I think we have big enough of reference library here! Thanks for this, I'll be checkin' em out! (And some I have already).
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As we're moving to production, I'm facing a positive problem of having to watch quite a lot of films to exactly define some things I want for Iron Sky visually.
In this task, I'm asking you to answer to two questions:
1. What films / TV-serieses have the most interesting tank/air/naval battles out there?
2. Which films / TV-serieses you think have the most interesting sci-fi VFX?
For films, I'd appreciate the name of the film and year of release, and for TV-serieses I need a specific episode to look after, since I don't have enough time to check out whole serieses.
from the earth they try to communicate with the spaceships through music..
and the nazis answer to those tones Close Encounters of the Third Kind style, with Wagner..
I believe this is a trailer for the new version of Space Battleship Yamato. It features fighter aircraft that look like what viewers will expect for 2018. It has a wonderful, epic look.
Yes, I'd agree with all this, Sky Captain is a great-looking film whatever you think of the plot, it's trying to do something different from other modern sci-fi.
(And the plot isn't THAT bad, it's a lot better than the new Star Wars films for example.)
Seppo - wow! Did Kerry Conran ever steal liberally from that cartoon! Robot design, camera angles, newspaper closeups... that's way beyond "being inspired by" or " honoring" the original. It's outrageous robbery.
A lot of science fiction B-movies were made in 70's. One of the biggest cult films featuring absolutely horribly effects and acting is Starcrash (1979). When you think that there is no way that this can get any worse, David Hasselhoff steps in!
Sunshine (2007) by Danny Boyle has a interesting and somewhat unique visual style to it. It is not such a great movie overall, but is worth seeing for art direction alone.
1. Besides my Trekkie orientation, I'm a fan of Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Those series are well comparable to Star Trek in any way.
2. Maybe it will be a weird answer but in this case my favorite is BBC's Doctor Who. Just look at this primitive but very effective Main title sequence from 1963. which was made only by Valve tube camera and various interferences with some TV monitors. Music part created by Delia Derbyshire was made only by oscillators, noise generators and similar devices, recorded and played by four reel tape recorders (manually synchronized) and most important thing is that every tape was cutted more than 100-150 times and combined with an adhesive tape AND A RULER (!!!) to achieve the right lenght of every single tone and noise. That was pure art of picture and sound. Remember, in 1963. there was no keyboards, synthesizers and no PCs like today.
Kris, who said that Techno and Trance began in 21st century? :-)
Delia Derbyshire was, in my opinion, a far beyond the time. Beside her music and technical knowledge she had a great vision of the future music ways. Unfortunately, sometimes she was misunderstood and when the BBC bosses decided to cancel Radiophonic workshop, that was a great psychological impact for Delia and that was for sure the beginnig of her ending :-(
Fortunately, after her death, hundreds of tapes with some unique Delia's works was found on the attic of her house.
Ooops sorry, well I have to admit I never saw a single episode of any of the various incarnations. But judging from this title sequence, it deserves its cult following :D
You have one of great Doctor Who fan right here >:-(
LOL
Must say that I've collected every single broadcasted episodes & movies and also all reconstructed stories. Totaly mad man, izitso? :-)
Wow, especially considering how old it is, it's really awesome! Back in the day, it must've taken sheer genius to make the letters shape up like that... One of those transitions almost looks like morphed! Chapeau, messieurs!
I also love the music, I'm a big fan of Carpenter-esque tunes anyway... Only that kitschy part that sounds like christmas kind of sucks... Oh my, better not have any Doctor Who fans read this ;P
It is definitely the "gold standard" for space effects and it's the one space effect which everyone will recognise.
Come to think of it, you could go beyond just looking at the station sequence, as 2001 also has extensive scenes on the Moon which is where Iron Sky takes place.
Thanks! Actually, this comes very helpful since we're about to start our aerial battle planning acually tomorrow, so these videos did provide some quite good tips and visual ideas.
Could the Moon Nazis have some sort of "museum" / collection of their abandonned projects with which to take over the world? This "museum" could include all kind of invaders which have failed to conquer / destroy Earth in classic sci-fi films, as an homage to these films. For example the tripods from The War of the Worlds or Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I didn't mean these robots etc. to be in a major role, not even mentioned, just showed in the background or something like that. I love to look at the background while watching a movie and I love the little things found there. The ones who notice these things have an easy extra smile or laugh. I don't believe a whole scene built around the robots would work.
Examples: in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow you could see King Kong climbing the Empire State Buliding. The robot from Forbidden planet is in Gremlins 2, Marvin from the British version of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was in a queue in the American remake and so on and so on...
I love the space-fights of battlestar galactica (the "new" one), for example Miniseries, part 1. The fight scenes are very "realistic" with zooms and rotatables and so on, very good stuff... an the spaceships (especially the vipers) got a very own way to fly and to turn over.... just take a look ;)
Also flyboys have the worst technical insight into ww1 than any movie i have come across...good battles though:-) for ww1 battles check out blue max, red baron etc Hells Angels is a classic
That said, I think Battlestar's producers intentionally made their dogfights look like World War One dogfights. The ranges are short and the speeds are < 200 kph, but these give you thrilling visuals.
Look for the 2006 film "Fly Boys." Lousy story with terrific dogfights.
The Battlestar Galactica battles were very exciting, but only partially realistic. They often depicted relative speeds that were ridiculously slow and distances that were absurdly short. Back in 1958 the F-105 Thunderchief could fight at twice the speed of sound, shooting down targets more than ten miles away. Galactica always depicted its battles at slower speeds and closer ranges.
I am sure that the reasons for doing this have more to do with good storytelling than good science, so I will not debate the merits of the choices made by Battlestar's producers.
I found this interesting piece of documentary by nat geo about a nazi secret project during the war.
pretty cool stuff, a stealth aeroplane made of wood!
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Perfect, but very predictable and classical ... :)
Very cool idea! Great job!
I really like this idea. :)