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Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky
An anonymous reader writes "The makers of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 cross-over spoof Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning have announced their upcoming movie Iron Sky. It's apparently another sci-fi comedy with its own universe. Says Director Timo Vuorensola: 'It is still an open question whether it will be distributed also for free. We would very much like it, but it will depend a lot on the financiers.'"
I saw the first one, it was really good, even though you need subs because of the finnish.
Amazing what some students can do with some computer skills and amateur acting.
It's a shame that they're doing comedy again. In the Pirkinning suffered from one clear drawback: Finns can't do parody. We suck at it - sorry.
ItP had really good special effects and decent everything else for an amateur movie - unfortunately the script was the weakest part. I hope they'd either try to make a serious movie or get someone else to try to write the funny parts, since there is potential in the other aspects of the earlier movie.
I hope they spend more time on the script this time.
In the pirkening looked quite good, but the acting and script were just terrible.
They also spent 8 years on the project, something that is quite unheard of when making a movie in Finland commercially. Production phase is usually around 1-2months (excluding preproduction and post).
Will be interesting to see if they manage to make a good movie now that they have to work with financing and so on..
Hope they succeed tho, the industry could use some fresh young blood.
I think it's great that these fan-filmmakers are moving on to doing their own original work. But why do comedy? Science fiction and comedy don't go together well -- okay, maybe nobody has done it right. Or maybe it's just damned hard. Doing either comedy or science fiction well by itself is already hard to pull off. At best, maybe these guys will produce something of the brilliance of Red Dwarf or even the Hitchhiker's Guide. Or, worse, it will be (an unfunnier) Spaceballs.
Will it be funny?
It is still an open question whether it will be distributed also for free.
He's kidding, right? If they charge for it, someone will put it up for "free" within one day.
Sad, but true.
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I agree. Berman and Braga both need a good enema.
Any torrents? Lets keep the smoking servers to a minimum please.
Could it be related to the Iron Sky in Pushing Ice? 'Cause that's the only place I've heard the term before.
Releasing the first movie for free was refreshing and bold. It did what they wanted, and gained them popularity.
Now it's time to plant feet firmly in reality and have some business model. If they release it for 2 bucks via PayPal or credit card, most people will be able to afford it and still enjoy the product.
Another thing they can do is release a free copy with some ad blocks.
Yeah, I thought that one of the main pulls for the flick was its free distribution. The effects were awesome too for a student flick...acting..ehhhh. Does anyone know other movies offered online for free in the same way? So far I have found two, one at www.cactusesmovie.com and one at www.nobodyneedstoknow.com.
Sorry, your effort was commendable, however the movie wasn't that funny.
I watched Pirkinning some time ago.
The biggest problem I see is that the more advanced computers get, the easier it is to get _good_ Trek-style special effects.
No computer in the world can help you write a better script, though. I certainly hope more emphasis is put on the writing this time around -- don't get me wrong, I thought the premise in Pirkinning was certainly interesting -- but calling it a Star Trek/B5 crossover is somewhat unrealistic, given what happened in the movie.
That doesn't mean I have any major issues to complain about overall. These people are doing this because they want to, and we really don't have the right to argue against a labor of love.
As for charging a fee to view this new movie: If it's reasonable, I'll pay without question. There's a difference in charging because you need to recoup operating costs: despite the (relative) ease in creating special effects, you need computers, props, makeup, time, effort, catering (pizza), film equipment, and so on, as opposed to churning out Star Trek: XI (thanks again, Paramount. After that last one, the idea makes me sick), to continue milking the cash cow for profits, damn your viewers to hell.
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There was some definate cheese in there, but...
"Scream my rank"
That had myself and all my buddies watching at the time in stitches.
I love Star Wreck, it is an awesome movie. It took them something like six years to make it. That is a long time away to start telling me about a new movie now. Jeesh, I thought it was hard waiting the six or so months in between BSG seasons.
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. . . how about an English version of the film please?
Actually, I was hoping for a sequel. I'm still wondering what's to happen next after the last zoom-out from "In The Prickening".
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So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs." I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
Please someone tell me I did not just see a diss against Spaceballs on Slashdot. What's next, people ranting about how the killer rabbit scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail was corny? Writing off Douglas Adams as a hopeless Steve Jobs fanboy just because Marvin happened to look a little bit like a Macintosh in the movie? Or maybe even a relativistic analysis of Star Wars based on camera angles proving once and for all that Han and Greedo shot at the same time but Han's blast arrived sooner from the viewer's point of view and later from Greedo's?
You guys need to grow up and face the facts:
1.) The killer rabbit had audiences around the world gripping their seats in shock, weeping bitterly as Arthur's men were slaughtered, then cheering ecstatically as the Holy Hand Grenage of Antioch brought its blessing down upon those brave men.
2.) Marvin had a brain that was practically the size of a planet and he was gloomy. Obviously he was not a Macintosh because Macs are little and happy (eep!)
3.) Han shot first. Actually rumor is this was Harrison Ford misreading a cue and George Lucas didn't notice it until editing after filming was done. It kept him up at nights until the miracle of digital enhancement allowed him to ruin ^H^H^H^H fix the movie.
4.) Spaceballs is hilarious. It's a fact of nature like F=ma and slashdotter's always being the first one out in dodgeball. Come on people! Pizza-the-Hut! You just don't get stuff like that from unfunny movies.
I've wasted enough of my time here. There's some people over on Digg who need to have the differences between the MCP from Tron and that Colonel Sanders looking guy from the Matrix explained to them, again!
I think not. Spaceballs movie was hilarious.
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All is well now. The lameness filter is still lame.
The only thing that saved their last totally unfunny movie was the special effects and the smoking hot brunette (what's her name anyone?).
So you are saying that you didnt actually watch the movie itself?? You just cannot judge a whole movie by the trailer alone.
There has been alot of good movies with crappy trailers and vice versa.
Which one?
One might ask the same about birds. What ARE birds? We just don't know.
No, it's not sad at all that somebody will put up a copy within hours. Copyright as we know it is ending - it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when and how.
The reason is simple; you can't charge for non-work in the long run. Making an additional copy of something digital is nonwork today; it wasn't when you had to produce an additional physical copy; there were tangible costs associated with that.
Yet, some people are stuck in yesterday's copyright-based business model and are trying to adapt it to a world when making an additional copy 1) is nonwork, 2) is done anyway, infringing on the copyright monopoly, by so many millions of people that the monopoly cannot possibly be enforced by less than draconian methods.
Copyright is ending, it's just a matter of how. And it's a good thing.
That would be Tiina
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It doesn't matter if they have to charge for it - slashdotters will just pirate it anyway, because um... information wants to be free.
It appears the star wreck store is offering to ship DVDs anywhere now
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http://store.starwreck.com/epages/TP.sf/?ObjectID
They are also accepting donations toward "Iron Sky" at
http://www.ironsky.net/
In my opinion, as a Star Trek geek, Galaxy Quest is severely underappreciated.
:)
It is a great parody of the entire Star Trek phenomenon, from the cheesy special effects of The Original Series to the conventions, actors sicks and tired of being stuck in one role, and overzealous fans.
Quick story rundown: An alien civilization has misinterpreted the television series "Galaxy Quest" as "historical documents" and summon the "heroes" (ie actors) of said series to save the aliens' home planet when it is threatened. Hilarity ensues.
I highly recommend it for any Trekkie who doesn't take himself too seriously. I think the Galaxy Quest universe is rather well fleshed out, too - I found myself wanting to watch the Galaxy Quest series after having seen the movie
If copyright ends, there goes the enforceability of GNU GPL too (among other licenses). The copyright system is the framework in which it lives. If there's no copyright system, for example the Linux kernel would become another cadaver for corporations to scavenge upon, taking advantage of something they had no part in creating in the first place.
So no, it is not a good thing if copyright ends.
Also, I don't see the reason why people download movies anyway, as most movies are crap and it's just a waste of time to watch them. There's actually very few good ones (i.e. worth paying for) that you can pay for them - you don't need to warez them. If you want to see the movie with less financial risk than buying, just rent it from the local rental store, the risk is few bucks.
I'd rather see positive changes within the copyright system. For instance the "copyright exists after N years after author's death" is really unreasonable. There's more such points of course, but abolishing the system altogether would do much more harm than good.
I do not moderate.
1) They're not real actors. They did this for fun, not for their resumes.
2) They wrote a COMEDY, not an epic. Comedies can have plot holes and cliches, because the objective is to make you laugh, not tell a story. In comedies, the story is the bonus.
You naysayers are complete pussies. You guys go make a movie, with great special effects, a great script, and great acting, and then you can come back here and talk about the quality of the acting in this movie.
And that dumbnut who wouldn't watch it if it was subtitled? They're FINNISH. They don't speak English.
This is the type of crap I expect to see on Digg, not on Slashdot.
Enjoy!
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Ah yes, the woman single-handedly responsible for the 1,728% increase in the Finnish tourism market...
What part of 'brain the size of a planet' confuses people? Are there any other examples of Marvin exaggerating? Or using metaphor? Or expressing itself as anything other than a perfectly logical (although depressed) machine?
When Marvin says it has the brain the size of a planet, it means somewhere in the galaxy is a planet-sized object which serves the functions of Marvin's brain. There's no 'practically' about it. The space between Marvin's ears was not his brain, but rather a gateway to his brain, which being the size of a planet, would not fit on his shoulders.
Well gee, if Marvin has a brain the size of a planet...and the Earth was in reality a computer--an artificial brain, if you will--the size of a planet...
Sometimes I wonder if anyone on /. has really encountered any of the various forms of HHGttG, or all you all just poseurs?
Gloomy, indeed.