KUNG FURY Official Movie [HD]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a parody that crams in 80s movie tropes and as an example of the VHS aesthetic.
What it is
Kung Fury is a 30-minute crowd-funded 80s action comedy about a kung fu cop who travels back in time to kill Hitler, packed with retro tropes.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2015 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends vidarh · 2018-01 · on “Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system”
Fits right into Kung Fury [1] - a parody/homage of 80's movies that includes time travel and Hackerman... And a dinosaur, vikings and nazis and David Hasselhoff. It's as bad as it sounds, but in a good way. They fit an impressive amount of 80's movie tropes into 30 minutes. [this video]
Cites stefantalpalaru · 2015-05 · on “Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]”
> 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 [this video] . Yes, you want the subs for the funny music descriptions.
Cites shmerl · 2015-05 · on “Kung Fury – a comedy funded through Kickstarter [video]”
I used this method: youtube-dl -f 248+251 [this video] You get VP9+Opus combination which takes less space.
Cites ZenoArrow · 2017-01 · on “Music's weird cassette-tape revival is paying off”
>"Indeed - this is especially true of synthwave/vaporwave and other genres that are themselves nostalgic for the days of synth-heavy music sold on cassette." Yeah, I wouldn't mind a TRONICBOX cassette: [LINK] >"Just as some games put fake film grain on screen, some synthwave videos add a "badly tracked VHS" effect." Kung Fury is probably a good example of that style: [this video]