Did Spike Lee Make a Tear Jerker?
Maybe! Also, as with Fight Club, the movie adaptation of Choke is better than the book.
I didn’t catch Eagle Eye, but Chris Orr did, and he’s got the week’s best opener:
If one were to take the typewriters away from Borel’s million monkeys and instead equip them with a film editing machine and copies of Enemy of the State, The Game, Live Free or Die Hard, WarGames, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, and Wall-E how long would it take them to produce Eagle Eye? A week? A day?
On a related note, I was discussing the widespread rabid hatred of Shia LeBeouf, whose name I can never spell without help, with a friend the other day. We agreed that it’s kind of nonsensical. As far as I can tell, LeBeouf is a reasonably entertaining, reasonably capable young leading man with an easy, endlessly shtick that will probably earn him 9 figures before he’s 40. This isn’t anything to celebrate, but I don’t really understand the venom that’s sometimes directed his way.
I wouldn’t describe my feelings towards the guy as “rabid hatred.” But I don’t like him as an actor, for reasons that I think are pretty straightforward:
1) Whether it reflects his real-life personality or not, from his screen persona he seems like a too-cool-for-school smart ass. It’s not an appealing personality type.
2) Despite the above, he can sometimes be well-cast, like he was in Disturbia. But there seems to be some kind of Hollywood conspiracy to turn him into a leading man when that’s not what he is. Not only is he not a leading man, he’s not a man, period—he looks and acts like a high school senior. He should be working his way through the kind of roles John Cusack was taking 20 years ago, not saving the world from aliens and/or giant robots.
3) He has an annoying first name.
4) He has an annoying last name.
5) He has an annoying middle name (seriously—look it up).
— Charlie · Sep 28, 04:51 AM · #