Eagle Eye

Those are very broadly defined words.

You remember that movie Eagle Eye that came out with Shia LaBeouf like, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago?

It sounds familiar, but I can't recall it.

Yeah, some of the technology they were using in that movie kind of because they were going to find someone.

They were using – they were hacking into every network to see like an eye of an eagle and follow a person going without those who have the network set up even aware that it's being used for that.

Like let's say I own a coffee shop

So when they call something edge environment, the edge environment, that means that it's hidden all around you.

Got it.

Oh man, y'all gotta...

If y'all watching thing, you gotta watch Eagle Eye.

Eagle Eye?

Yes, sir.

Eagle Eye.

Eagle Eye.

Eagle Eye.

Yeah, with my man, Shia LaBeouf, before he went a little cuckoo.

I put to you folks that if you went to the multiplex that weekend, you wouldn't see anything that was even vaguely impinging on Quantum of Solace's space.

You have to go right down the chart to find Eagle Eye where, uh, like towards the bottom end of it, eight weeks on release at that point.

Uh, and, and, you know, fairly solid hit, Eagle Eye, as well.

Week two though, and Quantum of Solace loses 60% of its money in the US as Twilight comes along.

The first Twilight film opens to 69 million.

That is Burning Bright.

And tonight we are discussing Eagle Eye from 2008, written by John Glenn, Travis Wright, and Hilary Seitz, directed by DJ Caruso, starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, the great Billy Bob, thornton and uh i suppose there's probably a bunch of other important people in there that i'm somehow missing oh yeah julianne moore did the uh did the the voice for aria yes

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um what an incredible so it's not a great movie it's just clearly not a great movie it's uh the action sequences are all right.

The other more cynical take, Greengrass at least meant to do the things he was doing.

I just hate him for it.

directors like this who did eagle eye and kind of imitated the green grass style they were uh saving money uh that's what a lot of is going on in these action sequences where you're zooming in on the driver's side window and you don't actually see the car hit anything you just kind of see the camera shake around so that drives me nuts it's a personal pet peeve of mine but the uh the the window dressing around i mean the uh that's all window dressing The story I thought was good.

I thought the actors were good.

Uh, from Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, uh, is the star, and he plays somebody who's- goes undercover in this world for any yeah they they spend a little time dwelling on how painful it is for him to sit there and getting all these you know dirt bag tattoos but yeah i thought about that uh watching with salt and sea for sure dj caruso i thought was going to be just one of my favorite directors after this movie came out and uh he certainly has some movies that i thought were fun and stylish but uh i think looking at his filmography it's clear that the screenplay was huge in the success of this film because uh you know when he's got something to apply that style to it's great but uh quite often uh i've found his films to be disappointing uh that they didn't have that sort of rich world to explore

It's interesting how many times he's worked with Shia LaBeouf on stuff because he did what Disturbia and then I think Eagle Eye is is that Shia as well.

I never saw either of those.

So I can't say if I'm a fan of those or not.

It wasn't weird enough or something like that.

Disturbia, you know, was kind of a rear window riff and I think begins his sort of what his tween phase.

Disturbia, Eagle Eye and I Am Number Four all feel like they're, which is not a bad thing, but it's not necessarily aimed at me.

Movies for teenagers was the feeling.

AI, it's not like Terminator 2 or the Terminator series where it's going to...

I saw Eagle Eye with Shia LaBeouf.

Let's go.

Here's the other thing about computer intelligence.

Shia LaBeouf is a very, very torn...

And Troubled Young Gentlemen, Transformers series, Indiana Jones, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Disturbia, Eagle Eye.

He's got so much potential.

Wall Street 2.