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EvilNTUser writes "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning can now be ordered on DVD, and will hopefully be shipped before 2005-09-06 unless you slashdot them (the link uses Coral). The independent movie is a 103 minute parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5, with all special effects rendered by the makers themselves. It looks like all the delays were worth it, so make sure you don't miss Captain Pirk's quest for world domination."
This doesn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been following Star Wreck. They announced that the 20th would be the release date a while ago. It was even the first thing I blogged about.
The english order page is here, but the darn thing is quite expensive. It's listed as 24 euros, which is $29.35 in American money.
Also, the release date for Internet distribution is October 1st.
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Why should anyone care about this? Hemos should be bashed around the head with a very large cluestick.
The job of editors is to make good articles better, and bad articles go away, dig?
Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
can we post at all?
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Starting 1.10.2005(or 2005-10-01..which ever way you mark your dates) the entire thing should be available for download from their site.
Well.. Posting something containing both babylon 5 and star trek on a site like slashdot sure doesn't cause /.-ing...
;)
Good luck
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Second: How can they sell this and not get eaten alive by MPAA?
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the acting in the trailer didn't look too bad, either. Though, compared to the actual Star Trek films or late, the acting is probably superb.
Let's hope that their many years of hard work pay off!
It's not only a parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5, it's one fighting against the others.
Already slashdotted.
Could you please host mirrors of these articles locally!?
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Ummm...
Hmmmm...
It's got some really hot Finnish chicks in it.
Is it just me, or does it seem that nobody has anything to say on
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This is offtopic, but /. seem to have suddenly become read-only. Please mod me down if this is wrong.
Finnish media has been all over the film, calling it "The first Finnish Sci-fi movie." I just hope "normal" people are not going to see the film expecting to see good acting, because if you've seen the previous parts and the trailer, you can tell they are terrible actors.
I'm sure people who have liked the previous parts will like the film however.
Looks like a good laugh and a half, but I don't know if I would spend any money on it.
Looks fairly promising, trailer made me laugh out loud twice.. though I understand that weird language they spoke too ;-)
I got an inappropriate site warning from my corporate firewall/proxy when visiting this link!!!
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I'm drooling at the mouth now! But as I understand it, the movie isn't finished yet. But from the screen shots and trailers, it looks to be quite entertaining. First Post?
Never heard of this until now, even though it's been around for > 10 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wreck
Why is there always a dude with a ponytail in these "fan movies"?
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First post?
What happened? The comment system isn't working anymore. Don't mod me down, it's really broken. No comments since the last three stories.
Slashdot staff is embarassing.
Need I say more.
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Which is better, Star Trek or Babylon 5?
Wasn't this previously released under the title Star Wars Episode 1?
I liked the trailor. Although I do wish it was in English. I had problems keeping up with the fast pase subtitles. :(
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If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning finished! Saturday August 20, @08:38PM Rejected
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Can I take the collosal comment silence surrounding this entry to mean that no one else has heard of this movie either?
Those have to be some of the best special effects I've ever seen in an independent film.
Err, live long and prosper Captain, I mean.
Trek fans should check out http://www.newvoyages.com/ too if you like indie Trek TV.
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After seven long years, the first Finnish science fiction comedy, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, is finally finished!
Christ. With a description like that, I am positively overflowing with excitement.
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I guess everyone is busy slashdotting the server.
Unfortunately this thing's effectiveness for native English speakers should be somewhat lower. In the past, quite a bit of Star Wreck humor has depended on the bare-faced overtranslation of Trek terms.
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no comments yet?
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Oh, wow, another Star Trek parody! I wonder what holds the record on the number of parodies made fromit, probably Star Wars but Star Trek's got to be damn close.
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This story's been up for 20 or 30 minutes and no one's bothered posting anything on it. Not even your usual first posting "1 am teh sux0rz types". How weird. Is it just that no one knows what to make of a Finnish comedy? A parody, no less, of Star Trek? I'm still a little stunned, honestly.
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Wow! That was quick. Bittorrents or mirros please, anyone?
this one of the first (if not the first) comment of the article, and the link is already slashdotted!
I used to be a huge fan of ST TNG but the movies that they made after the series were sub par.
The thing that pisses me off most, is that they turned the Borg into frigging vampires. This, in my opinion (as an American) is the standard American moral cop out. The Borg were evil because of their evil queen leader. Kill the evil leader and the people are cured. The Nazis were evil because of Hitler. The Chinese were Communists because of Mao. At least the series had members of the Borg Collective in thrall to a fascist leader (lore) after their destruction, so it wasn't like everything was a-okay.
While I have my problems with The Matrix (I could believe in humans being enslaved in the Matrix in order to use their neural nets for the purpose of the Machines, but for energy? Too inefficient), it was one of the few films which didn't fall back on this cliched notion of evil. It showed people fighting because they were nations and because of economic reasons. It even had the guts to blame humans for the war. I wish Star Trek would have taken a similar tack, showing how the Borg were formed, not by some evil leader, but by economic conditions and competition, and by their own 'free' will.
After all, eventually Borg style networking will be more efficient than going to school for 16 years to learn what you need to know. It'll be like an instant college degree. Economics and the race to the bottom as people compete tends to compell certain life choices and the use of certain technology. And those choices change us as humans and as a society.
I suppose that's the theme of GATTACA, to a degree. I think Star Trek would have been better off using The Borg to the same effect.
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"Perkele" is a common Finnish swear that means something like "to the devil!" I'm sure the title is an oblique reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_bloc
a 103 minute parody of Star Trek and Babylon 5
How Timely.
Woah, really spooky... Just had a little deja-vu a few minutes ago, but never thought reality would have actually been altered. Obviously, I was wrong... What's next today, Hell freezes over or something?
All jokes aside, big congrats to EvilNTUser!
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Looks like the Coral Cache link is no good, and MirrorDot doesn't have it. So here's a Google cached version of the page. Anyway, after it comes out, where can I find the torrent?
Where is the torrent? I don't want to wait!
Wasn't Trekkies enough of a parody to satisfy anyone's needs?
Oh, wait, that wasn't a parody.
If its as good as that Star Wars: Revelations fan film, im gonna have to check it out.
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1. Star Trek 2. Babylon 5 3. ??? 4. Nerds uniting profit
Shame I don't speak their crazy moon language :)
It's really heartening to see projects such as this. The production quality of amateur (home brew?) film making, especially sci-fi, is really impressive.
I'm not going to judge this on the strength of its trailer, but one parallel I've noticed recently is a lot of amateur film-making falls into the Hollywood-type style-over-substance trap.
Guess we're all equals now.
If you're livin' in a bubble and you haven't got a care Well, you're gonna be in trouble 'cause we're gonna steal your air 'Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds We're the Spaceballs! Watch out, 'cause we're the Spaceballs We're the masters of space Hey, don't mess around with the Spaceballs. Uh! Going cruisin' in a spaceship, we're so good at being bad We'll destroy your little planet if you ever get us mad We're mothers of the galaxy You better scatter when you see The Spaceballs! Watch out, we're the Spaceballs!
From the trailer, it looks like they're headed for some serious lawsuits for selling this on DVD. Paramount is not exactly known for playing nice with fan sites, much less fan flicks that use their IP. And I doubt WB is all too pleased, either.
/. story with NO comments. O.o
And where are all the comments? This is like the fourth
Darn those effects look good! Now if I could just understand ONE word they are saying ;) . In any event, I'll just have to read the subtitles...
no posts? hmmm... maybe is due to the Coral link... does it scares people away when is in the article?
GWB in Line with Hitler. Nice... What did he do to piss off the Finns?
does it also feature the Continuum Transfunctioner? ..if not then I'm not buying.
Since when does slashdot stoop this low? Where's the 'Stuff that matters."?
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Why?
nothing to read here.
Still waiting for the trailer to download.
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I'm quite interested to see how the Finns pull of full-length sci-fi comedy, considering very few other countries seem to have even got close to making it funny.
hmm i feel strangely unfulfilled.
No comments, and it's already slashdotted...
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Just wish it was in english -- Hearing Klingon in Finnish is interesting, even though you can still tell its Klingon ....
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And those cheap bastards, who prefer to get everything for free, downloadable version should be available in the beginning (no pun intented) of October.
I pre-ordered mine weeks ago.
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The Finns had an amusing export a few years back: a parody of a Russian rock band called the "Leningrad Cowboys" I'm sure they inspired this project. Unfortunately Finnish culture doesn't reach the US easily. Even "Moomintrolls," probably the most internationally recognizable Finnish product, never really caught on in the US. Better luck this time
Do they mean the makers of the movie, or of the original series?
does this boldly go where others have gone before to clean up the rubble ?
Slashdotted already?? And to think I was all ready to fork over some money for an unseen movie, too!
Several stories have gone past with no comments; it's a little spooky, so I'm just seeing if commenting is broken...
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Ever since I saw the first trailers, I was amazed at the high quality of this movie.
The internet release is unfortunately set at 1/10. Looks like we'll have to wait a while before we can freely download this movie.
What is this, the 3rd one in recent years? Why can't people make fun of something else?
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I ordered mine. These guys have done huge amount of work on this, and I hope them all the best.
"The first Finnish full-length scifi comedy"
Finally Finland has a film that can compete with this gem from Denmark.
first first post (or not)
I was thinking about the same thing, i work with lightwave, and i recently downloaded the babylon 5 models, the amount of time and resources involved in doing this is imense, doing this for no money at all is increadible, i hope someone who has seen this will post on /. and let us know what they think about it. oh by the way FP.
Unbelievable....I'm the first to comment on this article!!!!
/link that makes fun of one of the greatest TV series of all times? If that's so, then I'm with you..
What's up people? no one interested in a Star Trek Parody? or is this the way we geeks are supposed to pay tribute to the Star Trek series? by not posting any comments on an article
Even the Coral cache this time!
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I, for one, will be preordering this.
I might even order one for my parents.
unless you slashdot them
/. article...
The chances of this happening are about the same as me getting the first comment on a
For years we filmed terrible fan films knocking off Star Trek with our inside jokes. Bad editing, horrible lighting and desperate acting, but more than 15 years later we'll still quote the movies and laugh.
/. effect soon to be history?
I'm buying this for sure, only because someone else put on DVD what we only dreamed of. I haven't gone to a movie theater in years but I'll happily support those who can do so much for so long.
Also thanks to the article poster or editor who used Coral for the link. Is the
Bab5 is a true epic and far above a lot of SciFi series. Yes, you had to go through crap eye-candy/bloat like Star Wars to get to B5, but B5 epitomizes the God vs. Evil saga a whole lot better. I'll give these guys a chance, but I'll split the cost of the DVD with my buddie, Heath. Out, Marcos PS: Have never had the patience for a full sit-down to a single SW episode. Booooring! Albeit, Triumpth the Comic Dog whipped some fans' asses on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
It does look pretty cool :-)
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That is to say "No need for Hollywood" or MPAA or DMCA for that matter....unfortunately their supporters won't see it that way. Wasn't "Thumb wars" similar to this though? What are other signs that the Hollywood-MPAA hedgemony are not currently necessary or perhaps useful, if they ever were.
I get the distinct feeling that something about Slashdot is broken right now...
But maybe it's just me.
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I had never heard anything about this, but dang, those are some nice looking special effects! It's hard to tell if the acting is decent or not due to the language barrier, but it seems like a fun movie anyway. I might have to order it...
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Is this parody downloadable too? Or only on DVD?
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That's all find and dandy, but when is the torrent release date? :D
Star Wreck series must be among the best movies ever come out of Finland. These guys have really worked hard on the latest. My hat is off to them.
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It looks like everyone is eager to see it... do we wait 103 minutes for a first comment? Wait... never mind!
A question for someone who speaks both languages.
In the trailer there are a lot of seemingly bizarre translations. Twinkler Banks is a great example. Was that a translation made on the word or the meaning of the words? Or was it just wrong altogether? While I understand it is a parody, foreign humor can be difficult to understand at times. Fortunately special effects usually are not confusing.
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I can't seem to access the website, so I can't get anything in the way of background data. Does the 6 in the article's title imply there are 5 others, or does it have some other significance? Andrew Beard
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If you spend $50 million on polishing up a piece of dog crap, you still have a piece of crap, nicely polished in the end.
Let's hope that these guys (please, please) spent a lot of time on the script, story, etc, which will make a good movie/story. Independent films are often much better than those big over-produced films. These Hollywood monstrousities often have 10 producers, all adding their various formula of bells and whistles, that they think some standard audience will like. That's why there are so many sequels out there - it's a "safe" gamble for the studio, and usually BORING.
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Mind you, the language barrier might have something to do with it, but even the English trailer makes it look much more tragic than comedic. I expected to be laughing. Instead, it all just seemed so sad to me. I guess I don't get it.
The special effects are incredible, though.
Is this a news item, or an advertisement?
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To whoever used a Coral link in the submission, nice one. If Slashdot could either automatically do that, or have the editors change links to point to a cache, the Slashdot effect could be minimised quite considerably.
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This appears to be the end result of an awful lots of work.... and absolutely no sense of humor.
As usual, cheers to the CGI and OMGZ to everything else.
This movie looks awesome. Production quality looks great for a no-budget fan film. From the article:
I also hope they'll be the first feature-length movie to be distributed legally using BitTorrent, as a burnable DVD image! It could serve as an example for online distribution, and perhaps encourage more independent filmmakers to make movies and show their work. I'm sick and tired of the remakes/formula-movies coming out of hollywood.
I would have expected less from some independents but I guess maybe I need to start raising the bar for what I should start expecting from independent film makers in the effects arena. I have to check this out if only for the effects.
:)
Thankfully this is a parody or I could only imagine the pain and suffering that would come from all of the IP (ship designs) that they borrowed
Did anyone else notice the Kestrel from Ambrosia Software's Escape Velocity in the background in the trailer? No? Oh, well.
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Boldy going where no slashdotter has gone before.
...at least I now know the Finnish word for 'fragfest.'
Too bad there is no Finnish word for 'comedy.'
the downloads are breaking up, captain.
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Any reviews? Screenies? Anything?
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looks like the site has been slashdotted :-( I see no site, and i dare not let my web broswer boldly go to places where no web browser has gone before ^_^
Did they make 5 films before this one?
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It's too bad after 6 years of development and with such great CG, they didn't figure out how to light the set properly most of the time. Total lack of realization of the importance of lighting. No accent good accents, too dim. Frustrating to watch, seems pretty good otherwise.
What is the sense of titling the movie in english if if all of the script/speech inside is giberish(ie unknown foreign language)? Secondly, I personally love to watch foreign language movies so I can miss everything that is going on in the movie because I have to read subtitles, NOT! Even some lousy japanese voiceovers would have been better than that crap.
Seemed like comments were broken.. I started to see comments for posts just moments ago.
What will the 40000 lawyers accuse them of?
Best screenshot ever
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Just read the subtitles? I've seen plenty of movies spoken in language that I do not understand and happily just read the subtitles.
:)
(This particular movie is not a problem, as I'm Finnish.
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Love the 'splosions!
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Maybe its just me, but I'll probably order this thing just to get the well-done scenes of the Agamemnon (err Amigo) and White Stars fighting Federation starships.
I can only hope the Agamemnon et al kick the asses of those self-rightgeous, pretentious gits of the Federation. And if they can't, hopefully the shadows show up and slice them to bits.
Crappy dubs tend to increase the comdedic affect of parodies.
I am a hard core subs person when it comes to the serious flick, but a parody is just funnier when the dialogue sounds as if it's gone through 10 languages to make it to your ears.
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I guess they do not want that arrogant viewers anyway. It has ENGLISH SUBTITLES, just stick in reading them and listening to our crazy moon language. I've seen the movie in the premiere, and hell it was good. Better than anything I've seen this year, at the very least.
Please don't generalize, most Americans I know prefer subtitles over dubbed. I personally can't stand it when lips don't move according to what's being said. Plus I find it's more engrossing to hear the original language.
What's the link to the torrent?
If I like it, I'll buy it.
I will. Really.
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EXACTLY! While the special effects are VERY impressive, too many elements identical to Star Trek.....i.e. Galaxy, Sovereign, Miranda class vessels shown prominently in the video. Almost looks like some Star Trek effects people might have collaborated on this video...even the hand phaser beams rendered looked just like in the series....
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