Iron Sky - Nazis from space sci-fi spoof premieres in Berlin

[JustBob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc

A Finnish sci-fi comedy about Nazis invading Earth has become the most talked-about movie at this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Iron Sky is a B-movie spoof that has been screening at the festival's sidebar event, called Panorama.

The plot revolves around a group of Nazis who escape to the moon at the end of World War II to plan a new assault. Iron Sky's plot is set in motion in 2018, when a Nazi soldier comes face to face with a US astronaut. Added to the farce is a US President with more than a passing resemblance to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, and a navy cruiser called the USS George W Bush.

Yet local journalists are more cautious. "Although I heard that audiences were laughing out loud, in my screening... it wasn't like that," said Kerstin Sopke of the Associated Press.

"It's still a delicate subject here, and you have to be really careful how it's done. I was a little bit wary, but actually I think they did the comedy well.

"The inclusion of so much US satire when there is a presidential election campaign was also holding up a mirror to our time."

Iron Sky's production team have appropriated the conspiracy theory that the Nazis had an advanced UFO project during World War II.

However, its director Timo Vuorensola - whose last work was a Star Trek pastiche called Star Wreck - still describes the film as a "stupid joke".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py_IndUbcxc

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17046477

[Nettles]

There's so many of these alien invasion type movies coming out that you have to think it's preconditioning for something and not just a coincidence.

You know what they say:
When the zeta's fill the skies
It's just our leaders in disguise

[hagbard]

Been aware of this film for years...they were looking for investors on the internet...yet another opportunity I passed by. I think it will do well and make some money for the investors.

[jenviea]

four minute clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2cS8wvQHI

[Tornado F2]

[video=youtube;Py_IndUbcxc]Yet local journalists are more cautious. "Although I heard that audiences were laughing out loud, in my screening... it wasn't like that," said Kerstin Sopke of the Associated Press.

"It's still a delicate subject here, and you have to be really careful how it's done. I was a little bit wary, but actually I think they did the comedy well.


Yeah, when I saw the thread title I thought Berlin was an odd place to premiere the movie. They have very strong laws against Nazi-related productions in Germany, even to the extent of requiring swastikas to be painted backward iirc.


Been aware of this film for years...they were looking for investors on the internet...yet another opportunity I passed by. I think it will do well and make some money for the investors.

If it's made well enough it might be a success - especially in peripheral "non-aligned" and anti-US countries. I'm sure Kim-Il Sung would have loved it. ;)

[Tornado F2]

four minute clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2cS8wvQHI

Lots of use in that short clip of recent pop culture and internet discoveries. "Yes We Can" banners - used by Palin; George Bush's return-to-the-moon proposal, complete with a "Liberty" name; and even the swastika-shaped base at the end (a US Navy base in California, iirc, was found to have swastika-shaped blocks when looked at from above using Google Earth). It has potential, even though it's obviously dumb. Spacefaring Nazis would have more advanced weapons than their WW2 predecessors, and that huge base should presumably have been easily visible from orbit. I'll likely watch it when it airs on Space though, or the budget DVD is released.

Hope it doesn't backfire on Finland though. They were aligned with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in WW2, (albeit only after the USSR invaded them first), and it might have been best not to remind the world of that. Maybe the producers themselves were unaware of it too.

http://flightdecs.ca/images_a_mikegrant/MGD48041.jpg

An odd mix of US and German equipment - along with a swastika.

[hagbard]

Lots of use in that short clip of recent pop culture and internet discoveries. "Yes We Can" banners - used by Palin; George Bush's return-to-the-moon proposal, complete with a "Liberty" name; and even the swastika-shaped base at the end (a US Navy base in California, iirc, was found to have swastika-shaped blocks when looked at from above using Google Earth). It has potential, even though it's obviously dumb. Spacefaring Nazis would have more advanced weapons than their WW2 predecessors, and that huge base should presumably have been easily visible from orbit. I'll likely watch it when it airs on Space though, or the budget DVD is released.

Hope it doesn't backfire on Finland though. They were aligned with the Nazis against the Soviet Union in WW2, (albeit only after the USSR invaded them first), and it might have been best not to remind the world of that. Maybe the producers themselves were unaware of it too.

http://flightdecs.ca/images_a_mikegrant/MGD48041.jpg

An odd mix of US and German equipment - along with a swastika.

The Fins used the swastika before the nazis did.

[blainehamilton]

Interesting, if completely implausable.

I remember them looking for funding for the project a couple of years ago. I had written them off and never thought the movie would see the light of day.

The special effects in the trailer really highlight what you can do with very little money these days with some talented CGI artists.


The cast is a small time bunch of mostly cancelled TV series and direct to DVD movies actors.

Udo Kier is a pretty good actor, and has been working in the industry on both sides of the atlantic for more than 40 years. And he has been in a few big budget tv shows, video games and flicks before in small rolls:

Chuck
Grindhouse
Halloween
Command & Conquer game series
End Of Days
Blade
Armageddon
Johhny Mnemonic
Ace Ventura Pet Detective



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INLo0Zr0_lA


I'd put this movie in the same category as Moon, Idiocracy, Donnie Darko, Clerks, Runaway Train, Being John Malkovich, Gross Point Blank, Pitch Black and others.

It's low budget. Completely farcical. Almost twisted.

It'll suck at the box office, but will likely have an internet following for a couple of decades to come.

[Tornado F2]

The Fins used the swastika before the nazis did.

Are you sure? Hitler was the superstitious occult fanatic. The Finns remained democratic (though understandably anti-Soviet) throughout the war, and had no need for Hitler's pretentious ancient Egyptian symbol other than to identify their forces as German allies. BTW, I was interested to learn today that the Finns actually fought and expelled Nazi troops from Lapland in the final year of the war. And surprisingly enough, for a while they were technically "at war" with us, after the Allies declared war on them in 1941 to show support for the Nazi-invaded Soviets. Worth reading up on for anybody interested in the topic.

[Tornado F2]

I'd put this movie in the same category as Moon, Idiocracy, Donnie Darko, Clerks, Runaway Train, Being John Malkovich, Gross Point Blank, Pitch Black and others.

It's low budget. Completely farcical. Almost twisted.

It'll suck at the box office, but will likely have an internet following for a couple of decades to come.

Don't forget Buckaroo Banzai. Although it died off further in, the outrageous opening setup was great. It really fits your description though.

[DougO]

The special effects in the trailer really highlight what you can do with very little money these days with some talented CGI artists.




And Terra Nova proves that even with virtually an unlimited CGI budget, you can't buy happiness on television....

:lol: