Iron Sky 2 trailer

Cafe Society
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I saw this at the Arisia convention over the weekend. I obviously missed Iron Sky I.

If, like me, you haven’t seen or heard of this flick or its predecessor, just watch the trailer. Don’t read any of the commentary or description first – it’ll ruin it.

Just so this won't sit there without description, for those who can't access it (or watch it at work, I'll spoiler a description.

A nuclear bomb goes off near Washington DC (possibly Baltimore, or Annapolis. If it went off in DC, there’d be no movie). Madame president is evacuated via helicopter. They end up in Antarctica (via a REALLY long helicopter flight, or a series of connecting flights), and she gets out and goes to a building. She transforms her hand into some alien/reptilian thing and uses the handprint to open a secure lock on the door of a shaft going down. She climbs down the ladder and ends up in an underground world, a hollow earth-type place with a suspended interior vsun and a lush landscape. A Nazi in full uniform (who might be Hitler – I couldn’t tell) rides up mounted on a dinosaur. The man and the dinosaur give a seif heil salute, which she returns, with her alien hand, although as the Nazi turns away, she turns into a flipping the bird gesture.

Absolutely gorgeous CGI work, although the trailer indicates crowdfunding. From the reviews I looked up, Iron Sky I didn’t do so well critically. I suspect that, as with Sky Captain, this might be a case where the trailer’s a lot better and more compelling than the movie itself.

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I gather from the write-ups on the first film that Madame President is a thinly-disguised Sarah Palin, by the way, with the same initials. Just so’s you know.

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I really wanted Iron Sky to work, I really wanted to like it, and I gave it every chance to redeem itself… sadly it was just a terrible movie. Great concept, but the writing and the acting were so abysmally bad I had to stop watching it about halfway through. It just sucked that hard. It’s not even entertainingly stupid like the Vanilla Ice movie, it’s just unwatchably boring and annoying.

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Iron Sky worked much better as a teaser trailer. “The Nazis who escaped to the Moon at the end of the War have finished building their fleet of flying saucers and are returning NOW!”

They could not stretch the concept successfully to a full-length movie. (Personally I think they tried to hard to do ‘contemporary’ political satire.)

that is definitely Hitler on the dinosaur. Not-Sarah even calls the dinosaur ‘Blondi.’

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How many Nazis, in this film’s universe, escaped to the Moon? If it was mostly the hardcores, I can’t see them doing much of anything sciencey- that wasn’t exactly their their forte.

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I agree. Really good teaser (with fantastic music. Did they use the piece in the movie?), but too long and trying to be too clever. Still had a few funny scenes.

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I loved ‘‘Iron Sky’’, in the same way I love ''Plan 9…",.

Heh, Nazis on the moon, what’s not to love?

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I’d watch it with a big bowl of popcorn and some booze. That’s how I did the first one anyway.

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I paid cash money to see Iron Sky in a theater and it suuuuuuuuucked. Sucked.

I reviewed it at the time and if anything, I get more irritated about the film as time goes on. Any production of ‘Iron Sky II’ should involve trials in Nuremberg.

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I actually kind of liked Iron Sky, which is surprising because I usually don’t care for campy movies, but something about it worked for me.

I won’t say it was a good movie, though they did do certain things well.

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I thought the first one worked when it was doing camp but failed when it tried to do comedy or too much political commentary.

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This is how I would put it, too. The premise was really cool, but I don’t think they knew where to go with it.

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I liked Iron Sky. This trailer didn’t interest me in a sequel tho.

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I really wanted to like the original. But the racial stuff was uncomfortable and Palin jokes are so 2008.