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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."
I tried to sit through it, and I *almost* got to the end... But it was just too cheezy, and I didn't get many chuckles out of it.
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From their website:
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http://www-uk.starwreck.com/torrent/star_wreck_it
Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete (August 22nd, 2005)
Star Wreck Released as Download (October 1st, 2005)
Here's the link for their Foreign orders page: http://www-us.starwreck.com/dvd/index_e.html
Actually, Roddenberry's son, the guy who owns the rights to the Star Treck franchise, allows fan films to exist as long as they do not make ANY money from them. I don't think this is unreasonable at all, in fact I think it's pretty damn generous. There's an article in the recent issue of Wired that discusses another Star Trek fan project. Personally I find it sad that far too much attention is paid to fan films and music mixes instead of the the truly inspiring original works such as the shorts on AnimWatch, the stuff done by studios like , or the music from thousands of small bands too numerous to list here.
To be fair, they also spoofed Babylon 5.
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I watched the movie when it was released, enjoyed it, and have been seeding it ever since in hopes it'd help more people watch it. At this moment there's actually more seeds than peers. I say bring on the slashdot effect, this is what torrents were created for after all.
Spoofs and such can't be prevented by the rights owner. For example, the Barbiegirl song, in Mattel v. MCA Records.
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Finland has a reasonably strong cinematic history. Probably the most notable film for non-Finns recently would The Man Without a Past which was nominated for best foreign film at the Academy awards, and won the grand jury prize at Cannes, among numerous other awards.
If you don't stoop to watching foreign film and hence never heard of that, you could always try the Hollywood films from Finnish director Renny Harlin which includes wonderful schlock such as Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Deep Blue Sea, and The Exorcist: The Beginning.
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Unfortunately, they wouldn't sell me a disc, citing "legal reasons." Oh well, maybe I'll buy a t-shirt or something.
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Then it would need to be "spoofs", at least in American English, since "Star Trek" would be considered a collective singular noun. In British English, if the rule for referring to collective nouns as plural even when the word itself seems singular, such as in the names of sporting teams, applies in this case, then I suppose the line could be misconstrued as you mention.
Are you kidding?
On any kind of broadband, this should run to your system super-fast. There are hundreds of seeders for this thing!
Even a 56k modem should get this chunked through within a day.
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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've seen it; but honestly I don't think it's worth seeing, unless you think that the 602nd gay joke is just as funny as the 601st.
"Kirk" and "Spock" in this movie are a gay copule, and almost all supposed-to-be-funny scenes bear on that.
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5.6 KB/s * (60 sec / 1 min)
336 KB/m * (60 min / 1 hr)
20.160 MB/hour
541.38 MB / 20.160 MB/hour = 26.8541666666 hours
Close, but not quite 24 hrs.
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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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I can also highly recommend Koirankynnenleikkaaja (Dog Nail Clipper (English title)), it is by far the best finnish movie ever made in my opinion.
It was my first time I have cried in a cinema when I saw it. (And before someone who thinks he's being funny, suggests that I cried because it was so bad, that wasn't the case.)
IMdb entry for Dog Nail Clipper can be found here
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