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Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete
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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It's got some really hot Finnish chicks in it.
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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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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Yes a totally shameless plug of A FREE HOBBYIST MOVIE.
RTFA.
In case you did not know, Satire is entirely protected by free speech in the United States. Since they changed the names of the charachters, they should be even more protected from the lawyers. For what it is worth, however, they could have used the USS Enterprise and everything else as long as it was satire. How do you think TV shows like Saturday Night Live and MAD TV get away with it all the time?
Thanks to Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt, satire has been protected by a landmark supreme court decision. A fan flick is not satire, in case you didn't know. Fan flicks are not protected free speech, though, personally I think anything you can create whether it be music, speech, or video should all be protected under our first amendment rights. Blatant plagurism is one thing, but creating something new based upon an existing concept should be protected, especially when there is no financial gain to be made, as in fan flicks.
If the republic represented people instead of corporations, this would be the case. A good idea to see who your congressperson represents would be to look at their campaign donations. Too bad so much soft money gets unrecorded, not to mention people in congress who likely line their pockets for pushing through pro-corporate legislation. How do you think the Senators get to be the rich white men they are?
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A friend of mine always asks the same thing about Linux guys. Here is my theory:
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Once upon a time (any time within the 20th century before the 1960s in the United States), men only had short conservative hair cuts and women had hair like Donna Reed. During these times, all dissent on any front was not only frowned upon but wound up getting you investigated as a "dirty red". But, as is wont to happen, the conservatives became more and more corrupt and the average person began seeing through their illusion of morality. More and more of those "beatniks" and their kind started to become prevalent in society and the conservatives lost their grip.
In the 60s, the counterculturalists morphed into hippies and one of the symbols of the males of their rebellion was to grow long hair as a reaction against the crew cut. This trend spread until not only hippies had long hair, but even college professors, detectives, doctors and even lawyers (by the 80s)! What was once a symbol of rebellion had become a weakened style statement with no real substance. By the 90s you were seeing a mixture of men sporting both crew cuts and pony tails.
Finally, sometime between the 70s and now, geeks (who are woefully behind the times in terms of style and counterculture) caught onto the concept of the male pony tail. This seemed to spread throughout several of the geek subcultures such as the Linux community, gamers, sci-fi fans and the like. The meaning of the pony tail amongst these folk is somewhat of a mystery because it's likely to be both a symbol of some kind of rebellion (akin to, "I shake my fist at thee") and an awkward fashion statement. So it's safe to say that the reason these folks have pony tails is probably because they want them. But it's also safe to say that they probably haven't a clue in the world WHY they want them. Except maybe because "so and so has one and he's super cool".
Did that clear things up?
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Well, because this
I find the idea of homemade space battle movie very much in line with "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Everyone is complaining about the (low) quality of stuff that Hollywood produces; suppose every hobbyist with a computer could make professional-looking special effects ? What would that mean about indie movies ability to compete with Hollywood ones ?
Think about it - a virtual movie studio right in your own computer, complete with virtual actors (because, lets face it, keeping several people working on a project like an indie movie is propably going to be the hardest part - it's not nice if the main character walks away halfway through), costumes, sets, semi-automatic cameramen...
What kind of movie would you want to write and direct today ?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Even more importantly, the film is made in Finland, where we have a nice and clean justice system aimed for punishing the criminals justly, not just the poor one that can't pay the legal fees. Even a confession isn't enough to get one conviced in here, you still need proof to go with it. And besides the same group has made several star wrek movies already, this is just the sixth and by far the best.