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Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by shmerl »

I asked them to release it on GOG, to have an official DRM-free download option. If you buy it through their site: http://kungfury.com (to support creators) you get access to it on vhx.tv, but you can't download it from there.

Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward.

Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by m0nty »

dragontamer wrote: post #2

Kung Fury is more about the faux-80s that was brought about by Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Not that that's a bad thing, but "true 80s" flicks are a bit different IMO (ie: Breakfast Club, Back to the Future and the like).

Saw two (was it three?) decapitations in the first two minutes. One thing which distinguishes the 80s "genre" was that those things were rarely shown outside movies like The Omen. TV was deliberately sanitised, protagonists developed nice, tidy holes when they got shot, they had time for a few last-minute words, they expired with dignity.

Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by shmerl »

m0nty wrote: post #5
dragontamer wrote: post #2

Kung Fury is more about the faux-80s that was brought about by Far Cry: Blood Dragon. Not that that's a bad thing, but "true 80s" flicks are a bit different IMO (ie: Breakfast Club, Back to the Future and the like).

Saw two (was it three?) decapitations in the first two minutes. One thing which distinguishes the 80s "genre" was that those things were rarely shown outside movies like The Omen. TV was deliberately sanitised, protagonists developed nice, tidy holes when they got shot, they had time for a few last-minute words, they expired with dignity.

It's grotesque on purpose. Note the burning baby carriage and "Try cocaine" billboard in the beginning. And that goes all way through, as core of its satire.

Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by steve19 »

yankoff wrote: post #4

This movie is amazing. Every scene is just genius :)

Is it though? I watched more than half of it. It is a bunch of satirical scenes full of memes copy n pasted together with almost nothing in the way of actual storytelling, which makes it less of a movie and more of a collection of youtube clips.

Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by hedwall »

shmerl wrote: post #3

I asked them to release it on GOG, to have an official DRM-free download option. If you buy it through their site: http://kungfury.com (to support creators) you get access to it on vhx.tv, but you can't download it from there. Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward.

(I was a backer though) But I can download it from vhx.tv (an .mp4 file).

Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]

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Post by shmerl »

hedwall wrote: post #9
shmerl wrote: post #3

I asked them to release it on GOG, to have an official DRM-free download option. If you buy it through their site: http://kungfury.com (to support creators) you get access to it on vhx.tv, but you can't download it from there. Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward.

(I was a backer though) But I can download it from vhx.tv (an .mp4 file).

Backers can, but those who buy it now - can't and I don't really see any good reason for it.
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