Tag: Roberto Orci

  • Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    Part One: Less Than Meets the Eye Part Two: Puny Humans Part Three: Car Commercials in Disguise

  • The Island (2005)

    I expected to hate The Island. But 2005 was a real bi-polar year. We all learned what it means to miss New Orleans, but look on the bright side: Batman came back to unexpectedly-viable life, I was enjoying all the benefits of dating a Reed College student, and Michael Bay directed a film that doesn’t […]

  • Star Trek (2009)

    I knew this would happen, if for no other reason than that this is the eleventh motion picture in the Star Trek franchise/canon. Good Trekies will know exactly what I mean by this broad, sweeping generalization. Ever since William Shatner ran Star Trek V into the ground odd-numbered entries in the series have always been […]

  • Transformers (2007)

    As far as I’m concerned, Transformers first aired at 5:30 in the morning on my local Fox affiliate. This was back in the halcyon days when the Fox Network bought syndicated series the way survivalists buy bulk foods, slapping them down anywhere a hole in the programming schedule presented itself. Many a school day began […]