How did it take this long for Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg to find each other? Mark Wahlberg is basically a Michael Bay movie in corporeal human form — pumped up, vapid, incoherent and yet bafflingly successful.
Well, team Marky-Mike is a thing now, and they’re making up for lost time — Wahlberg has already starred in Bay’s soon-to-be-released ode to steroids, Pain & Gain and he’s officially signed on to replace Shia LaBeouf in Transformers 4.
So yeah, will you be going to see Transformers 4 starring Mark Wahlberg? I have my answer after the jump…
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See I like Marky Mark. Sure he’s an over-serious dick, but he’s actually a pretty talented actor when he wants to be (see: The Fighter) and can even make fun of himself a bit (The Other Guys.)
That being said, I hope he asks Optimus Prime to say hello to his mother for him.
I think the guy’s a crap actor with great taste (or luck) when it comes to picking movies. He’s been in some very good movies — he’s almost always the worst thing about those good movies. And man, the times he misses and picks a bad movie, he’s *still* one of the worst things in the movie. Mark Wahlberg in a bad movie is maybe the worst succesful actor I’ve ever seen.
Nah, Nate, Mark Wahlberg is great so long he’s playing a character from Boston in a story based in Boston (The Fighter, The Departed). That way he can just be a tough guy with a Southie accent and not really have to try to hard at that whole ‘acting’ thing.
Seeing as Shia has already been the worst part of the Transformers movies to me (racist caricature-bots aside), I welcome this change.
Its not like the series could get any worse right???
Hang on, give me a minute…
Nope, I got nothin’.