I must announce a scheduling interruption! How could I possibly post anything else besides Iron Sky tonight? In real life we have astronauts orbiting around the dark side of the moon at this moment. There has never been a more appropriate time to watch Iron Sky. Does this movie even need an introduction? Maybe for some of the younger kids. Here is the quip from IMDB, uncredited:
The Nazis set up a secret base on the far side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.
Unfortunately, a lunar landing discovers them and the Nazi plan to conquer the earth is in peril! What will the Moon Nazis do?
This spawned a sequel which degraded the legacy of this excellent B movie. See below:
- Iron Sky: The Coming Race: Girl bosses and rotting Adolf Hitler riding a dinosaur, if I recall correctly. Avoid it, like you would a case of the crabs. I say this because I love you all. If you must watch it, don’t pay for it.
Trivia! 10% of the funding for this film came from fans who really believed in this project. You’ll see their names in the closing credits. (Courtesy IMDB).
I am going to cut this short, I really want to get this post out on time. I hit the submit button on Saturday, hopefully NASA has not killed our astronauts by the time this publishes.
So watch! Or Don’t! Everything is voluntary. Next week, we shall watch Mark of the Werebeard!, which was so crudely interrupted by Moon Nazis.
It’s Thursdays, remember there are no rules on Thursdays! Talk amongst yourselves about your garden, your bowels, or your pets! No rules apply!
Pouring one out for Penguin, and his excellent series that goes with this post so well. Secret Nazi President.
The sequel did indeed suck ass.
Haven’t watched it but I found Hitler riding a T-rex funny.
“Pouring one out for Penguin'”
Wait, he died?
No one knows (or at least they aren’t saying), he went AWOL may moons ago, I hope he is doing well in what ever place he’s in.
Same. Plenty of people stopped posting here, so I wouldn’t assume the worst.
Hopefully BakedPenguin is OK
My “Buddy System” suggestion that every regular poster here have at least one fellow glib that knows their real identity, so they can tell the rest of us if the missing jerk is dead or just decided to fuck off, and TBH most of us don’t give a rats ass any way.
There are a few folk I could email were it to come up. I have Derp on FB.
Richard has the addresses at least of those of us he gave pins to. I would assume actual names.
Scroll through posts and you’ll find my address to cause I don’t care if you send me anthrax or ricin.
After meeting fellow and fellowette Glibs at HH and other occasions I count them as real friends. People I would loan money to and expect to get it back.
These are folks I would never know otherwise but are like minded.
Can I send you a 1 1/4 inch hex wrench for working on oil rigs? I have used it for a paperweight for a long time.
*sends threedoor ANOTHER dick pic*
After meeting fellow and fellowette Glibs at HH and other occasions I count them as real friends.
Some of my best friends I see once per year.
Diving in
Who would win between Jews and Moon Nazis? On the one hand, the Nazis have a moonbase. On the other hand, Jews are desert people, and there is no water on the Moon.
Are space lasers effective against the moon?
In The Tick, Chairface Chippendale tried to write his name on the moon. I think I got the villain right.
But there’s also no weather to be controlled.
Bravo.
If I turned a fan on, on the moon, it wouldn’t blow? That just sucks, man.
Has Tres seen this?
https://tubitv.com/movies/100054123/blubberella
We discussed it a long time ago. I have never posted it.
Well, Uwe Boll is generally awful, so that’s probably a good thing.
Moon Beetle!
I hate Moon Nazis.
Those other ones were anti-smoking *and* anti-jazz. The worst, amiright?
The moon really needs to be pro-smoking, somehow. Smoke rings in space? Sign me right the fuck up.
The Venusian Minarchists are really into smoking. Of course everything on Venus tends to smoke anyway.
They had me at anti jazz.
Now I have to post Howard Moon in a jazz trance. Everytime I see it I think of OMWC.
Jazz isn’t something I listen to, but just respect that jazz led to blues –> rock n roll, and about all in between. That is all. For drums, I started w jazz in mid school, but only in school. Tho funk is where I’m kinda personally at.
Also Sowell’s great quote about what the US has done for the world: the Constitution, baseball, and jazz.
I love the Downfall callout
I shall watch it tonight! Or not, we’ll see.
I am back.
Welcome back.
Did you get the high school put together?
Meh, it was super boring. My daughter really wanted to know more about the vocational school, and the separate pick-up bus for that. Nothing. We had to sit through a one-hour pre-programmed lecture which repeated the same facts three times.
I have never heard of this.
Huh. OK, that is enough to get me to press Play.
They actually did the whole soundtrack. They did not just contribute music. Here it is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1dml6ZExDbxoKiBMAvgXtL
It’s “classical”. Not the weirdness they are usually known for.
Some of the melodies are Wagner.
They are great in concert. Very entertaining.
Huh. Things I learn. Rhy’s seems to be quite into a “Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neoclassical genres. Formed in 1980 in the mining town of Trbovlje, Slovenia (at the time the SR Slovenia within Yugoslavia), Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) artist collective, a group which Laibach co-founded in 1984.”
Huh. I’m remarkably ignorant about such. “From the early days, the band was subject to controversies and bans due to their use of iconography with parodies and pastiches of elements from totalitarianism, nationalism and militarism, a concept they have preserved throughout their career. Censored in Yugoslavia, receiving a dissident status and a cult following in their home country… [and turned into] a national cultural icon.”
Much respect. I should know more about central Europe. Mom’s dad was the first in the family born in the US, to Polish immigrants. Kinda upset with myself I never visited, especially when I lived in Germany in ’08.
My favorite story of the dissidents is that woman who dubbed ALL English movies into whatever country during the Cold War. *googles* Oooh! I forgot she was Romanian! Pie’s childhood mistress, I’m sure. In many ways. I imagine Conan the Barbarian in her old-lady voice.
Irina Margareta Nistor was a Romanian translator who secretly dubbed over 3,000 banned Western movies into Romanian during the 1980s..”
“Alternative” radio played them by the late 80s; hell, even 120 Minutes played them by the early 90s. So yeah those of us of a certain age and in that “scene” will know them.
But yeah, they are certainly a perfect fit for this film. And BTW they are not the only central European band I like who have face the same “scandalous” past.
Here. This is newer than the other song posted. Probably would have been good as a Bonus Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6bWvzLaHs
Sarah Palin look-alike for president with a busty campaign manager.
Nice.
Lisa Ann?
“In 2021, Dietze caused media outrage with a segment for the Daily Show when she compared U.S. health authorities’ actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic to “Hitler times.” In the same interview, she claimed to take dietary advice from her cat.”
LOL
I LOVE IRON SKY. It’s so preposterous.
It’s a documentary.
That explains it.
I will now take the opportunity to pimp the 2010 Swedish (I think) movie Troll Hunter.
Found footage style, of which I am not so fond, but the trolls are the bomb.
Yes! I played that on 01/05/2023. First movie of the new year!
The sequel was absolutely vile, I could not even last through the opening 15 minutes. It’s on Netflix. They probably paid for it.
I think we’ve watched it here. I remember really enjoying it.
I love found footage style now, maybe not at first – I recall avoiding “Cloverfield” for years because it seemed so gimmicky but holy hell it’s really good.
My wife and I started to watch that.
The found footage style stopped us about ten minits in.
We did like the 2022 Norwegian Troll and its more campy sequel.
I played that on 01/05/2023
I remember it.
This is getting silly.
No!
*Shocked face
I have wanted to see this since it came out.
I keep forgetting about it.
Passover ends and we get a Nazi movie. Sheesh. 😉
Space Master X-7 was kind of a dud, even though it was about a spacecraft coming back to earth covered with deadly mold. And it had Moe Howard. I felt like I needed to squeeze in one good space movie while the astronauts are still up there.
Besides, you love it!
Sadly, it means I have to return to work tomorrow. (We got the last two days off.)
On the bright side, everyone I know took the day off.
On the less bright side, I kind of have to run the show.
I started an interesting project. One of the lurkers was having issues distinguishing fascism from communism, and when I read his reference material I saw why. The author suffers from verbal diarrhea, like most collegiates. Also the obsession about race and all the “-isms.” None of that helps to understand the difference between the governmental systems. So I made a chart, and showed how rights fall away as you march from anarchy to communism.
If you do not understand up front that communism has no private property, and fascism does, you end up confused and wondering why fascism is obsessed with race-hating. The whole racial hatred thing thing was a sidebar to the organizational structure of fascism, which was basically communism, but they let you keep your stuff, as long as you do what the government wants.
So I built the chart to cover all the major concepts from communism to anarchy on one axis, and god-given rights on another axis, and showed how those rights were removed (violated) as you went from anarchy to communism. Still a work in progress, but this might be keen when it is done. Is this worth an article?
of course it is worth an article
Yes.
Do it
This site keeps checking my browser.
That had some good moments.