If you’re comparing the Transformers movies to Raging Bull then, yeah, you’re probably going to find yourself coming up short.
It seems Shia LeBeouf would much rather be making the sorts of movies that win awards rather than the ones that make massive money at the box office.
Shia LeBeouf was building himself a nice little home in the blockbuster movie scene, between the Transformers franchise and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but he tells Esquire he would have rather been making more serious films.
The fact is that rarely does a feature film succeed at both, and while some actors are able to take roles in both sorts of movies, many find themselves a niche in one or the other.