Kidd Rock's All Summer Long

[Lord Garth]

Do you know Kidd Rock's song that came out last summer, All Summer Long? It was a cross between two songs from the '70s: Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama, with a 2008 twist.

JJ Abrams's Star Trek seems like the same thing conceptually: mixing Star Trek and Star Wars with an new twist. Though it looks like Galaxy Quest and Starship Troopers was thrown in as well.

 

[BillJ]

Don't you know better than this? If you're not here to praise Trek XI, then you shouldn't be here.

 

[Lord Garth]

Don't you know better than this? If you're not here to praise Trek XI, then you shouldn't be here.

Noted.

Actually, I thought this even when I was still looking forward to it. I was just too busy with work and grad school to post anything about it before. Now I've got a little free time so I figured, "what the heck?"

JJ Abrams said he was mixing ST and SW, they're from the '60s and '70s, and it's a modern twist. Just like Kidd Rock's song.

 

[Sector 7]

I'm not a Kid Rock fan, but I see what you mean. Interesting idea.

 

[M'Sharak]

Don't you know better than this? If you're not here to praise Trek XI, then you shouldn't be here.

Calling it a mash-up isn't praise? ZR will be so disappointed to hear it; he loves those.

 

[Sharr Khan]

Look all I know is Trek needs to break its own mold that's all I care about. It could benefit to be as successful as even a Star War's failure. Right now it tends to think very small scale when it needs to be epic. From everything I've heard about the trailer it seems to me to found epic and in words of another poster 'unlike anything Star Trek has ever been before'. That pleases me. Will I like the final result? We'll see. Maybe I'll be bored to death hard to tell until I see it.

At anyrate Trek needs some tinkering and whomever does it will get blasted by hardcore fans since there are no perfect solutions.

Sharr

 

[Kryton]

I think the use of "Werewolves of London" in a song about losing one's virginity in 1989 is due to the fact that "Werewolves" was prominently featured on the soundtrack of "The Color of Money" and was re-released a year or two before that time.

 

[Eric Cheung]

Warren Zevon is really cool though. Let's hope no one mashes up his darker stuff as a review of the film. No, "Hit Somebody," "Life'll Kill You," "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," etc. I'd like a review mash-up song to be a happier tune!

 

[Lord Garth]

Look all I know is Trek needs to break its own mold that's all I care about. It could benefit to be as successful as even a Star War's failure. Right now it tends to think very small scale when it needs to be epic. From everything I've heard about the trailer it seems to me to found epic and in words of another poster 'unlike anything Star Trek has ever been before'. That pleases me. Will I like the final result? We'll see. Maybe I'll be bored to death hard to tell until I see it.

At anyrate Trek needs some tinkering and whomever does it will get blasted by hardcore fans since there are no perfect solutions.

All well and good, but that's not what I'm talking about.

The analogy is independent of whether or not I'll like the movie because I thought of it when I was really looking forward to the movie and still think it's apt now when I'm not so much.

Sometimes a cigar is just cigar. This is one of those times.