Megan Fox’s favourite movie: “That’s pretty self-explanatory”
Being asked “what’s your favourite film?” as a question must rank up there with “how many injections would you like?” or “would you like your cauliflower boiled or raw?”
How do you even start when there are so many different genres, incredible actors, directors, and astonishing moments on the big screen? Well, if you’re Megan Fox, you take the sensible decision and go with a fantasy epic that changed cinema as we know it.
Fox, who most recently was seen in the decently reviewed Prime Video show Overcompensating, has carved out a successful, almost two-decade career, playing into the sex symbol image and then trying to outrun it, since she broke through with her slinky role in 2007’s Transformers.
While she appeared in the follow-up Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, she didn’t sign up for the third instalment due to Bay’s directing methods being compared to a certain dictator in 1930s Germany. But a break from that blockbuster series led to some more interesting projects for the Tennessee native, first of which was the comedy horror Jennifer’s Body, written by Diablo Cody and co-starring Amanda Seyfried, and then she starred opposite Josh Brolin in 2010’s Jonah Hex.
The latter was a comic book adaptation that went down badly with critics but even worse with Fox herself, who spoke openly about her feelings that not only should her kids not ever watch it, but nobody should. Unfortunately, it was rapidly followed by Fox’s involvement in Mickey Rourke’s Passion Play, which even the great actor himself described as “terrible”.
Things got back on track for Fox, however, when she made something of a jump to comedy, popping up in This is 40 with Paul Rudd, and in the hilarious Sacha Baron Cohen movie The Dictator a couple of years later. She went back into the world of comic books to star as April O’Neil in both the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reboot movies and rounded off the decade with a role in a Korean war movie of all things.
More recently, she was seen in the fourth instalment of the Expendables series and released her own book of poetry. When it comes to the movies that have influenced her most, her tastes reflect many of the roles she’s chosen, especially those of comic books, alongside some classic animation.
But one movie stands out above them all, namely Peter Jackson’s astonishing adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, widely thought of as one of the finest movies in history, and which featured truly groundbreaking special effects. It was the first in the trilogy which broke box office records for consecutive years, shot back to back in New Zealand and grossed some $3billion.
She told Rotten Tomatoes when picking her five films of all time: “Well number one, and we have to count it as one or else it’ll take up my whole list, is The Lord of the Rings. That’s pretty self-explanatory. I read the books when I was a kid, and Peter Jackson just created this incredible world and environment that you get caught up in. It’s amazing.”
Meanwhile, about choosing Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon, she said, “I really love kids’ movies. I watch them constantly. I don’t know, it’s nostalgic, I guess. I don’t know why I love them so much.”
