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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 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.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
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.
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.
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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The only thing that saved their last totally unfunny movie was the special effects and the smoking hot brunette (what's her name anyone?).
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/
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
http://www.mit.edu/~tahnan/finnish.html