John Cho
Do you want to know what’s totally frickin’ awesome?
The new Star Trek movie is totally frickin’ awesome.
From the moment the film, the eleventh in the franchise’s history, begins, it is relentlessly, absurdly, unyieldingly awesome.
Walking in, our fandom skewed more toward J.J. Abrams and his Felicity-Lost legacy than the Trekkie world, but from the moment those familiar starships, at the film’s beginning the USS Kelvin, not the USS Enterprise, dip into sight, a sudden, unexpected glee rushed over us.
Suffering under the delusion that a soundtrack is a movie, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist has been done many times before, only better. Back in the 90s, this was a film set in Seattle with lovelorn grunge rockers pouring out their emotions like French Roast to songs by Chris Cornell and Billy Corgan. In the 80s, it was every movie John Hughes made.