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This movie is amazing. Every scene is just genius :)
Specially the arcade-style fighting scene. Pure fucking genius!
The style and attitude of this movie (and that of the Danger 5 TV series) are incredibly well suited for parodying things we feel nostalgic about. Unlike the disappointing way in which Iron Sky tried to take itself seriously.
That is so bogus ... Hacker man used pow(x,2)... why would he do that when he could have just done x*x? I mean, that's so freshman CS student...
He also pressed Break and the voice said "Enter" ;)
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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.
Pretty sure that the baby carriage is a reference to Battleship Potemkin [1]. [1] https://www.google.ch/search?q=battleship+potemkin&espv=2&bi...
A 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 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.
You can get the 1080p version with "youtube-dl --write-sub https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg". Yes, you want the subs for the funny music descriptions.
Nobody 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.
My favourite retrowave right now, and it's so blindingly obviously retrowave you don't even need to know its a thing, is this piece:
Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUOIvT9hzD8
It's a combined tribute to everything great about the 80s DJ scene (and Todd Terry), with a clearly tougue-in-check ironic reference to us here in the future looking back it.
I'm loving it.
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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.
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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.
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.
> Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward. You can get the 1080p version with "youtube-dl --write-sub https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg" . Yes, you want the subs for the funny music descriptions.
youtube-dl -f 248+251 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg'
Nobody 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 heard it more often referred to as Vaporwave , your basic point is sound. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporwave