I'm not sure how I would explain this to anyone

[andrewducker]

Frankly, I'm not sure I understand it myself.

""Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor" (Watch on YouTube)

But I am grateful to toothycat for bringing it into my life.

(As I catch up on emails from three weeks ago.)

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[flick]

That is very, very odd. I have no idea who they're singing about, but I presume it's an actor and that he's the guy at the end?

It's very well done, though, and must have cost quite a lot of money: it must have some point....

[andrewducker]

It is.

He was a child star (and was very good in the movie "Holes", which is well worth seeing) and then had either a breakdown, or made a deliberate move to separate his public image from his clean-cut past.

He was also very good in the music video for Elastic Heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZGAExj-es

[rmc28]

Don't forget starring in Transformers and sequels!

[andrewducker]

I am trying very hard to do exactly that.

(I saw the first Live-Action Transformers movie. Skipped the rest.)

[rmc28]

I have watched all four of them with the young Transformers fan in the house, a parental duty I could have happily lived without.

[andrewducker]

I don't mind that they were very silly and made no sense.

I do mind that they took themselves so seriously.

Give me the animated Transformers any day of the week!

(Not that I've watched any of that in years. But hold a gun to my head and I'd rather have the version with Weird Al singing in it...)

[rmc28]

I found myself suffering from genre whiplash. Are we in an Epic Action Adventure or a Wacky Family Comedy? How does this director make explosions and big chase/fight scenes so dull?

The movies at least made enough money and opened the market for the animated Transformers: Prime, which I rather like. It has its own spinoff for 3-8 year olds, Transformers: Rescue Bots which both my children enjoy. It has a lot more idiot-ball-as-plot compared to Prime, and a designated Stupid Person In Authority, neither of which endear it to me. Both series have a gender balance issue, but they do actually have multiple female characters in them.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes, that too. Give me silly fun or serious grit. Don't give me both in the space of ten seconds. Or, at least, if you're going to do so, do it as well as Pixar or Disney can.

And yeah - I should not be bored by that many explosions.

I tracked down a few segments of Prime on YouTube. Looks pretty entertaining.

[rmc28]

Both Prime and Rescue Bots are on Netflix ....

[andrewducker]

Thank you :-)

I've got a fair amount of TV ahead of that in the queue - but when I run out of that, I'll take a look!

[andrewducker]

Also, I just lost twenty minutes to the Transformers Wiki. Eventually ending up here:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ruined_FOREVER

[rmc28]

That is some amazing singing, playing, dancing, ribbon trapeze ... in the service of a very silly song. I love how they are all going for it full-on anyway.

[movingfinger]

The only interesting thing I know about Shia Labeouf is that Harrison Ford called him "a fucking idiot" for trash-talking the Indiana Jones movie LaBeouf was allowed to make with him. Ford isn't mealy-mouthed these days, but I think someone has to be pretty bad for him to go off on them like that.