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Capone Chats With Shia LaBeouf Re: DISTURBIA, Talkbackers/'Flames on Optimus', INDIANA JONES, Evil Twins & David Morse's Hair!!
Hey, everyone. Capone in Chicago here with one of the most laugh-filled interviews I've had in a long time.
I kept trying my best to keep things professional by soon-to-be 21-year-old Shia LaBeouf kept daring to make our conversation fun, darn him. In our short time together, we cover a lot of ground because, well, the kid has a lot going on and he has since he was a wee lad. I first saw Shia when he was cast in the lead role of the "Project Greenlight" film THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS, and a couple times a year since then, he's popped up in a wide variety of roles playing both youngsters and young adults in films such as HOLES, THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, CONSTANTINE, I, ROBOT, BOBBY, and my personal favorite, last year's A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS. Our conversation happened in conjunction with his latest work, DISTURBIA (opening Friday), but we also managed to sneak in some discussion of TRANSFORMERS, SURF'S UP, and whether or not his status on INDIANA JONES 4 has changed at all.
As I was getting off the elevator, one of the film's representatives met me with an important question directly from Shia: "What is your alias on the site?" I told her, and she disappeared into the interview suite with the information. When I finally walked into the room, the first thing out of Shia's mouth was, "I can't believe you gave up the alias so easily." I didn't have the heart to tell him that I started giving out my real name years ago, but the fact that he even knew who I was was a nice compliment. Since Quint did a fairly extensive interview on the TRANSFORMERS set a while back, I figured he was familiar with AICN, and that's always useful. Anyway, Shia was great fun to talk to, is really energetic and excited about the future, and he's a pretty actor to boot. Enjoy...
Capone: How has DISTURBIA been playing with preview audiences so far?
Shia LaBeouf: We got an awesome reception at SXSW. Were you down there?
Capone: I wasn't, but I go down to Austin a couple of times a year, so I get to enjoy it. I’ll be going down again in the summer for Harry’s wedding.
SL: Harry’s getting married…No! Wow.
C: Go to his MySpace page, you can see the countdown.
SL: He’s got a marriage countdown?! [laughs]
C: He does indeed. Just last night, the Sci-Fi Channel played the “The X-Files” episode that you were on.
SL: Really?
C: Yeah. What do you remember about that experience?
SL: I remember that it was like my third job, ever in life.
C: How old were you?
SL: Oh, man, I was 11, maybe. It was great. “The X-Files” at that time was the biggest show on television. And, this was three weeks after the guy had died on set, and that was a big deal. So, there was this weird vibe on set. But it was fun to be around, you know? It sucks because the guy died, obviously, but it was still a really cool vibe--scary as hell. And, I think I had hepatitis in the episode, or something like that? They had these big yellow contacts. They would paint me yellow every day. I had never experienced anything like that.
C: I noticed in looking over your film roles in particular over the years, you really seem to have not repeated yourself. Every role is different than the one before or any of the ones before. Is that a deliberate effort on your part?
SL: That’s the goal. My favorite actors are always, you know…Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Gary Oldman, Tom Hanks even. And the only way to create longevity is to make it interesting for the audience. I don’t want to shit on any actors, but if you start looking like the romantic comedy types, you’re dead.
The minute you become a "type," it’s over. You just don’t want to become a "type" of actor, the comedy type or the dark type. So, the only way to stay away from that typing and that shoeboxing is to do something different every time. And, it’s hard, because at 20, how different can you get?
C: I was going to ask you that. When you’re younger, it’s got to be more difficult to find variety in the work.
SL: It is difficult.
C: I have to imagine you get calls to be in high school movies a few times a month.
SL: Oh, yeah, yeah. That’s poison. That’s the poison of it, and I could do that movie really quick, and make a lot of money doing it, and have a really nice house, and a really nice bed, and never be able to sleep because I’d be reading Talkbacks, and I’d want to kill myself, you know, I’d want to stab myself in the face. Even now, I read the Talkbacks and it’s, like, Argh-h-h, my God! The pressure’s insane.
And, it’s bullshit--any actor says he doesn’t read the Talkbacks is lying. And, I was talking to Quint about it, and Quint’s, like, “Aw, no man, don’t worry about it. Don’t read Talkbacks. Anything you read in Talkbacks is garbage. Don’t even read the Talkbacks.” [Talkbackers, he's all yours.]
C: For about the first three years I wrote for the site, it really upset me to read the Talkbacks.
SL: Yeah, it drives me fucking’ crazy. It drives me nuts.
C: And I made the mistake of responding to some of them. Then I’d go, No, I gotta stop. It only makes it worse if I respond. Now, I say you’ve done different things, but you’ve made two films in which robots are brutalizing humans, so is that going to be your new niche?
SL: No, no, no. For me, Isaac Asimov is big, but TRANSFORMERS is on a different level.
C: Oh, I know, they’re totally different. And, the other thing I’ve noticed about your career is that you’ve struck a really great balance between the bigger movies and the smaller-scale human dramas. And, I’d include things like DISTURBIA in that latter category. There are really only a handful of characters in that film. Even fewer than A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS from last year.
SL: …or BOBBY.
C: Exactly.
SL: Again, that’s part of the mixture. And, part of the Tom Hanks quality of a career. That’s the route, that’s the route, just to mix it up.
C: Are you going to continue that process? Always keep an eye out for the smaller films of substance?
SL: Always. I read everything. There are five or six actors in this business that always go for the same things. And, every different variable of it, like, Emile’s [Hirsch] doing the same thing now. Only this is the first time he’s doing something ‘big,’ you know? SPEED RACER is going to be nuts. And, he’s doing the same thing.
And, Joe Gordon-Levitt is going to start…I mean, that’s the way it goes—the ebb and flow of this. We’re all after the same films. They’re both great actors. It’s fun to have people in your age group that you respect, because it drives you. If there was nobody else, you’d be kind of lazy, you know, da-da-da-da [sings a lazy tune], ‘I’m okay,’ but there’s always that lack of…you know, there’s that insecurity, because they are so good that you start watching their shit, and you’re going, ‘Oh-h-h, man. Fuck, I got to bring it down…gotta go study up’. That’s great to have that around, or watch a Ryan Gosling do something that nobody’s ever done in this industry, the way he’s doing it, the amount of control he has. It’s amazing to have these type of people as your peers.
C: Yeah. Actually, when I interviewed Joseph, he mentioned Ryan Gosling, too, as someone just a little bit older, but as a real inspiration.
SL: But, even Joe. Gosling’s almost 10 years older than me. Joe’s about five or six years older than me. Me and Emile are probably the closest in age right now. And, Jamie Bell is another one who’s just, like, [mimics ‘shot out of a cannon’ sound effects]. BILLY ELLIOT is still one of the sickest movies I’ve seen, as far as performance goes.
And, there’s Michael Angarano, who’s doing that karate thing, that [still untitled] Jet Li-Jackie Chan thing. All of us got that call. Everyone gets that call. That’s the way this goes. Everyone gets the DISTURBIA call. Everyone gets that call. And so, it’s tough. Everybody’s got their thing going, but we all hear about everybody’s stuff.
C: Two years ago, I guess, when A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS was still making the festival circuit, and I interviewed [writer-director] Dito Montiel here. What a responsibility you had to not just work with a first-time writer/director, but playing the guy that is writing and directing.
SL: Right there, yeah. Me and Robert [Downey] both had a tough time with that. And, Dito is such a nut job, he’d start doing mannerisms in his everyday routine, because he knew we were studying him. So, things he wanted in the movie, he wouldn’t even tell us. He would just start…you know [he tugs at his pants as an example], you’d start seeing him do it all the time. He was a nut, that guy’s insane. But he didn’t want me for that movie. [He] hated the fact that I was a Disney Channel kid, and I’d go in and earn, so you always get that, too. It’s always reinvention, or people don’t accept you as a certain thing, or you start getting the same job over and over and over again. You can get really locked into that.
C: As a Disney Channel kid, do you feel you have to work twice as hard to overcome that?
SL: There’s a stigma. And, that was where I started, so I’m lucky and not, at the same time. It opened me up to a huge audience, but at the time, Disney was a shit channel. And, anybody who tells you different [pauses] is working for Disney. The Disney Channel at the time was, like, it wasn’t a good channel. It’s like the “Jet Jackson” [and] “The Jersey” days, and it hadn’t turned into what it is now, which is a huge…It’s like a monster now, with “High School Musical” taking over everything. This is all after the “Even Stevens” days--and that’s a big audience. So, SURF’S UP [an upcoming animated feature in which Shia voices the lead, a penguin who surfs] is aimed at that certain target audience.
C: Right, right. I was going to ask you about that, because most people are focusing so much on TRANSFORMERS they don’t even know that before that you’ve got an animated film coming out this summer as well.
SL: But, we’ve been working on that for about four years. It just so happens to be coming to fruition at the same as the rest of the explosion. But, again, it is a stigma. And, as an actor, it’s debilitating to work for a company that doesn’t allow you anything but this one tone and one-note performances. That sucks, you know. It’s hard, because you can do so much, yet you’re not allowed to. But, I can’t crap on it, because it was my beginning, that’s how I started. And, where you go with that is different for all of us.
Again, Gosling came from Disney. So, you look back at that career, and he took time away from it to be able to build his mystery. And now, he can do whatever he wants, whereas I didn’t really take much time. It went straight from Disney Channel to HOLES. There will come a time when I’ll have to take some time off.
C: I’d heard that you had gotten into Yale. Would going there be a part of the mystery building?
SL: I did. I got in, and I haven’t gone. I mean, I wanted to go, because it’s just insane. I don’t know if I can fit in there, what it would be, but when you pick colleges, why not go for the best? You'd be insane not to try. But, I don’t know, I don’t know. I haven’t been to New Haven. I don’t know what living there would be like. I haven’t really researched it. I just know that I sent an application, they sent me back a letter.
C: Well, congratulations! I do want to talk about DISTURBIA, but I have to ask one more thing, just because I’m practically legally bound to ask…The talk that has connected you with the next INDIANA JONES movie, you've said it many times before that it's rumor. Is that still the case?
SL: It’s a rumor, it’s a rumor. Yeah, I mean, I know what the rumor is, and I know where it started. And, I know who started it, and I know where it was started, and how it was started. This came from a dinner conversation after a screening of DISTURBIA, and somebody ran with something that was never said. And, then it went nuts. And, then when it hits your site, that is when the explosion happens. Then all the feedback started coming in. But, I still have not had the conversation with ‘the man’. So, at the end of the day, until I have that conversation, or have a contract in front of me, or have read a script, or have been told a character, it is a rumor. But, I’m perpetuating it. I love to keep it going.
C: You don’t want to look disinterested!
SL: No, no. I’m into it, believe me. Anybody would be. And, it’s better to be rumored to be in INDIANA JONES IV than KANGAROO JACK V. So, it’s not killing my career. It’s almost like a blessing, but it is a rumor. And, I’d be lying if I said anything but that, because you look at Cate Blanchett--her being cast in the film was announced.
C: Right. They are at the point now where they’re actually announcing new cast members.
SL: Right, they’re announcing people. So, if I’d been rumored all this time, and it was real, it wouldn’t be a rumor. It would be an announcement.
C: Well, good luck with that, either way.
SL: I’m going to keep perpetuating it, I’ll keep fueling it.
C: Just keep the schedule open. DISTURBIA is an interesting mix, a mix I’m not sure has ever been attempted--that sort of high school/John Hughes stuff mixed with the old-school Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery, a little bit of the suburban paranoia. What element of the script grabbed you first?
SL: It wasn’t the script that grabbed me first. It was D.J. [Caruso, director] and his film THE SALTON SEA.
C: Great movie.
SL: In my top 10. After that, it was the chance to talk to Spielberg once [the film is a Dreamworks production]. It was just that. And then it was the script. The original script had an evil twin in it, which was really not the way to go.
C: A twin for you?
SL: A twin. My character had an evil twin, the killer, and then it was just very…it was lame. It was really lame. It was B-movie lame, but bad B movie lame. We had three weeks before shooting, and we were in the ‘evil twin’ stage. And, then we had Carl [Ellsworth, screenwriter] come in, and he called D.J., and then Spielberg later on …and we started throwing stuff around.
Not that I was the writer, but someone said let’s just brainstorm for a while, let’s figure out character stuff. The fact that it was that…you were in, you were i the epicenter of the creation. I had never experienced that, like an actor. I had never been in that position, where your word meant something, where D.J. was asking, What do you think? I had never had that happen to me.
And, that was just in the meetings. But, I had to audition for it, because the part was already cast. They were three weeks away, and they already had their guy. That was the word: ‘We already have a contract. We got our dude. You’re not the guy, and that’s it.’ That’s what was told to me, but I didn’t care, because I didn’t have a job, and I wanted to work with D.J., so I went in, and they were casting the women at this point. But, they weren’t casting the guys. Guys were cast. The dude was cast.
But, it was the women’s audition, so they told me where they were casting the females, and I wrote my name down on the thing, and the casting director didn’t know who I was, and my name kind of sounds like a girl’s name--well, it could--so they called out, and I came up and walked right past the casting director, who was, like, ‘Uh-h-h-hh’, because they already had the guy, and they weren’t casting guys. And, I walked in, shut the door and said, ‘I’m going to audition for you now’ and then started reading, going with the flow. And, then I got the role. But before that, it wasn’t mine to even attempt.
C: I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of an evil twin instead of the David Morse character.
SL: That was the original idea.
C: Wow, that’s a radical departure from where it ended up, though.
SL: I think there was the David Morse character always built in, but there was an evil twin element to my character, which is just, [he pretends to gag]…didn’t make any sense.
C: David Morse has never been scarier. I guess we’ve seen him do sort of bad guy sometimes, but usually, he’s just this very gentle, big guy…
SL:…which is part of the fear of him. You don’t know if he’s playing…you don’t know, and because he’s got this baby face, and he’s a sweet-looking man, but he’s seven feet tall.
C: I blame the hair. His hair scared me a little, long and greasy.
SL: He does have some strange hair. Those are choices he makes. And even with the earring he wears, just small little details, where the hair is a bit overgrown, and there’s the earring. Those are choices that David made.
[We are given the two-minute warning.]
C: I should ask one TRANSFORMERS question. When Quint talked to you, you were in the middle of it. So, now you’re done making it. How did you survive? Did you have to take a month off and go to the islands, or were you energized? How did you fare? A little battered and bruised?
SL: It was an insane shoot, and Quint was there, and he saw how insane, and that was every day. But, again, you never experience anything like this--to see a functioning robot, you know…To see a bumblebee in person, as a fan, is nuts. To meet Colin [Fickes], you know, to meet him, to watch Mike [Bay, director] go through the editing. I took, I think, a week off and then went into press, went into promotion, then enduring ADR and a bunch of post-production for these three films. So, I really haven’t had time off, yet.
I still haven’t wound down from it. It’s still this insanity. It’s still this crazy…it’s still nuts, but I’ve had a chance to read scripts and take meetings and things like that. But, haven’t wound down off TRANSFORMERS. It’s aneurysm inducing. That’s how nuts it is. We went to get our MPAA rating. They didn’t want to give us an R. They said ‘You want to be PG13? You can’t have an R’.
C: Wait, were you going for R?
SL: No, we were going for PG13. But, they wouldn’t give us the R rating. They said it was too intense to release, and they said Mike had to cut it down. Of course, Mike’s not going to cut it down. And, we have Spielberg go fight the good fight and get our rating down, but it’s just an intense movie. It’s the type of movie where you watch, and you’re holding yourself and your heart’s going crazy to the point where it doesn’t feel right. It’s just nuts.
And, to have ILM say things like, ‘It’s the most ridiculous movie we've ever worked on. It’s the best graphics we’ve ever made.’ And, this is a company that’s been around. So, when you start getting feedback like that, and the excitement from…You read these Talk-backers, and they’re… ‘The flames, [yelling] THE FLAMES. Just the level of…the intricacies and the importance, it just makes it all feel like you worked on something important, really important, to the point where it’s beyond you. You’re part of something magical. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in it or not.
C: Just to be a part of the machine, literally?
SL: That’s it. Just to see Optimist Prime Transformer is enough to bring people in theaters. So, we’ll see where it goes. It’s been a fun ride so far, though.
C: I’m looking forward to it. I think the first time I saw you and remembered your name was watching the second season of “Project Greenlight,” and I’ve met the directors of the first and third ones.
SL: …the horror guy?
C: Right, John Gulager and Pete Jones, who’s from here. But, I had never met anyone from the SHAKER HEIGHT project. So, do you have any thoughts on that now? Was there something inherently wrong about the whole process?
SL: The problem was you’re making a movie, but all the importance and the priority is the show. The show’s crew is getting paid more than the movie’s crew. So, then, you’ve got that whole fuckin’ animosity going. Their craft service is better than ours, which is fucked. You steal cameras and start filming them. The crews just hated the other crews, so you had this crew war.
C: That’s the interesting reality show: "Crew Wars."
SL: Yeah, if you were filming that process, so that was weird. And, some things were, like, created: You’d show up and your set wouldn’t be there. That doesn’t happen on normal films…‘Oh, we had the church, but now we don’t have the church’, then ‘What do you mean, Chris, We don’t have the church. That’s not right. Are you kidding me?’ So, it was things like that that would happen just to perpetuate the drama of the show.
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Hey Shia, you should pull a Kevin Smith and confront some of these a**holes head on.
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So what's wrong with us punters voicing our opinions? Eh?
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Oh, he's going to PAAAAAAAY for that!
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PG was rigged, good interview Shia.
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Fuck!
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he admits he reads the talkbacks, the crazy kid. I think he was good in Holes, havent seen him in much else, not much he couldve done with the Con. sidekick role and the Irobot one was filler. Ill judge 'im on other things as i see em. i dont want any kid sidekick in indy, but we'll prob get one, if we do, please dont have him fighting adults like shortround.
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Seems like a nice enough guy. Down to earth and grounded. I've liked him in all that he's done. Too bad he fell into a big giant stinking vat of Michael Bay dog crap. I'm sure he's going to do his best in the movie, but Jesus Christ himself couldn't save it from Michael Bay. It's just a shame. Damn you Michael Bay, damn you straight to hell.
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Yeah, Constantine and I, Robot was completely different from each other. In one he was the cocky teenage sidekick that wanted some action, and then finally got to save the day at the end. And in the other one, he was... uhh...
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Louis Stevens in Transformers = Eyebrows and Flames on Optimus
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I hate those self-righteous first three questions of reciprocal ass kissing in aicn interview-chats.
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This kid seems cooler than a fan. I wish him luck and success.
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Either they get the AICN cock-suck done first, or they're responsible for Harry's next bath. What would you do?
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Wow, Capone. I didn't expect you to be so... blunt about it!
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I hate to say that, because I honestly wouldn't know Shia if I tripped over him, but in this interview he comes off like a mini tool.He talks about the changes he helped make to a script as if they saved the movie. I wonder if the writer's eyes rolled back in his skull when he realized the kid from Project Greenlight was calling his story crap and had basically been given free reign over it?Anyway, I still hold out hope that Transformers will be entertaining.
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Apr 09, 2007 11:27:15 AM CDT
Ah heres hoping Transformers is an R-rating in disguise
by godzillasushi
Ya'll do tend to rail on the guy endlessly when he's not all that bad...
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Was that a typo? You know, I hate myself for this, but Disturbia looks kind of cool.
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Loved it when he said "Flames... The Flames!" LOL
Optimus Fanboys should be ashamed of themselves. Way to call them out, Shia! -
Rear Window.
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But now it's... oh wait, yes, now it's Rear Window.
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I didn't know what to make of Shai. But I like this kid more and more evertime I read about him.
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Sometimes, it just need to be said.
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I'm surprised the lynch mobs haven't stormed the Orca yet... In my defense... I believe I was a bit more political and less absolute when speaking of talkback, but yeah. You guys know just as well as I do that there are certain people that try to dominate these boards with nothing but negativity. Sometimes it's warranted, of course, but there are a whole bunch of people who come in just say shitty things for no reason. Just sayin'... put the pitchforks down! I'm still young! I've never seen Paris!!!Oh yeah, and great interview Capone, as always.
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They're marketing the movie as a modern day Rear Window so they're at least acknowledgign the ripoff. To me it looks like a bad ass version of The Burbs, another RW ripoff, only not bogged down in brainless kiddy humor. Not that The Burbs doesn't have its moments. The zooming dog closeup, for instance, still makes tears run down my face from laughing when I see it. "I want to kill. Everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal.
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The complete lack of readily available beer is annoying, but other than that, you should see it if your serious Quint. tha tstands for all you guys. Go to Paris, get laid, experience life.
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Shia with binoculars will have to out-appeal Bart with binoculars.
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Damn you Even Stevens!
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...deserves to have success in his life. To actually think that he had far more problems on set than he would otherwise have, ...well, that just sucks. Give the talented man some credit. He made it through the Greenlight-bootcamp... so how about Hollywood show him some love? I'm interested in whatever flicks John Gulager directs. Too bad he didn't get an opportunity to make a fake trailer for GRINDHOUSE. But then, maybe there will be a GRINDHOUSE 2.
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I have always said that if I go to Paris, it'll be at the head of an invading army.
As for Disturbia, I don't mind them reimagining Rear Window with more modern trappings, and it's good to hear they're acknowledging it somewhat. I just hope they don't spend half the movie making references to RW. -
Apr 09, 2007 12:16:27 PM CDT
Speaking of Myspace Shia, which page is really yours?
by gibsonusa returns
It's like Attack of the Shia Clones on there lol.
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Turn in your geek card at the front desk.
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Is he the new Transformer that always has a positive outlook on everything, no matter the circumstance?
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Goes great with Mega-Pessimist!
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"Cum" see my new movie- "Die Hard-on With a Vaginance"!
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It's really really funny to look here and see all the people badmouth every single thing that comes down the line. Hollywood isn't perfect, but you still waste your money and time supporting something you supposedly "hate" so very much. Seriously if you hate it that bad, go and make your own movie so then we can come and tell you how much you suck and you screwed up your own vision. Nice interview Quint
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sorry.
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Invading army? Have something against the French or Parisians? This country does owe its independence to them in no small part. Please don't tell me you eat Freedom Fries dude. As for reports of French rudeness all I can tell you is that I found Parisians quite pleasant, although one can't judge a whole country by its capital. Londoners, on the other hand, are all a bunch of fucking anal-retentive self-righteous fucks.
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Freedom Fries! hahahahaha liberty cabbage. I hate being an american
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Billy Pilgrim!Sorry, I know that wasn't very funny. Shia seems cool though. Good on ya, Shia.
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"Hey fellas! I'm super-sorry about this whole fracas we seem to have involved you in, but i bet you a hoot and a holler we can sort this out with a proper apology in no time! What a great day to be a hunk of metal!"
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i'm dumb
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Too bad you couldn't get THAT quote again when describing the action. Like WHOAH!Good chat with the guy though. I'm still on the fence about this dude. Maybe Disturbia will prett good ....
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I hated the French long before it became trendy to do so. Once everyone else jumped on the bandwagon I jumped off, because everyone knows that if something is popular it can't be good. (You like that? I've been working on my faux elitist posting style) Now I feel kind of bad for the French.
Still, I can't turn my back on a promise I made over 15 years ago. To make you feel better, I'll grab London as well. -
Apr 09, 2007 12:42:52 PM CDT
"Optimist Prime" and "Lebouf is a pretty actor"
by judge dredds dirty undies
Great work Capone!
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nuff said
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to eat but he was too venomy
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Robots in "da guys" Sorry everyone.
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start a fuckin revolution
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That Harry predicted V for Vendetta would bring on. Any minute now ...
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VIVA LA REVOLUTIONE! Um, what are we revolting against again? I didn't want to start a revolution, but then I looked over at Kurt Russell, and, oh fuck, you get the idea......
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Women into Guys.....
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That's where all good revolutions start. I've been feeling restless all day. Like I want to blow up government property.
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Although, he sometimes comes off like he drinks waaaaaayyy too much Red Bull and espresso. Mixed maybe.And yes, the AICN Talkbacks are pretty much the Thunderdome of the Internet. You've got to prepare yourself for what you may find and go in knowing that you might never come back sane.Now, watch the TFer Haters Roll Call commence in 5...4...3...2...
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We'll come and drag your fat ass out of Burger King when the revolution begins. Remember, remember, Value meal #5.....
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There was a guy in the park by my dorm with a Guy Fawkes mask and a sign that said "Remember Remember." He was standing on the street corner for passing cars to see. It was cool.I really do want a revolution, that's the whole thing. I just told one of my professors I was an anarchist.
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That's nice, so he's going to keep an Indy IV rumor alive that had no basis in the first place. That makes a lot of sense. That'll really increase his chances of getting cast...
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change the channel on the tv
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anarchy is dead. It won't happen. Most so called "anarchists" just brood in their rooms listening to the Cramps and the Sex pistols, and talking about how much they loathe everything. But then when it comes to doing anything about it, they become apathetic pussies and decide to go hang out at the skate park. I don't want anarchy. I'd just like to live in a world where people didn't hate each other all the time
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you would want people to band together to start the revolution and thus creating a form of govt. amongst yourselves. It wouldn't work. Read Animal Farm sometime. You can't beat it, it's always going to be there. Wait, in ten years, after you are out of college, have a steady job in "communications", married with 2 kids. You'll be a republican who watches reruns of Friends while you sip your chai and read the New York Post
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The news that A-listers read TBs gladdens my heart.
Btw Jessica Alba, I'm really sorry for all the comments I made here that alluded to fucking you in the ass. If I'd known you were reading them, those comments would have been far more explicit. -
He does not
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Apr 09, 2007 1:42:57 PM CDT
FLAMES ON MOTHERFUCKING TB'ers ASSHOLES = INDY4!!!!!!!!
by performingmonkey
Kevin Smith is an idiot. He doesn't deserve to make movies. How does he dare suggest he was influenced by Jaws? I love thinking about actors, writers and directors reading the TBs and taking them to heart. They FUCKING SHOULD take them to heart. I don't know about anyone else but I mean EVERY - FUCKING - WORD I type here. If I think someone sucked in a movie I will type it, I won't lie. Bay gets the shit ripped out of him for good reason. TBers rule. Kevin Smith can go suck a fat, sweaty cock.
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He says 24's okay, but he likes Lost better.
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the mentally unstable hurling insults from behind a wall of anonymity? Who seriously cares what these people put on here? Some people are afraid of reading them - some film people read them and change their films accordingly???? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS????????? I despair.
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Worst. Title. Ever.
Remember when they made this movie before, and it was called THE BURBS, and it was not only a little creepy, but pretty darn funny, too? I recall seeing the extended trailer for Disturbia some time ago on HDNet; thinking back on it now, that trailer actually looked worse than the Sandra Bullock (i.e., shitty) version of Groundhog Day. -
c'mon dudes!
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Most, people, like myself, don't take this shit too seriously. Look at my chat handle, for example. I read, I post, I laugh, then I pull myself away, take a fucking shower, and get on with it...I'm glad that a fucking talkback doesn't ruin my fucking days, or control my every thought process...
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I just received a very nice phone call from the man credited with the story for DISTURBIA, co-screenwriter Christopher Landon, who wanted me to point out that the evil-twin plotline that Shia refers to in our talk was in fact an evil twin of the David Morse character and not Shia's character. For those of you have not seen the film (which I'm assuming is most of you), this may not mean much, but once you see it, you'll see how silly that plot device would have been. Also, Shia IS very pretty, and Optimist Prime is a character that Michael Bay allowed me to create because he liked my sunny outlook on life, motherfuckers!
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SUCKS FAT HEAD CHEESE FLAVORED DONKEY DICK! I can't believe this no-talent, overrated motherfucker has "fans"....
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But then I saw what Talkback did to the AVPII script and I realized that we are more powerful than the Sun.
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A shiny big daddy job at AICN, and the brass balls to call us motherfuckers? You, sir, can SUCK THY SCROTUM.....
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I'm not actually an anarchist, that's just what I told my teacher. And yes, it would be nice to live in a world where people didn't hate each other. Oddly enough, I'm majoring in "communications." It's journalism, though, which is pretty fucking stupid of me as I hate journalists and news organizations (Stewart and Colbert are exceptions).
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Cause I haven't heard that one in a while. Thankfully. Though it sort of applies to Shia La Even Stevens.
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Yes, my son, VIVA LA TAINT!
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Was that a typo Capone or is Shia just still "too nuts" and "crazed" over his experience on the production to correctly say the name of a main character???
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he's the jolliest Transformer around!
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Is an act of sadism. I dunno about anyone else but half my posts are a parody or playing up to the talkbacker stereotype.
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Egads, that's a horrifying visual....
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Does somebodys call upon my name?? La Taint will rise again!
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talking about Bay's Leatherface when you need him?
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Newt Gingrich's taint will be running for president...
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Personally I've never really found why this is supposed to be insulting? I've been proudly anally fucking Capone's mother for some time now. She even puts his cigar in my ass once in while. I like it well enough but she really gets off on smoking it while it's up there so I put up with it.
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a shitload of laughs. Other TF's he could mispronounce and never know it: Starstreamer: The whiny jet plane with colorful streamers runnning from the back of his wings! Soundswave: The robot who uses waves of his bucolic music to bore his enemies into submission Ironchaps: The tough-talking autobot with assless metal chaps! Bumbleberry: The small "cute" one (gag!) Boxcutter: The paramilitary vehicle that can slice and dice through any cardboard surface! Scorponockers: The desert-dwelling metal insect with giant breasts. (Shia's favorite)
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Newt Gingrich's taint tapped you on the shoulder, spun you around, and proceeded to skull fuck you....
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of this film can't even fucking pronounce the name correctly. Didn't he read the fucking script?
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and he want everyone here to know that he's never skullfucked anyone. But he IS willing to learn. VIVA LA TAINT!
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i think...
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He's the Beastmaster of skull fucking!
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are the only good journalists out there. At least they let you know when they are throwing us bullshit
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He can't be bothered with those kinds of details when he's looking for the next big actor to work with. "I heard that I get to face off against Megaton, the big bad guy, in the sequel! Yeah, Megaton, the leader of the bad guys. Nope, not dead. You ONLY think so. He sinks to the bottom of the ocean because he', like, so heavy and stuff. Whcih is probably why he is called Megaton. Hollywood is so wizard!"
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Newt the skull-fucker? Or as Shia would say, "Newt the SKILL-fuster!"
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that is all for now
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You did mean masochism.
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And she wants to know if Sean Connery has read the script for Indiana Jones IV yet.
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i can just feel the bad vibrations
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"Londoners, on the other hand, are all a bunch of fucking anal-retentive self-righteous fucks."
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Seems like a cool kid. My opinion of him has generally improved. Great interview.
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...Directed By Michael Bay Starring Shia Labeouf And Featurning Calista Flockhart As The Wacky Sidekick.....OF DOOM!!!!!!!!!
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But i suggest all of you to go out and find the movie "Freaked" asap. It's amazing. Stryofoam cup.
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hmmmm
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I'm always shocked when I read interviews with this kid, how honest and forthcoming he is. It's like he doesn't have a filter. Which isn't bad but I would think he's a publisist's nightmare. He definitly needs to take a break soon though before he suffers from too much over exposure. Three movies in one year is a tad much. It's nice to hear from someone in the industry though that these talkbacks do get read!!
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As well documented, most of my concerns have always been about the robot designs. I guess I'm just a Pessimist Prime.
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fresh and feeling dry
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Apr 09, 2007 2:46:13 PM CDT
Nerds like Kevin Smith cause he is so easy to cosplay.
by gibsonusa returns
No offense to the real Smith, but short boxy nerds too much love to dress up as him.
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Apr 09, 2007 2:49:24 PM CDT
Talkbacks are useful as long as they remain accessible
by gibsonusa returns
to the everyday reader.
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That was so cool of us
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Give me your handle, I'll kick your ass. :P
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I've seen loads of people die on X-Factor, but what was that story about a guy who died on the set of X-Files? Did I miss something?
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and he seems like a nice enough guy but he's not an actor that really commands the screen. Sort of like Fred Savage in a way... It's not like he doesn't have charisma, he's just a little... er... light. No gravitas. Not really someone that can put a page worth of dialog into his eyes or with a simple glance like Newman or Anthony Hopkins. I suppose that's a lot to ask for for a young pup though. Maybe when he's older and when he stops using "insane" and "nuts" a hundred times in an interview.
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Why'd he have to bring that up, that movie was NOT worthy of the name Asimov.
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Prime's flaming vagina?
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I like Optometrist Prime better--Not only can he kick Decepticon ass, he can also Lasik your eyes to perfection!
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Horrible, just horrible. The best part of Constantine is when his character dies. He can't really ruin Transformers but man if he's in INDY 4 I might just not see it because he is straight annoying. Disturbia looks not only like a remake of Rear Window but every piece of teen thriller garbage I've ever seen!
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Surprised SL didn't comment on "Damn you, Michael Bay".
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ZOMG!
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You know you want to...Or not, whatever.
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If not for the talkbacks, I have a feeling AICN would no longer exist. So don't bite the hand that feeds you (or do, and we'll bite back).
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in da butt.
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and I'm not saying this just because he referenced the Talkbacks....he WOULD make a pretty good Spike. Imagine him with the yellow construction helmet and the short sleeve collared shirt. It works. I do admit that the trailer for Disturbia was cringingly "teen"...especially the part where the girl teases kissing him and then falls back...that's cringingly late 90's Scream atmosphere.
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"Imus on Sharpton" do you mean to imply they got it on after the radio show? Because that WOULD be about as bad as flames on Optimus. And maybe even flaming nipples on Quint. That makes saying "I would love to see Imus squirm" take on an entirely new, "Brokeback"-ish meaning. Not that there's anything wrong with that, for those of you who like that kind of stuff.
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"You'll never run into a more wretched hide (sic), full of scum and villiany." Normally, I'd just assume this was somebody's typo, but a guy like you who's so keen on TINO, I'm not really sure that would be a correct assumption to make. Hey, I'm human and make a shitload of typos. Surely this was just a typo too, right?
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My baby sister used to watch "Even Stevens" and I sometimes would watch with her (you all did the same, you know it), and I didn't mind the kid then. In between "Stevens" and a "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints," he thoroughly annoyed me. There was something about him. He was arrogant. But "A Guide" increased his rep tenfolds in my mind. However, he needs to be sure not to overexpose. I could very easily see myself getting sick of him again.
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If a lot of these two-bit actors and directors don't take them to heart, then they're fucked. Yeah we can be quite cruel and harsh but I think a lot of these movies deserve it because of the lack of attention paid to what could have been a lot better (Transformers) movies. Remember, we might be mentally unstable assholes and whatnot, but we're here to help YOU make the BEST movie possible. And when you fuck it all up because you weren't paying attention, then that's your damn fault. Fuck Michael Bay. Never make a movie again, here's a word that you used that actually describes you Bay - dickwad.
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"we might be mentally unstable assholes and whatnot"
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EQUALS NIPPLES ON BATMAN! what am I talking about?
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"wretched HIDE?" wtf does that even mean? how about "HIVE"...please delete ur account and return ur nerd membership card and decoder ring
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Quote: "Now all I want to do is fuck Shia LeBeouf in the ass." -- You heard it here first, kids. BSB wants to "fuck Shia LeBeouf in the ass."
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What is it?
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after reading what BSB said? If he wasn't scarred by the talkbacks before, he surely will be now. Either that or he'll be highly aroused, in which case BSB may get his wish after all.
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Where does the line for for the Shia ass fucking?
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Will Ferrell flashed to mind...
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He called me up and we hung out at the mall, sitting in the food court, eating nachos and yelling at the hotties that would stroll past. I leaned over and asked him, "So, Cunt, er Quint, what is your real name." And he says in a small, meager voice..."My name? My name sir? My name is Frederick Von Douchebag Motherscratching Buttfucker the 3rd, thrice removed."
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Indeed. And as we all know, BSB is very anally fixated.
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...that would be a flippin' riot!!!
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Ganymede is Shia LeBof, will wonders never cease?
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fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfucfuckfuckfuck....oh, and you.......
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Never heard of that
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LET'S LIVEN THIS FUCKER UP!
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Apr 09, 2007 7:19:31 PM CDT
BSB ass-raping Shia = this years "Little Miss Sunshine"
by darthstallion
how's that for livening?
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and all that could have been...
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Think Harry should make a sex tape?
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You are soooo right.
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He told me he's very close to being cast in the Star Wars TV Show. George Lucas has seen an early cut of Michael Bay's masterpiece TRANSFORMERS and thought Shia was just brilliant in it. Shia says he's still working it and Luca$ will be over soon for a taint inspection...
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THE NEW SEX TAPE OF HARRY KNOWLES, SHIA, AND SPECIAL GUEST APEARANCE BY JANET RENO'S TAINT....ORDER NOW!
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Hilary Duff trying to be a serious singer/actor/real celebrity.
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And Poland...
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And I share this glorious day with Hef, Jenna Jameson, and Dennis Quaid. What a fucking party THAT would be!
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has officially died....*crickets chirping*
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It'll liven things up...
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We have mentioned BSB taking the Hershey Highway on Shia, Janet Reno's taint, Hef's b-day, and Yoko Ono. Somebody write the fucking script...we have box office magic happening here!
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The porno with Val Kilmer from several years ago?
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Count me in! It could be called Hershey Highway: Quest for the Golden Taint, and it would star Shia, Janet, and Yoko. It could be a buddy road movie when they travel together looking for Shia's talent, Janet's dick, and Yoko's vocal teacher. Harry could even write another one of his ass-kissing, dick sucking magical reviews, and we could film it in Austin to REAlly get his rocks off! Calling Michael Bay or Uwe Boll!
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...For Star Wars Episode VII - A New Great White Hopewill be based on the Harry Knowles, Janet Reno, Yoko, Shia Labeouf, Hugh Hefner, Jenna Jameson, and Ron Jeremy sex video. David Koepp is in talks to write the screenplay and Nicholas Cage will play the annoying cameraman who can't keep his free hand from touching the participants.
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Just like Grindhouse, complete with fake trailers...like Harry getting married? BULLSHIT
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HEF: This is one of the shittiest highways I've ever been on! Do you see anything on the road ahead?
JANET: Just hamsters...
YOKO: We could write a shitty song about it, and I could sing it.
HARRY: Is that rain up ahead?
HEF: No, it's BSB's taint. So in other words, no 'it'ain't'.
(Everyone laughs. Suddenly there are massive explosions. This is after all a Michael Bay movie)
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The Next Xanadu!
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I think Michael Bay probably took his childhood's virginity. Someone needs to send Chris Hansen to find Michael Bay on 747 to ask him what he is doing raping so many childhoods.
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To do a cameo as the evil zombie rapist of Shia Labeuf...
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Wanna know what Harry's bride looks like? Color me curious...
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Along with special guest director Uwe Boll
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...A hot asian girl..
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How do you know? Oh, wait, she's prolly a mail order bride and hasn't seen Harry yet. When she does, she'll be begging Woody Allen to adopt her....
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Isn't that like....marrying a CG character?
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What a choice...Harry or Woody.
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and OUT *end transmission*
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He tried to have me fired Shai ladouche doesn't have the time for that. Now gany I would believe. Its funny I actually thought this kid was going to be the next great actor but with every interview he looks like a bigger and bigger douchebag. He's like Tom cruise with a jewfro.
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What's the haps?Did PharteCowardPrime really try to have you fired???You know, he claimed to have gotten Man of Stool simultaneously banned and fired. (How, I don't know.) But it appears Man of Stool made some sort of comeback as he was posting again just a few weeks ago. Strange.
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About having my IP address from a email. little did he know it was from my house not work. Well here I sit working for the man still. I passed his little threat to US official branch. (harrassment of a GOVT. employee can be considered a act of terrorism I love the patriot act sometimes) So I haven't heard from I saw him post a couple times after that but his tone was alot milder.
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search your feelings you know them to be true.
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The Wizard
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Yeah, the IP addresses. I do remember that. He claimed that "they" (I guess Murphy & Co.?) were obtaining IP addresses and having them traced back to certain Talkbackers' places of employment. They were then trying to get people in trouble for posting at work or some shite. I think this is what he claimed to have done to Man of Stool because of his "pwns teh suk" comments.Pharte's tone seems to have gone from mild to all but vanished these days. Murphy appears to have gone strangely silent, too.
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Oi, oi, oi!Working class kids sing loud and clearShout out the truth no one wants to hear!
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Shia, Ben Affleck, John Heder must all have have the same agent. It amazes me that whenever Kevin Smith is onstage he is always talkin about sucking cock. The doors' wide open!
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on a nother note. I'll be glad when this movie fianlly comes out then I can get geeked about about movies I don't give a damn about. But "bad show" to Quint and capone What did they say about "biting the hand that feeds." I remember when the staff wasn't about being all self congratulatory, and tore Hollywood a new one for shoveling the same tired crap down our collective throats I just hope the vasectomy can be reversed.
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Sloppy seconds, How come this kid has not got any famous Poontang yet. I blame the Jewfro.
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I wonder what his ACT score was....
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Surfing Penguins! If I see another CGI movie about Anthropomorphic penguins I'm going to fucking scream!
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I kill me!!!
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one thing makes me beleive his is in fact DM or at least a moderator on his website. Joined the website (My subscription last all of one non-flamatory post hell I even had a differnt screen name) but I had my profile where you could not see my e-mail address but mr. PGP some how found a way to get my email address. after I had been banned. just something to make you go HUMMM.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:55:12 AM CDT
Can the MPAA really say "Your film is too intense...
by bendersshinyass
... you need to cut it" ??? I say good on Bay for refusing to 'cut down' his film for these dumb fuckers. And I praise Spielberg for his ability to walk in there frowning and come out smiling. Where were they when King kong was being released? Couldn't they say 'this film has too many useless sub-plots that go nowhere, you need to cut them". I look forward to Transformers so much - anyfilm that can be branded as to intense and anuyrism inducing sounds like a ticket seller to me!
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a movie based on a Toy franchise that Bay himself called a family movie in Pre-production would get a R rating. This is a marketing ploy to get Adults in the theater.
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You think your so smart....well face the wrath of the indifference of Generation Y, b*tch! You can sell us NOTHING!
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Jesus, BSB you anally-absorbed bastard! That shit made me laugh outloud and wake up my fiance. I dunno who ganymede2010 is, but that guy's got the biggest hard-on for TINO since the days Dickless Murphy and his stooges were posting in the TBs.
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I think Disturbia will be a good movie on the basis that Shia really is a believable teen in that kind of situation. Also, I think they did a great job casting him in his role in Transformers. Almost every iteration of TF has had that type of character and I think he'll do it justice. I really liked the interveiw as it showed an always down to earth Shia, ready to answer all of Capones questions. It's great to have actors that do these interveiws, and maybe, just maybe he'll do what the great Sly Stallone did, and provide us TBer's with our own Q & A...
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Of course they can, Bender. That's how PG-13 was created in the first place, when Parent Groups raised holy hell back in '84 and wanted to lynch the MPAA board because they HADN'T spoken up about "intensity" or warned people over INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, which many thought was way too violent for its PG rating (and which it only got because of the political clout of Lucas and Spielberg).Hence the birth of PG-13 by the MPAA to start a practice on their part of specifically rating films based ON a criteria of "too much intensity".Okay, Pop Quiz (boy, suddenly I feel like I'm in SPEED): Temple of Doom caused the creation of PG-13. Anyone remember what film was the first to actually be LABELED with it?
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I bagged on him in the past, back in an INDIANA JONES casting talkback, but in hindsight that was more my anger over the idea that they were going the cliched "kid route" with the new film (obviously to play to current teen audiences) versus just stickign to Indy, which I'd prefer to see. Then again, that only brings up my perpetual bitch that I STILL think they should even bag Harrison Ford and REBOOT the whole thing with a new actor and just do 3 new WWII era Indy films -- ala a CASINO ROYALE Bond reboot -- but that's another rant.As for Shia, he seems all right. I have to cut him some slack. Anyone honest enough to declare "I’m into it, believe me. Anybody would be. It’s better to be rumored to be in INDIANA JONES IV than KANGAROO JACK V" is showing a clear thinking mind. Not to mention that actually made me laugh!
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I think Red Dawn was one the 1st PG-13 movies
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And i'm proud of it.
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please enlighten me
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You do realise he is in his early 20's? That makes him older than most of you.
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Shia's a REAL winner.
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Then maybe I'd like his acting and bubble gum pop music. I think Most TF G1 fans are in ther late 20's to early 30's Shai I believe is 20.
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you think every talkback is about or directed at you. I thought you were one of don murphy's boys? Where is all your teen hate coming from, dude?
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fuck 'em and his flames
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I'm really famed voice-over actor, Peter Cullen. And I can't believe I made a movie with this fuckin' kid!
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you are both idiots? ;) hehe sorry couldn't resist
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I AM SHIA. BOW DOWN BEFORE THE POWER OF MY ANODYNE CHEESYNESS! I WAS GOOD IN CONSTANTINE AND I, ROBOT!IF YOU TALKBACK MISCREANTS KEEP BEING RUDE ABOUT MY UTTER LACK OF TALENT THEN I AM GOING TO CRY AND GET MY MOTHER TO COMPLAIN TO YOURS.what a tool.
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The last son of Bay kneeled and now you all will kneel!
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I'm a cocky little bitch that thinks I'm hot shit just because I'm Hollywood's it dork of the moment. Would you guys please give me some change when you see me on sunset Blvd. in 5 years turning tricks for heroin money? Thanks.
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I love Hollywood's whole "it" system. Hype up some, no talent, low end star, rush them into twenty movies, keep throwing them in the moviegoing publics' face, then *POOF*, where'd they go? Gretchen Mol? Alicia Silverstone? Adam Brody? Anyone?
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heh.With a bit of luck this will happen to the little turd- except with the added piquancy of some transvestite sex scandal.BTW I know everyone else has said this but Quint and Capone should be ashamed of that- aaaaw Capone, Did we make the wittle reviewer cry on the nasty intewnet? for thwee years?
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Woah. Don't be too obvious about how jealous you are of Shia, boys. Geez. If you're so fucking offended by Capone calling your contributions worthless, why the fuck aren't you taking them elsewhere? Oh, right... because you NEED AICN to feed those massive geek egos because when you complain on your blog, in between posts about how your cat is sick, no one cares. This is like Luigi calling the patrons of his Italian eatery "scum," Capone only considers you scum compared to Shia (and people who actually WORK in the industry). Yeah, you see how you're scum.
I'm being unduly harsh on you guys in my first post but I'm just ashamed that few of you will give this kid props for choosing Disturbia because of a love for The Salton Sea! He went to the girl's auditions to force his way in. How can you call him an entitled little bitch "it" boy after hearing that. Sounds to me like he's fighting for a good career.
I loved him in HOLES and A Guide~ and yes, he's pretty but that's not all he is. -
*quietly* sorry I meant to write Quint (which is where the quote came from) not Capone who merely printed what Shia said to him.
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Nah, I liked him. What ever happened to him? Last paparazi pic i saw he looked woeful. Oh and it was 'the flamingo kid' that technically got the first pg-13.
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nuff said
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"Wait'll they get a load of me..."
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I think I saw Shia a few weeks ago on Sunset Blvd. outside this auction place, right next to Coach and Horses. This was shortly after the Indy IV rumor ignited. Good luck to him on getting the Indy IV meeting. And good for Spielberg for meeting with the MPAA people to lower the Transformers rating to PG13. I'm sure just a few minutes for him to be in the room will be enough to suffice, so the raters can say they had Spielberg presenting them the PG13 case. They might even give him some arbitrary cuts to make just so they can say they did. Oh well.
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And I'm still waiting for my blowjob...
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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. We have ours, and you have yours. But, you know what they say, opinions are like assholes. YOU finish the rest, you little self-righteous cunt. AND THAT'S MY OPINION OF YOU,BIATCH!
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Mastashake is on his/her knees and waiting to juggle....
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And tame the cunt!
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nuff said...
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Shia could take us all.... from behind.
Shia to Optimist Prime: Why can't I quit you? -
RATED R FOR SCENES OF ACTION THAT'S, LIKE, WHOOSH!
LeBeouf comes across well, seems like a down-to-earth dude, but that won't be enough to save Transformers or Indy IV. -
Actors cuss for no reason. It must beef up the cool factor. That, and smoking and dating chicks who are ten or more years younger than they are. Or talking in the most retarded slang to come from this neck o' da woods, yo. Did you ever think you would hear the little kid from Even Stevens saying "fuck"? "Is mommy watching? No? Alright! FUCK FUCK FUCK....!" snicker snicker tee hee. "My career went WHOOSH down the mad crazy toilet, yo!"
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Starring Harrison Ford - featurning Shia Labeouf as the taint...
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LOL Even ILM agrees the film sucks, and that it's only saving grace (if you can really use the word "saving") is the amount of detail put into those horrible designs.
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The guy talks like an agent/manager. You see him mapping out his career thinking 10 steps ahead.
It's not like he's focused on the characters, more about what are the right movies to do so he can be the next IT boy.
He should watch out though Hollywood is ruthless, you can only plan so much. -
to Ben Savage.
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She was reaching hotness
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Apr 10, 2007 8:21:39 PM CDT
Shia, no offense, but I think I you should go to Yale.
by orbots commander
I mean, showbiz success is fleeting at best. Go do a business degree or in whatever interests you and you'd have that much more options later in life.
Another thing, how do you even consider NOT going to Yale if you're accepted? If I was accepted to Yale University back when I was twenty, I'd throw a month long party. -
chicks who are ten years younger than him. That would just be wrong. Or make him kind of Bill Wyatt-like "eccentric". maybe she'll wear a strap-on and make Shia REALLY happy.
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I have to agree with Quint and capone (and Shia) regarding the majority of talkback content. Too many weasels try to make themselves more 'gansta' by telling somebody famous where to go get bent. To these dullards, that kind of thing makes them important, powerful, and famous. "Dude, I totally just told Sly Stallone to pound sand!" - cue the ooohs and aaahs of envy and fandemonium.
Sadly, these folks are living in a bubble universe and fail to realize that by and large, their fellow man sees through their stupid internet games, and can see them for the losers they are.
In other news, I think Shia is one of the most under-rated actors to arrive within the past handful of years. He's got an engaging quality to his personality, an enthusiasm for entertaining that hasn't really been seen for a long time. Maybe Doctor Pearle from Waiting For Guffman. He was all, "..the one thing I've come away from all this is that I have to entertain, and for me, for right now, my venue is Palm Beach.." Shia reminds me of that - I think he *gets* it. He realizes that the process of movie making, and the art of entertainment, is really what this business is all about - its not about celebrity and who is out partying with who; its about doing a crackerjack job of entertaining people - of making them happy to hand over ten bucks for a seat; to make them feel like they still got away with a bargain at twice the ticket price.
I've enjoyed watching his career evolve, and look forward to even better things. Just please stay away from the booze and the drugs. We dont want any more Rivers. -
because Hollywood is so determined to make him a star. In this age of globalism and diversity, why do we need yet another "talent" who is the umteenth version of the same old, same old? I know Spielberg is a tired old man who has run out of ideas, but couldn't he catch up with the 21st century?
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Kurt Russell also started out as a Disney Kid. Last time I checked, he turned out well.
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I speak for all of us "losers" when I say GO FUCK YOURSELF DICKWEED!
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"...kiss my ass.... metal dick!" (seriously though, dont fuck Indy up dude, all the best and everything, but you got a lot of responsibility, keep that in mind. Best of luck if you get the role).
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The problem is not entirely with talkbackers. Talkbackers, like myself, get extremely pissed off when we see people who gush over a certain actor, actress, or director when sitting down for an interview and then completely pan their movie when it comes out.
Also, to completely bash the talkbackers is ridiculous. If it weren't for the talkbackers, there would be no AICN. And if they don't like the talkbackers or think that what we say is crap/rubbish/has no bearing or merit whatsoever, then disable the talkback forms. But they won't, because they know that the talkbacks make and can break this site. -
and I looked across and saw Kurt Russell laughing, so I knew he was good.
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anybody who took offense to obviously missed the point, or has never seen Waiting for Guffman.
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anybody who took offense [to my post above] yada yada...
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I really do. I cannot stand him in movies..he's always the obnoxious brat.
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From this interview, I think Shia has a good head over his shoulder. He keeps it real & got his priorities straightened out. He knows what he wants & he does an awesome job at what he does.
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I must say, Shia, I was shocked of the Yale invite. You seem very arrogant, thus, a fellow classmate? Please.
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