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Last week I had the pleasure of attending a media screening of the much-awaited Finnish(-German-Australian) genre movie IRON SKY.
Some intro factoids:
- This is not to be confused with Charlie Stross’s book Iron Sunrise (no matter how much my brainmeatz tries to muddy these waters).
- As the Great Wiki informs us, it is:
one of a new wave of productions, including Artemis Eternal, The Cosmonaut, A Swarm of Angels and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, produced in collaboration with an on-line community of film enthusiasts, that are creating a new kind of participatory cinema. At Wreck-a-Movie, a collaborative film-making web site, the producers have invited everyone interested in “chipping in” with their ideas and creativity to read the tasks given to the community and to take a shot (write an entry).
- There’s a prequel comic you can start reading right now.
- The soundtrack is by LAIBACH!!!
Wow, I really buried the lede there didn’t I? Here’s a track by that seminal Slovenian industrial group that’s used in the film.
Okay, everyone should be awake now. Iron Sky, well, I was expecting an Aslyum Pictures production with a better budget. That is the company responsible for MegaThings vs GiantStuffz. And look, they have a Nazi movie out too.
Iron Sky is a busty genre explosion, that’d be absurdly subversive if reality wasn’t competing against it:
Filmed in a colour-palate that recalls Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow. Funny, and that’s me watching it after having seen The Avengers, so it’s probably funnier than most things generally considered funny. The Nazis do wear grey. The CGI is spectacular. The dialog is good. Oh, and there’s holograms… apparently that’s how Skype works in 2018. Which is nice.
Extra Credit for Peta Sergeant as Vivian Wagner’s rockin’ fashion through the movie:
Overall, a solid ***
When Johnny Cash covers a song it becomes the original. This is not magic, this is SCIENCE!
Nearly, nearly there. Next up, the hair. (Who’s afraid of a cartoon supervillian?)
With last week’s ep Fringe finally returns to the themes I’ve been waiting for. The following screencaps hint at why that is. I’m posting this just before watching the latest ep; if it bursts my bubble, at least it lasted this long.
It will surprise no one at this point I’m sure, but let’s say it anyway: I watched X-Men:First Class for Magneto, Alphas for Red Flag and the early seasons of Fringe for the ZFT. Oh, and the end of Chronicle was wrong. At least we have Limitless and Hanna. And Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And Take Shelter. And that’s it.
