I have to agree with Asmund, getting the physics of that sort of thing is important. The movie will attempt to generate humor from the characters taking every impossible thing as perfectly natural. But, for the audience to go along with it, it would help to have those things which are real act in a real manner. Even the impossible things such as Nazi anti-gravity can work by pre-established limits, rather than being purely arbitrary.

This is akin to how Dr. Strange Love's team took the time to make the bomber cockpit as realistic as possible, to the extent that the Air Force thought they somehow got secret information on the layout. The truth was, they just based it on some extrapolation based on the previous primary bomber.

It's a movie, and a comedy, it could have mutant chickens as shock troops, and the audience wouldn't really care that much :-D

I'll admit it I was amused... I feel so dirty :-(

'pathos'

my favorite musketeer.

:)

Well I am pretty sure any film or movie is supposed to entertain you, and this did that. As basic as it was, it was still pretty funny. Kind of like a Nazi version of Star Trek, but glad to see Spock copped it in the first episode, lol

Not bad for something probably made on 50 bucks and a slab of beer.

Pathos.

Was that a real prawn he had for a head?

Hmm... action figures... do you think we'll get Barbie "Renate" and Ken "Klaus" for sale in the toy-stores near us following the worldwide release of Iron Sky? ;)

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this is not funny. jimi hendrix is not funny. rock music is not funny!

taking plastic people and setting them against a manifold of tasteful thematic musics is not enough!

space nazis, moon nazis, or any kind of nazis are not - plastic - they are people - complex and conflicted - no matter how stereotyped and similar to each other each every one of them are and reducing them to a caravan of gypsies is just unpopular!

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oh no, no, not the king of wales: hahahahhahahahhahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Oh gosh. :P

hahahahahaha. I love the Vulcan Nazi !!! ahahahahahaha

Those are machines that look like they could, but they don't. Read the introduction to that art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonk_Business

Are those bonk equipments really works?

Don't use the word "bonk" in the film itself though, it means the same as "panna" in the UK.

http://www.saalmann.de/bonk/

There is an introduction in english for the topic "Bonk Business"

This is an Awesome idea. Bonk is more than just steampunk. Much more. Thumb up!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/hulc-exo-skeleton-ready-for-testing-set-to-hit-the-ground-runni/

As this is no longer some scifi-gadget it would be very probable that space-nazis would have also developed it (we have to remember that nazis allways liked everything hi-tech :).
Pros:
Bigger load carrying capacity for troops.
With normal load troops would be less tired.
Heavier armor would be very easy to apply into this and thereby create "juggernauts".
Cons:
None that i can think of beside the research and manufacturing process. Even when damaged, soldier can remove it quickly and still operate with normal operating capability.

Wouldn't an exoskeleton be the equivalent of wearing a lead apron? I think its better that the Nazi's just create artificial gravity to match that of Earth.

Maybe, the Nazi´s get some overweight.

I concur. If you can build an antigravity machine to move a saucer, how hard would it be to create artificial gravity on the moonbase? Otherwise, within two years of living on the moon the bone density of even the earth born humans would start to lose mass. If they kept lunar gravity, any children would seem perfectly normal and perfectly sized, but their bones would be many times more fragile than earth children because of the lost bone density in the lower gravity. The only thing to combat it is the regime imposed on the ISS: a high calcium diet with constant, rigorous exercise.

Come on, people! These Moon nazis are suposed to master gravity/anti-gravity technology.
But an exoskeleton could serve as physical suport for gravitational manipulation machinery and for War Terror purposes...

Even an unpowered exoskeleton would provided helpful support. It's unlikely they would have a powered exoskeleton.

I would combine this with tights in order to give further support to their flesh. I seem to remember something about blood flow, and coming from such low gravity as the moon, the heart may not be completely up to the task of pumping blood up from the feet and legs. So, lower body tights would help keep blood in the upper body.

Moon Nazi soldiers will also need a brutal physical regime to prepare for Early gravity.

couldn't agree more! and if they're not there's gotta be some gravity field kinda stuff that suits to the earth's gravity field inside their moon base building... so whatever the things their doing it feels just like their own home planet

Interesting suggestion, indeed. Really curious to find out which name will be picked by the producers!

Anyhow, a thumb up from me!

@Hans Scherer: Tell that to the marines fighting in Afghanistan, the British Navy Corpsmen manning the CRAM defenses in Iraq (basically phalanx ship-cannons on land), or the AstroNAUTs. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nautical
/flame :) (nichts für ungut?)
I get what you meant, but I think they should not be named solely on orthographic grounds.

@Harald Weber: You are probably right, but I see it like this: technology in the Luftwaffe (or any airforce for that matter) has always revolved around making things more powerful, and lighter. Once weight was no longer an issue, they might have needed some folks from the Kriegsmarine to take over R&D. Which in turn may have prompted the Kriegsmarine to take over alltogether.
Military history is full of internal power struggles like that.
Back in 1942, what was once the U.S. Army Air Corps split off, and became it's own highly funded branch, the U.S. Airforce. All the Army was left with is Aviation (small prop airplanes for MI, and helicopters), and any time there is some new flight related project the Army requests, it is reviewed by the Airforce, and rejected based on speed/capabilities (so they say) . In reality it's because they want to secure their role in defense, and they need a small, specialized Army Aviation for that. (or something like that...)

Considering that the German Navy never got quite as much of a reputation (submarines excepted), the Luftwaffe would have tried to get its hands on any flying objects. Unless the SS beat them to it.
The fighting force of the SS was the "Waffen-SS", so I suppose they'd go for "Raumwaffe", too. Or "Raumcorps", maybe.

"Raumwaffe" would be the right term. Marine describes only a relation to the water.

I think that it's more likely they'd call it the 'Raummarine'.
Once gravity has been eliminated, they can pretty much move any weight around. Due to the harshness of space, they probably used their extensive knowledge of submarine-building to design the Reichsflugscheiben.
The disc-shape is probably used due to the requirements of the anti-g-drive, and because a circular hull is much more defensible in space.
(Remember: up, down, left, right are arbitrarily assigned directions that only really apply to planetary surfaces)

harald.

very groovy man. totally far out.

http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/6372

As far as I know Iron Sky history does not start with the Third Reich's victory on Earth and a slowly evolving space program.
Rather with the SS rounding up a mix of the best/wackiest scientists, fertile maidens and fair-haired kids and shoving them into the few flying disks they could put together before the Reich collapsed.

I got another idea,
may the nazis use Motherships, such as the Andromda-Gerät:
http://www.secretfacts.ch/Community/include.php?path=content&mode=print&contentid=15
http://www.samstein.ch/SamStein/BWS/UFOs/Nazi-UFOs/Andromeda-Geraet_Plan.jpg
http://www.samstein.ch/SamStein/BWS/UFOs/Nazi-UFOs/Andromeda-Geraet_Plan_2.jpg
http://www.samstein.ch/SamStein/BWS/UFOs/Nazi-UFOs/Andromeda-Geraet.jpg

i wonder if moon nazis go to the movies?

perhaps david's idea - an audience leaving the theater - in uniform -
might be interesting?

for example,

i know that cadets at west point (usa) don't sit during the match...

Actually theres a zombie movie played that kind of cool ending, I think it was titled Dawn of the Dead or something like that...

I hope that there is not a row of bloopers interrupting the credit screen though, those are quite annoying and can make the feeling cheap and flat in the movie theatre after a magnificient film. Save the bloopers to the extras of dvd instead!