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U wanna see bad female acting? Watch Die Another Day and tell me Hallie Barry was acting.

Mr.Bond007 wrote:U wanna see bad female acting? Watch Die Another Day and tell me Hallie Barry was acting.

Or save yourself some time and just watch her Academy Awards acceptance speech.

Acting, was sometimes really just "body flashing".

Creature SH wrote:

Mr.Bond007 wrote:U wanna see bad female acting? Watch Die Another Day and tell me Hallie Barry was acting.

Or save yourself some time and just watch her Academy Awards acceptance speech.

But then you would miss Pierce in all his godleyness!

Why was this thread resurrected when it rested peacefully in it's grave?

Just like every other Cybertronian will be resurrected in one way or the other.

alright, some of you guys hate her, but without her, we would have more robots, which would have been good, but bad for the CG because it takes 38 hours to render one cell of film for the robots, and it's expensive. Megan was good, be thankful it wasn't the girl in the Escalade. She's getting eaten by a steering wheel.

The acting in summer blockbusters in usually subpar anyway. Why bother discussing it?

She's just a big-titted flat-bellied lady to attract horny teenagers.

woosh wrote:She's just a big-titted flat-bellied lady to attract horny teenagers.

Thats the best thing about her! Works for me.

Okay, I think I know a thing or two about acting and films as its been my main interest my entire life and I've studied the thing so far that me and my Girlfriend have tried out improv in the middle of public areas just to see the reaction of the people around us (Screaming and shouting in a main trainstation about which one of us got us lost).

These are also my own thoughts on the matter.

Acting can be described as the art of 'acting' as something/someone else. Usually, the more divergent from the person acting the 'better'. This is sometimes, usually (by the greats) done by internalising mental processes of their character in the scene they are in. This is the Stanislavski approach (sp?).

Megan Fox claims to be a very 'girly-girl', which she is not in this film. In "Bayformers", she is a tough-as-nails bitch.

In the commentary, Bay talks about the scene in which she attacks Frenzy with the saw. Before Bay has his input, Megan was apparently flailing pathetically with the saw hoping to hit something, as any girly-girl would do. Bay had to actually frustrate Megan with continuous reshoots before she finally got so pissed off she attacked Frenzy the way she did in the movie. This shows two things to me: Megan Fox is a very suggestive person, and the fact she couldn't internalise the emotion but (in other scenes) could mimic it shows that she's just an average Summer Blockbuster actress; its all superficial. Consider also the scene where she's driving Bumblebee away from the battle, and she's silently debating whether or not to return (resting her head on the steering wheel), this is a good, believable display of emotion.
The OTHER thing the Frenzy scene shows me, on a different note, is that Michael Bay somewhat understands how to bring out raw emotion, and so values good acting, making him not just a major action-movie director with no other understanding of the acting world, and for that I respect him.

It all depends on what you consider 'good acting'. If you think good acting is (as I do), internalising and exercising real mental processes and displaying them believably, then no, she's not that great an actress.
If you think that it's merely the superficial mask somebody puts on that makes you believe they're someone else, 'pretending' to be sad or angry, then yes, she did a respectable job.

As this is only a summer action flick, with the emphasis on 'action' (and not 'drama'), acting becomes less important (but by no means irrelevant). Megan Fox did a good job of making us believe she was a street-wise bad-girl, but I doubt she had to assault her actual mindset incorporating new personality traits to do it.

So.. in conclusion.. She did a good job of pretending to be somebody else. Not stellar, but thats not what was expected. All Bay wanted was a tough girl who wouldn't put on a stupid amount of weight during filming.

Implants aside.


Thanks.

Meh, I didn't think she was as bad as eveyrone else said she was. She wasn't anything special and personally her acting in TF was something that never got me mad or happy with. Verdict-Meh.

Well, you know she probably tried her best, and I think we should accept that because we're probably not going to see any change in her acting for Transformers 2.

Meverix wrote:In the commentary, Bay talks about the scene in which she attacks Frenzy with the saw. Before Bay has his input, Megan was apparently flailing pathetically with the saw hoping to hit something, as any girly-girl would do. Bay had to actually frustrate Megan with continuous reshoots before she finally got so pissed off she attacked Frenzy the way she did in the movie. This shows two things to me: Megan Fox is a very suggestive person, and the fact she couldn't internalise the emotion but (in other scenes) could mimic it shows that she's just an average Summer Blockbuster actress; its all superficial.

Continuous reshoots? Is that why they had to suddenly switch to night?
In all seriousness though, this is just further proof that she can't act. But then again, a lot of the best moments of movies are when the actors aren't really acting.

Consider also the scene where she's driving Bumblebee away from the battle, and she's silently debating whether or not to return (resting her head on the steering wheel), this is a good, believable display of emotion.

No. I thought that scene was horrible. If you were in that situation making that decision you would not plant your face on the steering wheel and begin breathing irregularly. To be honest, I couldn't even tell what was going on there until I watched it the second time.

So.. in conclusion.. She did a good job of pretending to be somebody else. Not stellar, but thats not what was expected. All Bay wanted was a tough girl who wouldn't put on a stupid amount of weight during filming.

I don't agree with that. I think she did a rather poor job. The only moment I actually believed was the one where she wasn't really acting. Whenever she tried to act she messed up, either by laughable line delivery or inappropriate facial expressions that made it look like she had either nothing going on in her head or something irrelevant to the moment. If she actually is intelligent in real life then in that case she acted well.

The Chaos Bringer wrote:

Meverix wrote:In the commentary, Bay talks about the scene in which she attacks Frenzy with the saw. Before Bay has his input, Megan was apparently flailing pathetically with the saw hoping to hit something, as any girly-girl would do. Bay had to actually frustrate Megan with continuous reshoots before she finally got so pissed off she attacked Frenzy the way she did in the movie. This shows two things to me: Megan Fox is a very suggestive person, and the fact she couldn't internalise the emotion but (in other scenes) could mimic it shows that she's just an average Summer Blockbuster actress; its all superficial.

Continuous reshoots? Is that why they had to suddenly switch to night?
In all seriousness though, this is just further proof that she can't act. But then again, a lot of the best moments of movies are when the actors aren't really acting.

Consider also the scene where she's driving Bumblebee away from the battle, and she's silently debating whether or not to return (resting her head on the steering wheel), this is a good, believable display of emotion.

No. I thought that scene was horrible. If you were in that situation making that decision you would not plant your face on the steering wheel and begin breathing irregularly. To be honest, I couldn't even tell what was going on there until I watched it the second time.

So.. in conclusion.. She did a good job of pretending to be somebody else. Not stellar, but thats not what was expected. All Bay wanted was a tough girl who wouldn't put on a stupid amount of weight during filming.

I don't agree with that. I think she did a rather poor job. The only moment I actually believed was the one where she wasn't really acting. Whenever she tried to act she messed up, either by laughable line delivery or inappropriate facial expressions that made it look like she had either nothing going on in her head or something irrelevant to the moment. If she actually is intelligent in real life then in that case she acted well.

Well no, to be honest I don't think she is that bright in real life XD

As for the driving scene, the fact that she put her head on the steering wheel and whatever was down to the script, wasn't it. But think about it. Do you drive? If so, when you're in a jam and you get frustrated, like REALLY frustrated, its not hard to imagine you'd just drop your head on the steering wheel (its a weak point but I can't think of anything better).

But I dunno, I can't say I bothered to closely examine the acting in the film because, you know, its just an action flick, its not really worth looking for.

Mr.Bond007 wrote:

woosh wrote:She's just a big-titted flat-bellied lady to attract horny teenagers.

Thats the best thing about her! Works for me.

Disagree.
Her tits were small. It was her overall figure that makes her attractive.

I support all people who wanna post whatever.Too much censorship from cetain people.Not naming any websites names of course.Ahem.Not this one.


But your post is mean.

Course she was acting.And shes attractive. I think shes a good actress. And i dont fancy her before anyone gets huffy cos im a straight female.

She portrayed Mikaela well.Mikaela is hardly stock character now is she. A smart brave clever girl who goes out with thickheads who dont think she knows cars but shows her real self when she meets Sam.And what i do like is shes a proper character but pretty too. I hate it when they write characters as serious but make em drab or something. Who says a pretty girl cant be clever.So stupid.
Uglifying yourself does not a good actress make. Thats what a lot of people in films and tv need to learn.Drabbing up is a way of hiding a bad actress/actor and plot.

I find some less well known actresses are very talented and the talentless ones are the well known ones like Scarlett Johannsen.And that stupid no talent zone in mission impossible 2.
I think these losers sleep,blackmail,pay their way to the top.

I think you're talking about the kind of character Mikaela is or supposed to be.

Well, the character is good. A brave strong beautiful girl. No problem about that.

But the acting is definitely not top quality.

it good enough.

Now Maggie i didnt like as much. She was good but i just didnt like her as much.Possibley cos she is like or is the female from the Shes so lovely video by Scouting For Girls.

That is a horrific video and song.

Generally, the whole code breaking bit was wholly disliked by most viewers. Including Maggie. (Although Maggie is kinda cute, if not for her role.)

Those scenes are too dragging and unnecessary. It's like, it was just there to lengthen the film. Because the CGI scenes are too costly to make.

Yes i admmit that thought did occur to me.

I thought Maggie was a good character and could have done more than codebreaking etc. Maybe some kind of active scenes?

The actress seemed kind of wasted because shes clearly talented.

Maybe more for the others in the scenes too, the black genius codebreaker.but i dont like his taste in console games, dancing, ugh.

Maggie also used shotgun against Frenzy, remember? I don't remember if she ever fired it though

As for Megan Fox, I think she did an alright job, and some people just over analyze the whole film and will never quit bitching about it.

Mikaela is there as Sam's semen urinal.XD

Her mouth is even shaped like one when she gasped at Bumblebee playing something about "sexual healing" on his radio!XD

oh god fanbois won't stop whining about the movie until Bay writes an apology to the fans for not making it a live action pilot episode of G1.Guess what its not going to happen.Almost everyone who watched the movie didn't leave the theatre thinking "Awww man that girl ruined the entire movie"I love how theres always someone who has to bitch about something.Find me an example of Megan Fox acting out of character or other wise non acting to standard.

I could frankly careless if critics don't think she was acting or not. She played the part given to her. I can't understand why humans don't take movies for what they are: entertainment. When I sit down to a movie I want to escape reality for a time and I'm not going to concern myself w/ nit picky stuff like this...unless the acting is so obviously bad like what you see in B movies. But Transformers WAS NOT a B movie.