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Star Trek Spoof Top Finnish Movie
Dotnaught writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that the science fiction spoof "Star Wreck: in the Pirkinning" has become Finland's most viewed movie. From the article: " [...] relying on free distribution over the Internet to reach more than 3 million viewers in less than two months. "Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning" is a full-length feature in Finnish with English subtitles. It was made by a group of students and other amateur film makers with a bare-bones budget and a few home computers to create elaborate special effects."
it is also the only Finnish movie
its worth the watch, its quite good.
If I have to listen to one more of that guy's speeches...
From their website:
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http://www-uk.starwreck.com/torrent/star_wreck_it
It's quite good, I'm told. I've not got access to broadband, but I hear that it will be coming to DVD (not that anyone expects to make any money off of it). I'll be getting it, and from what I've heard it's one of those movies that I would buy on DVD even if I DID have access to broadband. I encourage anyone who has any intrest in it to check it out.
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"relying on free distribution over the Internet to reach more than 3 million viewers in less than two months"
And this is where Slashdot comes in, eh?
It amazes me to see what can happen when corporations and communities embrace these sort of online ditribution methods. If it were in america you'd have who ever produce Star Trek screaming about pirates stealing the food out of their mouths and the shirts off their backs..
Well done, this can only lead to more free entertainment.
serenity now!
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Started the BT and already downloading at 500KB/s! 20 mins remaining... I think that's shorter than the commercials I have to pay to watch at the local theatre. I hope this proves to some here in the U.S. that restricting the ways we share data will just limit our creativity as a society in the long run.
USE VERBS IN YOUR HEADLINES! Where is the verb? Star Trek Spoof is Top Finnish Movie! Does this piss anyone else off?
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Yes, it really pissed off the grammar nazis - to the extreme.
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can't wait for the slashdot effect on the torrent...it is rather sluggish.
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Doesn't the interest in a spoof proof that people still like to see Star Trek? Where is the next Star Trek movie? I would love to see an IMAX production.
That depends what your definition of IS is.
In Soviet Russia you'd get shot for such a lame joke.
To be fair, they also spoofed Babylon 5.
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Anyone else read this as "Lucas" vs "Linus"?
Given how bad the last 3 SW movies were I wondered if Lucas had returned to his non-professional roots.
USE ARTICLES IN YOUR COMMENTS! Where is the article? Star Trek Spoof is the Top Finnish Movie! Does this piss anyone else off?
I thought it was some newly invented star trek language, to get around the copyrights on Klingon.
Klingon is copyrighted, yes?
although this is still a good tactic.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
For that that would like to watch, it is subtitled (or at least the version I saw was) and also quite good. There's a little lost sometimes in the translation, but the overall plot is interesting, FX are decent (and quite good in some places) and there are a lot of funny additions/quirks.
Likely their site will /. soon....
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How could you not mention Aki's greatest work, "Leningrad Cowboys Go America" ?
It was a big hit as far away as Australia, where the band actually did a concert tour - I swear!
It didn't hurt its popularity that the movie was mostly in English. Well worth watching, if you like twisted humour.
Unfortunately, they wouldn't sell me a disc, citing "legal reasons." Oh well, maybe I'll buy a t-shirt or something.
Defenestrate Windows...
Apparently they spoof Babyon 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5 a bit, too. Around these parts, we regard it as a better sci-fi series than some of the later parts of the Trek universe. Let the flamewar begin.
Posterity, my posterior.
I like the rope lights, personally.
:)
Better for cube adornment.
Pretty Pictures!
It really was outstanding considering it was done on zero budget. Quite entertaining, I hope they make more movies.
There was a German Star Trek parody that came out last year called (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1. I haven't seen it, but I saw ads on television for it when I was in Germany last year, and it looked pretty goofy. Raumschiff is the German word for spaceship, but Traumschiff would be like "dreamship". So it's like a dual meaning. Periode is Period. 1 is 1. Has anyone seen this movie? Is it worth watching? My German is only so-so, but my Trek is pretty good:) Will I be able to understand enough of this movie without a universal translator? Cause I'd really like to see it.
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If you keep in mind that it's a comedy first, and a drama second, then you won't be disapointed. It's not supposed to be Star Trek, it's Star Wreck, another universe, so don't be whining about how it doesn't match Star Trek canon.
The ending kinda disapointed me, but mostly because I wanted more! So overall I think I gave it a [5/10] because for an amateur production it's 10/10, but up against real actors and writers it's more like a 3/10. The special effects are top drawer though, in any league.
For other Star Trek spinoffs, look up http://www.newvoyages.com/ they have two episodes of original Trek available for free by torrent. A third is on the way soon and features Star Trek TOS and Babylon 5 actor Walter Koenig [spelling?] - Chekov / Bester.
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Amature films, as these guys have shown, are all the time becomming more realistc. With the computer power and high availability of digital camcorders any group of friends can write, film and star in a full length movie. With the open source Cinipaint and Blender special effects can even be done on a home computer that can rival a lot of the best special effects of movies from the mid to late 90's, and in some cases even very recent movies.
I've been working on just such a project, doing special effects for a fantasy film that's going to be shot in greece. The entire group consists of the writer/director, a camera/lighting guy, a makeup artist/costume designer, a set guy, 3 actors, an actress, 1 guy doing editing and postprocessing, and myself, doing CGI. That's 10 people, working on a budget of about 12,000. [shamless self-promotion] The script is quite a bit better than most of the dreck that comes out of hollywood- without having the pretentious or preachy feel that people (wrongly) associate with independent films. The makeup effects and costumes are top notch considering the budget (the makeup artist studied with Tom Savini of Night of the Living Dead fame), and the special effects are comming on quite nicely- there is a scene we affectionatley call "Helms Deep" with over 200 creatures that should be one of the main story arcs that I've been working on for about a month.
The movie is going to be released free on the net, with DVD sales hopefully making up for the financing that's come out of pocket from a lot of the people who've been working with the project.
I think this is the reason the MPAA is afraid of Peer to Peer networks, and the internet in general. People now have the ability to make and distribute movies all across the globe for less than the catering budget of most big hollywood movies. It's not that they are afraid that people are going to pirate their movies, it's that they are afraid people are going to make the obsolete.
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The movie is amazingly amazing! The quality is superbe. Not only do they have nice clothes and fancy computer stuff in the background, also the computer generated graphics are marvelous. (Except for the "alien" ships which seem to have a slightly worse 3D modell.)
:) - didn't look real at all.
Now: why do the "professionals" need so much time and money for something like this? For example, the European re-take of "Dune" was just hillarious, the dunes for example - and there were a lot of dunes in Dune
Star Wreck at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472566/
It actually has received quite decent votes.
Bah, everyone is saying this is a star trek spoof - it also parodies B5 quite a bit too (and, IMHO, a bit better)
If you haven't seen it, do. CGI is pretty damn good for a project with basically no budget.
The subtitles are kind of bad, but in a funny kind of way.
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You missed it. After years of research, it has been discovered that Star Trek was just a spoof of a "top Finnish movie".
*ducks*
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Ensign: They'll die laughing?
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I haven't STFM (Seen The Full Movie) but from the title, I guess it is not only Star trek's spoof but Babylon 5's too ( Babylon 5: The Gathering/In the Beginning).
Even in formal English it is possible to have an 'understood' form of the verb 'to be' in a sentence. In journalism, while copy and desk editors are usually exhorted to have active verbs in headlines whenever possible, sometimes using a weak, passive verb such as a form of 'to be' is unavoidable, and in those circumstances, many simply opt to use an understood form of it. This is more common in narrow columns of newspaper text where headline space is at a premium, but obviously some people have just gotten used to writing heds this way and have carried those habits over to other media, or have gotten so used to seeing newspaper headlines written that way that they have chosen, consciously or subconsciously, to emulate it. Lighten up. It's entirely correct and quite a common practice.
terl us about "sprit infinitives" next grammah resson...
No, it not piss off me.
I'd be much more impressed with the alien technology if it could create earthquakes in new Orleans and hurricanes in Pakistan and Turkey, instead of the other way round!
seen it, and apart from them speaking Finnish, it was actually good. Im amazed to see what a bunch of amateur students and some computer-skills can do, the effects are similar to hollywood 15 years ago.
Before Star Wreck previous top movie was made 1955, and in 50 years it has gathered an audience of 2,8 million. The movie is called Unknown soldier (Tuntematon sotilas), and it is based on novel by Väinö Linna. Basically it's a story of a finnish army unit in second world war, and it's point is to tear down the myth of clean and heroic finnish soldier.
About Star Wreck being the most popular: can you really compare a strictly finnish audience with a potentially global audience? Excluding Aki Kaurismäki's Man without past, this is one of the few finnish movies, that have ever got any international distribution.
As a non-Finn who speaks fluent Finnish and has an extensive knowledge of the Finnish movie world let me add a few things on this fan movie.
The lead character is a sterotyped Finnish youth, i.e. loud, half-drunk, not very subtle nor very polite.
The plot is not that clear, but the special FX are not too bad.
Should you ever make the mistake to consider that this is a typical Finnish movie, please don't: go look for movies made by Aki Kaurismäki and see by yourself what a master Finnish director can produce.
All in all this is neither brilliant nor dreadful. Nothing to write home about either.
I recall a Star Wars spoof which was quite more successful at spoofing, but perhaps they got a "cease and desist" letter meanwhile...
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I like the DL/UL ratio on this
46 Mbit/s....
Legend of Galactic Heroes. It's oldschool and it's a great show.
Well, Louisiana does have sesimic faults!!! (Baton Rouge for one, has at least one running through the city [and it is moving])
And hurricanes do strike the eastern coast of India...so it seems plausible that Pakistan (on India's west coast) *could* get one....
I'd be really be impressed to see alien technology for energy production...
We had something similar last year, with a funny Star Trek spoof in friulian language (a minority language spoken in North-eastern Italy), with enemies speaking in the dialect of a nearby city): "Star Trek Chel Just" (something like Star Trek the Original). You can find information on it on the Furlanist blog (http://ilfurlanist.splinder.com./
Just want to leave a comment on why I modded you down. It was at the top of the comments for me, and it was a painfully stupid comment, It actually hurt just a little.
No. No it is not. The first and only time in /. history a GNAA reference was not off topic was here: Ask Slashdot: What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen?
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No. It's the second time ever. The first one was a few days ago.
Fuck no, you ignorant clown. That headline is quite within the acceptable bounds of the craft.
that a lot of (USofAn-marketed) DVD sets have the capability to read AND transcode on the fly PAL DVDs to their NTSC (*) outputs.
But I woudn't know by first hand, we use PAL down here.
(*) = Never Twice the Same Color ?
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Remember that "spoof" is used in verb form, too, and many people (me included) read
subject(star trek) verb(spoof) object(top finn movie)
instead of
subject(star trek spoof) predicative(top finn movie)
at first glance.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
...who's the babe in the leather gear? I can't find her mentioned
anywhere on the site.
.. it got a host of instant classics - fukov!!!!
"Nae Kin! Nae Quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
I can't agree with you. I suffered through the whole thing, hoping that at some point it might become funny, or at least cleaver. Unfortunately the writing basically sucked.
It was an impressive effort, the special effects were well done for home computers, the costumes weren't bad, and the acting was vastly better than it is in most fanmade films. But the script. Gads. It was just plain awful, and utterly unfunny.
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Obviously you're not up to date on copyright practices.
Old practice: Freedom of the press belongs to those who can afford one.
New practice: Freedom of the press belongs to those who can afford lawyers.
By the time an ordinary person has paid for a semi-competent lawyer to go through the motions of getting the case laughed out of court, it runs into life changing amounts of money for most folks. The worst case is if the other guy has a point to prove. Then you'll end up in court, and strategically speaking, you can't win. If you lose in court, you lose. If you win in court, you've spent more money and time on this than you want to. Either way you're an example.
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In fact its probably the best Star Trek to come along in quite some time(despite some of the low budget special effects). Id put the two episodes above the first three seasons of enterprise and anything from Voyager(mind you thats not saying much)
Well worth the time.
Got quite a few laughs from a tough critic I know.
Also it is inspirational to see a small group with basically no budget or resources produce something so epic.
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Yes, you can, but can you really compare people who saw Unknown Soldier in movie theaters to the number of people who downloaded/bought Star Wreck? I've seen Unknown Soldier maybe 5 times. It's shown on TV almost every year, and it's probably the only war movie parents generally let even small kids watch. I don't know anybody who has seen Unknown Soldier in a theatre, because that was decades ago!
So I don't think the comparison is fair, and I don't think Star Wreck is the most popular Finnish movie, at least not yet.
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[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
If I had more room I would have written "Dilletante grammer nazis".
http://www.magenta.net/public/
... Magenta estimates that the total number of downloads is already past the 3.5 million mark (probably closer to 4.0 million). This estimate includes all the mirrored sites, bittorrent downloads and other means of distribution.
01.10.2005
Magenta hosts one of the biggest online-movie distributions in the Internet history
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08.10.2005
Star Wreck goes over 1M downloads
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21.11.2005
Star Wreck takes the lead as the most watched finnish film of all time!
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Today [21.11.2005] Magenta has distributed 2.948.462 copies of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning globally.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
But notice that I mentioned "at first glance"... and that many /.ers (like me) are not native English-speakers (and we forget the third-person-"s" sometimes).
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It's funny from Star to Finnish!
...Sean.
Zing!
I'm here all week, etc...
I'm in love with the woman at the helm. All I can say is "DAMN!"
whilst a commendable effect, to create such a film, the film is actually truly abysmissal. Special effects are superb, acting, dialog and story..... well the less said about that the better. One of the few examples of where the sfx make the movie.
Here is a direct link to the trailer http://www-us.starwreck.com/trailer.php
all i can say is i didn't know i would be learning the finnish word for "fragfest" today, but there you go
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Two dots over a vowel in English is called a dyersis. It is never seen except in The New Yorker magazine, and less commonly, over the word naïve.
It is used when two seperate vowel sounds are associated with the same letter.
That is the way some of the corporations work (especially Mattel). But there are exceptions, if you can get help. Look at Paul David, he got the ACLU to help and Mattel paid over $1M in legal fees to the ACLU. There is also the EFF. http://www.taubmansucks.com chronicals something similar.
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I'm going to date myself here, but I used to watch Star Trek-yes Kirk, first run on TV(I was pre-school then), and have watched every series of ST since.... I am a big fan, but Star Wreck is really f@#k9n& funny, I loved it. I have a degress in film as well, didn't do squat with it, but I "know" how much work really went into making a film such as this. Nicely done.
Sig Hansen?
The best thing about it being a finnish film, is that all the actresses are in knee high boots.
Here, you post such things with AC. In hope we trust.
I totally agree with you. This is why I have decided I actually WANT DRM to succeed. Please, Hollywood and RIAA, wall yourselves off so we no longer ever need to be concerned with or distracted by you. I look forward to the day when the only content available on Peer to Peer networks is completely legal to chop, dice, copy etcetera, the fruits of someone's labor of love rather than a for profit regime.
Think of all the new viewpoints and perspectives we will (and are already being) exposed to. New genres, world music, other stuff tyhan the usual Hollywood dreck.
To me, this is the reAl glory and promise of the Internet. You know how when you go to a supermarket and they are handing out free samples, say a piece of cheese on a cracker? It's a nice morsel, but it doesn't do much for you. But if you link all of the supermarkets all across the world together and all of a sudden now have access to free samples from everywhere, you can eat for free.
It is, of course, not a great analogy, because the food is finite, whereas copies of digital content can be endlessly replenished. Who needs pay content when there are free samples everywhere in abundance?
So, yes, DRM, please work, and work well. I sorely want non-free (as in freedom) content out of my way so I can have clearer, easier access to content which doesn't have locks and keys.
By the way, this Star Wreck movie was excellent.
Im very impressed, its a cracking movie, just watched it. Enjoyed it more than the last episode of the Matrix that I had missed and just got around to seeing on a supermarket remaindered DVD. Good acting if you bear in mind that these are Finnish people and not Italians doing the acting. Great makeup, lighting, sets
special effects, camera work, sound, music. This is a polished piece of work and funny to boot.
The thing that keeps it fresh all the way through is that its stuffed full of references of all different kinds.
amongst many
Heating the ground with twinklers to keep warm - somebody is going to tell me which original episode of Star Treck had this.
Never on a Thursday - is all the action only supposed to happen on Friday and Saturday night in Finland?.
Endless mindnumbingly dull speeches - Babylon 5
fukov - most nordic people speak english
Vodka sinking Soviet presidents, Viking spirit and vodka. Vodka and vodka. Vodka.
Check out the product placement with fake products, bone achingly funny.
And for my money the space battles looked more like I think they should look than anything Hollywood has come up with. I could spend a good few hours watching each clip repeatedly and working out the storyboard for each one, killer.
Great world movie too, figure out which character relationship bits are traditional american roleplay and which bits are Finnish and which universal.
Works on tons of levels, great entertainment, im putting it in everybodys christmas stocking when I visit my folks and giving everyone I know in Plymouth a copy asap.
Its in my collection of favorite unique classics already.
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