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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. Torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From their website:

    http://www-uk.starwreck.com/torrent/star_wreck_itp _subtitled_xvid.torrent

  2. Re:Star Wreck... by Icedman · · Score: 5, Informative
    The DVD has been for sale from August. The order form is on the main site. One thing about the DVD: It's in PAL format. IIRC, they were making an NTSC version of the DVD. So all of you who don't own a DVD-player which can play PAL DVDs, I recommend you wait for the NTSC version.

    Here's the link for their Foreign orders page: http://www-us.starwreck.com/dvd/index_e.html

  3. Re:well done by stubear · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Reuters forgot to mention by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    Jedidiah.

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