I went to the theater back then to see this movie, so it isn't exactly new to me. Since all of that time, I suppose a fresh perspective can be applied to it.
Trouble is, I don't recall what the original perspective was. If it was anything, it was that the main character was nuts. It didn't go with the usual kind of character played by Harrison Ford. Or did it? Ford played some off the wall type characters before in some or perhaps most of his movies. Well, this character outdid anything he did before, or since.
It may have weaned me off of Harrsion Ford movies.
That was then, but what about now?
That one may make me squirm a bit. A lot of that character I see in ME. In particular, Ford's character was an off-the-grid character before the off-grid thing became a thing. But I've never been an anti-American type. Give it some time though. The way this country is going, nobody is going to recognize it anymore.
Ford's character had a kind of messianic notion of saving the world. That could put you straight into nutcase territory. I'm not in the neighborhood of being anything like that.
I've got a practical streak a mile wide. I'm most interested in what WORKS. Funny thing, Ford's character had something that worked, but he wasn't satisfied with getting it to work. He wanted to force everybody into his mold.
To me, the sensible thing to do would have been to market it. Well, time to run. Things are getting a bit interesting around here.
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