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Originally Posted by Sonic dB

the latest from Yahoo "News"

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/us-magazine-megan-fox-bay.html

Director: Megan Fox 'Says Some Very Ridiculous Things'by Us Magazine   

July 1, 2009 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.

"You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, 'Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it,'" he goes on.
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 thinks Fox could be a little more grateful, though.
"Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers," he says. "I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films."

I knew exactly who she was prior to the first Transformers (She had been on an episode of Two and a half men) - if he hadn't cast her as eye candy - someone else would have.

Originally Posted by stuartj

Mmmm. You guys are funny.

Its a kids movie. My kids (and me I suppose) grew up with Transfomers in the early 90s. I dont how many of those pointy plastic toys Ive trodden on in the middle of the night. We went to see the first film and we loved it. It was simply ace, we are hitting the cinema this weekend to no.2.

It aint Battleship Potemkin,Citizen Kane or Metropolis. Its Transformers its about 80ft robots that hide as trucks. My 12 yo sez Transformers rock and I completely agree.

Also, for the record. I have no problem with Megan Fox whatsoever. None.

For the record as well, I grew up on the transformers and I really enjoyed the first one. I did enjoy this one as well I just didn't feel it was put together nearly as well and I am someone who loves movies and tries to 'loose' myself in them. I don't try to be critical or think things are 'unbelieveable' - I love the fantastic and Transformers has all the fantastic you could possibly imagine.

Michael Bey just didn't do a good job on this movie, I feel that coming from a very forgiving guy like me - well, yeah. Still - I don't want my money back. It had some unbelievable stuff in it. I do stand by my statement that I think this one movie has two extremely good 2 hour movies in it - too bad for them I guess - they could have had even more of our money.

I can't believe I paid almost $10 for a coke and some popcorn willingly.