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."

Comments

Great movie

[updatelee]

its worth the watch, its quite good.

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?

Torrent

[Anonymous Coward]

From their website:

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

Star Wreck...

[Donniedarkness]

It's quite good, I'm told. I've not got access to broadband, but I hear that it will be coming to DVD (not that anyone expects to make any money off of it). I'll be getting it, and from what I've heard it's one of those movies that I would buy on DVD even if I DID have access to broadband. I encourage anyone who has any intrest in it to check it out.

Re:Star Wreck...

[Icedman]

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

VERBS

[smart.id]

USE VERBS IN YOUR HEADLINES! Where is the verb? Star Trek Spoof is Top Finnish Movie! Does this piss anyone else off?

Re:well done

[stubear]

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.

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:Reuters forgot to mention

[Coryoth]

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.

Re:Understood 'to be' or not 'to be'

[Timothy Chu]

The reason a verb is necessary is that the word "Spoof" could be interpreted as the verb, making the headline sound like Star Trek is doing the spoofing.