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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"
Please use http://www.starwreck.com/torrent/star_wreck_itp_su btitled_xvid.torrent to get the torrent. That will serve the file from the fastest server depending on load and your location.
Please note that movie is released under Creative Commons license. I wonder if they will release it in US ? May be not. different copyright laws etc
Bit Torrent makes for a very strange comment: "Hey! Cool! This link is slashdotted!"
Well, according to a post a few posts up, the movie is under a Creative Commons license, hence, it is legal.
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Plot Summary for
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (V)
The future looks bleak for Captain Pirk. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the 21st century. The world of the past is a dangerous place and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. To make things right Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...
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The movie is released under a Creative Commons license and the .torrent is on the official web site, so yes, it's legal.
-Arto
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Gotta see it to believe it. Unless the creators of the movie are the only finns with a sense of humour in all Finland or members of their Swedish minority...
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The movie is released under Creative Commons, as you can see from the site itself.
So if you can, mirrors would be greatly appreciated. We have a fast setup, but there are a lot of people downloading the movie.
-Rigi, the Star Wreck webmonkey.
All I read looks like pure Star Trek spoofage, except it the Slashdot article.
Tell me I'm not downloading this for nothing...
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"Did that ever take a *damned* long time." People have waited this movie for years, it was out in the midnight local time and Slashdot publishes an article full 23 hours later. Is this still News for Nerds? Get some priorities! =)
Anyways, enjoy the movie - I pre-ordered the DVD and I've only watched it three and half times, but even based on such flimsy conclusions I can say I seriously think this thing just rules, one of the best scifi special effect movies I've seen, parody or not.
What I find it interesting is that the website also has the .srt subtitles *and* a fairly detailed explanation from the translator on the intricacies of the translation - I sure hope this will make fan-provided translations a little bit better. Right now, I'm waiting for them to release the kind-of-promised SW:ITP soundtrack. This movie has some damn good music.
Overall rating a 6 (8 if you are familiar with Startrek AND Babylon 5).
Technically the movie was very good. The sound quality was good and the special effects were solid. There were a few spots I think could use polish- for example with the ship takes off the first time it goes straight up- I think a little tilt would have been used in the real series. But the quality was pro level in my opinion- "B" movie, not "A" movie- but pro.
Costumes. The costumes were pretty solid but one of the lower parts of the movie. This makes sense and you have to spend -real- money to buy fabric. This is probably one of the limiting factors of non-big budget productions going forward. You can simulate the sets, you can get actors cheap, but you have to spend real money on things like costumes, chairs, etc.
Production Quality. It was decent but suffered from having a small cast. You would see scores of starships but then only 20-30 people. I think some crowd scenes could be digitally multiplied to make them more effect.
Tone. This is where the movie is uneven. It can't decide if it wants to be serious with humor or outright parody. Some parts are excellent, tense, serious and then it will veer sharply into stupid things that would not happen in real life. On the other hand- a lot of other scenes were much more like what WOULD happen in real life than you typically see in movies. The tone may be required to avoid lawsuits since parody is protected.
Acting. To be honest- there is a lot higher quality acting than you might expect. Some of it is that the actors already know the character they are playing so they don't have to make it up. I think some actors play multiple roles. There are at least a dozen major characters in the movie and ALL are distinct and stand out (which is quite a feat in a 2 hour film). None of it felt "wooden". A fair amount of it was a bit overblown.
Makeup. The costuming for Dwarf was a bit weak- and the costuming for a non alien was cheesy (a choice they made for a nose joke I think). Info was well done. General costumes are solid. The females looked pretty hot in some cases (but tall thin in a short black leather skirt is going to work in most cases).
Action Scenes. These were very weak. Probably the weakest part of the film. I guess hollywood stuntpersons deserve a lot more credit than they get. I can understand- actors just can't hit and be hit without hurting themselves or getting hurt. Stuntpeople mitigate injury through training and they still get hurt.
In Jokes. This is where SW rules. They really have a lot of fun poking jokes at the characters- even to the point of using them to advance the plot. Some are dead on, some are stupid, some misfire. But a lot more hits than misses.
Plot. The plot is very well thought out- much better than many "A" hollywood movies. It has plenty of twists and turns. You don't know what to expect at any given time. I won't give much away but it is NOT just about a bunch of CGI ships flying around fighting- they ADVANCE the plot with those battles, but the plot is about characters and character conflict.
Ending. The ending was solid- and well I won't say more but apparently there are some mistaken data assumptions.
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There are MANY hollywood films out that I would not watch for free. This movie, I would have happily paid 6 bucks to see (maybe 7).
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Is there an Azureus plugin that would automatically block peers that aren't in my side of the pond? Seems to me that it's ridiculous for the packets to start in Finland, cross the Atlantic, then back to other european countries. Perhaps not as drastic as block, but at least traffic shape/prioritize by physical proximity. (Yes I STFGoogle)
Please use the torrent file for maximized download. The servers are a bit crowded at the moment. There are several servers in New York, London and in Finland servicing the website and the direct downloads. However those servers typically have only a FE-network interface (100mbps) so it gets pretty crowded in an instant.
;-)
However right now at the time of this post it's almost midnight in local Finnish time (EET) so downloading from the Finnish servers might be the fastest direct download link ATM. Lots of fins are either partying/boozing or sleeping at the moment, or have downloaded the movie earlier today.
The Finnish servers are:
http://www-fi.starwreck.com/
http://www-fi2.starwreck.com/
However it is strongly adviced that you use bittorrent - if you want to get the movie a bit faster
oh p155 off... I've just finished watching it and have been in fits of laughter... you must have had you sense of humour extracted some time ago... there are several very deep in jokes in it... I especially liked the bit where Pirk and the Babel 13 captain were fighting each other in what appeared to be a tunnel... rather reminiscent of an early star trek episode where one protagonist was locked in eternal combat with his opposite from the anti-matter universe... and Pirks' female bridge officer... hmmm... seriously hot, those legs just seem to go on forever... especially when she's pulling her boots up most of the time...
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P2P software allows small artists to cheaply and easily distribute their work worldwide. RIAA/MPAA fears that some day people will realize that there is a lot of high quality entertaiment outside Hollywood.
Sorry, the only Finnish Star Trek parody worth spending time on is the Internet classic "DAMN YOU PIRARD". Anything else pales in comparison.
but not via a download. Come on, give us a 4GB iso that can be burnt to a DVD and watched like a regular DVD. Sigh. It's not like it's costing them that much in the way of bandwidth as it's torrented. I imagine that it will probably cost more (bandwidth wise) if they decide to release a full DVD version for download in the future because their won't be so many peers.
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Now also mirrored at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/culture/tv+film/StarWreck/
It's funny, and it's legal: don't be greedy and share it. If you have some kind of hosting with pre-paid bandwidth in excess, just use it. I'll be seeding it at 512KB/s (that's 4Mbps) for one week :-D
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The weird technical terminology in SW:ITP (such as "hand twinkler") has been consistently used in the previous Star Wreck movies, as well. They names are equally silly in the original Finnish dialog. There isn't really much you can do about it any longer, as those terms have become an integral part of the Star Wreck series.
That being said, if you have already seen the movie in its entirety, and don't fear of being spoiled any more, you might want to take a look at the annotated English translation which gives some backround to of many of the more peculiar word choices and figures of speech in the English subtitles.
Anyone considering fansubbing or fandubbing In the Pirkinning should study that document very carefully in order not to miss the many in-jokes and subleties in the original script.
Moreover, it would be highly advisable to contact the authors before conceiving translation projects of any kind so that things can be kept well-coordinated and technically sound, and you don't end up needlessly duplicating projects that others have already started working on.
To get in touch with the authors, try dropping a message on the Star Wreck Forum, or simply emailing them.
I think the people making the film have the right to decide the language used in their production. I'm sure they had their reasons to use Finnish instead of English. Seeing comments from people like you who don't seem to appreciate the diversity in this world, I begin to understand the French who carefully try to protect their language.
For the record, we are Finns, not fins. Here http://www.yourdictionary.com/images/ahd/jpg/A4fin .jpg are some fins.
You suggested that Finns are often angry and drunk. Well, where I live (student village in Espoo, Finland) people are often happy when drunk.
As a Finn myself I'm still skeptical about the international appeal. The film has received very good reviews and feedback, but it's all domestic. Speaking with the authoritative voice of a person who hasn't actually seen it yet, the fact is that In The Pirkinning makes extensive use of its Finnishness.
The subtitles of the previous installments don't seem to be there for allowing English-speakers to comprehend what's going on as much as compounding the funniness inherent in Star Trek in Finnish. They certainly don't work half as well on their own. Not only are a lot of nuances lost when converting Finno-Ugric speech into terse Latin-influenced Germanic writing, but someone relying on subtitles won't even notice the overtranslations - replacements for words that usually are just lifted from English - and has to skip a crucial part of the constant wordplay. Calling 'warp' 'twist' isn't funny. Calling 'warp' a Finnish word that can mean 'warp' 'twist' or 'perversion' while simultaneously displaying an English translation calling it 'twist' to an audience that fully well knows that it's 'warp'... that is funny precisely in the way that good jokes mess with your head. If you can't see why, that likely was my point.
As TNG episode "Darmok" tells us, even universal translators wouldn't guarantee full understanding, unless they were superadvanced subspace translators that interfaced directly with their users' brains feeding them required knowledge, but I digress. Even if the language barrier was removed the average outlander would hardly notice that Info's named after a bookstore chain, much less that his motto is from the old advertisements of said chain. He likely wouldn't have the right misconceptions about the Russian Mafia (even, or in fact especially, if he was actually Russian). Even if I was explaining the hilarious multi-faceted pun that is Garibaldi-equivalent's name I wouldn't know how. Juxtapositions are kinda lost on those who aren't familiar with both of the juxtees, too. And these things go on throughout the movie!
Don't get me started on the onslaught of sight gags or how much is conveyed by tone of voice.
I think you meant that the other way around. Normally download is faster than upload (precisely to keep you from using your home computer as a server).
I think the torrent systems are over-hyped as a SPEEDY way to download files. Like the Nutella and clones that followed the primary purpose of these things are (as I understand them):
* Provided a persistent (in the sense of "keeps trying") download for large files, with error correction, restart-ability, multiple sources/paths etc.
* Relative anonymity. The point is to guarantee that the file you end up with is the file you went after... authenticate the data, not you.
* Reduce or eliminate bandwidth cost to original file providers by spreading the workload out to (among others) home users.
* Manage your download and corresponding upload activity so as not to render your web browser useless. In other words there are caps placed on how much of your bandwidth gets used.
* Do all this without human intervention or giant server farm managing it.
You might look for some settings in your client that will speed things up, but depending on who else is downloading and what their limitations are, these adjustments may have little effect, no effect, or may make things worse.
Best bet is to start the download in the background and forget about it for a while (but don't forget so much that you turn your computer off at night). Look for a present under the tree 13 hours from now.
What the hell are you smoking? If you are going to spend 7 years on a movie, you damn better make it in whatever language you want to make it in. Picking you native language doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.
At least George Lucas knows how to really direct quality actors.
You must've seen a George Lucas movie that I haven't. George Lucas knows how to waste 300 million dollars on crappy special effects. If there was any actual acting in the last three Star Wars, I must've missed it.
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...about this movie wasn't the decent-to-good acting of the main characters, or the humorous yet interesting story, the hillarious gags, or even the totally awesome special effects.
;)
No, I think the most suprising thing about this movie is just how many good looking girls they managed to convince to participate in a complete geek-fest of a film. (Hellloooo Bridge-Girls!)
I dunno about the rest of you, but if there's really that many hot girls in Finland who like nerdy stuff, i'm packing my bags!
From what I found poking around on their forums, I believe they used Lightwave for their (extensive) special effects.
Star Wreck is a fan movie. It's basically zero-budget. There is simply no other fan movie coming even close to it. I think it is quite interesting to notice that unlike on most fan films, people always start (intentionally or intentionally) comparing SW to real movies like Hollywood stuff. That never happens on discussions about fan films.
Somebody below this even said 'this shows that Hollywood still rules' and 'at least George Lucas can direct professional actors'. Yeah, and does he do that in his bedroom? :D
Hollywood never produces anything like this, because a term Hollywood movie means at least some $$$ put into it by default. Even the worst of the worst have some budget. The reviews which compare SW to Hollywood stuff are a massive victory to the makers of this movie.
They just show that the flick is so neat for a fan flick that people can't treat it as such anymore :D
-el