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Megan Fox Quotes • "I did watch the cartoon. I was a bigger 'Ninja Turtles' fan if I'm going to be honest. With Vanilla Ice in the second one. But I did watch the cartoon and I did like the cartoon. It was really entertaining. I remember when they would always come back from commercial break, they had the one animatic. I don't remember which Autobot it was but he was like a motorcycle and he would transform in midair into a robot." • "We spend an entire day shooting and kissing and it didn’t even make it into the movie, which makes me think he set that shit up." • On Michael Bay "Michael's great with me. I got really lucky. I don't know what I did in the beginning or what happened but he is really great with me. He's great with Shia and he yells. People always talk about oh, he yells but he's not like malicious or scary when he yells. He's always half joking. He says things that if you don't have thick skin might hurt your feelings but if you don't have thick skin, you should get out of this business anyway." • On Shia LaBeouf "He's a comedian, he's so funny. They brought me into the audition and it was like the sixth time I had been in so I had been going off script, rehearsing. They put me in there with him and he was going off on all these tangents. Mike wanted me to follow along with it which is difficult for me because that's not my area of expertise. Shia, the most difficult thing working with him is that he's so funny, it's really hard to play it straight, to play the straight man in the scenes with him. Mike actually gives me, he writes my lines for me moreso than he does for Shia because like I said, Shia's a comedian and I'm not. So I sort of have to stick to some sort of scripted material." • "I liked Starscream in the animated series. From this film, I would have to see Bumblebee. I know that's such a given but he's so heroic. I really like him. Megatron is really sick also, the artwork on this film is incredible and it's hard to pick but personality wise, I'd go with Bumblebee for this." • "My character's name is Mikaela. I'm essentially the Carly character from the cartoon. I'm Sam's love interest throughout the film and I sort of get sucked into all of the action and become a little bit of an action hero myself." • "Luckily, my character is a tough girl. She gets into some situations where Shia's character, Sam, has to help her. He doesn't really necessarily come to her aid and rescue her. She doesn't need to be rescued. She actually kicks a lot of ass." • "I'm pretty sure they wanted to cast an unknown. A lot of girls were blonde actually and I think the fact that I was dark haired played a part in it, the aesthetic of it. The other female lead is blonde and they had already cast her I think, so they wanted me to be opposite. And I just think Shia and I do have some sort of chemistry that worked well." • "We've done a lot of crazy stuff like that. For me personally, I had to break a window, an actual car window with safety glass and all of that. Mike, who likes everything very realistic, so I had to break it with a sledge hammer and then he wanted me to reach inside and open the car door so I'm scraping my arm across the glass to get in. and it wasn't high action, it was just actually like I had shards of glass sticking in my arm afterwards. It' real. So for me, that was probably the hairiest thing." • "The CG in this movie is incredible. Just that alone, I think is reason for anybody to go see it. But the love story. There's a really great kiss at the end. All girls like the kiss in 'Spider-Man' and all that s**t, so that'll be in here also. It's just a sick movie. Everybody's going to want to be a part of it because it's so big." • "I try not to pay attention to that at all. But this movie, it's going to be big for all of us. It's just impossible to actually avoid if you want to because there is such a huge fan base for the series already and then just the trailers and things that are coming out, they're like ominous, the things they're putting out. It just makes you need to see this film so people are going to see me in it and they're going to like it or they're going to hate it or they're going to be indifferent. I guess there's a lot of things they feel but I am going to be seen, so I'm sure my profile will be raised on some level." • "I do have dreams, like I never leave the set. I have dreams and I'm always dreaming about this movie. Sometimes it's me on set making this movie and sometimes it's me in the movie and I wake up and I feel ridiculous that I've had that dream, that I'm like all this stuff, the Energon Cube, I dreamed about that the other day. Because we spent all day filming where we're supposed to see the reveal of it, like 16 hours and then I went home and of course I dreamed about that all night, of the actual Energon Cube and how it did transform and all that stuff, I just feel totally retarded. I probably shouldn't say that word. That's going to be a big deal." • "For me, just the realization of how huge this movie is and how many people are going to see it. Because the script was on lockdown and you couldn't really read it the whole time I was auditioning for it, I wasn't aware how large my part actually is and how much I'm in this film and how much people are going to see of me. So that's what's nerve racking." Memorable Character Quotes • "No matter what happens, I'm really glad I got in that car with you." • "Oh God, you know what? Don't listen to him. He's just pissy because he has to get back to guarding the mall." • "I can't believe that I'm here right now." • "That was uh... that was really awesome." • "I'll drive, you shoot!" • "Remember those cars my dad used to teach me to fix? Well, they weren't always his." Critics Quotes "I saw the movie on the largest screen in our nearest multiplex. It was standing room only, and hundreds were turned away. Even the name of Hasbro, maker of the Transformers toys, was cheered during the titles, and the audience laughed and applauded and loved all the human parts and the opening comedy. But when the battle of the titans began, a curious thing happened. The theater fell dead silent. No cheers. No reaction whether Optimus Prime or Megatron was on top. No nothing. I looked around and saw only passive faces looking at the screen." "When Bay decelerates for the obligatory post-Matrix slo-mo showstoppers, the result is, well, show-stopping: corkscrewing fighter jets flower into automatons—leaf on leaf of deadly hardware snapping into place as they unload missiles or a hailstorm of bullets, then compact back to flight, zipping through the street upending a spectacular path of flaming vehicles in their wake. When graspable, the shit is off the hook, and there's enough to latch onto in the outrageously sustained finale to send you staggering out of the dark stammering, "Whoa..." "In the end; I enjoyed this jamboree of wow(s) and kaboom(s) even with its gaping screenplay flaws in tow. Lets face it, you can't get much better in the vacuous Pop-Corn fun department! Shia Lebeouf proved to be a likeable lead, Megan Fox’s belly (aka the 8Th marvel of the world) owned the scenery and the last half hour of the film whipped some serious ass in its outlandish bombardment of physical get downs. Hopefully Transformers will do well at the Box office and give way to a sequel; one that will sport a real script to back up its exquisite audio/visual goodies. Time will tell. Till then...Arrowheads! Transform and whore out!" |
