Are We Getting Too Much of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Already?

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 26, 2008

I am already beginning to get burnt out on all of this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stuff — every inch of production, every moment that Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Michael Bay spend out of their trailers and every minute detail about the film have been dissected and over-analyzed all over the web. At some point we might lose interest, and I fear that it will be unfortunately close to the film’s June 26, 2009 release date.

The photo above, which comes to us via Flickr, shows one of the first “official” anythings from the production. Up until now it has been all photos and videos from afar, all taken by fans who have spent days around the sets in hopes something cool. All they have seen are some new cars, the stars of the film, Mr. Bay and bunch of cameras. When you really think about it, it isn’t that interesting at all. As well, most of the plot details that have come out, including even more today from The Movie Blog, have all been rumors. We don’t really know what the damn story is going to be about, do we.

Alright, so that isn’t entirely true. Director Michael Bay did sit down to talk with New Jersey’s The Times to talk about the collegiate aspect of Sam Witwicky’s (Shia LaBeouf) story:

The university angle to the plot “is all about Sam growing up and going to college … a teenager growing into a man,” Bay said.

Bay, who said the Princeton campus reminds him of his alma mater, Wesleyan University, said he decided to put Princeton in the movie (though it won’t be called Princeton) because the campus is so beautiful.

“I just love the look of the university,” he said.

As well, Josh Duhamel also teased Empire Online with some info about his character:

“I guess who he’s working with is probably the biggest change,” said Duhamel, before adding once more, presumably for emphasis. “Who he’s working with.”

But all of this is still so cryptic that fans aren’t getting the full picture, nor should they in my mind. The film isn’t going to hit theaters until exactly 365 days from now, June 26, 2009. As well, this is a Transformers movie — most of the characters won’t be inserted into the film until much later. It reminds me of a behind-the-scenes video I saw months back for The Incredible Hulk. It was the filming of the big street fight between Hulk and Abomination. Literally, it was a camera on a wire above an empty street with a few pyrotechnics, that’s all. It isn’t really that interesting.

Am I to say though, that my disdain for the magnifying glass approach to covering the production of Transformers 2 is going to prevent us from showing you the photos, videos and giving you all the rumors? Not at all. It may annoy me a bit, and as a fan I would sometimes rather stay in the dark, but that won’t stop us from giving all of you what you want. And if that means blurry pictures of Shia LaBeouf walking down a suburban Pennsylvania street looking up, talking to thin air, then so be it.

Do you think that the internet has become overly obsessed with Transformers 2? Are we covering too much of the little stuff or is that the sort of thing you want?

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