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."

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Reuters forgot to mention

[rubycodez]

it is also the only Finnish movie

Re:Great movie

[Donniedarkness]

Heh... well, I watch most of the stuff that I do for the cheese. Why else would I watch Star Trek: TOS? What, do you think battle scenes between Kirk and Klingon soldiers to be action-packed?

woohoo

[nemik]

can't wait for the slashdot effect on the torrent...it is rather sluggish.

Avoiding the infamous Klingon Copyright

[Alien54]

it is also the only Finnish movie

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.

Re:VERBS

[jc42]

USE VERBS IN YOUR HEADLINES!

Ah, but part of the fun of English-language headlines is that so many words can be misread as verbs. As others have already pointed out, both "spoof" and "top" can be verbs in this headline (though an 's' should probably be added if you're American). Also, "Finnish" can be read as a mistyping of "finish" and treated as a verb, which is a standard pun in some circles.

One of my favorites, from around 15 years ago, was the newspaper headline "American Ships Head to Gulf". I just did a check, by googling for "Ships Head to Gulf", and found that at least one Australian and one Russian have also shipped their heads to the Gulf.

Or maybe I'm misreading them, and these three people shipped someone else's head to the Gulf ...