You know, I was just thinking last night I wouldn't mind a movie with Lennox and Epps as the main characters along with the Bots. If it was done right I think it would be a pretty good movie.
The latest reason Shia shouldn't be in our movies Shia LaBeouf Arrested in Georgia for Disorderly Conduct and Public Drunkenness
I sometimes wonder if these incidents are some weird form of marketing to keep himself in the spotlight. The other option is that his career is just kinda tailspinning & all he has left are weird motivational YouTube vids. Or that he's just kind of a jerk. "JUST DO IT!!!!"
Okay, I'll bite. What are these "our movies" you're referring to? Transformers? The same ones directed by one of the most documented mysoganistisc guys in Hollywood? Those "our movies"? Just wondering.
"Our movies" refers to TFs, isn't that what these boards are all about? It's only his 4th offense, great role model for impressionable minds; TFs starring that wonderful drunk guy, Shia LeBeouf
Anyway, he left the franchise and hasn't been in the last 2 of them, sooo... okay, sure. No more Shia.
Disorderly Conduct and Public Drunkeness........... JUST DO IT! Personally, I think spending 3 movies talking to imaginary giant sentient aliens may have messed with him a bit
Wow. This. All of it. Sam's a horrible human protagonist after the first movie, it made sense in the first one, but got weird in the other two. To each their own, I guess, but I read posts like these and think to myself "What are they huffing?!" I just cannot agree with this or find any reason to. He was never in a boy band and he was indeed a thug. His BROTHER Donnie is in a boy band, New Kids On The Block. Mark was a thug and was responsible for blinding a man in one eye after beating him senseless in a racial hate crime. Of course, since then, he's cleaned up and went on the straight and narrow, but yes he was indeed a thug at one point. Read above. Shia can turn his life around. He just needs time and support. Close... His parents are hippies and at various times he was able to watch them have sex. (He mentioned it several times when talking about his past in interviews when talking about his time as a stand-up comic.)
Shia was a big reason why I hated the movies. DOTM was passable but nowhere near as good as AoE. Mark Wahlberg is an infinitely better actor than Shia is and I feel the movies are better for it.
I never listened to his music and just assumed with a name like "the Funky Bunch," it must have been a boy band. But I just read about his assaults on his wikipedia page and... fuck that guy. In some cases, you can look at someone and say, "Well they were young and stupid, and you have to give them some chance to mature, realize their mistakes and make amends or whatever," but the stuff he did is so far beyond that, I can no longer support any project he is part of. I've always heard Boston was a super racist place, and I guess this is one more confirmation. What the hell are they drinking up in Boston?!
Same thing they drink everywhere. No one and nowhere has a monopoly on bigotry or being a violent drunk.
No, Boston has a reputation. I've known people from there, one of my sisters spent a few years working there, I've heard people from there. Yeah, there's racism to some extent everywhere in the US, but Boston takes it to another level waaaaaaaaay above what I grew up seeing.
The Sam character was great in the first movie. He, and his family, really had the proper balance of believable goofy humor and awe at the situation they were in to carry the film. Something went wrong by movie #2, and by movie #3 I liked his parents a million times better than I liked him, and they barely showed up long enough to have some one-liners. I used to enjoy watching Mark's movies, but after he had that little public rant about how his thuggish acts no longer matter because he's rich enough to get his record expunged AND said this was a great lesson to his children about how it doesn't matter what you do so long as you become successful enough to make up for it, I can't stand him. Can't even look at him without remembering his smugness. So I guess I don't have an opinion on the Cade character as I haven't seen the last two films. Not only because of him, but because the second and third were so disappointing to me. I'm not a person that continues to feed money to something that doesn't provide me some form of enjoyment unless it's a legal requirement like taxes. Shia strikes me as a dude that's had the world screw with him, while Mark strikes me as a dude that tried, and succeeded, by screwing with the world. I can't really say I "like" either of them as people based on what I know, but I'd be more likely to lend a sympathetic ear to Shia than Mark if they wanted to explain their side of things. Neither ranks high on my "would like to hang with" chart.
I genuinely miss him, to be honest. Ten years ago I was apprehensive about the franchise (grew up with Beast Wars, which got me into G1, and also enjoyed the 2001 Robots in Disguise... missed Beast Machines for whatever reason, though) because I could. not. stand the Unicron Trilogy. I honestly thought I was done with Transformers at that point. Then in 2007 we got the awesome movie and the awesome Animated cartoon. But prior to the movie coming out, I was honestly expecting to hate it (just because, like I said, I did NOT have any faith in the franchise at that point). But the movie turned out to be awesome, and part of that was due to Shia. I thought he was great in it and I thought "well, if the movies need a big human presence, at least it's a good one!" Definitely missed him in Age of Extinction and Last Knight. It's a shame he kind of went nuts lol, people were way unfair with their criticisms of him in these movies, I think.
