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A new found respect for Shia LaBeouf
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The dude is pulling of a ridiculous stunt where as we speak he's sitting in a cinema watching all of his own films back to back in a 3 day marathon 
But aside from his recent bursts of craziness, I always thought he had some talent in him. 90% of his filmography is turgid (no doubt hindered by the fact that for years he was restricted in brain dead Michael Bay blockbusters). But I thought he was by a mile the best thing about that Brad Pitt movie Fury. And I felt like he trolled everyone with Nymphomanic
But aside from his recent bursts of craziness, I always thought he had some talent in him. 90% of his filmography is turgid (no doubt hindered by the fact that for years he was restricted in brain dead Michael Bay blockbusters). But I thought he was by a mile the best thing about that Brad Pitt movie Fury. And I felt like he trolled everyone with Nymphomanic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI
Never seen this before. Though now I finally know where that Shia LaBeouf Citizen Kane clapping meme came from
or . . . he could just fall apart completely .
Well it's hard to tell if everything that he's done in the last few years outside of his films is genuine or just part of one giant elaborate prank. What he's doing right now is being billed as a performance art installation.
he's been in jail a couple of times as well tho hasn't he ?
Yeah OK then I guess he is troubled. But other times I do think he's incredibly self aware. Maybe he's now channelling his inner demons into something that'll at least amuse people besides his questionable films. I noticed how distraught he looked watching some of his Transformers films. At one point he disappeared for over an hour when Transformers 3 was playing
Hang on ! that's cheating , plenty of people suffered thru it , why shouldn't he ??!
Me included, I saw Dark of the Moon in the cinema in the hope that it would be vastly different to the previous 2. How wrong I was. I refuse to see the latest one or any Transformers movie that has Michael Bay's name on it
He's watching ALL of his movies. EVERY SINGLE ONE, back to back. He's been at the cinema for 3 days with other members of the public. And it's all being shown live stream: http://newhive.com/allmymovies
If it's a prank then you have to congratulate him on his dedication.
A bit like that Magician who kept up the character of being an old Chinese man for decades. never breaking character.
Mind you, LaBeouf strikes me as being of that tiresome celebrity breed who are forever desperate to prove themselves a little bit 'different' from the rest of the pack, and whose contrived actions generally have the counter-productive effect of making them look not just equally vain but also a lot more pretentious.
Actually this is the best thing he's done in years. And I liked that Sia music video and the bizarre Shia Labeouf song that went viral, a user above posted a link to it.
Except that he didn't fail. As much as I didn't like these films, he still lead 3 financially successful Transformers films. He played prominent roles in Indiana Jones 4, Wall Street 2, Lawless, Fury and Nymphomaniac. Not exactly Lindsay Lohan or Jake Lloyd is he?
I don't think he saw it like that which is why he is pulling this nonsense now. He will always be the B movie guy.
Fury was only released last year, a Brad Pitt war movie which did pretty decent numbers at the box office. And he has a couple more projects in the pipeline which sound interesting. Not sure what you mean by that B movie comment but not everyone can be like Tom Cruise and make the same old blockbusters year in, year out. In some ways it's a relief that Shia Labeof has ended his extreme blockbuster phase and impressively not fall into obscurity.
Not that I'm agreeing he failed or anything but I really don't think the success of the Transformers films had anything to do with him being in them. The selling point was giant metal robots kicking the crap out of each other not Shia Laboeuf.
Only Tom Cruise can be like Tom Cruise, btw (okay, maybe Tom Hanks). An A-lister for 30 years and still cranking out huge hits. But then he didn't have the internet to fanny about on for much of that, did he. He just got on with making films. Perhaps there's a lesson here.
Of course he wasn't the selling point but that doesn't take away the fact that he was picked to lead a major blockbuster franchise, whether people liked him or not. Maybe he was lucky but I doubt he cares since he got to hang around hot chicks like Megan Fox and make millions of dollars. Like I say, I was never a fan of him for many years after Even Stevens but he's now amusing me again with his trolling (or whatever the hell he's trying to do haha).
Can't quite understand it! What's he doing or done (OK, ignoring Transformers) that's SO heinous
True but it was only a supporting part, a couple of years ago you would have expected him in the Logan Lerman role.