(mouse clicks)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
(police siren wails)
(cop) Hey, you've got a permit for those guns?
Seen that, but I can't remember what it's called.
(criminal) I've got your permit right here.
(chuckling)
- (gunfire) - (laughing) What?
What is this? (laughing)
(explosion)
Ooh, a split.
Oh my god, David Hasselhoff!
- It's the Hoff! - ♪ ('80s synthpop) ♪
Of course it's Hasselhoff. Who else would it be?
And a direwolf?
♪ Dominos falling ♪
♪ Riot in the streets ♪
- ♪ Baby, this time there's no retreat ♪ - (cracking up)
I [bleep] can't.
Hasselhoff, what are you [bleep] doing?
- ♪ A devil is rising ♪ - I don't understand.
♪ A shadow from the past ♪
- ♪ Feeding ♪-- - Is that Hitler?
Did I just miss Hitler?
♪ All the time ♪
Is this new? Or is this old?
♪ Action! ♪
♪ If we're gonna make it like a true survivor ♪
♪ ('80s synthpop) ♪
♪ (Kung Fu inspired synthpop) ♪
"Kung Fury".
♪ Calling from the ashes ♪
- How the hell did they get him? - ♪ The phoenix rise again ♪
- ♪ Fighting ♪-- - Now I'm in Jurassic Park?
- (snickering) - ♪ For all that we believe in ♪
♪ We need a living passion to believe in ♪
A Viking versus a dinosaur.
I'm a little dumbfounded though.
This is maybe the best thing I've ever seen in my life.
♪ ...Survivor (survivor) ♪
- ♪ All the time ♪-- - (stammering) Wait-- Where?
It's time traveling.
♪ All the time ♪
- ♪ Hear the ticking ♪-- - Oh, he's such a good fit for this,
whatever the [bleep] this is.
♪ Go, we need to, go, we need some action ♪
- Guitar! - Why?
♪ (soulful vocalizing) ♪
♪ Action (action) ♪
Are those Darth Vader Nazis? Is that what this is?
♪ Survivor (survivor) ♪
- ♪ True survivor ♪ - (cracking up)
Hey, could you look a little more casual there, Dave?
Ooh, why is he so cute?
(laughing loudly)
(dinosaur roars)
They're riding off on a... on a T Rex?
On the back of a dinosaur.
(clicks tongue) Casual. #Casual.
Hoo, I'm tired. I'm tired.
(whispering) What was that?
Yeah, don't ask me about deeper meaning.
It's not gonna go well.
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(Finebros) So how do you rate this music video?
That was a music video?
I'm gonna give it a five
because I'm kind of in the middle.
Ten out of ten. Would watch again.
It's like a little ten year old boy's wet dream.
There's no rating system for that amount of just amazingness, man.
- 4,000. - Yeah, A+.
I feel like they made their whole storyboard
- out of Trapper Keepers. - Yeah.
Like they were just like, "Dinosaur, lasers, Lamborghini... do it!"
(Finebros) Do you know who the singer is?
No.
That's David Hasselhoff, right?
David Hasselhoff.
David Hasselhoff of Baywatch fame
and singing on top of the Berlin Wall.
(Finebros) That singer is David Hasselhoff.
Oh! From the Spongebob movie.
(Finebros) And where do you know Hasselhoff from?
Baywatch.
Appearing on reality shows and stuff here and there.
He was a judge on one of those talent shows.
- Knight Rider, originally. - Yeah, the first Knight Rider.
And then Baywatch.
I don't know!
I'm just having this realization-- he's like one of those people
that you know exist.
I know him more of like just as a parody of himself.
I don't think I've ever appreciated the celebrity behind
David Hasselhoff.
(Finebros) What was the point of this music video?
(singing) ♪ Desperation. ♪
I have no idea.
I'm sitting here, trying to figure that out.
It's a joke, right? It's gotta be a joke.
To put together as much randomness and insanity as you can
so people don't know what they're watching.
Nazi Darth Vaders were commanded by Hitler
to take dinosaurs and do something?
I don't know. (laughing)
They made this to promote Kung Fury, which, to my understanding,
I think it's a movie.
I remember another viral video
was the trailer for that movie, Kung Fury.
(Finebros) This is a music video that is for a movie
- that's gonna be released online. - What?
Shut the [bleep] up! I'm so thrilled.
- (Finebros) The movie's called Kung Fury. - Right.
This is going into Sharknado school of film making?
Okay, that's why the name was familiar.
I knew I'd heard of Kung Fury somewhere.
(Finebros) The movie's plot, Miami-Dade police detective
and martial artist, Kung Fury, time travels from the 1980's
to World War Two to kill Adolf Hitler, AKA Kung Führer.
No!!!
- Wow. - Okay.
(a la Hitler) Kung Führer!
(Finebros) But an error in the time machine sends him
farther back in time, where he encounters
a female Viking and the Norse god Thor
and then Kung Fury continues his time travels
to put an end to the Third Reich once and for all.
(whispering) Yes. Yaaas. Yes.
- (Finebros) How does this movie sound? - Unnecessary?
It sounds weird. (laughing)
It sounds awesome.
See, I just needed to know the context.
This sounds great now.
Where do I give my money to to see this yesterday?
That sounds amazing, or really terrible,
but probably amazing.
(Finebros) So this whole thing started with a trailer
that they made that was similar to this for a Kickstarter campaign
to raise money to make the short film.
They ended up raising over $600,000 to make this movie.
(shocked) What? Are you serious?
Are you s--? Who is donating to this?
That's not a ton of money to make a movie.
It's amazing how the Internet can get together
and just have a gas.
They're like, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if there was dinosaur Nazi?"
And then they just do it.
(Finebros) Not quite enough to make the feature version,
but a thirty minute epic movie is being released online.
I think that's perfect.
A full feature would kill it.
The momentum, I think thirty minutes is perfect.
(Finebros) Do you think this is gonna be a success?
I mean, on the Internet? Probably.
I'm sure it'll get a decent amount of traffic.
It's not gonna make back $600,000 plus on YouTube ad revenue.
Sure, I mean, Sharknado was a success.
I feel like it goes right in that category.
I'm gonna watch the [bleep] out of it.
Like, I'm real excited.
(Finebros) Have you ever dabbled with crowdfunding yet?
Um, no, I haven't.
I have never used crowdfunding before,
but, man, does it work.
There just hasn't been a project that has come up
that has made sense.
I think if the right situation was there.
We've talked about it for sure.
I haven't, though that has been a thing on my mind
in the past since I've started working on my game.
I think you really only get to ask for a big chunk of money once,
and I wanna make sure I really make it count.
You know, like my Neverland ranch.
I just feel weird because I know, if I save properly,
that the money that I get paid for people watching for free
can go a long way.
So I'd just rather do that than ask them directly.
There are people that I really like and support
that have done it, so I'm not gonna say that I don't like it
and I don't say that I would never not-- I would never not do it.
If I had my resources to do it on my own,
I don't think I would go out of my way to do that
for the sake of doing it just for that project
'cause if I wanted to do it bad enough, I think I would do it.
Yeah, we Kickstarted an album that I produced with Sam.
I feel weird about asking for money.
We decided to do it because we knew that fans
would want to support it and they did.
It was a blast and it's awesome to be able to actually make content
because you have fans that want it to be made.
(Finebros) So back to the video, what is the secret sauce here?
Why does this over-the-top idea work so well that it goes viral
multiple times and can raise $600,000 on Kickstarter?
Because people love weird things, especially on the Internet.
Nazis, dinosaurs, Kung Fu, plus '80s music,
which is the glue of this whole pot.
There's just a sense of nostalgia with it.
(to tune of True Survivor) ♪ Everyone remembers Trapper Keepers ♪
- Yeah, exactly. - ♪ Everyone like lightening! ♪
It doesn't take itself too seriously.
It is very self-aware of what it is,
which is kind of a parody of old mid-'80s action movies
and just over-the-top ridiculousness.
And they know that the Internet loves it and eats it up.
(Finebros) And, finally, will you watch Kung Fury
- now that you know about it? - Hell no.
(laughing) I'm not watching that. That was crazy.
Ehhhhhh...
I got things to do.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, I thought that was a given.
I wanna know if it's really gonna turn out well.
I will watch it for sure.
Any shot of two people riding a T Rex
is a personal dream of mine,
so I like to see that other people are, you know,
following through on it.
Thanks for watching this episode of YouTubers--
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