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Star Trek Spoof Top Finnish Movie

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the local-club-accounts-for-2.8-million dept.

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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  1. Re:Great movie by Donniedarkness · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  2. Avoiding the infamous Klingon Copyright by Alien54 · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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