I know, I’m posting about Mr. LaBeouf again, I should be ashamed of myself (and I am). But I simply cannot help myself because this fan video montage is hilarious!

Editing these things must be a pain in the ass, even if you used the same input device (i.e. the dvd). The creator of the “No, no, no, no” video had to keep the image and audio continuity with each cut while mixing in scenes from Transformers and Disturbia. I’m not sure I could be up to the task to make one these things. I have enough trouble editing the sound from my Canon ZR850, which is supposed to be a piece of cake. I couldn’t imagine working with mixed media sources like a dvd and footage from a tv tuner.

Thanks Videogum for informing me that the correct term for these video montages is “supercuts”.

It took me awhile, but I finally got around to watching Disturbia on HBO. It’s very slow at first, like really slow actually.

For like the first 30 minutes, you just watch Kale (Shia LaBeouf) become more and more frustrated while under house arrest. This boredom supposedly drives him to spy on his neighbors, including the hot girl next door and oh a psycho serial killer! Kale enlists his friend and said hot girl to help him figure out if the neighbor is Ted Bundy or whatever.

Kale apparently becomes MacGuyer overnight and modifies wireless home security receivers to transmit camcorder footage to his computer. No relying on binoculars in this day and age like in Rear Window. Now you got to get hard evidence! Kale can’t do it himself since he’s got the house arrest ankle bracelet problem. Thus, he talks his friend into sneaking into the neighbor’s garage to find a supposed dead body. He monitors his friend in the garage via the JVC camcorder footage being transmitted.

David Morse who plays said neighbor catches winds to all this activity and of course isn’t too pleased. At first, he’s just borderline creepy by mysteriously appearing inside Kale’s house and hitting on his mom. Then, he barges into the hot girl’s car and gives her a not so friendly and unsettling warning that he likes his privacy. But soon enough, he pulls off the mask and tries to kill everyone.

Suffice it to say, it was okay, like a grade B-. I do have to admit that there is something to the LaBeouf charm. It simply wears you down. It’s no wonder it did so well at the box office. Here’s hoping he can get the young-ins to the theater for Indiana Jones 4.

Disturbia wins again at the box office for the third week in a row! I love the round-up at Defamer, really puts everything into perspective. I love their little joke about Shia’s agent laughing all the way to the bank. I can just imagine LaBeouf’s manager and/or agents throwing piles of money in air, jumping up and down in their Tommy Hilfiger sleepwear.

I wonder if Mark, the head writer at Defamer, took a long time deliberating over that joke, or does it come naturally to him. Imagine him or one of the staff writers in a dusty apartment haggering over each word on his discount sheets (cuz that advertising money doesn’t pay that much). Either way, the site is hilarious. You can be having a crap day and read Defamer and know there’s gonna be someone there for you to make cynical jokes about Hollywood. Defamer may be shopping at Rockaway bedding for luxurious sheets (unlike Shia’s agents), but he still knows how to spot cynics and fakes from a mile away.