New Star Wars Movie From the Makers of 'Troops' 218
Anonymous Coward writes "A new fan-made Star Wars production is underway from the creators of the well-known 1997 Star Wars spoof
'Troops'. I.M.P.S. - The Relentless is a documentary style feature following the crew and missions of an Imperial Star Destroyer during the height of the Galactic Empire. While slightly more serious than Troops, the first available chapter of I.M.P.S is an exceptionally well-produced (and still subtly humorous) piece of fanfilm. Worth it for the incredible CGI alone."
The site's already unavailable (Score:5, Funny)
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Like the Jedi... (Score:5, Funny)
Even the torrent is fubared (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Even the torrent is fubared (Score:5, Informative)
This torrent below will give you a smaller torrent, so a slower download - you have been warned:
One torrent of the torrent:
http://www.iddl.vt.edu/~jackie/imps_chapter1_DAVE
And may
Re:Even the torrent is fubared (Score:3, Insightful)
May it indeed, yours is the first tracker that's worked. And the download is not slower, becasue you can't get slower than 0kibs.
Many thanks. (Score:2)
This Magnet URI seems like a great idea too, looks like I'll have to install Asurlace (or whatever it's called) in addition to everything else. I'm using bittornado, quite happy with it, maybe it does Magnet URIs too.
(but for that I'd have to read the manual!
I wonder why no one posted the Torrent UUencoded?
Bob-
Re:Even the torrent is fubared (Score:2)
Re:Even the torrent is fubared (Score:2, Informative)
Or check here... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Or check here... (Score:2)
Re:Or check here...Damaged Redundency. (Score:3, Interesting)
The modern internet has nothing like the old redundancy. Go check out NANOG and listen to them bitching about it.
Re:Or check here...Damaged Redundency. (Score:2)
Torrent here (Score:4, Informative)
you're welcome
Re:Torrent here (Score:2)
Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:3, Informative)
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RDFJDRRUQXGXPZBH7BCFXGRPGKA
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
I've posted Magnet URI's before and always kick myself in the ass for forgetting to mention along with the URI that you need to get rid of the space near the end.
More people should publish Magnet URI's instead of links to torrent files.
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Actualy, that
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Of course one could construe that this weeds out the people who are not smart enough to notice that the space is a problem and needs to be hand fixed before pasting it into Azureus......but I'm a nice person and would rather have it work without having to hand fix it.
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
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Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2, Informative)
Well, according to the W3C [w3.org] you can put any URI in an <a href="...">, not only URLs.
The real problem is thatRe:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
No, they chop it up because there were jackasses who would intentionally post things that widened the page to a ridiculous degree, breaking line wrapping.
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Um, you just said the equivalent of "You're wrong, and here's some extra information about what you posted."
They cut it at all for the benefit of everybody, sure, but they cut it to a number 80 for people like me.
Already fixed (Score:2)
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Unfortunately I seem to be unable to figure out what I'm supposed to do with it. I'm running 2.3.0.2 Azureus, and there don't seem to be any obvious options dealing with magnet URIs... the closest is 'open location', and that plain doesn't work.
What am I missing here?
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
I tried that; it just says: "Error --- no sources found for torrent" and gives up.
*shrug*
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Nope, with B64 from 6/19 and 2.3.0.2, with Distributed DB running (and thousands of lines of relevant successful log in that tab), it doesn't fetch a single byte of the distributed torrent file.
In my case, it sits there at "Downloading from..." (the magnet URI), for about an hour... never gets past it. Other torrents I'm pulling and seeding work fine.
Re:Magnet URI below...tracker down (Score:2)
Re:Torrent here (Score:2)
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Re:Torrent here (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Torrent here (Score:2)
The site is only currently REALLY bombed, but your client will check every x minutes, and as soon as the site is up again it will start. Just run it in the background, as long as it cant connect to the tracker it will use hardly any bandwith.
Re:Torrent here (Score:3, Informative)
Hey hey hey! (Score:2, Funny)
FileFront download link (Score:3, Informative)
http://download.filefront.com/3857087;2ee21ce8850
filefront mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Great Movie! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great Movie! (Score:2)
It's Lando, before Darth Vader murdered his family causing him to vow revenge. Unfortunately he suffered an electric shock while working on the Millennium Falcon and forgot all about that. And his name.
Re:Great Movie! (Score:2)
Top quality (Score:2, Insightful)
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Working torrent? (Score:2)
Oh, and for the record, Han will get that torrent up, we've just got to give him more time.
Re:Working torrent? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Working torrent? (Score:2)
Re:Working torrent? (Score:2)
Then you might not want to watch the movie. They use one.
Re:Working torrent? (Score:2)
These really bad jokes using classic Star Wars lines are making me want to rip my eyes out!
They said they fixed it! It's not my fault!
Torrentless donload (Score:2, Informative)
FileFront [filefront.com]
A Terrible Movie (Score:3, Insightful)
Most of the movie is CGI of ships, walkers, etc. with a narrator's voice discussing the Empire's army in some sort of documentary that's part poorly written propaganda film and part unemotional and cheap knock-off of COPS.
Clearly the CGI was a lot of work; it's beyond what I could have done -- but it's hardly spectacular --- and I believe much of the criticism of a certain sci-fi film is how CGI does not a good movie make.
The acting is poor. Of course, it's hard to express emotion when you don't see a single face throughout the entire movie, save for a few moments at the end, where officers suddenly appear for no apparent reason. The demeanor is off for military personnel, and the whole thing just doesn't come together in the end. Apparently, the crime involved the smuggling of teddy bears and action figures. That's fine for a joke, but not after 20 minutes of tedium.
I'm sorry but there's nothing to empathize with in this movie. It drags on without purpose, without being sure of its concept at large. The beginning narration feels like it's about to be cut off, and then just keeps going on and on and on. It makes you scream, "Make it stop!"
I don't think much thought went into this film as far as the story or script are concerned. A very vague idea went in, and some people went to work on their computers. I'd give it half a star out of 5.
Re:A Terrible Movie (Score:2)
Re:A Terrible Movie (Score:2)
The animation is just fresking incredible. I cannot believe what kind of stuff is possible on consumer budgets these days.
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Re:A Terrible Movie (Score:2)
So? Sounds like most of the projects I've worked on. If Episode 2 involves contractors getting blamed and fired, we'll be right on track!
Re:A Terrible Movie (Score:2)
Grocery Store Wars (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Grocery Store Wars (Score:2)
Needs far better jokes and lose the political spew.
Not as funny as troops, but... (Score:2)
Link to the movie on Filefront (Score:2)
The site was Slashdotted so I thought a fast link might be of circumstances...
Re:Link to the movie on Filefront (Score:2)
Red vs. Blue meets Star Wars (Score:2)
Whoever wrote this just needs to spinkle a few "cockmunchers" into the dialogue and it would be an ep.of RvsB
Web Server (Score:2, Funny)
Oops, wait, hang on, oh forget it...."
Not too shabby! (Score:2)
The city they put together is amazing, especially the giant neon signs. They did a good job integrating the CGI and live action.
So the acting and writing is a little limp. That makes it about the same as the current crop of star wars movies.
There were some cute jokes, like the beeping noise the AT-ATs were making while they backed up.
The shoot out in the landing bay was nicely done. Alot of complex effects underway at once and well-hand
Re:Not too shabby! (Score:2)
milking the cow (Score:2, Funny)
The teat started squirting dust a few years ago.
Bwa hahah (Score:2)
Re:Mirrors? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Mirrors? (Score:2)
torrentspy.com (Score:2)
Re:Mirrors? (Score:5, Informative)
try http://impstherelentless.com.nyud.net:8090/tek9.a
Nah..use Magnet URI (Score:5, Informative)
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:RDFJDRRUQXGXPZBH7BCFXGRPGKA
Note...slashdot puts a space before the last two characters..so when pasting the URI into Azureus (latest version) with "open location" be sure to omit the space.
AND...be sure you have trackerless BT plugin enabled! (when starting up Azureus it takes a couple of min to integrate into the DHT network)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
Behold another legitimate use of bittorrent, and MPAA can suck a nut.
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Informative)
In Azureus if you right click on the torrent file under "my torrents" you will see an option at the bottom that says "copy magnet URI to clipboard"
As for information. I learned about it from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_link [wikipedia.org]
It is'nt the best description in the world but there are links at the bottom and within the document that link to better sources of information.
I find it amazing that more torrent sites don't publish the URI in addition to the torrent file.
The biggest problem is that people seem to not understand what/how Magnet URI's work in conjunction with Azureus.
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
Create your own magnet URI (Score:3, Interesting)
Yeah, but please note that some sites (e.g. torrentspy [torrentspy.com]) publish an equivalent information: the info hash.
You can convert an info hash to a magnet URI and vice versa with this small Python script [massacritica.to.it]: simply pass the hash or the URI to the command line.
Re:Nah..use Magnet URI (Score:2)
Re:Nah..use Magnet URI (Score:2)
I didn't even use the Magnet URI though -- I simply loaded the torrent file from torrentreactor.
Re:Mirrors? (Score:2)
Re:Its available on theforce.net (Score:2)
Re:I sense a disturbance in the web (Score:2)
Re:At first I misread it as 'Star Troopers' (Score:2)
Oh, btw you misspelled "Starship Troopers".
Re:At first I misread it as 'Star Troopers' (Score:2)
Re:Don't bother here's the spoiler (Score:2)
Re:Don't bother here's the spoiler (Score:2)
Oh no! You spoiled THE TRAILER (Score:2)
You know the difference between a trailer and a feature, right?
Re:Oh no! You spoiled THE TRAILER (Score:2)
I also know the difference bewteen a good trailer and a bad one (after a good trailer the viewer is left somewhat interested in the film). This is a bad trailer.
It's not worth looking at.
Wasted Download (Score:2)
The first 20 sec is a shot of the black sheep productions logo.
The next 55 seconds is tight shots of a trooper putting on various pieces of his gear. kinda like in any one of a dozen or so USMC recriutment commercials.
The a bunch of shots of troopers standing/walking around.
Including
Troopers in snow: 1:19 and 1:24.
Troopers in desert: 1:16.
The last 25 seconds is shots of text directing you to their web site.
Re:well known ? (Score:2, Insightful)
Well of course it is. I've had to make this very point any number of times myself when people have sought to claim that I either wasn't, or was, "famous."
Certainly any number of people, quite possibly in the millions, have seen my name and image in the traditional media and it isn't unheard of for complete strangers to walk up to me and say, "Oh, Hey, you're ". .
While browsin
Re:well known ? (Score:2)
I think I've got it figured out, depending on whether or not KFG is from Chapel Hill.
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Re:well known ? (Score:2)
According to imdb it's allmost the only non-pooh film he's done for the last teen years.
Re:well known ? (Score:3, Informative)
I mean, sure, I'd be even more impressed if they got Frank Welker on board, but his voice doesn't have that resonating quality that Cullen's voice has.
Re:well known ? (Score:2)
He still seems to do a lot of narration for big-budget films and games (Warcraft III's trailers, I remember in particular).
Definitely one of the coolest male voices ever. I was shocked when I realized that Black Sheep really had gotten ahold of him for this.
Re:They're using Filefront (Score:2)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Funny)
Heh, the ending was funny! (Score:2)