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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:Reuters forgot to mention by dunkelfalke · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the difference is vast. finnish is a whole different language family.

    the most widespread language family in europe is the indoeuropean. the exceptions are: finno-ugric language family (finnish, estonian, sami, hungarian), and the basque language (isolated language, no family)

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  2. Periode 1 - A German Trek Parody by OzPhIsH · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  3. Re:Reuters forgot to mention by CortoMaltese · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "The man without a past"? absolutely dreadful movie, not from an artistic point of view, but from a content point of view.

    Today's cinematographers have forgotten how to tell a meaningful story. All they want is to convey their own feelings to the public.

    I would like you to be a bit more elaborate on why you think The man without a past lacks content and has a meaningless story. I thought it was a great film with critique of the society and sharp observation about the human nature. It was about Life.

    I wonder, how would someone tell a meaningful story without conveying their own feelings to the public? Please, give us some examples of such movies! And how exactly could you, for example, critisize the society without being somewhat subjective? There's no ideal society you could objectively compare to.

    Of course, your mileage may vary. Familiarity with the Finnish culture, mentality and language might make a big difference in this case, even though the world of Kaurismäki is just one view of it.