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Space Nazi Trailers Draw Crowd Funding for Iron Sky Movie

50 points by alexandros 16y ago

Vivtek 16y ago
Oh, man, they're really making some serious progress there, aren't they? At this rate, they might finish the movie before 2018 (when the space Nazis are to return to Earth). I'm looking forward to this one.
utexaspunk 16y ago
Sorta like Starship Troopers, no?
- charleso 16y ago
  Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), actually. For a vague, SPOILER-ish description (the book's cover often gives it away anyhow): A group of teens build a moon rocket, but someone (wonder who?) is there to meet them.
  - GFischer 16y ago
    Noooo :P (I am actually reading the book right now ! - they were on their way to the moon when I stopped reading. I don't mind the spoiler that much. Since it's an ebook I don't have the cover anyways) On the story itself, it's almost too naive to be believed, but I hope it makes for a good movie. Heinlein's later novels are much better but often repeat themselves and he became obsessed with his "World as Myth" idea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth) I wish they made a "Glory Road" movie... sounds like good material there :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road)
  - pyre 16y ago
    > but someone (wonder who?) is there to meet them. Galileo? "I'm sorry kids, but your breathable atmosphere is in a another castle."
stcredzero 16y ago
It's been true about them ever since they were actually walking around in reality. It's even truer since they faded into history. It was true in Star Wars. It's true in Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars, and a whole bunch of his other films besides. It's true in Indiana Jones. In a way it's true on Seinfeld. Even Charlie Chaplin found it to be true. Poor old Leni Riefenstahl knew it was true, personally, then spent the rest of her life paying the price. What is it? Nazis make for good cinema! It makes sense, really. A bunch of guys running around in the 20th century, with mechanized warfare and a world view that would've fit in perfectly well in Genghis Khan's time. It's as if a writer for a video game made them up and they escaped through a time portal into the 1st half of the 20th century. Why do I even bother with posts like this? Automatic Godwin's! (Standard Godwin's Disclaimers: Nazis were real and as evil as you can get. The Holocaust actually happened.)
- xsmasher 16y ago
  They're also the "safe bad guy" - you can make Nazis the villain in your movie / game and no one will complain (except don't show the swastika, ss in some countries.) Spielberg promised not to use Nazis as a trope after Schilder's list, and the last Indy movies suffered for it. Using commies as the enemy seems so dated and Jingoistic, even though the conflict was more recent.
  - stcredzero 16y ago
    Yes, but the "safe" aspect is only a side benefit. Artistically, they're perfect. Really, the more you think about it, the more it seems like a video game or comic book writer made them up and they escaped into reality and stole a time machine. They were into the occult and old Nordic/Germanic mythology. They were developing and had bonafide super-science weapons: jets, ICBMs, and stealth aircraft while some of their opponents early in the war were still using cavalry charges. There was real-life superscience intrigue involving highly gifted super-geniuses. This intrigue involved nuclear weapons. They were urgently bent on world domination -- not as an eventual goal or as a someday-daydream wish, but as an urgent we-need-to-do-this-ASAP real-world project. They also seem to be securely in the top 5% of everyone fictional or real as far of level of atrocities goes. They just flat-out make really cool villains.

50 points by alexandros 16y ago

Oh, man, they're really making some serious progress there, aren't they? At this rate, they might finish the movie before 2018 (when the space Nazis are to return to Earth). I'm looking forward to this one.

utexaspunk 16y ago

Sorta like Starship Troopers, no?

charleso 16y ago
Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), actually. For a vague, SPOILER-ish description (the book's cover often gives it away anyhow): A group of teens build a moon rocket, but someone (wonder who?) is there to meet them.
- GFischer 16y ago
  Noooo :P (I am actually reading the book right now ! - they were on their way to the moon when I stopped reading. I don't mind the spoiler that much. Since it's an ebook I don't have the cover anyways) On the story itself, it's almost too naive to be believed, but I hope it makes for a good movie. Heinlein's later novels are much better but often repeat themselves and he became obsessed with his "World as Myth" idea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_as_Myth) I wish they made a "Glory Road" movie... sounds like good material there :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road)
- pyre 16y ago
  > but someone (wonder who?) is there to meet them. Galileo? "I'm sorry kids, but your breathable atmosphere is in a another castle."

stcredzero 16y ago

It's been true about them ever since they were actually walking around in reality. It's even truer since they faded into history. It was true in Star Wars. It's true in Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars, and a whole bunch of his other films besides. It's true in Indiana Jones. In a way it's true on Seinfeld. Even Charlie Chaplin found it to be true. Poor old Leni Riefenstahl knew it was true, personally, then spent the rest of her life paying the price. What is it? Nazis make for good cinema! It makes sense, really. A bunch of guys running around in the 20th century, with mechanized warfare and a world view that would've fit in perfectly well in Genghis Khan's time. It's as if a writer for a video game made them up and they escaped through a time portal into the 1st half of the 20th century. Why do I even bother with posts like this? Automatic Godwin's! (Standard Godwin's Disclaimers: Nazis were real and as evil as you can get. The Holocaust actually happened.)

xsmasher 16y ago
They're also the "safe bad guy" - you can make Nazis the villain in your movie / game and no one will complain (except don't show the swastika, ss in some countries.) Spielberg promised not to use Nazis as a trope after Schilder's list, and the last Indy movies suffered for it. Using commies as the enemy seems so dated and Jingoistic, even though the conflict was more recent.
- stcredzero 16y ago
  Yes, but the "safe" aspect is only a side benefit. Artistically, they're perfect. Really, the more you think about it, the more it seems like a video game or comic book writer made them up and they escaped into reality and stole a time machine. They were into the occult and old Nordic/Germanic mythology. They were developing and had bonafide super-science weapons: jets, ICBMs, and stealth aircraft while some of their opponents early in the war were still using cavalry charges. There was real-life superscience intrigue involving highly gifted super-geniuses. This intrigue involved nuclear weapons. They were urgently bent on world domination -- not as an eventual goal or as a someday-daydream wish, but as an urgent we-need-to-do-this-ASAP real-world project. They also seem to be securely in the top 5% of everyone fictional or real as far of level of atrocities goes. They just flat-out make really cool villains.