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Star Wreck Released as Download
Arto Rantala writes "After seven years of production, Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning, the Finnish Star Trek / Babylon 5 parody movie, was finally released on DVD a month ago and is now available for download. In spite of its practically zero budget, the film has a hilariously captivating story, top notch CGI and even a couple of performances from professional actors. Download it now and buy the DVD if you like it! I know I did. You can also obtain it directly from the .torrent"
The language doesn't help. I have no troubles following subs and have watched my fair share off, to me, foreign language shows from germany, france, italy, asia etc. I just can't seem to get into finnish. If you are going to spend 7 years on a movie learn english. It is not that hard.
The special effects are sorta okay. Oh the space scenes are okay but the problem is with the take off scene. We have had similar scenes in all the real Star Trek movies with one tiny little difference. Humans. For a long time now shots of spaceships taking off have included human beings. The famous shot off the Millenium Falcon taking off with stormtroopers in the foreground now close to two decades ago makes the star wreck scene look, well look like a nicely rendered 3d studio scene. It is a nice 3d model but it is also extremely clear that it is no more. Remember that Final Fantasy that was so beautifull but lacked live? This is worse.
Decor, there was or maybe still is a fad for showing news programs in a virtual studio so they can all kinds of fancy decors without actually having to build them. Star Wreck is filled with them, especially the star trek bridges. THEY LOOK HUGE. Gigantic. Also grainy and empty. All the elements are there but for some reason it just doesn't seem to connect. It doesn't LOOK trek in the way even a cheap skit from the BBC or Saturday Night Life does.
The battles. Mmmm, I think someone wanted to show off how many star ships could be rendered at the same time. Showy, flashy but well lacking. None of the explosions are followed up by interior shots showing the effects. The Babylon fighters don't dogfight. In short it lacks the spark that we have seen in tv episodes with the real thing.
The plot. Perhaps there is something I missed but I just couldn't get involved. This is personal, especially since humor is involved and what one person finds hilarious others find not. Good parody for me comes very close to the original. Simply put, this is not how the star trek crew would behave not even if you take them to extremes of their character. Exactly WHY does picard choose to rule the world? I must have missed that.
The cutting. Cutting makes or breaks a movie. A scene can be made or broken by lasting just a few seconds to long. There are to many pauses, to many wasted moments. CUT CUT CUT. Most home movies suffer from this. Learn from the pros. Cut fast and cut often, it stops the viewer from getting bored. It also stops them from noticing pixalation in your background or badly stitched uniforms.
The acting. Well as said the finnish didn't exactly help me to "read" the emotions. It all sounded like they were permantly angry and drunk. Granted knowing fins this might be actually true.
The cutting also made some scenes drag out to long where you had several seconds of the cast just standing around after everything had been said wasting any quality acting.
Truly this movie is a huge achievement but at the same time I think it also shows a direction Home movies SHOULD not go. Learn to walk before you learn to run. First learn to direct and cut basic acting on regular set before you try to add hollywood type effects.
Simply put this seems awfully similar to those parodie porn movies, just with slightly better cgi. For a 7 years production I expected better acting. After watching this I am finally ready to face the last chapter of Star Wars. At least George Lucas knows how to really direct quality actors. (Well he does compared to the fins).
It is mean to be hard but basically I seen better star trek spoofs on various comedy shows over the years.
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I think they should call the 10^3 KBs something like "old professors shouldn't be using computers because they can't learn new tricks anyway KBs".
The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Leave my 2^10 KBs alone, change yours instead, tack an L for lame in front of your cretinous 10^3 KBs and let the computer users have a size unit that doesn't wobble around randomly.
How the feck would you like it if each hour was now 2% shorter because the pope says so, and now theres an extra half hour at midnight, and we need to throw out all of our old clocks, rewrite lots of software, revise many schedules, alter time based formulas (after a few more NASA projects blow up and crash and stuff), etc. Of course some people think its insane and try clinging to the old ways, and now hours are utterly untrustworthy measurements.
Actually, the traditional KB doesn't get a leap half-hour and we have to deal with the computing equivlent of a 51 week year, complete with lunatics shouting "hey, its your fault you don't rotate your clock 7.2 degrees every day!"
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