http://www.themoviebanter.com/2009/06/shia-labeouf-is-officially-a-hollywood-a-lister/ We talk movies...but have you bantered Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.themoviebanter.com/2009/06/shia-labeouf-is-officially-a-hollywood-a-lister/#comment-25770 jim Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:32:25 +0000 http://themoviebanter.com/?p=2537#comment-25770 Shia Labeouf has had his fifteen minutes of fame that has really lasted a good hour and he has done nothing with it. He has been given every opportunity to establish himself as a good actor and he is still just a kid who can't do serious acting. He started off as a kid star on a silly, but popular Disney Channel show and if there's any adversity that he has ever faced in the world of real acting, it's that he's had a hard mold to break to become a respectable actor, but he's had plenty of opportunity to do so. He's been given roles in a variety of films, ranging from Action movies like Transformers to serious movies like Wall Street. He's had the opportunity to work with some of the most talented and tenured actors, directors, and producers in Hollywood. He got to work with Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas in Indiana Jones and he still weighed the whole project down with his inability to be a serious actor, meaning people still couldn't take him seriously. He got to work with Michael Douglas, Frank Langela, and Oliver Stone in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps and despite another powerhouse performance from Douglas, he still failed to hold his own. Michael Bay couldn't make a good movie if his life depended on it, but in the action movie business, the term "good movie" doesn't mean a lot and he at least has experience. Even though he was paired with the 100% talentless Megan Fox in a role that is quite frankly very difficult to screw up, Shia still managed to make us laugh at his performance. The point I am making when I talk about Shia getting to work with great Hollywood talent and experience is that he's had the opportunity to learn from the best, and when he gets to work with talented, established actors like Ford and Douglas they take a lot of pressure off of Shia, meaning he has less responsibility which is always good. Cases in point, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Traffic, and the Departed to name a few, all great, successful films with ensemble casts where everyone was able to do a good job acting because the pressure was evenly distributed among a long list of good actors. Shia has had that benefit many times and he has never managed to take advantage of it. Shia Labeouf has lived his nine lives in Hollywood. He has had his three strikes at the plate and then some and he still hasn't gotten on base. Sorry, Shia, but you can't act. Shia Labeouf has had his fifteen minutes of fame that has really lasted a good hour and he has done nothing with it. He has been given every opportunity to establish himself as a good actor and he is still just a kid who can’t do serious acting. He started off as a kid star on a silly, but popular Disney Channel show and if there’s any adversity that he has ever faced in the world of real acting, it’s that he’s had a hard mold to break to become a respectable actor, but he’s had plenty of opportunity to do so.
He’s been given roles in a variety of films, ranging from Action movies like Transformers to serious movies like Wall Street. He’s had the opportunity to work with some of the most talented and tenured actors, directors, and producers in Hollywood. He got to work with Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas in Indiana Jones and he still weighed the whole project down with his inability to be a serious actor, meaning people still couldn’t take him seriously. He got to work with Michael Douglas, Frank Langela, and Oliver Stone in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps and despite another powerhouse performance from Douglas, he still failed to hold his own. Michael Bay couldn’t make a good movie if his life depended on it, but in the action movie business, the term “good movie” doesn’t mean a lot and he at least has experience. Even though he was paired with the 100% talentless Megan Fox in a role that is quite frankly very difficult to screw up, Shia still managed to make us laugh at his performance.
The point I am making when I talk about Shia getting to work with great Hollywood talent and experience is that he’s had the opportunity to learn from the best, and when he gets to work with talented, established actors like Ford and Douglas they take a lot of pressure off of Shia, meaning he has less responsibility which is always good. Cases in point, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Traffic, and the Departed to name a few, all great, successful films with ensemble casts where everyone was able to do a good job acting because the pressure was evenly distributed among a long list of good actors. Shia has had that benefit many times and he has never managed to take advantage of it. Shia Labeouf has lived his nine lives in Hollywood. He has had his three strikes at the plate and then some and he still hasn’t gotten on base. Sorry, Shia, but you can’t act.

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