The TV Addict 

These days you’d be hard pressed to go a week – sometimes even a day – without some useless set photo of Shia LeBeouf looking at clouds, or a picture of a car that might be a Transformer in the film, or a production design of a car that does turn into a Transformer, or a blue print, or fan created designs, or storyboards of deleted ideas, or … well, you get the idea. Basically, just go to your favorite blog of choice and see what pops up when you do a category search for TRANSFORMERS 2. Put some time aside. You’ll be busy, because there’s an insane amount of stuff on the film out there. For a movie whose marketing machine hasn’t even revved up yet, TRANSFORMERS 2 is already ridiculously over exposed.

Admittedly I ranted about something similar not too long ago. The thing is at the time TRANSFORMERS 2 was in the infancy stages of production. I never could have predicted how quickly things would change. Since then the whole thing has not only gotten worse, my argument that this kind of stuff may dilute the fullness of one’s theatre experience seems to be all the more pertinent now. Seemingly every aspect of the production is now broadcast all over the internet, to the point where I almost feel the blogosphere might as well me an actual member of the crew with an all-access pass. That may be cool in theory, but is it also in practice?

It raises all sorts of questions for me though. Who actually cares enough about the sequel to want to know this much about the making of the film? Yes, TRANSFORMERS was a tremendous financial success, but was it really so great for some people that it would inspire this kind of obsessive interest? On that note, I’ll reiterate my earlier point. Is this actual interest coming from fan based demand, or is this all just the next stage in what is deemed movie news on blogs? If that’s the case, is TRANSFORMERS 2 the test baby because it’s just a high profile sequel, or why else? Also, when you’re dealing with this amount of information, how does that not cross that line of spoiling the experience instead of building excitement for it?

In a way I’d actually like to answer those questions myself, but I’m not entirely sure I could. I can say on a personal level that I do look forward to the sequel, which is precisely why I’m staying away from the inundation of info out there. That’s just how my excitement manifests itself. Then again I’m so much of a purist when I comes to a true movie experience that I can’t imagine wanting to know this much about any movie I’m looking forward to. Beyond that though I’m a bit lost for answers, which is why I’d like to turn it to you.

For those of you who are into all this TRANSFORMERS 2 information hitting the net, are you not worried about knowing too much? What about the rest of you? Do you also feel it’s just too much production material being revealed that will ruin the actual experience of the film? Or maybe you’re just one of those people who could care less. Let me know.