Superman vs. Lex Luthor. Buckaroo Banzai vs. Emilio Lizardo. Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam. When stunning intellects do battle, woe betide all who stand in their way.
And now, a new chapter begins in the history of intellectual combat:
Megan Fox slammed Transformers director Michael Bay for focusing more on special effects than acting, but he doesn’t mind.
“Well, that’s Megan Fox for you,” Bay tell the Wall Street Journal. “She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do…”
Fox told Entertainment Weekly: “I mean, I can’t s— on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s a–. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting…”
Bay says he “100 percent disagrees” with Fox. “Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers — and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from Bad Boys,” he points out.
Bay is truly a student of Hollywood history. Nobody had ever heard of Nicolas Cage or his Oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas before Bay discovered him, and Will Smith was merely a Grammy-winning rapper and star of a hit TV show before Bay did him a favor. Ben Affleck? Another Oscar-winner? Big deal! Without Bay, that Oscar wouldn’t do squat against an asteroid or meteor or whatever they blew up in that one movie. (Asteroid, right? I think?)
Anyway, Michael Bay certainly doesn’t say very ridiculous things.
Now that he has truly bested Megan Fox at mind fu, maybe he can take on more seasoned intellect, a real heavyweight. Someone like Cameron Diaz, perhaps, or our old pal Gwyneth. Or maybe he’ll just spend lots of the money he’s made from his dopey clang-clang-splode robot movies. Yeah, I’m guessing he’ll do that.
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Acting? Does Megan think she can act? Does she think anyone goes to her movies to watch her try to act? Judging by the plethora of men’s magazines that she’s done vs. the number of acting roles, I think she would have figure out by now that she’s viewed as nothing more than a body. At least that’s how she’s selling herself – something to look at, but lacking in substance. Kind of like a Michael Bay movie.
Megan wins the battle because people will pay to watch Megan’s brains but not Michael Bay’s. If by brains you mean boobs. And by battle you mean flashing.
Why doesn’t she slam all her other movie choices? From her filmography, it doesn’t appear she has much more than a nice rack… unless I missed the Oscar nom for Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
Old saying: “If brains were gunpowder, these two couldn’t blow their noses.”
Yeah, they’re both a few gears short of an Autobot.
That wording seems weird. Perhaps he meant that plenty of good actors have stared in shoot ‘em up films, so acting can be done in any film? Though, if she was expecting Transformers to be some big emoting drama, she’s even dumber than she has already shown herself to be.
Whenever I read about an actor complaining about how a director “wouldn’t let me act”, I always shake my head. If you are really a good actor, that should come across regardless. Maybe you just can’t do anything other than pose provocatively, Megan.
I’m gonna try and catch Transformers tommorow in IMAX because Megan Fox’s acting chops should be readily apparent three stories high.
So I wonder-is Megan a furbearing fox or what?
i’d rather chew my own hand off that see that transformers crap and i find this chick so annoying. just don’t open your mouth. EVER.
I find her so annoying too!
Although they both sound ridiculous I’m leaning more to Bay’s side. At least he seems to be aware that his films are ludicrous trash. Doesn’t seem like the same can be said for Ms Fox.
Megan and Mike only represent their own egos. Megan is about as pleasant as the drool I dribble on myself when I nap. Mike may have created a box office hit but every review I have read told me the movie is a piece of horse stool. Given that the 4th of July is tomorrow and I have friends and family in Afghanistan and Iraq, I think we all should focus on our troops who keep us free rather than listening to these two blithering idiots who have no concept of any reality other than touching augmented body parts while standing naked in front of a mirror as they tell themselves “I’m beautiful.”
Meh- Mike is saying that he took Cage, Smith and the others and made them action heroes. Roles that others maybe didn’t see possible for those actors. He clearly worded it wrong though.
Fox is a casting couch away from dancing at the local gentlemen’s club.
In another year,maybe she can stretch it to two, she will be off the radar and no one will listen to a thing she says. Work those 15 minutes girl.
Megan Fox’s remarks that she rarely remembers to flush toilets, even at OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES OH MY SWEET REFRESHING LORD, told me all I needed to know about her tiny little EasyBake mind. I can’t look at her photo without thinking “Poo Avenger”. HAAAAAAAAATE.
Michael Bay, OTOH…well, there’s a really funny article over on Cracked.com (no, I don’t work for them) about MB’s storyboards for his production of “The Great Gatsby”. With little ’splosions. Hee.
I would like to say my comment in Michael Bay’s native language.
BOOM! BOOM! BANG! BOOM! BOOB! BOOB! BANG! EXPLOSION! AWESOME! BOOB! BANG! LENS FLARE!!!!
That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool…
-Daisy Buchanan
Don’t forget the dialogue of “The Transformers” Irish, “SHWING! SWISH! CLANG! CLANK! SHWING! CLANK!”
Pin, you might want to reconsider seeing it at IMAX, I saw it on a regular screen in the 8th row and got nauseus from all the nonstop close-up blinding movement. Might have been due to the pain pill that I had to take for my back before the show though.
She looks like a brunette Jessica Rabbit…not that there’s anything wrong with that…
The Irish, I love you. That made me larf right out loud.
Despite the fact that she might as well have ‘SKANK’ tattooed on her forehead, Megan Fox’s one redeeming quality is her ability to poke fun at herself, as well as the absurdity of Hollywood and the media.
Check out Fox’s brief interview on CBS’ morning show last week. Harry Smith can barely keep himself from drooling over her, but she handles things pretty well.
http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_early_show/video.php?cid=The%20Early%20Show&pid=LeavHsHYVMT7dYMeaWhxqgCb79MV1HSG&show=all&offset=3&play=true
Jannah
Well I found out I’m not like one of those Japanese kids that gets seizures but I did feel some vertigo during a camera death spiral lol.
I liked Transformers. I got the impression from Victoria Jackson and Deb Schussel that it was gonna be like Eddie Murphy or George Carlin but the language really wasn’t too bad.
The movie was two and a half hours long and hardly anyone got up to use the restroom. I guess if you order your tickets online they come with a free Foley Catheter!
There was a scene involving an aircraft carrier that made me sad and hope it’s not where our nation is headed but aside from that it was good escapist fun.
And Megan Fox is hot. And she can act a bit.
“She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do…”
I’ve thought the exact same thing about her every time she’s opened her mouth…except this time. Can’t he just admit that he makes silly movies with big ASSPLOSIONS instead of trying to be so serious?
California Dave is right. She is channeling a brunette Jessica Rabbit there.
http://www.mannythemovieguy.com/images/jessica_rabbit_sexiest_cartoon.jpg
BAYSPLOSIONS!!!!
Honestly, is there any other reason to watch Bayformers: Product Placement in Disguise?
She shouldn’t be complaining…I doubt anyone will ever see her as a “serious” actress, but Michael Bay…please don’t ever attempt character development ever again. It makes me physically uncomfortable. Stick to what you’re good at.
“Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers — and then he exploded.”
There’s irony in there somewhere.
Anyway, Fox and Bay deserve each other. Bay, just keep making your shitty, mindless explosiflicks, ’cause that’s obviously getting you the paycheques. And Fox, just keep doing your one-trick-pony act — or rather, three-trick-pony act: smiling, screaming, and bending over — ’cause it’s obviously working for you. You’re both ridiculous and focus more on special effects than acting. Just get Transformers 3 over and done with and put it out of its misery so I don’t have to hear about these shitty movies anymore.
Why the implication that Bay is not intelligent? Sure, he doesn’t make high-brow, intellectual films, but that doesn’t mean he’s not bright. He clearly is. You’d have to be, to successfully helm multiple, mega-budget films.
Megan Fox, on the other hand, is clearly dumb as a house plant.
Let me say, I’d hit it multiple times, and I even let her “act” like she liked it!
Oh.
Bay RUINED Nicolas Cage. A talented actor reduced to….Ghost Rider. National Treasure 2. I just threw up in my mouth a little.
If only Cage had continued in the vein of Leaving Las Vegas. For that matter, HONEYMOON in Vegas is still one of my favorites. If you watch those, you won’t believe what he’s become.
As for Transformers – who designed those robots? Does each square inch of the robot have to have 400,000 moving parts, so it ends up looking like a big pile of rubble in a robot shape?
Aside from color, it is difficult to tell the robots apart.
I’ve never seen a Michael Bay movie.
@JasonM: I haven’t liked Cage in anything since “Raising Arizona”. That “Wicker Man” thing alone earned him a kneecapping.
1. Nicolas Cage abused and destroyed my favorite short story (Philip K. Dick’s “The Golden Man”) with the most hideous cinematic abomination known to man (“Next”).
2. Shia needs to go away immediately.
3. There’s nothing wrong with EXPLOSIONS AND GIANT ROBOTS, but don’t ever pretend the movie’s about acting. Ever.
4. Since Megan Fox’s boobs are all over the Transformers movie, I demand that the hot soldiers take off their clothes as well.
Isn’t Cage a Scientologist now? Coincidence?