• Aprill Brandon •
• Originally published June 16, 2010 at midnight, updated June 17, 2010 at 3:45 p.m.

• MEGAN FOX'S FILMOGRAPHY

  "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" 2004

  "Transformers" 2007

  "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" 2008

  "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" 2009

  "Jennifer's Body" 2009

  "Jonah Hex" 2010

All right, before I get started with this article, let me just first say that if you are a huge fan of Megan Fox, stop reading now. Please. It's only going to make you angry and my inbox is already over its size limit.

Secondly, in a premature response to all you anonymous posters who are bound to make comments such as "you just hate Megan Fox cause you're jealous," I would like to point out that of course, I'm jealous. The woman looks like a goddess that just happened to step down from Mount Olympus and stumbled into Hollywood. She's thin, she's rich, she's young, she's famous. What isn't there to hate?

So, why am I even bothering to write about Megan Fox? Well, first of all, she's starring in a new movie that's being released this weekend called "Jonah Hex." It's about some dude with a hideous facial scar trying to save the world and blah, blah, blah. Megan Fox plays the gratuitous, sassy hooker who is there pretty much just to lure in the movie-goers who don't enjoy looking at a hideous facial scar for two hours straight.

With Fox steadily climbing up the Hollywood ladder, she's bound to help the movie's ticket sales. I can't help but wonder, however, just what is the appeal of Megan Fox? I mean, besides the very obvious hotness factor?

I've seen most of her movies, and she can't really act. In interviews, she comes across as a spoiled brat. And she has repeatedly publicly criticized the Hollywood "machine" while at the same time, shamelessly played into it. So, without those stunning looks, would she still garner so much attention? Or even score one movie role?

Me thinks not.

Now, I'll admit that when she was first on the scene, I admired her for at least trying not to be just another pretty face. She had a bunch of tattoos, she was shockingly candid in interviews and was somewhat edgy.

But these days, she has gone so far off the edge, she's just flailing.

For instance, she was once quoted as saying "I'm a tranny. I'm a man. I'm painfully insecure."

OK, Megan, let me give it to you straight. No one, and I mean no one, likes to hear the obviously gorgeous woman bemoan her supposed "ugliness." It's not charming. It's not humbling. It's just annoying. Oh, really? You're painfully insecure? Well, lady, try looking like me for a day and see how freaking secure you feel about your looks then.

Not to mention, she also had the gall to diss the movies and the director that made her a major Hollywood player in the first place: Michael Bay's "Transformer" franchise. That's not to say that she wasn't right calling it a horrible movie. The second movie was indeed horrible. But geez lady, how about a little gratitude to Bay for plucking you from obscurity, eh?

And perhaps my favorite pastimes of hers is her continually insulting the rest of young Hollywood, from saying that Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson are "too pretty" (Hello, pot? Meet kettle), to insinuating that Scarlett Johansson uses every SAT word she's ever learned in interviews to prove she's not just an empty-headed sex symbol.

Now, perhaps all this wouldn't bother me as much if I thought Megan Fox was talented. But I don't think she is. That's not to say that she doesn't have potential to eventually be a good actress, but she seems much less interested in that than in, well, being Megan Fox.

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