I certainly hope they have showings outside of Finland. If not, I guess I'll just get the blu-ray. But damn, this is exciting! I heard about this movie a while back (like a year ago), but I forgot about it. Now that it's actually finished, it looks fantastic!

Seeing it's what 7 million euro movie, I'm quite sure it will be shown outside of finland. Even us fins have to wait 3 more months. But it's worth it because space nazis.

Guaranteed to be banned in Germany.
I still look forward to seeing it.

Holy shit this looks amazing!

There's a German guy who writes poetry about Aryans in space.

http://nationalfuturism.org/National-Futurism.html

His ideology of National Futurism is cranky. Even if you take the time to read all the articles and poems posted on website, it makes no sense at all. This is the one good idea he came up with. If you think about it hard enough, it fits. At the end of WWII, Germany was way of the other countries in terms of research and design with their V2 rockets. They weren't producing many rockets because their factories were destroyed but their research departments were making a lot of breakthroughs.

If they had have won the war, the Nazis would have conquered the world, enslaved the inferior races to build giant space ships for them and gone off and left the world behind to conquer space and colonise other planets. The ultimate expression of lebenstraum.

Never thought I'd see a film about it.

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Or they just woulda sat and transitioned into the peacetime NS like they wanted to and built Germania, established their economy both at-home and internationally, and proceed with advances in the sciences (space defiantly included), engineering, and the arts; as per their post-war plans. The whole instantaneous nonsensical conquering and enslaving the World thing is more comic book Nazis.

And yeah, that guy is defiantly a bit ranty. He writes with a lot of fluff, makes it difficult to make out exactly what he's trying to propose.


Anywho, back to the movie itself, there any info out from anyone who's seen the film yet? Curious as to how elegantly it's all handled, or not. Looks like they're still in pre-screening though, so I suppose not.

No other info on the movie expect that it is comedy, it is most expensive film ever made in/by finnish people and that it is not entirely politically correct (but as we finns have political correctness in blood http://youtu.be/x_1vX-8uUUk).

>>32

Iron Sky's premise is a bit different. It starts with the fact that german's lost WWII but they still had technology to escape to the dark side of the moon. There they planned and build their army and attack earth after building epic mega-army of space nazis. And they come in peace.

Personally all I hope is that the comedy is handled well and it doesnt go into the spaceballs crazy-comedy mode. With only trailer, and knowing that trailers always lie, it is hard to say but I have my hopes up for this.

Oh, and have some more finnish sketch comey

http://youtu.be/1XiviwQhIe0

http://youtu.be/BUZDsovp5E0

You should all watch this so I get a return on the money I invested in it!

The first showing is in Berlin in a couple days. I'm amused at this turn of events, but I'm also excited to see this movie become a reality. Anyone in the area, go see the movie and report back to see how it is!

http://youtu.be/Py_IndUbcxc

theatrical trailer. Can't wait to see.

When the fucks this coming out in the US

Big disappointment. Worse than snakes on a plane.

No plot, no characters, bad cinematography. The nazis are so diluted and helpless that there is no trace of tension or drama. I couldn't tell if they were whipping their nazi "satire" or their Sarah Palin caricature harder. It goes nowhere and isn't even entertaining during the ride.

You get all the good parts from the trailer.

All the characters struck me as pretty aimless and hollow, the few that did have motivations quickly seemed to drop or forget them and proceed to do whatever random actions. This was especially prevalent with the Nazis. There appeared to be 3 or so factions of them, but what exactly differentiated them or what their motivations were came across as incredibly lost. The possible exception here being the girl, as she's literally I think the only one that gave a reason behind anything at all, which was spreading the message of true positive National Socialism to the world, but no one else seemed to follow this and she just sorta half abandoned it later on to go 'the hot chick role'; at least until the awkward ending kiss to a comic relief character (that had just killed her father) and it morphed into some weird multicultural thing.

It pretty much just created a really fucking jumbled plot with confusing character archs. I wouldn't mind if it was funny, but I pretty much only chuckled and the little Hitler reacts parody and one or two other little things that I can't even remember now.

I was also quite confused why they had an Einstein archtype as the German scientist; and why the Germans were able to develop advanced spaceships but incapable of advancing beyond giant gear technology, or advancing anywhere else in fashion, weapon design, etc for that matter.

I bought Iron Sky on Blu-Ray a few days ago. I found it odd that that even though it's a budget film, the special effects were better than 'normal' scenes. The special effects, like the space bits, do look great. It's worth watching just for that.

I found the storyline fresh and interesting, and ending somewhat poetically satisfying. Yeah, it's not exactly Hollywood polished, but I wasn't expecting that.

It's worth buying, if only to support the development of movies outside of Hollywood. Hollywood is stale as fuck.

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I thought their technological progress was realistic. Most of our technologies haven't improved much in sixty years; aside from computers and electronics, few things have changed. We're still driving internal combustion engine cars and flying in the same basic aeroplane designs as existed in the sixties, for example. The Nazis had perfected fusion technology (to use the Helium 3) and their space technology far outpaces Earth's, but their computer technology hadn't kept pace. They focussed on technologies relevant to their environment, which is realistic.