Let’s go to the “beautiful outside, ugly inside” file, shall we?
Megan Fox, the aptly named starlet who bedazzled us in “Transformers,” is out talking up the film’s sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”
Wow, the title’s as clunky as a Decepticon sans WD-40.
She told Total Film UK magazine how she might handle Megatron, the franchise’s eee-vil robot who wants to wipe out the earth:
“I’d barter with him and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”
Somewhere, a publicist is out there pulling every hair out of his/her head.
But does what Fox said matter to movie goers?
Will you re-consider supporting the film based on her ignorant comments? And would doing so only punish all the other hard-working folks who made the “Transformers” sequel possible - folks who never opened their big yaps wide enough to spew such hate?
It’s question that seems to keep coming up for movie lovers.
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The movie has been made, the people lower on the food chain have already been paid, so a boycott wouldn’t hurt them. However I also don’t think a boycott in this case would make a difference one way or the other.
I may rent the film later on but Idoubt it, because of her remarks ,I didn’t like the first one anyway and the male star from the film, La La LaBoof, irritates the hell out of me.
If someone doesn’t want to see the film because of her remarks, or any of her work, you have to just to chuck it up to it being a matter of principle.
The cynic in me thinks it’s very possible the remark was deliberate to gain some free publicity for the film. When was the last time insulting religious people or people in flyover country hurt someone’s career or film?
I usually can’t see a film with a controversial and outspoken leftist star because it takes me out of the movie. I’ll make an exception in this case because her part is more “interesting scenery” than character. That and the fact that the main requirement to enjoy a Michael Bay movie is the ability to turn off the higher thinking functions.
No, but uTorrent would.
It won’t affect the sales. She’s a glorified extra in the movie. I probably wouldn’t see a Sean Penn movie because he’s always the star and has said things (not to mention his trips to see Chavez) that make me despise him enough to take a pass on his films. What Fox said is sad (especially since she’s from Tennessee), but doesn’t rise to the level of me changing my viewing habits.
Letterman, on the other hand, has convinced me I don’t need to turn on CBS under any circumstances. There are some lines you simply do not cross.
I dig you on Dennis Miller’s show, Christian. You guys have to figure out a way to hook up more during the summer. Lots of films to consider this year (and some we’ll need to desperately avoid).
I will see it because, as K said, “the main requirement to enjoy a Michael Bay movie is the ability to turn off the higher thinking functions.”
But I have already been avoiding her non-TRANSFORMERS roles, not because of her views, but because of her acting (or lack thereof).
Beautiful and stupid. You never see that in Hollywood.
And just in case you’re reading this Megan, that’s sarcasm. Google it.
I’m sorry, but her blank stare turns me off. Her head looks hollow.
I made it halfway through the first Transformers movie, so originally I was going to skip the sequel. Now, after reading Megan Fox’s comment, I’m going to skip it twice.
She’s racist. If she said “can you just take out all of the brown trash, anti-gay, super Koran-beating people in Africa and Asia?” it would have outed her as a racist with nothing to hide behind.
I had been looking forward to taking my son to this movie, not so much now. I will probably try to hold out for rental or catch it on cable at this point.
I’m boycotting the movie because the first one was boring and because while a Transformers movie should have been the ultimate family fare, it was packed with jokes rejected from Apatow scripts.
Ugh, once again, Hollywierd myopia claims (or found) yet another skin-deep blame America firster whose initial reaction is to “take out” large sectors of fellow Americans she disagrees with — ha! ha? — never a reaction with venom against the fanatic Muslims and countless other groups that would truly enjoy seeing her country decimated.
- Former Fan
I realize this means nothing to the producers or the bottom line but although we had been looking forward to seeing T2, and I was even considering buyingt he T1 Bluray disc to refamiliarize myself with the original, after reading Megan Fox’s rant I definately won’t support her or that franchise with another penny. I will never see another film Fox appears in.
Megan Fox has a VILE MOUTH. There are billions of women on planet earth that are prettier than Megan Fox. The movie Transformers is not about Megan Fox and she is NOT the source of the interest in the story. Megan Fox is yet another over-rated narcissist. To use the words of her narcissist friends, Megan Fox can “suck it”.
“Somewhere, a publicist is out there pulling every hair out of his/her head.”
C’mon Christian, the truth is somewhere, a publicist is hoping those remarks get her the lead in a film that could get her a nod come awards season.
I do not think her remarks will hurt the film. Most people will have no idea she made them. Fox is just a flake who thinks she can “shock” people. She is as cliched as it gets.
Her comments that people should not care about the story are equally annoying.
The easiest way to punish Hollywood while still seeing a movie that you want to see on the big screen is to simply wait 3-4 weeks to see it. Most movie distribution deals are structured so that the percentage of the box office that goes to the studio starts out very high (it can be 90%) and then drops off as the movie has been out for several weeks (down to, say, 50%) so if you wait to see a movie, you reduce the percentage that goes to Hollywood and keep a bigger percentage at your local theater.
Megan Fox will soon learn that hot is temporary but dumb is forever
Couldn’t wait to see it, NOW YOU COULDN’T PAY ME TO WATCH IT. I will not support hate in any form.
So by, “Middle America”, does she mean Central America? Do they have any white trash?
Or is she too clueless to refer to the intended region as Central US? I don’t think I’ve ever heard the Central US being accused of such things.
What a waste of body.
Wow I can’t believe any one would waste the brain cells that are destroyed arguing about anything that comes out of this girls mouth. See it or don’t see it, but to make your decision based simply on what miss tits and ass has to say is a little silly. Would you decide to pass on reading Crime and Punishment based on the cliff notes written by this girl.
I’ll see this one because I really liked the first one. The effects were cool, Optimus Prime was excellent, the movie treats the military with respect, and for crying out loud Micheal Bey knows how to blow stuff up.
I think us conservatives have to stop being so hypersensitive. We whine almost as much as this silly girl, but at least she has the fall back position of being totally and completly stupid, what is your excuse?
Lets see, she is white and obviously trashy herself, from Tennessee so possibly a hillbilly, if she had any class at all, she is admittedly bisexual or trisexual or whatever so it would appear she may have some internal conflicts. If she would read the bible and learn some manners she might be able to sound somewhat legitimate. Pretty face on the outside, ugly heart on the inside.
Dimitrios - I agree to a point. The modern media game involves taking a person’s hateful comment and blowing it up out of all proportion. Since we can’t change that game, I thought it was important to show hate from another perspective - the Left’s version of it.
Her comments won’t stop me from seeing the movie … but it will be a deal killer for some, and it may also impact how I view her as an audience member.
The best actors, like Sean Penn, are so good at what they do that you forget the hate they spew. Can we say the same about Miss Fox?
And thanks for everyone for sharing their thoughts here - greatly appreciated.
Awwwww shucks,give her a break y’all.That damn botox has seeped into her pea brain,and she just wasn’t thinkin straight.Listen,if Megatron took out all the white trash in America,well,she wouldn’t be here,I don’t think she thought it through yet.
Seriously,it’s really hard to take someone seriously,when they have grade school acting skills,and resembles a cheap,skanky,tranny on the cover of a Liquor Store smut mag(not that I’d know what that looks like) Michael Bay has been shamelessly big pimpin this chick to promote this movie.He looks like an 80’s smut peddler,showing up with her at his side at damn near every award show,like she’s his personal whore.But you gotta give it to him,the guy has literally taken a kids’ toy,turned it into a blockbuster movie,and he’s using sex to sell it,genious!!!
Poor Shia,he’s the real actor,and should be the main star,but he’s not even the big draw for this movie,sadly and shamefully,it’s Megan”botox” Fox.
I once heard a movie critic say: “Megan Fox is beautiful,until she opens her mouth”. Truer words were never spoken.
Once this franchise disappears (and I have a feeling it might be after this installment) so goes Ms. Fox. Her blockbuster career will be side-saddled into “dignified” nude appearances in indie leftovers or straight-to-DVD offerings. She’s not much of an actress, just like the thousands of other hot tail in Hollywood. Highly replaceable.
I’m personally going to fewer and fewer movies because of actors doing this very thing. When I go to a movie I want to get into it and enjoy it. If I went to see this movie everytime Fox was on the screen I would be thinking she should have kept her mouth shut because I don’t like her as a person now. No… I will not be going to see this movie.
I enjoyed the first but will now skip the second, solely because of her statement. I vote with my dollars. She’s entitled to her opinion. I’m entitled to withhold my support.
As for this fly-over-state hillbilly, I won’t be watching that shallow, overpaid, devil worshiping, elitist, shy of a street walking wh***, made it to the big time on her back drama queens movie…sorry.
PS: and where did she buy those LIPS!!!
I see some conservatives saying to not take it seriously and they will go see it. This only funds the elitist of Hollywood who financiallt support the rabid liberal politicians that seem to want to do everything to suppress and eventually remove the freedoms of middle America. So go ahead and justify your weakness to enjoy an hour and a half of entertainment that funds everything most conservative disagree with. I was going to see it but I’ll send that 40.00 to a conservative candidate that is running against Barney Franks
THAT is what you are all freaking out over? Seriously? I think I may have said something similar after Kris Allen won American Idol. Just like you are allowed to spread rumors about Obama being the anti-christ, Megan Fox is allowed to speak her mind about people she doesn’t necessarily agree with. Come on middle America.. that’s 98% of everyone in Hollywood for you! Believe it or not, you cannot control everything.. especially not the multi-billion dollar franchise that is ‘Transformers’. Boycotting a movie is like vegetarianism: pointless. It’s not going to stop anything from dying. I doubt Megan, or anyone else, gives a [expletive] if you see it or not.
Who’s doing what now?
And we’re allowed to criticize her for saying it. That’s how free speech works.
I understand that most of the hollywood “stars” have very low intelligence, but come on, Megan, don’t you know who goes to see your crappy movies? It is the middle american white trash like me . I for one don’t care if you are an ignorant moron, when people like you and that other idiot Jessica Alba sprew hate towards other Americans I will not support your lucky lifestyle. Remember, looks fade, dumb is forever. Look at Janice Dickerson, I rest my case.
“Boycott won’t work”…It’s complacency like that that lets the world slip into fascism.
I’m going to boycott them and do becuase I am an American and it is my small thing that makes me feel like I can make a difference and if millions of of did just that it WOULD make a difference on the bottom line of the Hollywood elite.
Her comments are stupid, from a monetary point of view, but there are a bunch of very ignorant, white trash, bible-beating people in middle america that the country and world would be much better without.
I think the world would be a better place without Gamma. Gamma simply uses resources that would be better spent to fuel howler monkey mating sessions.
Vote with your dollars people, it is the ONLY thing the deviates in Hollywood will listen to.
Ask the Dixey Chicks…
“Gamma” It’s intolerance like yours that our country can do without! If it wasn’t for the Middle Americans you wouldn’t have the quality of life you now live… we grow the food on you table, in your fine restaurants and grocery stores. Be kind to the hand that supports you. With out us you would be getting your food from Russia, Venezuela or some other country, it would be a whole lot more expensive and lower quality.
As long as her wardrobe continues her slutty flight attendant look will anyone care what she says? (Oops. Someone already used that line. Did it get any laughs that time (either)?).
To quote Harry Tasker in “True Lies”:
“You’re damaged goods, lady!”
Is anyone surprised?
Her stare is blanker than a zombie’s. (She looks like she should be saying “brains . . . brains . . . “)
Her acting is horrific (combine it with the above blank stare).
And she clamed that when she was 18 she had Lesbian sex with a Russian Stripper.
The photo you showed, Toto, is perfect example of her blank stare. She looks ugly, to me, in the photo.
(and yes, I am a straight guy. Just one who prefers women substance -like Stanwyck)
LOL. Empty vessels make the most noise. But megan dear fly your kite while you can cause age will catch up with you soon. She’s young and hot until the next younger and hotter thing comes along.
Nope, not going to it. Megan fox is a joke! Looks aren’t everything.
I like all the haters on here. Personally I agree 100%. She is good looking, you really can’t argue with that.
I also like all the people calling her stupid when they don’t know how to spell… yes “Unominous” I am talking to you. Try a simple Anon next time and hope they don’t take offense.
Kit, does “Just one who prefers women substance” mean that you just like fat chicks?
Lay off it already. It is nice to have someone speak their ind instead of drone on being all PC all the time just to keep you idiots happy.
p.s. I saw the movie and it was great
Yeah, she’s an idiot, but the man who voices Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) is a supporter of the Republican Party and a decent man.
I wouldn’t concern myself with her comments, she is completely replaceable in the film.
Isn’t it hypocritical of you to call anyone who doesn’t share your conservative, narrowminded viewpoint “intolerant”?
Isn’t it hypocritical for you to judge me based on a blog post? I don’t ask anyone to share my conservative view point - just ask my liberal wife. And speaking of opening your mind, try doing just that to those who don’t fall directly into your ideological world view. Who knows … you might just learn a thing or two about politics … or, more likely, tolerance.
Your inability to see the hypocrisy in that statement has just caused an irony singularity. The very fabric of the universe is under threat. I hope you are satisfied!
Bro, I’m not judging you, I’m just making an observation. Critisizing someone because you don’t agree with their viewpoint is the definition of intolerant. And by the way, she never mentioned the word “conservative”. To assume that Megan Fox was referring to ALL concervatives when she said “white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people” is to insinuate that all Conservatives are “white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people”. As a person who considers himself conservative on most issues; abortion, capital punishment, gay marriage, etc., I’m offended by your insinuation. By the way, i know my spelling is terrible.
Ms. Fox means nearly everyone in the flyover states. If her desire were granted, the iron boot would not be able to distinguish between the ones she specifically mentions and the ones she presumably would allow to live. I imagine there were such jokes told in Germany around 1925. Someone had to inure the German people to mass murder; it was probably done in this manner. She has given us a lighthearted call to genocide.
Charles 07.30.09 at 12:58 am
Ms. Fox means nearly everyone in the flyover states. If her desire were granted, the iron boot would not be able to distinguish between the ones she specifically mentions and the ones she presumably would allow to live.
Wow, you must have seen a longer version of the interview that i missed, because i don’t remember her saying any of that. More likely, you’re either making assumtions or just making things up. Look, if you want to boycot the movie, buycot the movie. But do it because it’s a bad movie (Seriously, testicles made out of wrecking balls? Kevin Smith would call that “Low-brow”). But to start your own grass-roots censorship campain because you don’t agree with the eyecandy’s opinions is just assinine. Do you really think Transformers was designed to be a vehicle for Megan Fox’s political agenda? She’s only in that movie because she looks good sitting on a motorcycle in a short skirt.
And i can’t believe you acually compared her to Hitler. Do you have any idea how obsene you sound? Hitler also liked dogs, does that mean you want to boycot the A.S.P.C.A.? In fact, if you take her at her word instead of making insinuations, you really can’t argue with her statment. While certianly not everyone in middle america is a gay-bashing bible-thumper it is a fact that the majority of gay-bashing bible-thumpers live in Middle America.
“And i can’t believe you acually compared her to Hitler. Do you have any idea how obsene you sound? Hitler also liked dogs, does that mean you want to boycot the A.S.P.C.A.? In fact, if you take her at her word instead of making insinuations, you really can’t argue with her statment. While certianly not everyone in middle america is a gay-bashing bible-thumper it is a fact that the majority of gay-bashing bible-thumpers live in Middle America.”
How the hell do you know hitler liked dogs…? How do you know that the majority of gay-bashing bible thumpers come from the midwest? Apparently you have factual demographic data to support the oral diarrhea your splattering on everyone..? And you agree with her idea that it would be okay to give up any part of this great nation of ours to anyone…That’s not what this country was founded on…You almost sound like a damned commie…
First of all, i didn’t realize i was supposed to site my sources but here you go:
Hitler not only breed dogs(German shepherds, of course) and took his prized female German Shepperd named Blondi to live with him in the bunker in 1945, but he never went anywhere without her and she was allowed to sleep in his bedroom with him. A privilege that even his girlfriend Eva Braun enjoyed.
Bullock, A. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Penguin Books 1962), 785.
^ Junge, Traudl, Until the Final Hour, 2002, ISBN 0-297-84720-1 Consulted on July 9, 2009.
^ Traudl Junge: Bis zur letzten Stunde. Hitlers Sekretärin erzählt ihr Leben. Claassen, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-546-00311 (Biography of Hitler’s secretary Traudl Junge)
^ Ian Kershaw (1998). Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris. Penguin Press. ISBN 0-393-320359.
^ Beevor, Anthony (2004). Berlin: The Downfall 1945. Viking Books. p. 357. ISBN 978-0670886951.
^ Tröhler, Ulrich and Maehle, 1987 in Andreas-Holger in Rothfel, Nigel. Representing Animals. University of Indiana Press, p. 29.
^ Compare Heinrich Himmler in the 1943 Posen Speech (Translation of the German Original): Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. (…) We Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals. But it is a crime against our own blood to worry about them and give them ideals
^ Boria Sax. Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust. Foreword by Klaus P. Fischer. New York and London: Continuum, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8264-1289-8.
^ The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared For Stalin From The Interrogations of Hitler’s Personal Aides, Edited by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl and translated by Giles MacDonogh, Public Affairs, 2005, ISBN 1586483668.
^ Harding, Luke. “Hitler’s nurse breaks 60 years of silence”, The Guardian, May 2, 2005.
^ Tony le Tissier. Berlin Then and Now. After the Battle, 1992.
While certianly not all people who live in middle America oppose gay rights, and not all people who oppse gay rights live in middle America, the MAJORITY(not all, but the majority) live in the Central and mountian time-zones. Instead of giving you a dozen sources, i’ll just give you one irefutable one; http://www.census.gov, that’s the U.S. Census Bureau.
Second, she didn’t say she wanted to give up any part of our great nation, you’re making assumptions again, she said that if she could have a conversation with a FICTIONAL CHARACTER she would ask him to take specific people out of a part of our nation.
Third, I never said I agreed with her. Her remake was narrow minded and obsene, but your reaction to it, attemping to organize a boycot of a film that she had very little to do with the creation of, simply because you don’t agree with her viewpoint, is just as obsene and narrowminded.
Finally, and i promise this will be my last post, because I’m sure the creator of this website didn’t intend this to become such a heated debate, and for that, i apologize, I will leave you (specifically you, Missouri Red Leg)with a few quotes:
“When a man uses profanity to support an argument, it indicates that either the man or the argument is weak - probably both”
“Profanity is the attempt of a lazy and feeble mind to express itself forcefully”
“Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.”
I’m not going to tell you who said these, however. Hopefully, you’ll take the time to look them up, which will be the first step in giving yourself the education that you have obviously been denied.
O.K., One more thing; That education jab was only aimed at Missouri Red Leg, the rest of the people on here seem to be intelligent people, whether i agree with your viewpoints or not, i appreciate the opportunity to share them and hear yours.
Thanks cftoto
Open Your Mind …. thanks for the feisty debate … and for keeping things reasonable! I’m not for a boycott of the film (although after having seen it I should be!) but the boycott option in on the table for other topics/situations, so I thought it was fair game for discussion and debate here.