks that Indiana ran off on Marion once again, but for me it doesn’t track that Marion - who called him on his bullshit repeatedly in the first film - would just let that go - she also acts like kind of a huge fool in this movie - like she should have kicked Indy’s ass a lil more, idk. In the end I wish it had just turned out not to be Indy’s kid, like Blade Runner 2049 did - take the less obvious route. But as a general rule, I hate when sequels introduce kids; it’s so lazy and the kid usually sucks (see: The Mummy Returns).
I don’t like that this movie ends with a wedding (but am FASCINATED to see how that’s retconned in the upcoming film) and if Indy HAD to have a kid, I wish Spielberg would have stuck with Jones’ having a daughter rather than a son. I also am not a fan of Cate Blanchett so I find her character doubly irritating.
LOVE THE ALIENS THOUGH, and the Western Hemisphere focus.
Like, it’s not horrible but it’s by no means good. Am I gonna watch it if it’s on? Yeah. If my options are this and one of Ford’s other movies, I probably won’t choose this. If my options are this or one of the Star Wars sequels, I’ll watch this three times.
Was Harrison Ford hot in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”? - 66? more like sixty sexy.
Do you see the booty? - No :(
Would I have watched this movie if Harrison Ford wasn’t in it? Yes - tbh, it has strong National Treasure/The Mummy vibes and I love shit like that. I actually frequently get the plot of this confused with the plot of National Treasure 2.
I finally finished Ted Lasso and I’m so impressed the finale was good! Kudos to them, because 90% of this season was complete trash, so I am fascinated and humbled that they pulled a wonderful ending out of their ass.
It’s astonishing how the show did 2 superb seasons and then had such a lackluster overall goodbye, but I’m glad the finale was good. At least it wasn’t like The Good Place, which fumbled the ball so badly at the end I’m like, still furious about it, lol. I was fully expecting this to be the same.
Two things:
- I wish the Jane and Beard thing hadn’t happened. It wasn’t cute and it won’t ever be cute. Toxic ass shit that didn’t benign in a show about positively working on your mental health.
- Still wish Nate had gotten hit by a bus. He never actually did any real work to be forgiven, everyone just forgave him because THEY are nice. He never suffered any real consequences for being a massive asshole.
luke: “i didn’t hear you give any ideas!”
han: *proceeds to just walk away*
a classic han solo/harrison ford move right there
hey we’re all getting poisoned here in northern virginia from the canadian wildfires
