re: Shia LaBeouf... Why?

John Constantine — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:25:33 GMT

Holes was swell, girl giant. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Disturbia. Given, I was liberally indulging in scotch while watching it. But hey, if you're going to remake Rear Window, you could do worse.

re: Shia LaBeouf... Why?

girl_giant — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:56:01 GMT

speaking of digging deeper... i will say without shame that i freaking loved the movie "holes," in which he starred.

re: Shia LaBeouf... Why?

A. Campbell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:44:27 GMT

Sheesh. Ever hear of a show called Even Stevens? (Maybe you could have, I don't know, done a bit of googling and learned something.) The guy has face-recognition and is a known quantity to millions of pre-teens, teens, and post-teens who don't know Indiana Jones from Adam and never saw the Transformers cartoon. He's kind of goofy, attractive but not the kind of guy you wouldn't trust with your best girl— a combination that keeps audiences from being either threatened or bored by him. Directors like working with him, and he has a kind of aw-shucks thing that endears him (at least, until it starts to grate. Which could happen anytime, if he's not careful). He has something much more specific and endearing than the interchangeable Chad Michael Murrays, Jonathan Taylor Thomases and C. Thomas Howells.

Of course, what he's got now will have to give way to something else, as he ages and can't play the kid-in-over-his-head roles anymore. It's not the stardom of The Next Big Things that's the mystery, it's why/how some making the transition and some don't.

I'm no particular Shia fan, but he doesn't offend me and it's his moment, for now. He parlays it into a long, ambitious career (so long as he doesn't take a page from Kevin Spacey), and I'll likely be a fan.

You're just hatin' for hatin's sake. Dig a little deeper next time.