ScreenshotAll My Movies (Shia LaBeouf’s most recent venture in a series of bizarre projects) was the exact kind of self-indulgent, fake-deep celebrity trash that our uphill-both-ways parents are constantly ragging on millennials for, and for once they might be on to something.
From November 10, Shia was at the Angelika Film Center in New York City for 72 hours, watching every movie he’s ever been part of in reverse chronological order. The theatre was also open to the public, and if you weren’t deterred by the reported 12-hour wait time, you could join him.
If you’d rather watch paint dry or help your goldfish write a novel than hang out outside a theatre with 200+ strangers, don’t worry, Shia thought of you, too, and put the whole thing online. According to the project description on New Hive’s website: “At the same time, a live stream will continuously broadcast the performance above.”
The “performance” referred to didn’t even include the actual movies being shown in the theatre. Instead, for three days straight, the world was treated to an audio-free live stream of Shia’s seat, so we could all silently watch Shia watch Shia.
This would be the perfect example for the type of fist-shaking old people who mutter about “the damn Facebook” to cite at family dinner when they rant about our entitled, narcissistic, coddled generation, but lets not kid ourselves, those people don’t actually use the internet enough to know about Shia antics.
Instead, All My Movies was for people like me to shake their heads and wonder why they’ve spent the last three hours of their lives watching Shia fall asleep in the aisle to Transformers 3. Oh well. If nothing else, All My Movies provided enough reaction gifs to last until James Franco makes something even weirder in response.
