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As World War II comes to an end in 1945, Hans Kammler and other German scientists make a breakthrough in anti-gravity research. From a secret base in the Antarctic, Nazi spaceships are sent to the "dark side" of the Moon to establish the military base "Schwarze Sonne". Their plan is to build a powerful fleet and return to conquer Earth. The film is set in the year 2018 when their descendants finally return...


Iron Sky is a forthcoming Finnish science-fiction comedy film from the makers of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. The film is directed by Timo Vuorensola and produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures production company. Samuli Torssonen is responsible for the computer generated effects of the film. The screenwriters are Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. The film is financed by Energia Productions, Blind Spot Pictures, New Holland Pictures and 27 Films production companies, and it is scheduled to be released on April 4, 2012.



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The Guardian - Wednesday 8 February 2012


Finnish sci-fi Nazi movie is hot ticket at Berlinale

Iron Sky, which imagines Nazi invasion from secret moon base,
sells more tickets than Werner Herzog and Angelina Jolie films



By Helen Pidd


Among the worthy films being premiered at the Berlin film festival over the next 10 days are an epic tracing China's history; three documentaries about the Fukushima nuclear disaster; Werner Herzog's look at death row; and Angelina Jolie's take on the Bosnian war.

But one of the most popular films on the day that tickets went on sale was a Finnish sci-fi comedy about Nazis living on the dark side of the moon.

Iron Sky tells how Hitler's top scientists moved to a lunar military base known as the Black Sun shortly after the end of the second world war. For more than 70 years boffins beavered away on a fleet of spaceships that one day would return to Earth and finish what the Nazis started. In 2018 the invasion begins.

The Finnish-German-Australian production was the second most popular film when the box office opened, according to Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper. It was beaten to the top spot by Don 2 – The King is Back, the latest from the Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. Fans of the Indian heartthrob camped out in a shopping centre for three days and nights to get tickets for the film, which sold out in minutes.

Elsewhere, it was business as usual at the traditionally serious festival, also called the Berlinale. This year's event, the 62nd, focuses on social upheaval and political awakening, screening documentaries and fictional works from Arab film-makers, which trace the turbulent progress of the 2011 uprisings across the region and explore political and philosophical questions left in the wake of demonstrations.

The Egyptian film Reporting a Revolution, directed by Bassam Mortada, follows six journalists on the frontline during 18 days of protests. In The Shadow of a Man, directed by Hanan Abdalla, has four women talking about how a new society should look.

Last year the festival, well known for engaging in political debate, became a platform for protest against the arrest of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Accused of inciting opposition protests in 2009 and making a film without permission, Panahi was banned from travelling outside Iran so was unable to take his seat on the Berlinale jury.

This year the festival will continue the debate about the position of the artist in society with the international premiere of a documentary about the dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

But it's not all doom and gloom. The organisers have coaxed some of Hollywood's biggest names to sprinkle a little stardust. Jolie will be hawking In the Land of Blood and Honey, her directorial debut about the Bosnian civil war, while Javier Bardem will show the documentary he produced, Sons of the Clouds: the Last Colony, about a forgotten colonial war in the western Sahara. Meryl Streep will sweep into town to accept an honorary Golden Bear – Berlin's answer to Cannes' Palme d'Or – in recognition of her reign at the top of Hollywood's tree, covering more than 30 years.

The biggest screams on the red carpet are likely to be reserved for Robert Pattinson, the British dreamboat who stars in the wildly popular vampire series, Twilight. The teen idol is expected to turn up to promote his latest movie, an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami, in which he plays a scoundrel who rises through the ranks of 19th-century Parisian society by manipulating and seducing women.

Berlin has a surprisingly starry jury. Jake Gyllenhaal and Charlotte Gainsbourg join the Dutch photographer and film-maker Anton Corbijn (who had a hit with the Joy Division film Control) on the international panel, chaired by the veteran British director Mike Leigh.

One film vying for the award, Les Adieux à la Reine (Farewell My Queen), starring Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette, will launch the festival on Thursday. The Berlinale, which runs until 19 February, is ranked as one of the world's top film festivals.


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Berlin 2012 Review: IRON SKY


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The Iron Sky stars Julia Dietze, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie Paul and Christopher Kirby
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By Brian Clark



I'm torn about how to review Iron Sky. Is it really fair to criticize a movie about Nazis from the dark side of the moon invading the earth for being too goofy? Hell, is it really fair to criticize that movie for anything at all?

Before I get to that question though, let me back up and point out that, while we have gleefully been covering the development of this film since 2007, it's often a lot more fun to talk about concepts like moon Nazis then to actually watch said concepts stretched out to feature length. And so, the Finish duo behind the cult Star Trek parody, Star Wreck, deserve kudos for delivering a reasonably fun movie that at least strives for more than repeating the same joke over and over for an hour and a half.

Some may be content to leave it there -- it really is a perfectly serviceable moon Nazi movie. Go to a midnight showing with some friends and some beers and you probably won't feel like you've wasted your night. But what's frustrating about Iron Sky is that it occasionally approaches greatness, and then promptly falls back into well-worn Sci-Fi comedy clichés. Until now, I hadn't thought about the fact that sci-fi comedy clichés even exist, but I promise you, they do!

The film cuts right to the chase, opening with an American landing on the moon that's cut brutally short by the moon Nazis. This scene plays out with a near-perfect blend of comedy and menace, and in this scene at least, director Timo Vuorensola has the visual pizzazz to back it up. Almost immediately, the plot gets too convoluted to really even try to relate, suffice to say, the Nazis eventually invade the earth.

However, after the assured opening, the movie oscillates wildly from parody to dated political satire to reasonably clever political satire to straight up sci-fi action and back to parody. Nothing is ever quite as confrontational or audacious as you'd really hope, given the material, but there are some inspired bits, such as when the Nazis find great success within the U.S. political system. In fact, there were several jokes that made me laugh long past the punchline, but alas, they were few and far between.

The execution of the movie is wildly uneven too. A fair amount of the CGI and Sci-Fi action is impressive and even convincing, but then a scene will pop up where the costumes and set look like leftovers from a SNL skit. And even if the CGI looks good for the film's budget level, there's far too much explosive action. No one goes to see a space Nazi movie for the kick-ass intergalactic battles. We've got the entire American studio system pumping billions of dollars into the Sci-fi action industry - A movie with Space Nazis should bring even more fresh ideas to the table, not low-budget retreads of scenes from Independence Day.

But probably the biggest problem with the film is that a large amount of the humor is dated, most likely due to its long production timeline (we've been covering its development on this site for nearly five years). This is almost strictly Bush-era satire and it's honestly staggering how irrelevant and stale it all feels today. When I first saw that the President of the United States in the film was a thinly-disguised version of Sarah Palin, I shrugged it off as a throwaway joke. But sadly, she ends up playing a pretty major role in the film. And a plot point about the Nazis needing an iPad to power their death machine is just embarrassing.

Really though, Iron Sky is not an unqualified failure. It's got Udo Kier, a moon-base shaped like a swastika, and a sexy, endearing performance by Julia Dietze, so it's certainly not all bad. But Shaun of the Dead it ain't, and at the end of the day, it probably is more fun to talk about the film than actually watch it. The space Nazi movie in your head is probably better than the one on screen.


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The Guardian - Wednesday 8 February 2012


Finnish sci-fi Nazi movie is hot ticket at Berlinale

Iron Sky, which imagines Nazi invasion from secret moon base,
sells more tickets than Werner Herzog and Angelina Jolie films



By Helen Pidd


Among the worthy films being premiered at the Berlin film festival over the next 10 days are an epic tracing China's history; three documentaries about the Fukushima nuclear disaster; Werner Herzog's look at death row; and Angelina Jolie's take on the Bosnian war.

But one of the most popular films on the day that tickets went on sale was a Finnish sci-fi comedy about Nazis living on the dark side of the moon.

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I've been advised by my family doctor, to see some of these films and also the best 3 or so from last year. That seems a strange suggestion. Why should a person who loves to create productive, constructive services/info for his fellow humans, be told to go do something as indulgently consumeristic as watch movies in a movie theatre? Maybe it's to make me less serious and expand my sensitivity to what actually pleases other people. Who knows? Or it could be just to unlax. But I don't have many years left. And I want to put them to the best use I can, to enduring benefit for more than just me.

I started working at age 7, in the family business. Perhaps like Eilleen Twain, there was a necessary serious bent to my young life. While I worked long hard hours, out on the farm, milk bottling plant and residential delivery routes; my school mates in town, spent their summers going to movies, playing ball, going swimming, bicycling to the soda shop and dances, etc. I was lucky to see one movie every couple years at a theatre. We did have visits from good story tellers though, in the person of visits every few months, from out of state uncles and some aunts.

I don't remember seeing a movie in a theatre here in my current community, in the last 3 years. And before that, it was rather sporadic. The only time I saw a number of movies each year, was when my life needed greater escapism, because my decisions and activities were controlled from moment to moment and hour to hour, by my masters. I was a draftee in the US army during the Vietnam Era. I saw 10-15 movies a year during that period. When I was in a private high school, studying to become a religious leader, we were shown half a dozen movies each school year. They were good movies, very popular and enjoyable. But my life there was even more carefully controlled by the school masters, than when I was in the Army later.

Of the movies mentioned above, I think the history of China might appeal to me. I love history, have some connections to China, and I studied Mandarin Chinese for a short time. The Fukishima nuclear disaster does not sound appealing to me, tho I tend to like documentaries. A look at Death Row also is not a very pleasant topic.

I've heard about Angelna Jolie's movie about the intentional, planned, systematic rapes of whole communities of "uncivilized" Muslim women by "civilized" Catholic men in Bosnia, as a method to discourage and undermine their opponents. A most distressing view of so called modern civilization, and human nature. Of course the leaders in Serbia and other perpetrating groups, denied it ever happened. Nazi-ism was only one flavor of human evil. It exists in many forms, in many cultures.


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Berlin 2012 Review: IRON SKY

By Brian Clark

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That review makes this popular movie sound poor to fair quality in 2/3 of the movie's attributes and content.

Well, fans don't pay much heed to reviews, and some call reviewers nuts, or worse, if they say anything but the most flattering comments.


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Sometimes strange is truer than fiction.

Here's some info about what Nazis reportedly did in Antartica near the end of WW II.

If people eventually get tired of hearing about Nazis and Hitler in movies, they might get to see them in person, again in the future.


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The Lede - The New York Times News Blog
February 8, 2012, 1:02 pm
World War II Rumor About an Ancient Lake Is Revived
By J. DAVID GOODMAN

As my colleague David M. Herszenhorn reports, scientists are poised to take some highly anticipated samples from a deep subglacial lake in Antarctica, saying on Wednesday that they had succeeded in boring through more than two miles of ice.

The state-financed broadcaster Russia Today posted video of the researchers at the frigid Antarctic outpost, including clips of them snowmobiling around the endless expanse of ice and snow and watching supply planes land.

What evolutionary secrets Lake Vostok — named after the Russian research station above it — may hold after being sealed under ice for millions of years has tantalized scientists who hope to find evidence of previously unknown forms of life.

Probing the mysterious depths of earth has also fascinated casual observers, some of whom gravitated toward more outlandish theories about what may be discovered in the ancient lake, including alien life forms or Hitler’s remains.

That last theory, based on sketchy rumors of a Nazi base on the frozen continent, received an unlikely boost this week from Russia’s state-run news service, Ria Novosti, which said that the scientific mission had revived an “old theory saying that German Nazis may have built a secret base” at Lake Vostok “as early as the 1930s.”

The state news report then delved deeper into the realm of Nazi conspiracy theory, observing without any evidence that “it was also rumored that later the submarine U-977 delivered the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica for DNA cloning purposes.”

Bloggers pointed to other rumors of a Nazi base in a vast northern area of Antarctica known as Queen Maud’s Land (or Dronning Maud Land in Norwegian), as the Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock observed. Even so, the Moscow Times and others picked up the reported rumors without providing any new evidence or attempting to refute the claims, which appear on their face to be doubtful. For one thing, the subglacial lake reached by scientists this week lies far south of Queen Maud’s Land.
The New York TimesA map published in The Times in 1941 marked the spot where a German naval repair base was said to have been established.

But, like the defrosted alien in the 1982 Antarctic research-themed film “The Thing,” the rumor has survived for years despite strong attempts to put it to rest. Perhaps this is because it is based on a few kernels of truth. For example, The Times reported in 1941 on the existence of a German naval repair station on the northernmost tip of Antarctica near South America.

The journal Nature wrote about several other bits of history that theorists may be drawing from:

There was a German expedition to Antarctica in 1938-39. There was classified British military activity in Antarctica during the war. In July 1945, two months after VE Day, the German submarine U-530 appeared at the Argentine naval base of Mar del Plata. The next month, U-977 did the same.

In 1946-47 the U.S. military mounted Operation Highjump, the largest ever Antarctic expedition, consisting of 4,700 men and 13 ships. And in 1958, they carried out three nuclear explosions in the southern hemisphere that were meant to stay secret, but didn’t.

In 2007, a pair of Antarctic scientists subjected the theory of the Nazi base to a rigorous review. Writing in in the journal Polar Record, they observed in the abstract of their paper that:

Using background knowledge of Antarctica and information concerning these activities that has been published since the early 1940s, it is demonstrated: that the two U-Boats could not have reached Antarctica; that there was no secret wartime German base in Dronning Maud Land; that SAS troops did not attack the alleged German base; that the SAS men in the region at the time had civilian jobs; that Operation Highjump was designed to train the U.S. Navy for a possible war with the Soviet Union in the Arctic, and not to attack an alleged German base in Antarctica; and that Operation Argus took place over the ocean more than 2000 km north of Dronning Maud Land.

Activities that were classified have subsequently been declassified and it is no longer difficult to separate fact from fancy, despite the fact that many find it attractive not to do so.

Many indeed, as The Daily Mail headlined on Tuesday: “Breakthrough! Russian scientists drill into Antarctic lake buried under the ice for 20 million years, amid extraordinary claims the Nazis may have got there first.”

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Iron Sky


By Mark Adams, chief film critic


Director: Timo Vuorensola. Finland-Australia-Germany. 2012. 93mins


Iron Sky revels in its B-movie status, and tip-toeing a fine line in political incorrectness it unleashes sci-fi special effects mayhem onto an unsuspecting world…well, certainly a world that has no idea that a secret Nazi space programme evaded destruction at the end of World War II and relocated to the Dark Side of the Moon awaiting the perfect moment for the return of the Fourth Reich.



The concept for this freewheeling sci-fi comedy is a strong one and for a good deal of the time it delivers good-natured genre entertainment, with the cast sensibly taking it all very seriously and the film punctuated with some impressive action effects the belie the its modest budget. Genre fans should lap up the film, and while lack of known stars and the fact it is partially subtitled should impact on its ability to break out there is no denying the film’s marketing buzz.

Though the majority of Iron Sky’s €7.5million budget came from traditional sources, close to €1million came from Iron Sky fans, and the social networking support for the film should not be underestimated.

The secret Nazi base on the moon is deemed under invasion when American astronaut/male model James Washington (Kirby) ands his Lunar capsule a bit too close to the Nazi’s helium mining operation. He is captured and dragged off to be interrogated by Nazis who think he may be part of an advance force…when in fact he is only there as part of a publicity stunt for the US President (Paul).

When they see then computing power in his humble mobile phone they realize only on Earth can they find the processing power to finally launch their flagship spacecraft, the massive Gotterdammerung, so two Nazi officers, ruthlessly ambitious Klaus Adler (Otto) and idealistic English-speaking teacher Renate Richter (Dietze), are sent to earth to snag some more mini-computers.

But Klaus has other plans and initially allying himself with the President and her super-sexy advisor Vivian Wagner (Sergeant) he plots to usurp the Moon Fuhrer (a nicely droll performance by cult favourite Udo Kier) and take over for himself.

There are some delicious moments – such as petite and striking Julia Dietze showing her classroom of children a clip from Chaplin’s The Great Dictator to show the benevolent ambitions of Hitler – balanced by some truly impressive special effects. The Nazi invasion of the Earth, with giant zeppelins dragging moon rock to catapult at the planet, and the space dog fights (with the spacecraft USS George W Bush leading the fight back) quite brilliant. Another nice moment comes when it turns out that all of the Earth’s countries have in fact armed their spacecraft, much to the annoyance of the Americans…apart from modest Finland.

In fact, when these Nazis are still spacebound the film is at its best. When it gets to Earth the story struggles to find its momentum, despite the game efforts of Gotz Otto (who played Herr Stamper in Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies) and Julia Dietze (called upon to play her role demure-but-sexy) who hold he film together.

There is a lot of smart sci-fi fun to be had with Iron Sky which nicely blends its comic-book sensibilities with B-movie action. The attack scenes are as good - at times - as those in Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles, and the knowing sexuality and broad un-PC humour slots in nicely with the ludicousness of Nazi’s driving motorcycles and old Volkswagons across the lunar landscape.


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Interesting review.

Thanks John.

My uncle encountered one of the top B-movie stars of the WW II era, Sterling Hayden, several times. They were both in the spy capital of the Mediterranean - Cairo at the time, and both working for the OSS. The Office of Strategic Services, was the US secret intelligence and secret operations organization. It was the fore-runner to the CIA, which began about a year after the end of WW II. The Brits had their MI-5 and MI-6. The Germans had their Sicherheitsdienst, among others. And the Soviets had their NKVD, variously named.


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Screen Daily - 16 February, 2012


Iron Sky confirms US, Israel deals

Trailer had 5 million views in six days



By Wendy Mitchell


Iron Sky has closed further deals for Stealth Media in Berlin, led by a North American deal with Entertainment One.

For Israel, the film has now sold to Shoval.

The trailer for the film, about Nazis on the moon, released on YouTube during the Berlinale, has now seen more than five million views in six days. That makes the trailer more popular than those for Hollywood blockbusters. “It feels great to beat these films that have already spent more on marketing that the entire budget of Iron Sky. I see it as a sign of democratisation of entertainment, where the internet means a Finnish film can capture the interest of the viewing public. This is a victory to all European and independent filmmakers, and it’s all thanks to our active online community” says director Timo Vuorensola.

He added: “Iron Sky is for sure an audience film; we’ve been ending every screening here in Berlin with huge ovations, and the theaters are packed.”

The film next travels to SXSW before heading to Tampere, Finland.

Iron Sky marches to theaters in April 2012.

The world sales is handled by Stealth Media Group.


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I hope this film comes to Dubai. I would really like to see this one.

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The Independent - Monday 20 February 2012


The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make

A spoof film about Nazis living on the Moon has become an unlikely hit


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By Kaleem Aftab

A Finnish sci-fi film about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second World War has turned out to be the unlikely hot ticket of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

Iron Sky sold out faster than movies directed by Angelina Jolie and Werner Herzog – a remarkable feat for a film that only received financing after appealing for donations on the internet, which raised $1 million of the $7.5 million budget.

Made by the first-time director Timo Vuorensola, the only cast member with any sort of name recognition is the German cult star Udo Kier, stalwart of vampire and Von Trier movies, who plays Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, the leader of the Moon Nazis. He and his fellow Nazis are discovered when the President of the United States (Stephanie Paul), a gym-loving mother modelled on Sarah Palin, is advised that sending astronauts back to the Moon will help to boost her chance of re-election.

Set in 2018 and shot in a slapdash style, Iron Sky uses the idea of Moon Nazis invading New York to create a burning satire on American politics and spin. At times, the acting and dialogue is clunky, but the special effects belie the tiny budget. This is schlock, over-the-top storytelling at its riotous and enjoyable best. Hilarious comparisons are made between the rhetoric of Nazi speeches and American presidential campaigns. As a pastiche on Nazis, it's cleverer and much more savvy than Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

No attempts are made to explain how the Nazis got to the Moon, nor how they survive. Much is made of how technologically inept the Nazi's mad scientist is – he's wowed by the power of Washington's smart phone – yet moments later the Nazis are flying to Earth on a fleet of heavily armed spaceships. Rather than get bogged down in laborious explanations the action is made up of a series of humorous set-pieces, with a central romance in which the perfect Aryan female (Julie Dietze) falls in love with a black astronaut.

It's the type of film that Hollywood studios would not touch with a bargepole. As such, the film-makers were forced to go underground. The internet has been buzzing about Iron Sky for months. A trailer released a few days before the premiere in Berlin received a million hits in less than 24 hours. The film-makers have cleverly made up for the small marketing campaign with a perfectly executed viral attack on social-media sites and those that have helped to fund the film have also helped promote it.

"The internet played a big role in the film-making process. The idea was to make the production process itself a part of the story and it's a big marketing aspect as well," says Vuorensola. "It was funny to be so popular. It's hard to understand how we got so big."

Using the internet for movie financing is an increasingly common phenomenon. There are a growing number of websites such as Kickstarter that aim to help film-makers find money for their films. Kickstarter works by setting a time limit and a funding goal: if the target is not reached, the money is returned to potential investors.

"You have to find a way to pitch the film in a way that is really easy to understand and easy to grasp," says Vuorensola. "The attention span on the internet is so short you have to grab them with something. Every movie has something you can grab them with and you need to unearth that. For this film, it felt so organic to use the internet community to fund and support it."

The only downside is that the sheer number of investors makes the end credits incredibly long.

'Iron Sky' is released on 4 April.


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Since its premier at the Berlin International Film Festival one month ago, the Finnish-German-Australian science fiction comedy Iron Sky has been sold to more than 70 countries for showings at over 1,000 cinemas. Its Finnish director credits the online fan community for sparking what looks to be a major film success.

Cinema distribution of Iron Sky has been confirmed for at least the following countries: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, German-speaking regions of Switzerland, Austria, the UK, France, the former Yugoslav republics, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Japan, China (contingent on censor's approval), South Korea, Thailand, Israel, the USA, Canada, Indonesia, Greece, India and Hungary.


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news.com.au - March 20, 2012


Iron Sky - YouTubers fire up over whether Nazis could actually shoot guns on the moon


By Peter Farquhar


NEXT month, an alarming new movie may or may not reach Australian cinemas called Iron Sky.
In it, Nazis have been gathering on the dark side of the moon since they made a breakthrough in anti-gravity research way back in 1945 and sent a few spaceships up there for safekeeping.

And apparently, just six years from now, they will return to Earth to finish the job their Fuhrer failed to complete in 1945.

The movie has Australian backing, cost somewhere around $10 million in crowd-sourced funding to make and is likely to arrive with the kind of incredulous so-bad-it's-unmissable hype not seen since Snakes on a Plane.

But unlike Snakes on a Plane, there's some consternation online about whether the plot's... realistic?

The source of the brow-furrowing stems from a showing of the first four-and-a-half minutes of the film last weekend at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas.

It's all going fine, with the Americans landing on the moon and cracking a few bad gags, until one of them peeks over the edge of a crater and spies an enormous compound. Shaped like a swastika of course, just so there's no confusion here.

Then he gets shot by a Nazi wearing a gas mask. Then all hell breaks loose - on YouTube.

What's followed in the past few days is a raging debate about whether German war pistols will work on the moon and whether it's a massive oversight on behalf of the makers of Iron Sky.

At last count, there were no less than 30 PAGES of anguished hand-wringing like this: "Guys, you can shoot a gun in space, only if the bullets have air in them."

And this: "Um, don't mean to kill it, but neither a 'panzerfaust' or a pistol would work in space. They need oxygen for the actual mechanism for firing to work."

Bet the producers of Iron Sky didn't see this coming.

Watch the trailer and make up your own mind - is the movie about a secret Nazi base on the moon unrealistic?

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/mo ... z1pfQTvDaP



The Iron Sky Team responded on facebook:


Okay guys, let's make this clear:

Guns DO work in space. The gunpowder includes the oxygen it needs to burn, it does not need oxygen from the air. And yes, we actually checked it when we were writing that scene :)

If you don't believe us, ask Mythbusters: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythb ... -myth.html - we'd be happy to loan them a moon nazi trooper for a test.



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Well nuts John,

I do not see any indications of this movie coming to Dubai, UAE. I am not seeing it advertised anywhere here, and Bel and I went to see another movie last week at one of the theaters at Mirdif City Centre Mall, and there were no previews shown for Iron Sky. I guess I'll have to wait and hope to see it on DVD some day.

Maybe I can catch it in the U.S. later this summer IF I have time. Bel and I are expecting to make our annual vacation trek back home during our usual time between approx. mid June to mid July. Based on our two previous trips home, the 30 days at home seem to pass by like 30 minutes. :roll: So depending on what dates the movie is playing in the U.S. theaters, I'll see if I can spare the time to catch it there.

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MAGNUM 7220 wrote:
I do not see any indications of this movie coming to Dubai, UAE.


I do:

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http://www.ironsky.net/site/film/releasedates/

Middle East & Northern Africa, Distribution by Falcon Media * Confirmed Theatrical Release – Date To Be Confirmed *


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