Bought it for under $5 from Family Video. I had viewed the trailers on You Tube and was expecting a bit more action and a bit less debauchery and coarse language. Enjoyed the Dr. Richter character though. Zhat iz not a komputer! Also thought the nation anthem of the Moon Nazis was clever. Meteorblitzkrieg!
The film could give Santa Claus Conquers The Martians trouble in it's distinctive category IMHO.
Just finished watching Iron Sky again... amazing how much stuff you pick up the second time around... for instance, the scene you mentioned with the Vivian character at the table, looking over the proposals by her staff... she doesn't like what she sees, and her staff gives her more bad news, at which point she pulls her glasses off with a trembling hand, orders their subordinates out of the room except the department heads, and then launches into her tirade... watch this parody from the movie "Downfall" and compare it to the scene from Iron Sky...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHmcpRAZNs
The basic message here is "there's not as much difference between us and the "bad guys" as we'd sometimes like to think... this message is repeated several times in the movie... (more on that later)...
There was also a scene in the movie where Washington is wheeled out in a wheelchair after being drugged and "turned into a Nazi"... his captors are confident they've turned him into a Nazi, and the doctor yells "HEIL!" to him, at which point Washington has to physically resist giving the Nazi salute, by physically holding his own arm down... they're parodying "Dr. Strangelove" in this scene, where Peter Sellers character Dr. Strangelove holds his own arm down to prevent giving the Nazi salute to the US President in the bunker, and ends up basically having a fistfight with his own right arm in his wheelchair...
***** SPOILER ALERT******** DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE FIRST********
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The ending is VERY Kubric as well, as it basically does the same thing that Kubric did in Dr. Strangelove... at the very end, the bombs are flying and the missiles impacting on Earth, right after the space armada has destroyed each other fighting over the Helium-3. In true Kubric fashion, reflecting the insanity of mutually assured destruction, the nuclear arms race, the Cold War in general, and the rampant paranoia of "missile gaps" leading inexorably to "cave gaps" at the end of Dr. Strangelove, in the same fashion the nations of Earth finally destory each other in a final miasma of massive destruction, fighting over the Helium-3... as the bombs go off in Dr. Strangelove and the melancholy tune of "We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day" plays a dirge for the human race, similarly the missiles are impacting in visuals closer to the end of "Terminator 3" than Dr. Strangelove, but the idea is the same, and the haunting melody of "I Know We'll Meet Again, Under the Iron Sky" plays out a melancholy song for the survivors on the Moon...
The scene in which Vivian declares the Nazi Moon Base a "free fire zone" and orders it nuked, over the protestations of the military officers manning the USS George W. Bush, who remind her that there are women and children down there, and she declares "The US government does not negotiate with terrorists" and orders it nuked... which basically puts her in the same moral position as the Nazis themselves, and she makes the SAME decision, which means she's no better than they are...
Also an interesting scene where the President declares to the UN that the US has "no military interest in the Moon" and is questioned by the Arab delegates about the US's ECONOMIC interests in the moon, since "the US has confused the two occassionally". Touche'! Point and match! It's also interesting when the President becomes furious when the US George W. Bush is about to be destroyed and the other nation's spaceships come charging to its defense, with their own weapons blazing... "Yall broke your WORD to me!" "The US broke it's word in arming it's spaceship-- why not us?" "Because we're the United States-- that's what we DO!" Whereupon seeing the Russian MIR station/ship coming in blazing away with it's own particle weapon or whatever, she becomes even more irate declaring "that thing was supposed to be destroyed!" (meaning Mir, which was intentionally deorbited in 2000 at US insistence and basically over Russian protestations to make way for the ISS). Then when the Nazi threat is put down, and the USS George W. Bush reports back that they've located the massive reserves of Helium-3 on the lunar surface in close proximity to the defeated Nazi lunar base, the President (after being informed by her SecDef what it actually IS and the importance of it) declares the moon soveriegn US territory and lays claim to the Helium-3, which devolves the arguments in the UN into what becomes WWIII. Yep... very Kubric Dr. Strangelove like...
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It's amazing how much you can catch on to when you watch something a few times... I got a ton of good screenshots of the ships and stuff from Iron Sky that I need to upload from the camera and post on here tomorrow... The USS. George W. Bush is an interesting looking ship, and could be made to fly with the proper modifications-- it already basically has a ring fin... (the counterrotating "artificial gravity rings) and the aft missile launchers look like fins, basically... the rest is largely the semitrapezoidal forward section with the nuclear bombs and flank missile launchers (man for a Mars Exploration ship that sucker sure is heavily armed, ain't she??
) The rear "engine pod" is also similarly semitrapezoidal in shape, but much more like a trapezoidal tube than the flatter, broader front section.... The Russian "MIR" battleship would be more difficult to make into a flying model, because of it's weird shape, but it could be done, after a fashion, if the solar arrays were moved to the rear end and used as fins... much like the Union-Jack painted "British space ship", which is also a very good candidate for making a flying model... the aft position of a bank of numerous solar panels (at least six if I counted correctly) and the rather long, sleek shape would be particularly amenable to conversion for flight. The Japanese ship, on the other hand, would be far more difficult, as it is very angular and short and stocky, with lots of "greebles" sticking out but not much in the way of solar panels or anything that could serve as fins... course, if you can make a DEATH STAR fly, well, you can make ANYTHING fly! LOL
There's some other ships on there as well that don't get close-ups but are clearly visible in the shots in a support role... then there's the Nazi "zeppelin" UFO carrier flagships, which could be converted from V-2 kits with a little work. The Gotterdammerung battleship at the end looks rather like some stuff I've seen Art Applewhite send up, so with some creativity, even this thing could actually fly...
I've been tinkering with the idea of making a flying version of the "RSS Venturestar" from "AVATAR"... it's a cool looking design, but would need some definite tweaking to the design to make a stable flying rocket... that and I need to upload some pics of the rockets in "Space Chimps" as these would also make some cool flying models...
Later! OL JR