Star Wreck Creators Announce Iron Sky 98
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.'"
The first one was great (Score:3, Informative)
Amazing what some students can do with some computer skills and amateur acting.
Re:The first one was great (Score:1)
Twist drive - Warp drive
Maggot hole - Wormhole
See?
Re:The first one was great (Score:3, Funny)
Twist drive - Warp drive
Maggot hole - Wormhole
See?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
That is HILARIOUS!!!! OMG! When I saw the title "Star Wreck", I thought it would be lame and unimaginative, but jokes like that are comedy GOLD!!! I gotta see it now!
Re:The first one was great (Score:1)
Finns Can't do Parody (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Finns Can't do Parody (Score:3, Interesting)
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 thin
Re:Finns Can't do Parody (Score:1)
I liked it. The B-5 shit was a lot funnier. I don't know why.
I have to disagree (Score:3, Insightful)
"Scream my rank"
That had myself and all my buddies watching at the time in stitches.
Re:Finns Can't do Parody (Score:3, 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.
Re:Finns Can't do Parody (Score:4, Interesting)
Effects where great, but... (Score:1, Insightful)
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
Re:Effects where great, but... (Score:2)
Johanna Sinisalo, author of "Not Before Sundown" [peterowen.com] is apparently helping out with the script.
I find it rather strange that you complain about the script and acting of "In the Pirkinning". Remember: these guys were amateurs. Of course if you compare their performance to "real" actors, their skills will fall short, period. That said, the movie was still very, very good and funny.
Re:Effects where great, but... (Score:2)
Even if they hired professional actors, the movie would have sucked because it simply wasn't funny.
The general opinion seems to be that the movie was either crap, because the script sucked, or great, because it was pretty good for a bunch of amateurs.
Considering EVERY writer starts out as an amateur, I think this is no excuse.
If they charged anything for their next movie, I wouldn't watch it.
Re:Effects where great, but... (Score:2)
I think the script was actually better than alot of the stuff Hollywood is pushing these days.
I thought it was very funny. Maybe being a Finn helps me appreciate the Finnish humor more. And I think it was a lot funnier (again) than a lot of the stuff Hollywood pushes these days.
Fan film to original (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Fan film to original (Score:4, Informative)
Qalaxy Quest with Tim Allen is much less known than the other ones you mentioned, but also pretty nice: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ [imdb.com] Especially because of the many references to Sci-Fi fans and their peculiarities. Or am I insulting people here now :)
Re:Galaxy Quest is underappreciated (Score:2)
An
Re:Fan film to original (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Fan film to original (Score:1)
PenGun
Do What Now ???
Re:Fan film to original (Score:2, Interesting)
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 's
Re:Fan film to original (Score:2)
OK, that was a joke. But see how that joke and Star Wars went together so well, thus proving my point?
The only problem is that fans of sci-fi tend to be nitpicky geeks would wouldn't know humour unless it bit them on their ever growing butts.
Star Trek linked to pedophilia? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Star Trek linked to pedophilia? (Score:1)
That's not an indicator of a trend.
Since 65% of the general population of America consider themselves fans of one Star Trek series or another, and men tend to like Star Trek more than wo
Oh no you didn't, gurl! (Score:2, Flamebait)
whaHuh? (Score:2)
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 s
Spaceballs as unfunny? (Score:2)
Re:Fan film to original (Score:2)
Other good examples: Sleeper [imdb.com], the Woody Allen take on those 1984-style dystopias. Galaxy Quest [imdb.com], I hate Tim Allen, but this movie's pretty damned funny. The Back to the Future [imdb.com] movies were successful by anybody's standards. He
Re:Fan film to original (Score:3, Informative)
Take a look at Wikipedia's list of comedy science fiction movies [wikipedia.org] and notice all the good ones in there.
Re:Fan film to original (Score:2)
Re:Fan film to original (Score:2)
I'm completely with you there. "Can you fashion some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
And Tony Shalhoub was just genius as Stoned Scotty.
Re:Fan film to original (Score:1)
But... (Score:2)
Re:But... (Score:2)
He's kidding right? (Score:2)
He's kidding, right? If they charge for it, someone will put it up for "free" within one day.
Sad, but true.
Re:He's kidding right? (Score:2, Troll)
Re:He's kidding right? (Score:2)
Voila, the point of movie production companies.
Re:He's kidding right? (Score:2)
Re:He's kidding right? (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Get the DVD? Support the creators! (Score:2, Informative)
http://store.starwreck.com/epages/TP.sf/?ObjectID
They are also accepting donations toward "Iron Sky" at
http://www.ironsky.net/ [ironsky.net]
Not sad at all (Score:3, Insightful)
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 w
Re:Not sad at all (Score:1)
No, it's not a good thing (Score:2)
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 tim
Re:Not sad at all (Score:2)
Are you sure? My impression is that all forms of copying will be outlawed - even the ctrl-c key combo!
hi's and her's (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hi's and her's (Score:1)
Re:hi's and her's (Score:1)
Re:hi's and her's (Score:2)
Ladies and gentleman, this man is so dense, he cannot be x-rayed.
Re:hi's and her's (Score:1)
George's
Mary's
The computer's
His
Hers
Its
"It's" (for those of you who are either non-English speakers) is the contraction for "it is"
Please mod me down as offtopic. Thanks.
Torrent! (Score:1)
Re:Torrent! (Score:1)
"Iron Sky".. (Score:1)
Re:"Iron Sky".. (Score:1)
Re:"Iron Sky".. (Score:1)
Break the model (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Break the model (Score:1)
Re:Break the model (Score:2)
Free distribution? (Score:1)
Re:Free distribution? (Score:1)
www.impstherelentless.com
Pretty good special effects and what not, acting is ok.. ish. It's not a full movie yet, as it's being released in chapters, but still worth a look!
To the creators (Score:2, Informative)
Re:To the creators (Score:1)
Re:To the creators (Score:2, Funny)
Perspective (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
A long time (Score:1)
Re:A long time (Score:1)
Re:English version please? (Score:3, Interesting)
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 [mit.edu]
Re:English version please? (Score:3, Insightful)
Neat! (Score:1)
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".
Re:Neat! (Score:1)
Glad to be of service
With the brunette, their movie may be watchable. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:With the brunette, their movie may be watchable (Score:1)
Which one?
Re:With the brunette, their movie may be watchable (Score:3, Informative)
http://starbase.globalpc.net/~xmx/images/babe1.jp
Re:With the brunette, their movie may be watchable (Score:2)
Enjoy!
Re:With the brunette, their movie may be watchable (Score:2)
Free or not, it doesn't matter (Score:2, Funny)