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New Star Wars Movie From the Makers of 'Troops'
Anonymous Coward writes "A new fan-made Star Wars production is underway from the creators of the well-known 1997 Star Wars spoof
'Troops'. I.M.P.S. - The Relentless is a documentary style feature following the crew and missions of an Imperial Star Destroyer during the height of the Galactic Empire. While slightly more serious than Troops, the first available chapter of I.M.P.S is an exceptionally well-produced (and still subtly humorous) piece of fanfilm. Worth it for the incredible CGI alone."
Not even any replies yet, and it already seems to be slashdotted...
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"Service Unavailable" Should apply some anti-Slashdot-effect systems, them. And I can't watch that film anymore!!!1
Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
vanished! ;)
no comments and already slashdotted. `course, must be all those subscribed to the slash, no?
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Yep, seems to be slashdotted, this might take a while
Could someone create a torrent of the torrent?
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I thought the newsest IMPS was well done but it just didnt do the same for me as the original Cops parody called Troops.
Here:
i ndex.asp
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/imps/
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/imps/i ndex.asp
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http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5102279
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Another ASP bites the dust!
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it's not a torrent, and its not a mirror, but it's the best i could grab at the time:b c08599a3d844a47485bf1274714926a230d06c1d5d8c48f3e5 41f450d9474875fa80
http://download.filefront.com/3857087;2ee21ce8850
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http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/imps/d irector.asp
From the director:
a more serious documentary in the style of a History Channel Program
This should be great, lol!
God, no matter what time it is, no matter what day, no matter what year, I'll never be able to beat the fucking rush!
I hate you all.
well known to whom ? how is a niche, home made fan film "well known" ?
"well known" or "notoriety" is entirely subjective, i have never heard of this film/home-movie and i suspect if you stop someone in the street and ask them the same they haven't heard of it either
some people really need to get back to reality once in a while
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They could restore some much needed sobriety to this now lame ass franchise.
What an intense movie! Although a bit short for a movie, I don't understand why the credits ends with "SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE". Who is this "AVAILABLE" fellow and what did he had to do with the movie?
I mean new Star Wars are bad, but still can be made considerably worse.
I brought 'Star Troopers' to friends without watching it myself before, and I were constantly telling them I were thinking this parody will turn into a real drama real soon now (because it created some associations with the beginning of 'My Enemy'). Only because of this friends (and me) watched it to the end, then they were really angry as if it was me who shoot so braindamaged movie and spent all the budget on building usual hype.
No wonder Anakian felt so helpless and turned to the dark side of the Force.
Link to Torrent!!
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I downloaded the trailer and the first chapter a couple of weeks ago. They are top quality, and a must-see. I am anxiously awaiting chpater 2, and I'm not even that much of a Star Wars fan.
Somebody post a working torrent ASAP! These really bad jokes using classic Star Wars lines are making me want to rip my eyes out!
Oh, and for the record, Han will get that torrent up, we've just got to give him more time.
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Worth it for the incredible CGI alone.
Isn't that what Lucas was banking on?
The tracker for part 1 of the avi is down...so here is the Magnet URI for use in Azureus to access the swarm "trackerless"
C VJ FR
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RDFJDRRUQXGXPZBH7BCFXGRPGKA
its just a long series of shots of a storm trooper putting on his body armor followed by a couple of quick cuts of storm troopers standing around in various environments (snow, desert etc.).
Its not worth downloading
http://files.filefront.com/IMPS___The_RelentlessCh apter1;3857087;/fileinfo.html
A gazillion empty servers here ready to meet even the challenge of Slashdot
"That's great if you just want the teaser, but for the actual movie that page links back to the dead server."
The downside of the internet. Kind of hard to "route around damage" when the linking nature of the internet removes most of the redundancy.
For those of us who can't use bittorrent:
FileFront
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
Anti-lameness filter: "Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted."
Yeah, right.
If you have azureus...just juse the Magnet URI
C VJ FR
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RDFJDRRUQXGXPZBH7BCFXGRPGKA
Note...slashdot puts a space before the last two characters..so when pasting the URI into Azureus (latest version) with "open location" be sure to omit the space.
AND...be sure you have trackerless BT plugin enabled! (when starting up Azureus it takes a couple of min to integrate into the DHT network)
Worked a charm for me. Do you have a link describing the magnet: protocol and how you managed to get this information on the torrent?
Behold another legitimate use of bittorrent, and MPAA can suck a nut.
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
"I.M.P.S."
Yeah, I think they spelled MIPS wrong.
Search for Troops there and you'll see a link to a torrent for the new movie in addition to the original Troops (the latter of which is a nearly dead torrent)
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
get it here: http://mstauffer.homeunix.net/markus/imps_chapter1 _DAVENPORT_928735.avi.torrent
I had trouble finishing the film.
Most of the movie is CGI of ships, walkers, etc. with a narrator's voice discussing the Empire's army in some sort of documentary that's part poorly written propaganda film and part unemotional and cheap knock-off of COPS.
Clearly the CGI was a lot of work; it's beyond what I could have done -- but it's hardly spectacular --- and I believe much of the criticism of a certain sci-fi film is how CGI does not a good movie make.
The acting is poor. Of course, it's hard to express emotion when you don't see a single face throughout the entire movie, save for a few moments at the end, where officers suddenly appear for no apparent reason. The demeanor is off for military personnel, and the whole thing just doesn't come together in the end. Apparently, the crime involved the smuggling of teddy bears and action figures. That's fine for a joke, but not after 20 minutes of tedium.
I'm sorry but there's nothing to empathize with in this movie. It drags on without purpose, without being sure of its concept at large. The beginning narration feels like it's about to be cut off, and then just keeps going on and on and on. It makes you scream, "Make it stop!"
I don't think much thought went into this film as far as the story or script are concerned. A very vague idea went in, and some people went to work on their computers. I'd give it half a star out of 5.
Another fine SW parody: Grocery Store Wars.
After seeing some redneck jokes applied to Star Wars, I think it's about time for a fan-made movie in this vein. The possibilities boggle the mind!
"Stop that ship! Blast them!"
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How is it that Star Wars fans can make better movies than George Lucas?
They showed it to the local Arts Council, but they weren't really interested. I thought that was a shame since they spent a long time on it and to be fair, I think it's pretty good. So I'm posting it here on /. to see what ppl's reactions are. Don't be shy to use the"Send Message" button and give them some feedback.
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Just choose a free server with no wait time if there are still some availlable...
The site was Slashdotted so I thought a fast link might be of circumstances...
Whoever wrote this just needs to spinkle a few "cockmunchers" into the dialogue and it would be an ep.of RvsB
It's awful, a waste of time.
Some nice CG at the beginning, but after that it just drags on to no end.
Parent obviously has not seen the video file. Don't listen to him. Telltale signs? There is no snow or desert in this chapter at all!
Heck, it's so nicely done they even had Peter Cullen voice the narrator! For those who don't know, he's a famous voice actor who's done cartoons for years. Think back to your childhood days and remember the throaty voice you heard in things like Voltron or the comical "KARR" from Knight Rider. Man you know a fan production is serious when they can hire professional talent and do such a good job on the effects that even Lucas might be jealous.
Is it just me, or is the whole thing a subtle shot at so-called "American Imperialism". Am I such a "Bush-hater" that all I can see are analogies to the U.S. military, and their ill-advised excursions (i.e. Vietnam, Iraq)? I guess it'd be funny if it didn't piss me off...
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This was about 3 minutes of interesting concept made interminable by glacial editing. It feels like an assembly of all the footage with no eye toward pacing at all. At least the real Lucas gives some thought to cutting down the boring stuff(or rather he did in the OT).
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Oops, wait, hang on, oh forget it...."
0kibs = 0kbps
You know the difference between a trailer and a feature, right?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
As has been said before, yours is the only one working.
:^)))
This Magnet URI seems like a great idea too, looks like I'll have to install Asurlace (or whatever it's called) in addition to everything else. I'm using bittornado, quite happy with it, maybe it does Magnet URIs too.
(but for that I'd have to read the manual!
I wonder why no one posted the Torrent UUencoded?
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Yes it has alot of limitations but it was still pretty entertaining.
The city they put together is amazing, especially the giant neon signs. They did a good job integrating the CGI and live action.
So the acting and writing is a little limp. That makes it about the same as the current crop of star wars movies.
There were some cute jokes, like the beeping noise the AT-ATs were making while they backed up.
The shoot out in the landing bay was nicely done. Alot of complex effects underway at once and well-handled.
People are incredibly hard on these 'fan' movies, to the point of spewing bile. This one is just fine. They did a ton of work on it I applaud their efforts. I hope they keep working on their skills and concentrating on the weak areas.
I don't know what people expect for these things. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The production values were amazing. The beginning was cool as they pulled back to do the reveal. The narration was very well voiced, done by Peter Cullan.
If you are expecting award winning performances or originality, then I suggest you look elsewhere than Star Wars fan films. The exposition lasted quite a while, but I expect that is to setup the rest of the series. For this episode, I enjoyed the mixture of the Predator creature. The banter amongst the troops was funny, and they even pulled off the being humorous when the remaining Milenium Falcon left the bay. I loved the ending. It was very light and poked fun at themselves.
I am sure the rest of the series will be just as enjoyable. And who knows, as these people make these things it will open doors of opportunity and inspire others to do the same. On those grounds alone, the film is worth the effort.
Total length of trailer: 1Min 50 Sec
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The first 20 sec is a shot of the black sheep productions logo.
The next 55 seconds is tight shots of a trooper putting on various pieces of his gear. kinda like in any one of a dozen or so USMC recriutment commercials.
The a bunch of shots of troopers standing/walking around.
Including
Troopers in snow: 1:19 and 1:24.
Troopers in desert: 1:16.
The last 25 seconds is shots of text directing you to their web site.
http://patrykrebisz.com/films_f.html
This is pretty neat. It's shot with a still camera. Cute story. (I don't know why the villian has to be hispanic, though.)
I was really quite impressed. A decent amount of humor, something resembling a plot, I look forward rather anxiously for more of these.
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You can convert an info hash to a magnet URI and vice versa with this small Python script: simply pass the hash or the URI to the command line.There's a hidden treasure in Python 3.x: __prepare__()
It's crap.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:h4zBYW1Yo8oJ: members.tripod.com/~FrySaturn/software.txt+%22soft +wares%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8(conveniently google cached to avoid the /. effect.) Enjoy!
I like it.
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From the article: "Is Lucas milking the cow dry, or could these updates of the classic and new films really enhance the experience?"
The teat started squirting dust a few years ago.
Any SW fanfic that can make a Pulp Fiction reference work is OK in my book. I thought 'troops' was more fun in general though. I was so mad when they barely got any mention at that awful lucas self-back-patting of SW fan film award show dealy. "I want ton ton's for Xmas?" what's up with that?
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Here, I hosted it on a tracker I admin.
t er1_DAVENPORT_928735.torrent
http://hwcommunity.com/tracker/torrents/imps_chap
Seeder/leecher/etc. stats are at:
http://hwcommunity.com/tracker/
Starring Ricky Gervais as Darth Brent, Mackenzie Crook as Captain Gared, and Martin Freeman as Commander Ti Canbu.
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The "active bookmark" in Firefox truncated the title to "New Star Wars Movie From The Maker" and I got all excited like maybe Lucas was gonna make still another Star Wars movie. Cursed points of elipses being nearly invisible on a high-resolution screen...
:)
I guess it could be worse. I could have watched "Star Troopers".
You just don't get it, do you? You can insult me but you can't hurt my feelings. You're just wasting your time and proving that you're a fat-loving /. retard.
Just watched it, it was great. Quite a different angle on the empire than we're used to seeing.
I pretend to know more than I really do by mooching off google and wikipedia.
Awesome, I cant wait for the sequels.
As the title of the post says, I submitted this story 2 weeks ago and it got rejected. It wasn't exactly fresh then, since the IMPS chapter 1 was released on May 25th, but it's a lot less fresh now.
I was certain somebody would submit it again later and it would be accepted. I just didn't want to bother the editors with it again. Oh well, here it finally is and that's good, since it is worth the attention.
Zonk was on shift after CmdrTaco 2 weeks ago (5th) just like on this day (19th), and Zonk rejected it. I would have bet a coke back then that if it had been submitted about an hour earlier to CmdrTaco it would have been accepted. It seems I would have won that bet...
Anyway, the point of this little complain is, I knew it would be of some interest to the slashdot crowd since Troops was and still is a positive exception in the sea of less than memorable SW fan films. Too bad Zonk couldn't realize this, or it would have been a little fresher for everyone (and isn't that what Slashdot is suppose to be about?).
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I've yet to see one that didn't make me laugh out loud. Seriously. They all have fat Americans running around pretending to be cool, which is just silly. :) Like they're trying to relive something in their childhood on film. I can understand that, but just try and keep it to yourself. Until fans get the idea that little things called "production value" and "the ability to write dialog" are necessary for any scripted fan creation, we're just going to see more and more of these horrible videos. oof.