If you actually want to fund this... um... whatever it is... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kungfury/kung-fury

...and points to burn so why not *promote the epic...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, December 26th, 2013 5:44pm PST - promote requested by original submitter RFlagg.

It's a great trailer but I think it works better as a trailer. A full or even short movie would just drag the joke out too much.

I thought the same thing, but then I saw that it's a 30 minute film.

So long as they keep the pace up, I can see it working. If there are 10 epic events they just have to spend under 3 minutes on each. They already have a dinosaur, a laser arcade game, Thor, Hitler, a viking babe, high tech 80s time travel, and intro douchebags.

Fitting plot in there could be a problem, but that doesn't look like it could stop them.

Is that Techno Viking??

That's a quality 80s parody.

LMFAHS

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by lucky760.

Adding video to channels (80s, Parody) - requested by lucky760.

Don't quote me, but I'm fairly certain Uzis weren't produced until at least the 1300s, So there is little possibility the Viking woman would have one.

Unless, of course, she procured a pre-beta prototype.

Right.

Let's take a video game that's a parody of 80's movies and make a parody movie of the parody video game and at the same time is a parody of human naivety and =
profit from uneducated, late-blooming-dipshits!

I'm curious, which video game do you mean?

Farcry 3: Blood Dragon, THE MOVIE.

How about, let's not pay attention to any of it and get on with your continuing pop-culture education?

@rebuilder: This one.

It'd be pretty hilarious if it weren't so ripped from that particular game. Everything from the logo design to riding dinosaurs.

Yeah. The logo (an 80s cliché), and dinosaurs (another 80s cliché). "Everything" indeed.

Has it occurred to you that two works both based on 80s B-movies, and therefore not original material, will likely share many traits, without having to copy each other (the Kung Fury project was started around a year ago, according to its kickstarter page)?

80s revival did not start 8 months ago. A number of retro music projects, rebooted film franchises, and B-movie parodies have been popping up for the last few years, it was only a matter of time before a mid/maybe-full length movie happened. Who's late-blooming again?

Just take my money!

I think you'd change your mind if you'd played Blood Dragon.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Sift of the week.

I have played Blood Dragon.....3 times now.


@9547bis 's point still stands. 80's revivalism/nostalgia has been with us before either this or Blood dragon (I'm pretty mad into my "retro synthwave" at the moment)

Blood Dragon has
No Nazis
No Thor
No "Hacking through time"
No Bright red 80' sports cars
No Vakyrie warrior maidens

i.e. basically anything in common other than being inspired by the cheesiest elements of a particular decade.

Plus Blood dragon while also being very very silly had a somewhat more realistic edge to it than this and draws more on war and sci-fi films & games. Rather than the broader action & kung fu film strokes in this trailer.

I'm not saying there can't have been maybe a touch of inspiration/motivation from blood dragon, but the material they have produced so far bears no resemblance to me of a rip off in any way shape or form.


It's like saying The Last Starfighter was a rip off of Starwars.
Last Starfighter may have been motivated by the success of Starwars but the resulting film felt entirely original (well as original as any standard format hero epic).

Is there an Adam 12 reference, or did I make that up?

David Hasselhoff - True Survivor has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg on that post.

Apparently playing on El Rey network on 5-28!!!

KUNG FURY - Official Movie has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash on that post.