Kung Fury: The Most Gloriously Ridiclous use of CG and VFX I have ever seen

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Kung Fury is a lot of things. It's silly, ridiculous, it's funny, and it's unabashedly stupid. But, at it's core, it's a self aware parody of cheesy 80's films. Cop movies? Kung Fu movies? Time travel movies? If you name it, it's in there. 

Released in 2015, Kung Fury is the passion project of filmmaker David Sandberg that pays homage to the cheesy films of the 80's. Taking place in Miami in 1985, it follows a half kung fu master/half cop who goes on a wild quest to stop Adolf Hitler and his kung fu nazi's from taking over the world. 

It's also the most gloriously ridiculous uses of CG and VFX I have ever seen. 

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While the project was all funded by a Kickstarter made by Sandberg, he didn't have enough money to do filming on real settings. Because of this, majority of the settings and objects in the film were made using digital effects and green screen.

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While it's obvious the settings and objects in the film are CGI, they're done so extremely well and have a lot of style to them. They clearly aren't aiming for the realism of the 80's with the look of CG, but rather an over the top, hyper stylized version of what Miami in 1985.

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When I say that Kung Fury is a "gloriously ridiculous use of VFX" I absolutely mean it. What they do with computer graphics here is absolutely bonkers. 

There's at triceratops who's a cop named "Triceracop"....

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An arcade machine that becomes sentient and starts shooting lasers....

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And time traveling across a synth-wave  

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And that's just only the tip of the iceberg of what they do. For project with a runtime of 31 minutes snd only a budget of $630, 019 they manage to pack so much into this film visually in both action and comedy. 

The CG is a star in this film and the talent and direction behind it really brings this ridiculous world to life and makes it so much fun to watch. 

But I feel even me talking about it doesn't even give it justice, so if you wanna check out this insanity then copy the link and strap in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg&t=1s

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