The Shanghai Daily reports that an obsessed Transformers fan has been drinking gasoline in an effort to be more like his favorite robots.

The 14-year-old boy began to drink gasoline to become a “valiant fighter” like “Optimus Prime,” his father told the newspaper. “He began to drink gasoline five years ago, when we found he liked smelling lighter fuel,” he said.
The boy’s mother owned a grocery stall, selling small goods such as lighters. In 2004, she often found lighters missing two or three days after she’d bought them. She later found that her son had been stealing them.
The parents talked to their son and asked him not to do it again. “But afterwards we found our motorcycle’s gasoline was always disappearing, and one day when we found the boy had drunk a half bottle of gasoline stolen from the motorcycle, we were too shocked to say anything,” the father said.

They locked the motorcycle away after that but the boy began to steal gasoline from neighbors and was drinking more and more – two or three bottles at a time. “Since my son started to drink gas, his IQ has dropped sharply and now he can’t figure out simple addition and subtraction,” the father said. “Before that, he was a very smart boy, and he could even repair the television. But now he does not know the answer of 7 plus 17.” [SD via /Film]

Reached for comment, Michael Bay said, “I’ve said all along that I don’t make movies for the critics, I make them for 14-year-old boys who’ve been drinking leaded gasoline and don’t understand math.”

Fresh off the news that he’s won a spot in the Guiness Book of World Records for directing “the biggest explosion on film with actors present,” reports say Michael Bay has filmed his last Transformers movie and has had enough of big-budget blockbusters.

Bay says he’s sick of receiving negative reviews from critics who dislike his movie-making style and is determined to move away from the genre. He says, “It’s easy to go shoot an art movie in a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. They review me before they’ve even seen the movie.”

And Bay admits that if film bosses give the go ahead for a third Transformers movie, they will have to find a different director. He adds, “After the three and a half years I’ve spent making these movies, I feel like I’ve had enough of the Transformers world. I need to do something totally divergent, something without any explosions.” [movietickets - note: I'm not sure how reliable this source is]

Michael Bay trying to live a life after explosions would make a classic fish-out-of-water reality show.  It would be like when Superman gives up his powers in Superman II, or that old State sketch where an aging pornstar becomes a gas station attendant, and keeps pulling the nozzle out and spraying the gas all over the hood.  It’ll be like that except with Michael Bay going, “What do you mean I can’t bring my tiger in here?  Now the chaps are just going to look ridiculous.  Yeah?  Yeah?  Same to you, buddy.  I wouldn’t let my tiger crap in this dump.”

In this video from Landline TV, the visual effects crew on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen talk about how they created Megan Fox using computer imaging and advanced animatronics.

“It’s weird, because you’re pretending to interact with this impossibly hot woman, but it’s really just Michael Bay describing her to you.”

Little known fact: Michael Bay always speaks into a bullhorn, even in his sleep.
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Ahh, good ‘ol Black20.  No one else could take an idea so simple as a Transformers/Terminator mashup and execute it this well.

“They used to just shoot at us.  But now they turn into sweet cars.  They’re taking human prisoners.  Replicating human tissue.  And worst of all: eating all of our sand.”

Anyway, funny stuff.  I don’t really have anything to add, so instead I’m just going to add a bunch of pictures of Megan Fox.  Durrr, look at me, I work for Esquire!

[via IGN]

In a recent interview, four-fingered Transformers star Shia LaBeouf recently described his mother as “the sexiest woman I know.  Biblically.”  Okay, so maybe I added that last part.

“Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother,” he says. “She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.”

According to the interview, which Star magazine says it obtained, while the “Transformers” star was growing up, his mother often liked to walk around the house naked, even when young LaBeouf’s young friends were over.

“All of them would just be naked around the house,” LaBeouf tells Playboy of his mom and her friends in the June issue. “That was strange for me, and it was really bizarre when my friends were there. You’ve got your little buds over, and Mom’s, like, playing naked connect the dots or whatever. She’s in the middle of goddess-group time, where it’s literally a bunch of naked women tracing auras around one another’s bodies with incense and then sitting together and humming for prolonged periods of time.” [FoxSnooze]

To which the reporter responded “Dude… You know I’m recording this, right?”