Seems like it borrows a lot from Axe Cop
Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
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Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is satire, so enjoy it as is :)
The best satire is the one that doesn't rely on slinging obvious jokes in your face, but rather on presenting nonchalant absurdity. The more anarchic and loud styles can also be brilliant (Marx Brothers), but they're quite difficult to pull off and frequently end up being forced and stupid.
> The best satire is the one that doesn't rely on slinging obvious jokes in your face,
Except that this is satirizing a style where obvious jokes were regularly used.
Just watch the first 60 seconds of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrLcHfwppu0
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#63Seems like it borrows a lot from Axe Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHGfSBr2FrY
My son and I thought the same thing. The fact that they were able to upgrade it to live action and still pull it off was an accomplishment.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#64Nobody in the thread has yet called it what it is: retrowave. This was a musical genre first. It wholly appropriates the aesthetics of a subset of 80's media and condenses it into a "historical fantasy" world that is easier to digest than the authentic thing. You don't enjoy retrowave for its writing or storytelling, generally speaking. Treat Kung Fury like an extended music video and it makes way more sense.
I've never heard it called Retrowave before (thought that is a good name for it). I know it by the names Outrun or Synthwave. Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, M|O|O|N, Miami Nights 1984, Lazerhawk or basically anything from the Hotline Miami soundtracks are all good for anyone wanting more.
I particularly enjoy Mitch Murder; Interceptor is a fantastic Retrowave album with a hint of Chiptune.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#65A couple of "mistakes" that I caught while watching, thought HN might find them interesting: - There's a reference to Viagra (6:20) but it hadn't been invented yet. - The "hacking time" sequence around 10:30 contains Java [1] which obviously came from the future. There are a few others, perhaps intentional. I won't spoil them here :) [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/7478u4gkvnmjg6p/Screenshot%202015-...
Also, when the dinosaur is fighting the Nazi robot, the Swastika flips sides. Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
I... thought you were joking before I watched the film.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#66Nobody in the thread has yet called it what it is: retrowave. This was a musical genre first. It wholly appropriates the aesthetics of a subset of 80's media and condenses it into a "historical fantasy" world that is easier to digest than the authentic thing. You don't enjoy retrowave for its writing or storytelling, generally speaking. Treat Kung Fury like an extended music video and it makes way more sense.
> It wholly appropriates the aesthetics of a subset of 80's media and condenses it into a "historical fantasy" world that is easier to digest than the authentic thing.
That helps a lot actually.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#67A couple of "mistakes" that I caught while watching, thought HN might find them interesting: - There's a reference to Viagra (6:20) but it hadn't been invented yet. - The "hacking time" sequence around 10:30 contains Java [1] which obviously came from the future. There are a few others, perhaps intentional. I won't spoil them here :) [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/7478u4gkvnmjg6p/Screenshot%202015-...
I'm pretty sure these things are easily valid in a universe where Vikings rode dinosaurs and wielded machine guns.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was fun for the first 10 min or so. After 20 min, it was quite stale, and by the end I was sick of it. There is talk about them extending this thing into a feature-length film, but I think that would be terrible. What might work instead is to perform a dual-parody, of both 80's tropes and the modern trope of giving away the plot in the preview(s). In this format, instead of 30 min of formless memes, they would pub…
Yeah, skip the feature. Far better to do an episodic series with each installment being ~24 min.
And then you could divide them into "seasons" covering discrete story arcs.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#69I started not liking Triceracops but at the end I was sold.
Re: Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Satire is a genre, which uses parody (literary approach to the story). So it is both - satire and a parody.
Satire requires some kind of political statement or social criticism. Kung fury isn't a satire.
One could argue it's a social criticism of 80's exploitation films and Michael Bay movies.