"I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you've made ... . And I think if you don't acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you're promoting a movie."    

I wish Lucas would listen to this guy.  

Warbler said:

"I think the audience is pretty intelligent. I think they know when you've made ... . And I think if you don't acknowledge it, then why do they trust you the next time you're promoting a movie."

I wish Lucas would listen to this guy.

I think Lucas taught him everything he knows...pretend there's nothing wrong for years and then blame someone else.

Almost everything that is wrong about KOTCS is down to Lucas (he no, noed the scripts Harrison and Spielberg liked and insisted on all the scenes we have to hate).

Now Shia may be a crap actor (I honestly can't remember him being good in anything) but blaming Spielberg for him not being able to give a convincing performance against CGI monkeys takes some sort of ingenuity...I guess he was to blame for his inability to give a convincing performance against giant CGI robots too.

Hayden to his credit, hasn't said his performance would have been better in Dobley.

um, I could be wrong, but it seemed to me that Shia was blaming himself and taking responsibility.

"You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed]. But the actor's job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn't do it. So that's my fault. Simple."

Note how he says you could blame the writer and the director for the more daft stuff but he couldn't bring the less bizarre scenes to life as an actor.

I doubt if any actor could pull off the monkey business.

He doesn't do too badly in the less silly scenes but in any film injected with such jarring material a so-so performance is going to look and feel worse.

He's just a bit bland, not really awful (possibly because he had assistance from other actors and an experienced director) but he says his lines he looks the part but he's in a film with sudden bad computer game action.

He puts the blame for that on Spielberg, he should point the finger at the guy who insisted on putting those elements in which was neither the writer or the director or even himself.

he didn't blame Spielberg, he blamed himself.

You have to read between the lines.  It's implied.

maybe, but it just doesn't come across that way to me.

Bingowings said:

I doubt if any actor could pull off the monkey business.

GORMALLY likes the pun.

The only movie I can think of where I thought Shia was pretty good was Holes. But that was years ago.

I thought Shia was reasonably good, and in fact I find some honesty from any public figure refreshing.