Last Thursday, America’s third favorite LaBeouf was interviewed at Cannes about his upcoming role in Transformers 3. LaBeouf was very candid in the interview, openly talking about his disappointment with Transformers 2, why he thinks Transformers 3 will be the best of the series and why he refused to fight me outside that Walgreens last winter (the last one may be a lie, but in my defense, they all sound like lies to me). Here is what he had to say for himself:
The new script restores a human element that got lost in the second movie. When I saw the second movie, I wasn’t impressed with what we did,” LaBeouf said in an interview Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where his finance drama “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” is premiering. “There were some really wild stunts in it, but the heart was gone. We got lost. We tried to get bigger. It’s what happens to sequels. It’s like, how do you top the first one? You’ve got to go bigger,” LaBeouf said. “Mike went so big that it became too big, and I think you lost the anchor of the movie. … You lost a bit of the relationships. Unless you have those relationships, then the movie doesn’t matter. Then it’s just a bunch of robots fighting each other.
Whew, that’s a relief to hear . . . Wait, what? The new script restores a human element that got lost in the second movie? See, now that doesn’t make any sense, because that would imply that there was a human element to the first Transformers movie, which is completely untrue. Transformers 1 is a movie about robots fighting each other and trying to commit robot genocide under the guise of American patriotism or something. None of the characters were memorable. There was no human element.
In fact, let me see which characters I can remember from the first Transformers movie. Hmm, there was Optimus Prime, Hugo Weaving picking up a paycheck, that horribly racist Transformer voiced by Eddie from Family Matters, that kid from Even Stevens trying to act grown up, a bunch of marines in the desert, and I can’t remember the name of Megan Fox’s character, but I assume it was something incredibly creative like “Foxly Megan”, “Megly Foxhound” or “Sugarbags McMurphy.”
If you want to make Transformers 3 a better movie, have it be about Shia LaBeouf’s character accidently getting stepped on by Optimus Prime in the first ten minutes and the rest of the movie can be about robots learning about death. It will be a 260 million dollar version of Short Circuit.
Read the rest of Shia’s interview here (AP).
*(I refuse to use any other photo of Shia for articles until the above photo is his default imdb picture)
