Kung Fury

SpaceCowb0y · 07-01-2014 12:03pm #1

These guys have raised nearly half a million from a Kickstarter fund to produce this OTT 80's throwback action comedy they plan to release online for free...
I for one can't wait!

For more information on the project go here: Kung Fury Kickstarter Project

I know it's completely made on green screen but for a project that spawned from nothing i think it looks like a really fun B-movie!

Nody · 29-05-2015 8:05pm

I do know it's a bit of necro but the movie is out and it's everything you could have hoped for and then some!

Gadge · 29-05-2015 8:07pm

Watched it last night. It's really brilliant.

SpaceCowb0y · 29-05-2015 8:23pm

Ha watched it last night too. It falls into the "So **** it's brilliant" category if you ask me! Really enjoyed it for what it is and for what these guys did coming frm a kickstarter fund to give the fingers to hollywood and do something fun. it's a shame they didn't hit their second target of 1mil so they could make a full feature length film but hey, half an hour of pure 80's nostalgia and an awesome soundtrack wasn't bad either!

Brief_Lives · 29-05-2015 11:50pm

holy crap, that was amazing..!!

dreamers75 · 30-05-2015 11:42pm

Triceracop

Roar · 31-05-2015 1:50pm

That was incredible.

"What year is this?"
"It's the viking age"
"That explains the laser raptor"

Kenjataimu · 31-05-2015 10:33pm

http://i.imgur.com/JmE9n5D.gifv

whomitconcerns · 01-06-2015 11:27am

have you all seen the David Hasselhof Title track release video? Best Video ever!

Just been revoked!

Roar · 02-06-2015 8:59am

It reminded me of McGruber a little bit actually. Need to watch McGruber again.

humanji · 02-06-2015 10:34am

Kenjataimu wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/JmE9n5D.gifv

Holy sh*t! I assumed that was all CGI.

It's a brilliantly put together bit of nonsense. It really does bring back memories of McGruber and films like that. I'd love if they'd were picked up to make a TV show.

Greyjoy · 02-06-2015 1:47pm

I have to admit that I just don't get the praise that KF is receiving. To me it reeks of "trying too hard". It's an example of what can work in a 2 minute trailer gets boring when you repeat it over & over again in a full feature. It comes across as being made by creators who didn't actually see the films they're parodying but instead just watched a bunch of clips on youtube.

EoinMcLovin · 02-06-2015 2:52pm

Never would of guessed who played Hitler

pixelburp · 02-06-2015 3:12pm

Greyjoy wrote: »

I have to admit that I just don't get the praise that KF is receiving. To me it reeks of "trying too hard". It's an example of what can work in a 2 minute trailer gets boring when you repeat it over & over again in a full feature. It comes across as being made by creators who didn't actually see the films they're parodying but instead just watched a bunch of clips on youtube.

The 3 minute 'trailer' was brilliant, a perfect little nugget of 80s p*sstaking . But I can't sit through the 30 minute version, it just feels like an endless stream of punchlines - 80s wackiness just because hey, weren't the 80s so naff and cheesy? And that's coming from a guy who jumps at any kickstarter game with pixel-art, or loves a bit of retro-synth in his playlist. Kung Fury is just too much...

johnny_ultimate · 02-06-2015 3:32pm

It comes across as an endless stream of "THAT'S THE JOKE" to me, so self consciously cheesy and 'wacky'. Just the latest in a long line of satires that set out to be wink wink nudge nudge 'awful', missing the bizarre sincerity of their inspirations in the process (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace excepted, now and forever).

Maybe I'm just fed up of the endless and honestly tired minor variations on robot / zombie / future / alternate history Nazis out there in pop culture land :pac:

Kev W · 02-06-2015 3:38pm

Made it three minutes in. It lost me when as a parody of 80's action one of the first things it presented was a CGI robot.

Remember all the CGI robots in the '80s?

Because I bloody don't.

Mister Vain · 02-06-2015 3:42pm

What the hell is this shyte? lol

pixelburp · 02-06-2015 3:46pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It comes across as an endless stream of "THAT'S THE JOKE" to me, so self consciously cheesy and 'wacky'. Just the latest in a long line of satires that set out to be wink wink nudge nudge 'awful', missing the bizarre sincerity of their inspirations in the process (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace excepted, now and forever).

Yeah; for me Darkplace is the gold standard on how to parody something from that era; both in terms of properly recreating the style and production of the period, as well as maintaining that hardened sincerity those 'bad' shows and films had. None of those Z-movies ever set out to be awful, they believed in what they were making, no matter how shoddy the end result often was.

And no mention of Darkplace is complete without a clip of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8MsYislXJg

EoinMcLovin · 02-06-2015 7:27pm

there's a Kung Fury Game now

humanji · 03-06-2015 12:21pm

Is the point not that it's laughing at the 80's, but it's laughing at 80's Japanese video games made for the US market? So to then make a game of it seems an odd choice.

azzeretti · 03-06-2015 10:24pm

It was a bit of let down. A couple of funny moments. Black Dynamite it is not.

SpaceCowb0y · 04-06-2015 9:16am

azzeretti wrote: »

It was a bit of let down. A couple of funny moments. Black Dynamite it is not.

Completely different to Black Dynamite, they are not even in the same category!?

One is a direct piss take of blaxploitation movies specifically. Kung Fury is simply a budget made crack at reviving a bit of 80's nostalgia. From the nu wave synth soundtrack featured in nearly every cheesy 80's flick you think of, the clothes, the sound effects and the attempts at one liners ALL poking fun at the typical 80's action flick.

YES this was made entirely on a green screen with CGI which is far removed from the 80's but get over it, they stated that from the get go on their Kickstarter fundraiser page. This isn't the 80's and they weren't making a movie in the 80's they were poking fun at it. I'm not a fan of green screen in traditional feature length films at all but in fairness if they had had the technology back then you can be guaranteed that 80's films such Ghostbusters, Star Wars and Back To the Future would have been rampant with it as movies of today are.

I followed these guys over the two years it took to put this together and think fair play to them, a low budget made bit of craic.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 9:32am

It's basically one joke repeated ad nauseam. It's to 80's cinema what The Darkness are to 70's rock.

Greyjoy · 04-06-2015 11:10am

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Completely different to Black Dynamite, they are not even in the same category!?

One is a direct piss take of blaxploitation movies specifically. Kung Fury is simply a budget made crack at reviving a bit of 80's nostalgia. From the nu wave synth soundtrack featured in nearly every cheesy 80's flick you think of, the clothes, the sound effects and the attempts at one liners ALL poking fun at the typical 80's action flick.

I'm not sure how you can argue that the two films are not in the same category.They're both comedies attempting to parody/recreate a specific genre of film (70s blaxploitation vs 80s action). it's just that the era of film differs in each case. Black Dynamite is packed with references to various blaxploitation films - you get the sense that they actually put effort into making it and watched hours upon hours of research. With Kung Fury it comes across like they just wrote down a bunch of random 80s cliches on a whiteboard.

SpaceCowb0y · 04-06-2015 11:24am

Greyjoy wrote: »

I'm not sure how you can argue that the two films are not in the same category.They're both comedies attempting to parody/recreate a specific genre of film (70s blaxploitation vs 80s action). it's just that the era of film differs in each case. Black Dynamite is packed with references to various blaxploitation films - you get the sense that they actually put effort into making it and watched hours upon hours of research. With Kung Fury it comes across like they just wrote down a bunch of random 80s cliches on a whiteboard.

Which they probably did? One is a feature length movie that cost $3million to make and had a full professional production team behind it, the other was made by a misfit bunch who asked for help of anyone with any editing/production skills through a fundraiser page on a budget of $600,000 that they raised from the generosity of others.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 11:25am

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Which they probably did? One is a feature length movie that cost $3million to make and had a full professional production team behind it, the other was made by a misfit bunch who asked for help of anyone with any editing/production skills through a fundraiser page on a budget of $600,000 that they raised from the generosity of others.

So it's okay that it's rubbish because it was made cheaply by amateurs?

humanji · 04-06-2015 11:36am

I think the point is that a feature film with a large budget and a large crew that's worked in the industry for a great many years and a short film with a tiny budget and a crew with a lot less experience than the feature, aren't going to be of the same quality. It would be very unusual if they were.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 11:40am

humanji wrote: »

I think the point is that a feature film with a large budget and a large crew that's worked in the industry for a great many years and a short film with a tiny budget and a crew with a lot less experience than the feature, aren't going to be of the same quality. It would be very unusual if they were.

I've seen some pretty terrific short films made with significantly less money than Kung Fury and some pretty diabolically bad big-budget films. I'm not going to pat someone on the back for making a rubbish, unfunny film just because they did it cheaply.

humanji · 04-06-2015 11:58am

You're not being asked to pat anyone on the back. You're not even being asked to like it. It was just being pointed out that comparing those two films is pointless as they're not in the same league.

hytrogen · 04-06-2015 12:02pm

"Yeah, that's my bicep"

Genius movie and plot!

Kev W · 04-06-2015 12:13pm

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Which they probably did? One is a feature length movie that cost $3million to make and had a full professional production team behind it, the other was made by a misfit bunch who asked for help of anyone with any editing/production skills through a fundraiser page on a budget of $600,000 that they raised from the generosity of others.

Given that Kung Fury is 30 minutes long and Black Dynamite is 90 minutes long that's actually not that great of a budget disparity.

Greyjoy · 04-06-2015 12:13pm

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Which they probably did? One is a feature length movie that cost $3million to make and had a full professional production team behind it, the other was made by a misfit bunch who asked for help of anyone with any editing/production skills through a fundraiser page on a budget of $600,000 that they raised from the generosity of others.

It's got nothing to do with production value or budget costs - it's down to the effort put in to researching the source material and the quality of the script. I think the use of CGI in KF made the creators lazier because they didn't have to work on the script when they could just throw out a bizarre over the top cgi effect.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 12:18pm

I think a fair analogy would be that where Black Dynamite is like a good episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 or Rifftrax, Kung Fury is like a bunch of drunk teenage boys who think they're funny heckling a movie, trying hard to be heard over each other, yelling the first thing that comes to mind.

humanji · 04-06-2015 12:29pm

Greyjoy wrote: »

It's got nothing to do with production value or budget costs - it's down to the effort put in to researching the source material and the quality of the script. I think the use of CGI in KF made the creators lazier because they didn't have to work on the script when they could just throw out a bizarre over the top cgi effect.

A larger budget means more resources to put into research and writing. Again, it's not particularly fair or reasonable to compare experienced filmmakers with inexperienced filmmakers. Especially when one was making a film for money and the other for fun. I'm kind of surprised and the hate towards this. It's just a bit of silly fun. Some guys decided to have a laugh by making a silly little short film. That's it. It's easier to ignore than any of the big budget nonsense that gets flung at us almost daily.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 12:31pm

humanji wrote: »

That's it. It's easier to ignore than any of the big budget nonsense that gets flung at us almost daily.

Tell that to my Facebook feed, I'm sick to death of the thing.

SpaceCowb0y · 04-06-2015 12:36pm

Kev W wrote: »

So it's okay that it's rubbish because it was made cheaply by amateurs?

Subjective to say the very least... but yes! Because i along with many others don't see it as "rubbish" but for what it is, a bunch of inexperienced people having some fun probably using this to learn the trade and use the skills they did pick up making this to do better things in the future.

Kev W · 04-06-2015 12:38pm

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Subjective to say the very least... but yes! Because i along with many others don't see it as "rubbish" but for what it is, a bunch of inexperienced people having some fun probably using this to learn the trade and use the skills they did pick up making this to do better things in the future.

Except with all the praise being heaped on them for this, what motivation could they have for trying harder next time?

humanji · 04-06-2015 12:39pm

Kev W wrote:

Tell that to my Facebook feed, I'm sick to death of the thing.

Ha, yeah I forgot about that. I think I got lucky that not too many people I know posted about it.

Roar · 04-06-2015 1:30pm

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Subjective to say the very least... but yes! Because i along with many others don't see it as "rubbish" but for what it is, a bunch of inexperienced people having some fun probably using this to learn the trade and use the skills they did pick up making this to do better things in the future.

That's it in a nutshell.

Icaras · 06-06-2015 12:55pm

Really enjoyed it. 80's cheese...to the max!

Although any longer than 30min I think it would have started dragging.

ThisRegard · 27-10-2015 1:58pm

It's on Netflix now, and it's all kinds of ape**** awesomeness.

e_e · 27-10-2015 9:17pm

Icaras wrote: »

Really enjoyed it. 80's cheese...to the max!

Although any longer than 30min I think it would have started dragging.

Started dragging after 3 minutes for me.

Intentionally trying to make a "so bad it's good" film is a fool's errand tbh. The thing that makes a lot of trash cinema so lovable and fascinating is how sincere the people behind it were in trying to make something great. The Room for instance isn't an amazing movie because of how incompetently it was made, it's because of what a personal, bizarre and unique vision it is on top of all that. Kung Fury just felt way too detached and calculated to be great in that way for me.

Kind of similar to what Kermode describes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwAOs_5Yrk

Optimalprimerib · 28-10-2015 9:14am

I watched this with a few friends over the weekend and i have to admit, i was grinning ear to ear. it is like a fantasy story 10 year old me would be playing out in the back garden.

ThisRegard · 28-10-2015 9:26am

That's the thing, you just have to enjoy it without thinking about irony and that sort of stuff and you can't help but grin from start to finish.

Chris_Heilong · 28-10-2015 7:59pm

It was very good, was not meant to be a film from the 80s but 80s culture inspired, perfect length for what it was.

Slydice · 27-05-2018 11:17am

Nody wrote: »

I do know it's a bit of necro but the movie is out and it's everything you could have hoped for and then some!

Accidentally rewatched this. Still hilarious!

Kung Fury

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