Iron Sky Trailer 126
John Buckman from Magnatune clues us that the trailer for Iron Sky is available. We've been following the production for some time, as these are the same guys who brought us Star Wreck, the most successful feature-length Internet-distributed film of all time. That film was made by 3,000 people, has been downloaded 8 million times, is under a Creative Commons by-nd-nc license, and made good money both through DVD sales and through an eventual deal with Universal. Iron Sky is being made using Wreck-a-Movie — a collaborative film-making web site (also Creative Commons based) that grew out of the Star Wreck experience."
This reminds me of an old game... (Score:5, Interesting)
This reminded me of an old Cinemaware game called "Rocket Ranger", where the Nazis obtained alien technology that they could use to conquer the world. Rocket Ranger had to stop their plans, and go to the moon to dismantle their base.
In any case, the trailer looks great. I think I'm going to watch this movie.
Re:This reminds me of an old game... (Score:5, Interesting)
I have that game for the Commodore 64! Most annoying design, ever. You have to sit through ALL the cut scenes before you play the game. Then it's really a collection of mini-games that start with the oddest rhythm game in history. (Basically, tap the joystick to the beat of the character's run so that you have a running start when taking off with your jet pack.) On top of everything, you have to swap disks CONSTANTLY, which makes the game even slower than it already was.
That being said, the game grows on you after a while. There's a lot more strategy to the game than it would appear on the surface, and the cheap deaths become less of a problem once you get the hang of it. Even the secret decoder wheel (an anti-piracy device required to play the game) actually becomes kind of cool after a while. It gives you more of that WWII, "slide-rule" feel to your adventure. However, fuel is a constant problem. It seems like no matter how much you steal from the Nazis, you never have enough to keep your jet pack running AND add fuel to your moon rocket. (For the game's finale.) Plus your secret agents are disposed of by the enemy as soon as you get anywhere in the game. The end result is that the game is HARD to finish.
None the less, it is still a rewarding game. If you're interested in playing it again, Cinemaware has actually released the game for FREE [cinemaware.com] on their website. All you have to do is sign up for their site and they'll allow you to download a disk image to use in your favorite emulator. They even throw in a copy of the Secret Decoder Wheel(TM) so you won't have to search the 'net looking for the information!
For those of you who haven't tried it before, I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a try. With modern emulators, pesky issues like disk swaps are nowhere near as annoying as they once were. Or if you're a hardcore classic gamer, you can even write the images back to floppies and play the game on original hardware as God intended.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vIHcxGyIA [youtube.com]
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I have that game for the Commodore 64! Most annoying design, ever. You have to sit through ALL the cut scenes before you play the game. Then it's really a collection of mini-games that start with the oddest rhythm game in history. (Basically, tap the joystick to the beat of the character's run so that you have a running start when taking off with your jet pack.) On top of everything, you have to swap disks CONSTANTLY, which makes the game even slower than it already was.
Oooh, I think I have that game for the Playstation! I've always wondered why they renamed it Final Fantasy VII, though.
A great idea for a movie (Score:5, Funny)
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http://www.ironsky.net/site/?page_id=10 [ironsky.net]
Story
Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.
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Already done in a Heinlein juvenile (Score:1)
Apparently there are conspiracy theories claiming Nazis went to the moon for real (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_moon_base [wikipedia.org]) Oh well..
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You're thinking of Flash Godwin's Law.
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Is it a parody? Comedy? (Score:5, Insightful)
The bird scene at the end of the trailer may give a clue here...but otherwise...am I being dense? (Note to self, never ask this rhetorically on Slashdot...)
Re:Is it a parody? Comedy? (Score:5, Informative)
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So it's either a spoof or just really bad
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But they do! Exhaust gases can carry sound waves and if the microfone is suitably located we can hear the engine. But don't ask me where those gases are coming from ;)
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Re:Is it a parody? Comedy? (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously. Every single decent sci-fi film/show/short that I've ever seen apart from 2001 has ignored the sound propagation issue.
And even at that, although 2001 was a work of art in its own right, it's a damn tedious film to watch in one sitting.
Re:Is it a parody? Comedy? (Score:5, Informative)
Serenity did until the final aerial battle; I've heard claims that they just couldn't stand to do it without sound (for the general audience's sake) so they made it take place in "upper atmosphere" or something like that. I don't know.
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I was kind of hoping it wouldn't be a "comedy", but instead a situation where they were cleverly taking old science-fiction ideas and applying them as though they were still considered possible.
You know, sort of like Fallout or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I mean, I guess Fallout had a comedic element, but it wasn't exactly a "spoof".
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I think Planetes [wikipedia.org] was a bit better in this regard. IIRC they tried to stick to a model where you could only hear sounds from within a vessel or suit, but in general, non-propagation was observed.
It was pretty realistic in other respects though. In the DVD extras for the English version, they even got a couple of scientists from NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office to say as much (!), with
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And 2001 was the greatest SF movie ever made.
Anyway, you may recall another little film, Alien? "In space, no one can hear you scream".
Sound in vacuum. (Score:2)
I think that started with Star Trek. They tried doing the credit fly-by with no sound and it felt empty and looked like animated toys. So they added sound and it was more gut-satisfying (despite the inaccuracy).
(This led to the Trekkie joke: "Why does the Enterprise go 'whoosh' when it flies by in vacuum?" "Because somebody left the vacuum cleaner running."
Of course this, and
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maybe the astronaut-cameraman (i know it's CG) inadvertently recorded the rf interference.
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Ready the story synopsis [ironsky.net] on the website:
Renate is to travel to Earth on a secret mission with her fiance, the handsome and high-ranking Klaus, a true Nazi down to his jackboots. Their mission: to assassinate the president of the United States, Jenna Bush.
I think that answers your question.
Clearly it's a documentary!
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Right.
Well, not quite:
The near side of the Moon always has the Earth above the horizon, and the Earth reflects a lot more sunligt to the moon than the moon does to the earth. (Enough to make the new moon weakly visible just by the doubly-reflected light.) So while days are the same on either side, nights on the "dark side" are only starlit, while
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If this was Star trek or something that is all serious and up it's own ass, then yea rip away, but you really are a very sad little man if that's the first thing you thought of.
Space Nazi's rule! Space Hitler is cooler than the Space Pope!
Enough... (Score:2, Funny)
That music was terrible (Score:5, Funny)
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Correction (Score:1)
It is a teaser (Score:4, Informative)
8 Million is a Lot (Score:5, Interesting)
But lets just say (using RIAA/MPAA math) those 8 million downloads were 8 million buts at seats for $7-$9 a pop. That'd be $56-$72 million in box office receipts.
That compares very favorably to any number of successful indie releases, let alone bombs. Disney (to single out one studio) since 2000 would, in retrospect, have been happy with [wikipedia.org] this [wikipedia.org] since their marketing muscle could have easily doubled these speculative receipts.
Re:8 Million is a Lot (Score:5, Funny)
Forget theaters. Those were 8 million DVD sales, at $16.99 each. Those bloody commis just swindled the movie industry out of 136 million bucks! And that's not even figuring in piracy!
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Music in teaser not cogent (Score:1)
I like a good space Nazis communal movie as well as anyone else but don't forget to tell a story!
Whitey On The Moon... (Score:1)
Whitey On The Moon [wikipedia.org]
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We're sorry (Score:1)
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This looks pretty aweful... (Score:1, Redundant)
The trailer might look kind of impressive, but from the website:
"At the moment, the team is finalizing the script"
In other words, the trailer has no relation to the final product in quality... and when they actually have to find live action "actors" to do the script... well...
I'm not
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This might make a good cheezy video game, but I can't imagine sitting through 2 hours of youtube quality acting. Check out the preview for the other film these guys created "star wreck." It looks like a tediously bad fan comedy.
Star wreck was made by the same guys but without any money or professional actors. Now they have a real production company behind them and steady funding. This is their first "real" production and they have also stated that they are using real hired actors for this movie. So I'm optimistic.
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About the script and actors. (Score:5, Informative)
What else is there? (Score:2)
That being said, I've watched the original, and while the acting is obviously quite amateur in places, and the script a bit corny, it all fits together nicely. Certainly when you consider the origins of the movie, it does quite well. I'd still say the acting was better than Mannikan Skywalker, and the script better than "The Hulk" or many other movi
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Hitler on the Moon? (Score:1)
Come to think of in, in terms of real life, why the hell did we elect a distant relative of Adolf Hitler to be the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States?
Corruption of Blood (Score:2)
For the same reason the Brits had a part american indian as their prime minister during WWII. A lot of people were convinced he was a good choice for the job.
This is the United States. No nobles here. Your ancestors' political connections, wealth, and historic behavior don't matter when it comes to what offices YOU get to hold. (Or at least that
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Can someone explain: CC License... (Score:2)
How can you "make good money" on an "NC" (non-commercial license?
Who do I sue?
HAL.
Re:Can someone explain: CC License... (Score:4, Informative)
Am i one the only one... (Score:2)
I mean, it's great that it's released under Creative Commons and stuff, but, unlike previous efforts [elephantsdream.org] (which were damn good BTW), this one has me completely psyched. The look and feel, the theme, storyline... it reminds me of one of those old campy sci-fi flicks.
I can't wait for the release!
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I'd actually never heard of the previous movie Star Wreck. I'm downloading it now.
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Oh you'll like it a lot if you're familiar with the source material - less so if you're not. But don't go into it with super-high expectations. It starts off pretty ropey, but it gets a Hell of a lot better. I think that's because it was filmed sequentially over a long period and their expertise and resources grew with time.
Trailer looks awesome... (Score:2)
Hopefully it does well, and spurs more crazy alternative history films.
Comedy? You mean it's not real? (Score:2)
But Nazi's on the moon? That's just silly. Obvio
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I wonder where the screenwriters got 'their' ideas from...
the picture with the astronaut raising the swastika flag on the moon most certainly not original
Perhaps they've been lurking on the Indiana Jones 4 bb too long
Regards,
dr. Strangelove.
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There is a segment of the UFO research community, (call it the "I don't believe it's aliens" crowd), who follow research which suggests that the Nazi's had anti-gravity and exotic power sources which were on the verge of being used in the war. However, Hitler was so focused on making bombers to retaliate the barrage of firebombing which their major cities endured at the hands of the Allies, that he directed most of their manufacturing and research into bombers, thus curt
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But I don't think this is the case. The use of the Black Sun image in this context requires far deeper knowledge of certain subcultures
Look closely: when you see the saucers form the nazi moonbase' launching it's through the opening eye of the symbol of SS engineers cult "Schwarze Sonne".
on the topic of turbulence and anti-gravity: Did you know the Japanese Army send a cargo Mercury to Antartica? I
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but the most interesting part (at least to me) why were they in a such hurry to get there (to antartica)
imo: the base was never found in New Schwabenland
it's in the Hollow Earth
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You are right about the one plane crash. There were not "huge casualties". That's what happens when I try to go from memory. There was also Vance Woodall, who died in an accident.
But still, as you say, the speed of heading down there soon after the war, with 4700 men, 3500 of whom were Marines, sure begs the question, "Why?"
Love the concept (Score:2)
This is what happens, when films stop being a business and become art again.
This Movie Looks Better (Score:2)
It has Udo Kier [mobygames.com] in it.
Dark side of the moon? (Score:2)
I remember the original commentary about Space 1999 that there is no dark side of the moon. There's a far side of the moon, but if nuclear fuel dumps exploded there it would drive the moon straight at the earth.
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Which would make it miss. (Basic orbital dynamics.)
To make it hit you'd have to "explode" the nuclear fuel dumps on the side leading in the orbit, to decelerate it into an impacting orbit.
It would also take LOTS of nuclear fuel dumps over a VERY LONG TIME. B-)
Nuclear bombs are big on human scales. But they're firecrackers compared to an earthquake, and an earthquake is not even in the le
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The moon is not solid. Think of it as a bunch of pebbles, sand, and dust particles held together by their own gravity. Accelerate it at something even approaching its own surface gravity (assuming you co
Dark Side of the moon | Black Sun cultus (Score:1)
The dark side of the moon is presumably a reference to the cultus of the Black Son / Schwarze Sonne
Even on the dark side of the moon, so phun intended
You see: there's no business like shoa business.
think again (Score:2)
Renate is to travel to Earth on a secret mission with her fiance, the handsome and high-ranking Klaus, a true Nazi down to his jackboots. Their mission: to assassinate the president of the United States, Jenna Bush.
Renate finds Earth not to be the pit of depravity Klaus had described. Suddenly, bombing this world back to the stone age doesn't seem like a good idea at all.
President Jenna Bush? No, it really would be time to bomb us back to the stone age.
This reminds me of a great short story by David Drake. A US senator is spending the weekend out at his cabin when the lights flighte and an eerie whirling noise comes from outside. There's a bleedin' flying saucer coming down. The hatch opens and out comes an SS officer complete with armband. The war was over 30 years ago, the senator had fought against the bastards, and now here's one with a flying saucer! The SS officer te
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I expect that, if they planned on invading, they'd spend a LOT of time working out in centrifuges.
They might deliberately train at more than one G and end up stronger.