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Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-from-those-guys dept.

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.'"

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  1. Fan film to original by angryflute · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Fan film to original by aevan · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Firstly, comedy is really subjective...I've seen people fall down laughing at things I found dull, and other times I was the one laughing in a silent room. Good example is Spaceballs..plenty thought it was hillarious (during its time).

      Secondly, sci-fi shows tend to rely on their gimmicks, focusing the special effects to let us know 'this is sci-fi'. Add in the suspension of disbelief necessary, it's hard to bridge that little gap to 'be funny' to the viewer. Generally the jokes would either just be 'sci-fi' versions of normal jokes, slapstick style humour...or have to satirise other movies. It would require a series of episodes or movies to establish a 'baseline' from which you could make humour.

      Overall I agree with you, truly humourous sci-fi is rare (and HHGTG i hated since i prefer the radio play and books), and they might be better off doing an action or dramatic sci-fi. However, it also depends on the amount of humour they plan to inject....small amounts should work.

  2. Re:Finns Can't do Parody by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "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."

    Oh, I dunno about that. On a sci-fi forum I'm an active member of, we found quite a bit to laugh at. I'm wondering, though, if the humor was a little too niche'y. My parents would have gotten a huge laugh out of Galaxy Quest, but ItP, even if it were in English, would have missed many moments with them. I don't think it's that the Finns cannot do parody, I think that they just got a little too close to the details.

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  3. Re:He's kidding right? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If they charge for it, someone will put it up for "free" within one day.

    Star Wreck was "free" from day 1. Yet I tried very hard (and very unsuccessfully) to get a DVD. If it weren't for their decision that it was legally too risky to sell DVDs to the US market, they would be ~$20 richer today, and I would have a DVD in my possession.

    Being able to download a movie isn't everything.

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  4. Re:Finns Can't do Parody by EvilNTUser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "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."

    What? SW:ItP was funnier than any Mel Brooks movie I've ever seen.

    The difference is that Brooks needs to make sure everyone gets the jokes, whereas the SW team was free to base them on references maybe 0,5 % of the population will recognize. If you don't get them, of course you're not going to like it.

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  5. Re:Finns Can't do Parody by MemoryDragon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe if you are a Fin it is not funny, but believe me, the combination of the northern language together with the really funny script made me roll on the floor. This movie was way funnier than spaceballs.

  6. Re:English version please? by 9Nails · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Quote: "Errr... why? It is a Finnish film, made in Finland by Finns - it would follow that they develop, script and shoot in Finnish. Surely."


    I guess my answer is best given as a quote from some other web site, "First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere .05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it."

    http://www.mit.edu/~tahnan/finnish.html

    ...That, and so the English speaking world could enjoy the film too. If it's subtitled, might as well just throw it into a PDF story book format.