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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."
You know it's a robust server when the editors slashdot the site before it's even posted.
Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
vanished! ;)
what a joke!
s p?pg=chapter1_download
try http://impstherelentless.com.nyud.net:8090/tek9.a
SURELY NOT!!!!!
Could someone create a torrent of the torrent?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/imps/i ndex.asp
If you're tired, sleep! Wenn Sie muede sind, schlafen!
http://www.torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=5102279
you're welcome
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
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
filefront mirror
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 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.
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
For those of us who can't use bittorrent:
FileFront
That's no torrent! It's a... Oh, nevermind >:(
You need a FREE iPod Nano
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)
One of the original posts had a posting to the torrent file on torrentreactor. The file downloaded but the tracker was obviously down.
In Azureus if you right click on the torrent file under "my torrents" you will see an option at the bottom that says "copy magnet URI to clipboard"
As for information. I learned about it from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_link
It is'nt the best description in the world but there are links at the bottom and within the document that link to better sources of information.
I find it amazing that more torrent sites don't publish the URI in addition to the torrent file.
The biggest problem is that people seem to not understand what/how Magnet URI's work in conjunction with Azureus.
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.
"well known" or "notoriety" is entirely subjective. . .
." aren't you?" God only knows how many people only recognize me by sight.
Well of course it is. I've had to make this very point any number of times myself when people have sought to claim that I either wasn't, or was, "famous."
Certainly any number of people, quite possibly in the millions, have seen my name and image in the traditional media and it isn't unheard of for complete strangers to walk up to me and say, "Oh, Hey, you're ". .
While browsing the web I've been startled to find pictures of myself I hadn't even known had been taken, being quoted in webzines, and even as an attributed, by full name, sig.
In certain niche fields I have even been branded a "legend" by some.
And yet "nobody" has ever heard of me. I'm probably most "notorious" right now right here on Slashdot (I've spent the past 5 years or so actively seeking to keep my name out of the traditional press. It's in all the local papers right now anyway) Of the thousands of people who have read my posts I'd hazard you couldn't find ten who would recognize my name or image.
It's a funny world we live in these days. You can be known to millions and unheard of, at the same time. I am and am not "well known" depending upon the context of the phrase.
Ask any random person on the street if they know who Einstein was and you'll likely get the answer, "Yes."
Ask the same person if they know who Bertrand Russell was and you'll likely get the answer, "No," but you can find his entry in even the most pathetically bad general encyclopedia.
We've had to invent a phrase to indicate "noteriety" that goes beyond mere "fame":
Household Word
And yet you'll find households that have not heard of even Einstein.
In my city of 60,000 you'd be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't heard of Michael Jordan; and equally hard pressed to find one who has heard of David Beckham.
Would you posit, because of this, that David Beckham isn't "well known?"
some people really need to get back to reality once in a while
Exactly. You are, like it or not, a mere data point in the statistical phenomenon of "well known," not its measure.
KFG
The modern internet has nothing like the old redundancy. Go check out NANOG and listen to them bitching about it.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"And now, young Jedi, witness the power of this fully operational web server!
Oops, wait, hang on, oh forget it...."
Well, for starters, they aren't George Lucas.
Considering that he's been doing voice work for 40 years, I think he's earned the right to take it easy these days. He did voices in most of the well-known action cartoons in the 80s (he was Optimus Prime, for example), so it's not like he's a nobody.
I mean, sure, I'd be even more impressed if they got Frank Welker on board, but his voice doesn't have that resonating quality that Cullen's voice has.
Yeah, but please note that some sites (e.g. torrentspy) publish an equivalent information: the info hash.
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__()
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.