Iron Sky - The Movie

[Triton]

The release date in the United States is TBD. :'( Come on Entertainment One sign the distribution agreement!

 

[saintkatanalegacy]

sigh... it's not gonna be premiered here. I'll have to wait for the DVD release

 

[Stargazer]

sigh... it's not gonna be premiered here. I'll have to wait for the DVD release

Doesn't seem like it's gonna make it in European theaters either. 70 years on, people are still touchy about Nazism, it would seem. Let's not forget that model kit makers were forced about 15 years ago to remove all swastikas from the box art, instruction sheets and even decal sheets!!!

 

[fightingirish]

Hi folks,
I saw the movie here in Germany over the long weekend. The 1st May is "the Day of Labour" in Germany.
The movie was great. Good jokes about Politics and movies like "2001", Der Untergang aka Downfall and Spaceballs etc.
The end was a little flaw; maybe I expected a bigger endfight. :-X

Doesn't seem like it's gonna make it in European theaters either

Well, probably not in French cinemas or translated into French (Wallonie) yet, even Michael Van had to cross the border to watch the movie in Germany.

 

[Tuomasn]

Doesn't seem like it's gonna make it in European theaters either. 70 years on, people are still touchy about Nazism, it would seem. Let's not forget that model kit makers were forced about 15 years ago to remove all swastikas from the box art, instruction sheets and even decal sheets!!!

Just a reminder - the release dates can be seen at http://www.ironsky.net/site/film/releasedates/. And yes, France has confirmed theatrical release (distributed by Synergy Cinema), just the release date is unknown.

 

[Stargazer]

Doesn't seem like it's gonna make it in European theaters either. 70 years on, people are still touchy about Nazism, it would seem. Let's not forget that model kit makers were forced about 15 years ago to remove all swastikas from the box art, instruction sheets and even decal sheets!!!

Just a reminder - the release dates can be seen at http://www.ironsky.net/site/film/releasedates/. And yes, France has confirmed theatrical release (distributed by Synergy Cinema), just the release date is unknown.

Great! Thanks a LOT for the info! Looking forward to it!

 

[Orionblamblam]

I saw the movie here in Germany over the long weekend. The 1st May is "the Day of Labour" in Germany.

So... shouldn't you have been at work??

 

[fightingirish]

No, I was with friends on "Maigang"! ;D

 

[Jemiba]

So... shouldn't you have been at work??

Working on the 1st of May in Berlin is a kind of sports festival. Usually there are two
teams, attending several disciplines. For one team, that's stone long throw, or to "light the
car", for the other team it's is tear gas throwing or baton fencing ...
The winning team will be announced one day later by the media. :

 

[Stargazer]

Weird. In my country May 1st is also a bank holiday celebrating work. Trade unions regularly use it as an opportunity to hold marches and demonstrations, but it's always in a civilized manner (as civilized, that is, as a complaining Frenchman can be). I'm surprised that the same day can be the theater of such street violence, especially from the very country that is least worried about recession, unemployment and banking crisis among the European/OCDE countries...

 

[fightingirish]

Well, guess on which team I was part of...?

 

[Jemiba]

It's a bad tradition since 1987 here in Berlin, that during the Walpurgisnight and the 1st of May
we have riots here in Berlin. Mostly left wing groups are blamed for them, but a lot of those hooligans
have no political background at all and just gather, where they think to have "fun".
Actually, this year was quite calm, with "only" 117 police men injured and 123 people arrested.
BTW, Hamburg usually isn't much better off...

 

[CJGibson]

"Iron Sky", showing for one day only in the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, so went along to avoid sunburn.

Good stuff! Very funny, but not as Top Secret-esque as I thought it would be. Cinema was packed.

Chris

 

[Michel Van]

Timo Vuorensola planed a new Movie

"I Killed Adolf Hitler"

it's about future two killers who use a Timemachine to get in 1920s Munich and try to kill Hitler
But Hitler get in Timemachine and raid havoc in Time...

source (in german)
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/neuer-hitler-science-fiction-film-vom-iron-sky-regisseur-geplant-a-834796.html

 

[CJGibson]

Does it feature the lines "Your clothes, give them to me" and "Colt 45 long-slide with laser sighting" by any chance?

Chris

 

[Orionblamblam]

Mostly left wing groups are blamed for them, but a lot of those hooligans
have no political background at all and just gather, where they think to have "fun".

So... hooligans getting together to have fun destroying someone else's property. How's that *not* a "left wing group?"

 

[Stargazer]

So... hooligans getting together to have fun destroying someone else's property. How's that *not* a "left wing group?"

It could also be some far-right wing, nazi-loving, unemployed youth coming out of a soccer match after drinking 12 cans of beer each...

 

[Arjen]

Political motivation for destroying someone else's property is very much an optional item in yobbo riots.

 

[Jemiba]

How's that *not* a "left wing group?"

There's an easy check. On the next 1st of May, just join the next group wearing helmets and
balaclavas and call them "commies". There can be three different outcomes:
1. You're greeted with enthusiasm (left wing)
2. You're actually not recognised at all (common hooligans, who would start riots wherever they are
after a good dose of beer )
3. Quite a high doctor's bill (probably NOT left wing) :

If you're arrested, you've actually joined a police unit, externally the differences often are
quite scarce, so look out for the colour and shape of the helmets ....

 

[Arjen]

OBB is classifying the action of destroying someone else's property as an identifying feature of left wing groups. I take it he's jesting.

 

[Stargazer]

OBB is classifying the action of destroying someone else's property as an identifying feature of left wing groups. I take it he's jesting.

Knowing what I know of him since I've joined this forum I'm afraid he probably wasn't... :-\

 

[Jemiba]

No problem, those guys throwing stones and burning cars (well, emancipation seems not to be
a theme in those groups, they really are male with an overwhelming majority) are just jesting, too ! ???

 

[Arjen]

I dislike people's jesting causing me concussion.

 

[Nick]

I saw Iron Sky last night in London and it was wonderful! Hilarious lines, daft and over the top characters, lots of hidden gags and just a bit of national stereotyping! ;D

Would be great to get a close look at all the spaceship designs, got a feeling that one or two of them came from other sci-fi films... ???

We sat right through the credits and a lot of people were wondering about the final final shot. Mars.

 

[Jemiba]

I dislike people's jesting causing me concussion.

I especially dislike people, whose "jesting" (or without irony "violence") is explained, or even
justified by some obscure political reason. I don't care at all if it is "left wing" or "right wing",
as long as they are damaging or destroying other peoples properties or even their health !
But there's a growing sub-culture of criminals, regarding themselves as dissidents, who are trying
to draft their arguments by throwing stones, burning cars, damaging systems of the public transport
or other things, which all are aimed at taking the whole society as their hostage.
And putting them on whatever side of the political spectrum will be regarded as affirmation by them,
I think, and so leading to more violence. So we should call them, what they are: Antisocial criminals !

 

[Orionblamblam]

OBB is classifying the action of destroying someone else's property as an identifying feature of left wing groups. I take it he's jesting.

Here's how to tell: if you compare the damage done to property by Tea Party rallies and the damage done to property by Occupier rallies and there's *not* some sort of trend... then I'm jesting.

 

[Arjen]

I take it you're not jesting.

Shrug.

 

[Jemiba]

He's jesting !
He surely heard from the "Zwickauer Nazi Zelle" (Zwickau Nazi element: 9 dead ) and
Anders Breivig (77 dead), both cases not exactly left wing.
So, what else can it be, than jesting ??

 

[Arjen]

Pick any non-violent left wing group: Dutch political party Groen Links.
Pick any violent right wing group: Dutch 'organisation' Viking Jeugd.
Discuss left wing attitudes towards violence vs. right wing attitudes using only these examples.

All cows are animals, therefore all animals are cows.

Back to Iron Sky: it's not coming over here anytime soon, I may have to do some borderhopping. Or wait for the DVD.

 

[Orionblamblam]

He's jesting !
He surely heard from the "Zwickauer Nazi Zelle" (Zwickau Nazi element: 9 dead ) and
Anders Breivig (77 dead), both cases not exactly left wing.

Nazis and Anders Breivig? Both want big, overpowering governments, which by American definition makes them leftist. I understand that Europeans have a different definition of left/right, a defintion that seems to be more about nationalism than economics (look at old-school Nazi & Fascist economic platforms... *seriously* left wing). But the issues these days are more about economics than nationalism.

And further: Breivig was a lone nutjob. Judge a movement by the actions of the *movement,* not by lone whackjobs. So, again, compare the damage done by Tea Party protests to damage done by Occupiers.

Or look at it this way: Anarchists and Libertarians are the left and right versions of a similar mindset: both want to be left alone by the government, both want to more or less do away with government. But Anarchists have historically been perfectly willing to destroy other peoples stuff to get what they want, while at their nuttiest, Libertarians hole up in compounds. The big difference is that Libertarians respect other people's property rights; Anarchists do not.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Pick any violent right wing group: Dutch 'organisation' Viking Jeugd.

I don't know them, so I looked them up on Wiki. It redirected me to the "National Alliance:"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_%28Netherlands%29

And says this:
The NA's ideology was based on nationalism and socialism. The party wanted to protect Dutch culture, was in favour of animal rights and against Battery cage farming, unnecessary animal testing, fur and leather for which animals have to be slaughtered independent from meat production, against the bio-industry in general, and wanted tougher sentences for criminals. The Party sought the withdrawal of the Netherlands from NATO and the EU and was strongly anticapitalistic.

So... largely leftist.

 

[Antonio]

Gentlemen,
We're going off topic, entering the polical arena. We are not a political forum, please avoid going personal.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Hilarious lines, daft and over the top characters, lots of hidden gags and just a bit of national stereotyping! ;D

Sounds rather like "Battleship," which is *not* the movie it's made out to be or seems to be on the surface. It's pitched as "aliens invade Earth, plucky humans fight them. Hurray for our side!" But it's not that *at* *all.*

 

[Stargazer]

Gentlemen,
We're going off topic, entering the polical arena. We are not a political forum, please avoid going personal.

... or the old internet rule whereby a topic that has the word "nazi" in it is bound to be locked sooner or later may well apply again... ;D

 

[Stargazer]

FINALLY!!!

Iron Sky will soon be released in France (Feb. 18, 2013)! We never got it in theaters over here, but at least we'll get it on DVD.

Why did it take them so long, I don't know, but seeing the poster at the train station this morning was good news...


http://www.horreur.net/film-9141--Iron-Sky-2012.html

 

[Matej]

I saw that film and can recommend it. Finally the real refreshment if you are (as I am) bored by all that films where Bruce Willis or American president saves the world. But you need to take it not very seriously - just as a parody. The final message and point is also nice. Okay, the film is crazy, especially the screenplay is horrible, but I like the fact that I saw it more than that I saw Independence day or Armagedon. Definitely.