ironed skoo

[davemerrill]

Last weekend we went out and saw IRON SKY, and what I thought about it is here:

http://www.cornponeflicks.org/ironsky.html

This weekend we went to a family thing atop a skyscraper downtown, and went out to some antique malls and bought some stupid comics, and I started putting my AV together for AWA. I realize I'm way behind in serializing our Japan adventures, but life steps in sometimes.

Comments

[paulownia.livejournal.com]

It took about two months to get my pictures together and such, so I think a few weeks is nothing :)

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

Iron Sky is supposed to be a COMEDY?! Seriously, I thought they meant for it to be played straight. Or were you being ironic in the review and for some reason I didn't catch that.

I expect this will do really well in Japan and you know Ted Nomura is at once laughing and angry about it. :)

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it's a comedy. An attempted comedy. There's a really labored sequence where the kooky Nazi scientist explains how they had to invent a connector to get the smart phone to hook up to their old klunky computers, and that he calls this connection a "USB". You can see the joke coming from about a mile out, and when it arrives the movie just stops so we can all admire the joke, and then wave as the joke leaves.

It's a comedy made by people who aren't funny, let me just say.

Don't even get me started on all that whole "Luftwaffe 1946" stuff. I find the glorification of Nazis and the German military and the clean-cut, well-scrubbed cheeks of the little Bund Deutscher Mädel girls and pretty much anything from that era, the era of raping Europe so that fat housewives in Dusselldorf and Baden-Baden-Munchen-Wherever can get a strapping Polish girl to do the laundry for next to nothing, so that Mercedes and Bayer and IG Farben can fill their factories with slave labor, well, I find it repellent. If Ted Nomura and Ben Dunn and whoever want to write little fantasy stories about their little fantasy Luftwaffe and how in their little fantasy world the Germans weren't terrorizing a continent, well, that's fine, but they should realize that every bullet their little fantasy girl-pilots shoot came from a slave labor factory filled with desperate, starving wretches. All that cool Wehrmacht armor, all those nifty secret weapons, built on the backs of Speer's labor battalions. You know who built the weapons that kicked their ass? Housewives and grandmas. Fuck you, Nazis.

That's how IRON SKY should have ended, somebody's grandpa with a fucking shotgun letting daylight through the Moon Fuhrer. "Guess I missed a few back in '45!" he cackles as he racks the slide.