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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.
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it's not a satire at all, it's a parody,i'd even say a tribute. To understand the difference, an obvious example: Robocop is a satire.
Satire is a genre, which uses parody (literary approach to the story). So it is both - satire and a parody.
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it's not a satire at all, it's a parody,i'd even say a tribute. To understand the difference, an obvious example: Robocop is a satire.
Satire is a genre, which uses parody (literary approach to the story). So it is both - satire and a parody.
The production quality is surprisingly good for something I found through a link that includes the text 'funded through kickstarter'.
Check this trailer out too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
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-...
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.
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 publish 2-4 "previews" of the movie, and that's it. Same content, just published as previews.
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Check this trailer out too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
Yeah, this is pretty impressive. I assume the production team probably has a lot of experience. Thanks!
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.
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.
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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.
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…