How can it top Star Trek Beyond‘s use of the Beastie Boys? It can’t, unless Greg Grunberg - Abrams’ good luck charm who’s also been in all of the films - raps “So What’cha Want.” Start from there, Simon Pegg. We know there’s going to be a Star Trek 4, with Chris Hemsworth returning as Kirk’s father. Add the eternally cool and universally beloved Beastie Boys into the mix, though (especially a song as well known as “Sabotage”), and Star Trek Beyond suddenly appeals to a lot more people. Casual movie fans don’t have the same familiarity with Kirk, Spock, and Bones as they do Luke, Han, and Leia. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, released two years later: under $100 million. The Empire Strikes Back earned $209 million at the box office in 1980. (Do not me on Twitter if you haven’t seen the original trilogy.) The first three Trek movies? Not so much. The 1990s and 2000s weren’t a good time for Star Wars, either, but the dreaded prequels were still massive hits, and also, this is Star Wars we’re talking about. Enterprise was a bust, and Nemesis barely made its $60 million budget back. Before the Abrams reboot was released in 2009, the franchise was creatively drained and commercially ignored. Star Trek is also working at a disadvantage. As his step-father yells at him for stealing the car, Kirk ends the phone call and starts blasting “Sabotage,” which is still a favorite amongst angsty youngsters even in the mid-2240s (maybe this makes a little more sense than people in the 31st century being familiar with Beck). Kirk right after he “borrows” a Corvette. In Star Trek, we’re introduced to a young James T. Take a look at the Star Trek reboots as proof. Meanwhile, every film ever would be better with any Beastie Boys song at any point. They have to be either poignant, or the final scene in the movie. Jurassic Park is a perfect movie… but wouldn’t it be even more perfect with “Walk the Dinosaur” playing during one of the T-rex scenes? Yes, yes it would.īoth Celine a Scene and Walk of Life Project, while clever, only work for certain moments, though. ![]() It’s an effective concept for an untold amount of songs. Star Trek (2009) The greatest adventure of all time begins with Star Trek, the incredible story of a young crew’s maiden voyage onboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. To use a recent example: Celine a Scene supposes that adding her 1997 titanically powerful ballad, “My Heart Will Go On,” to “epic scenes” makes them “even more emotional and epic.” It works really well, as does the Walk of Life Project, which is basically the same idea as Celine a Scene, except with “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits. There are certain memes that will continue to go viral until the end of time, or the bourbon bagel burger kills us all, whichever comes first.
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