Kung Pow - Enter the Fist
…Sounds like you’re looking for “Thousands of Beavers”. Great movie.
I was stoned out of my mind and I STILL couldn’t finish that garbage. It would have been amazing if it were a 10-15 minute short.
I was going to say this!
Anything made by Captain Disillusion
The amount of effort he puts into practically free videos on the internet is amazing.
“Practically” free?
If you’re forced to watch ads to watch the video, it’s not free unless your time is worthless. Although, ads on YouTube videos can be circumvented. Thereby practically free.
Someone is paying for it, just because it’s not you doesn’t mean it not paid for. Thats why youtube has fifty bajillion ads and everyone has sponsorships these days.
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once comes to mind. Redline is another that has a similar feel (the intro sequence is insane)
I showed redline to my family who would absolutely hate anime and they asked me for more like it. Unfortunately, there isn’t.
I wasn’t really blown away by Redline, it just felt like cheap effects with long trail lines.
I was however blown away by Dandadan’s first episode. A genuine tour de force of amazing animation and pacing.
It renewed my love of anime which I thought had been stagnant for a while. Every single frame had its own vibe.Dandadan is very pretty, but Redline uses no effects or CGI. It was one of the last animated movies to be completely hand drawn using traditional animation. The reason it looks like “cheap effects” is because over 100,000 hand-drawn frames were made for it over a seven year production period to push the animation to the absolute limit. Please reconsider.
I guess I’ll have another stab at it with fresh new eyes, but I doubt I can shake off the initial impression already burned into my mind.
Edit: I just watched the intro sequence linked above, and though I can appreciate the heavy layering of multiple elements in beautifully crafted scenes… I can’t shake off the feeling that they’re just animated static paintings, with lots of closeups to distort the action, but very little change in background - except maybe a short stint in that boost scene where the perspective lines beautifully converge. It’s top-tier out of this world art, but I wouldn’t say it’s good animation.
Edit2: I’m guessing it’s mostly just a personal preference of what good animation is. I’m likely going to receive many downvotes for this edit, but consider this fight scene between Madara and the Shinobi Alliance (specifically the 10 second segment between 1:43 and 1:57). The art is piss poor, anyone can see that by simply watching an episode of Naruto. But the sheer dynamism, perspective shift, and pacing, really communicate how devastating an earth-shattering force Madara is, even with piss poor art. To me, that is good animation. The motion transcends the art.
what you like is sakuga lol, I like it in short doses, look up hobbes sakuga, mute and play your favorite music, I caught hella ppl that dont like anime or were initially hating on it for being on just staring st the screen for minutes. (Would use their vid as visuals while we played music off our speakers in college)
hobbes sakuga
Woah, solid recommendation! Thanks for this
What blows my mind about Dandadan is the audio. Anime has never sounded so good.
Same! It also has one of the few intro songs that I don’t skip because I always hear something new each time.
Back in the day there was Hardware Wars.
Hardcore Henry maybe?
I can’t stand the word ‘content’
You’re not content enough to accept.
I’m always content with the contents of quality content
Quite a quaint comment. But I must question, when do you say content, and when content?
I think these were before Kung Fury, but Kung Fu Hustle is one of my favorite action comedies, and Akira is a total trip as well. Another mind@#$% that’s really not in the comedic genre at all (although maybe not as random as you’re seeking) is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I’ve gotta rewatch all of these…
If you liked Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer was a movie made by the same director, and it shares the same type of humour and amazing special effects. Worth checking out if you haven’t.
Thanks, though I’ve already watched it and… KFH is light years ahead! I really look forward to KFH 2.
Akira is a total trip as well.
There’s been a live action Akira film in development hell for over 20 years now. I’ve been patiently waiting since my teen years to see it and I’m in my early 40s now. I guess directors are so scared of not being able to live up to the masterpiece that is the original anime film, so nobody sticks with the project long.
Personally, I’d love to see it recreated as a miniseries. If you’ve read the manga, the film barely touches on the plot. There are gang wars, political factions, economic and social collapse, insurrections and riots, even global wars! None of that is covered in the film; they just focus on Tetsuo and Kaneda.
Heck, even its namesake, Akira, isn’t around! He was a central figure of the manga, but he’s only around for some brief flashbacks in the film.
A miniseries would give it time to world-build and cover everything in the original manga series.
Interesting, thanks, I’ll have to check it out! I did think it was kind of strange that Akira wasn’t the focus, but I wondered if it might’ve been something like “The Legend of Zelda” focusing on Link, haha.
I would say the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss pilots were really solid and The Amazing Digital Circus is another standout.
This made me think of Tuca and Bertie which has an offbeat sensibility and is well done IMHO
Shorter but just as good, there was The Speed of Time.
I think Triangle Of Sadness fits this bill pretty well. Certainly one of my all time favourite films. Maybe a little less silly-absurd, but the real-absurdness makes up for it, and has bite.
Check out Rubin and Ed. Not the same type of a WTF movie experience but worth a watch if you appreciated Kung Fury.
The original of this seems to have been removed, but this is fun an weird if you’re into music production: Andrew Huang - Foods n Dudes
