Ford is one of those very few actors that has the X factor. Even if the movie ain't that great, you still want to watch him.
Six days, Seven nights is an example. Not the greatest of movies, but Ford's preformance and comic timing is perfection.
JJ Abrams thought that he could have his version of "The Devil Wears Prada" with Harrison Ford and Rachel McAdams.
The main problem of course is that Meryl Streep is good at acting and Ford is good at being a passable "movie star"
My viewpoint is Ford hasn't "carried" a film on his own star power, removing real franchises that are almost guaranteed to carry legacy fans and big box office numbers, since Air Force One in the late 90s.
Tom Cruise has remained A List for so long because he's a big movie star comfortable with being a big movie star. He's not trying to be Daniel Day Lewis. He's not trying to star in the next Gone With The Wind. Air Force One is a film built as a vehicle for a "movie star" Just about any movie star could have played it.
K19? Hollywood Homicide? Firewall? Crossing Over? Extraordinary Measures?
Ford isn't the only one. Bruce Willis, Will Smith, Sly Stallone and others have gone down this path. Resentful that they weren't generally respected as pure acting talents, and picking bad roles to try to prove everyone wrong.
I want a good Indy film for the fans who love the IP and the franchise. I want him to do more for those fans, including the fans here, than he did for his last Star Wars appearance, where he truly and deeply mailed it in, letting his resentment bubble over everything. But after that, I'd be OK with him disappearing.
I want this final Indy film to be something that respects and honors the loyalty of the true and hard core fans here. I don't want Ford to mail it in again because he's angry about how little the Indy character and story means to him besides a paycheck, I'd like him to put out the effort to honor what the Indy legacy means to countless fans out there. I can abide a bad actor, I can't abide the selfishness. In my book, it's like stealing from all of you here.