Kung Fury: The future of the movie industry. -

[Pikonic]

On May 22nd, the movie Kung Fury was released on YouTube. There was a mock trailer earlier with the creators asking for donations via Kicksarter to make a full(ish) length movie. The movie did well with over 10 million views on it's "opening weekend."

Here's the movie:

Spoiler

The movie itself is pretty good and I'd recommend it, but that's not important. Kung Fury and other YouTube movies may change the industry in a decade or two.
It's obvious that the internet and technology is evolving at a cray pace, and crowd funding sites are huge right now. No longer do you have to pitch your (probably crappy) movie idea to the big studios, you can pitch it directly to your audience and have them fund it. You could make a sitcom and have a patreon account with followers pay for episode you make.
This means any asshole with a camera and a computer can be a movie director with the potential of millions of viewers and enough money to live a comfortable life. Hell, Null can open a fund for a show about a cat and sloth running a nut stand in Boston together and we can become Kiwi Studios tonight.

The future is now.

 

[Shokew]

.....The Future scares me, now.

And that's despite the fact that I enjoyed the fuck out of this movie.....

 

[ASoulMan]

Holy shit that movie was whack. The 80's feel and CGI were awesome for what appears to be an indie film.

Stuff like this can come out of using Kickstarter and Patreon to help fund these movies, but you are going to have those shitty films and those who are going to take the money and run.

 

[XYZpdq]

I think I would have liked it more if it was a bunch of two minute segments in a longer show, like Aquabats or Liquid Television.
I found that all in one sitting the joke got old really quick.
Like having a scoop of ice cream every day after dinner vs a big bowl with the entire month's worth of post-dinner scoops.