Join the SCIENCE! Movie group!

[Stef]

Hey, I think a number of us here are interested in monster movies, sci-fi, and hilarious B-movies in general. Since we're unable to hang out in person to watch these cinematic treasures together, it would be cool if we rented them and watched them in a coordinated fashion.

Since the Night of the Living Dead movies are widely available and zombie classics, anyone who's interested in talking some zombie shop should watch Night of the Living Dead by next Friday, April 14. (We're going to watch all of them within the next couple of weeks.) Mario recommended the new editions, which come with a commentary track by Mike Nelson of MST3k-- just like watching the show, but with no silhouettes. FOR SCIENCE!

[Apathy]

It's the grand-daddy of modern horror.

One of the most kick-arse heroes of all time as well.

If they remade it, Samuel L Jackson would probably play Ben. And he'd be all "ZOMBIES IN A MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE!"

[Hamelin]

I watched a movie called Frankenfish a few days ago. I don't want to explain it because it was so bad I don't have words. It was awesome.

[mario]

Here's the edition of Night of the Living Dead you should look for. Seriously, Mike Nelson's commentary is superb, and makes this particular bad movie downright watchable (although the film is a cult classic and an important piece of zombie film history, it really is a terrible, terrible movie).

[Apathy]

BRAKETED BLASPHEMY!

It was an excellent film. You're dead to me.

[mario]

I just calls 'em likes I sees 'em! I enjoyed Night of the Living Dead, like I enjoy many bad movies, but that doesn't make it a good movie!

[Drooling Iguana]

Just so you know, the original Night of the Living Dead movie has been released as a legal free download, so if you're too cheap to rent the DVD you can get it that way. I'm too lazy to find the address for it but you should be able to Google it easily enough.

[Apathy]

Are you serious?

That's the best news I've heard all year if it's true.

It better be true.

EDIT: Holy shit. It is true! First link that came up for me via google.

[leesh]

ah, night of the living dead! i haven't seen it since i was eight or nine, when it scared the pants off of me (because of course it was filmed where i grew up, and i recognized a lot of the places and couldn't help but imagine zombies in thsoe places for like years afterward--this is also true of dawn of the dead, which was filmed at the mall i went to all the time).

anyway, i think this is an awesome idea, but i won't have free time till sometime in june so i don't think i can participate.

[Drooling Iguana]

Good thing I haven't seen the Dawn of the Dead remake, then, since it was filmed in a mall that I go to from time to time.)

[mario]

Yeah, Night of the Living Dead is under public domain. Since this is the case, any company is allowed to resell the movie, so the special features help you determine who's offering the best deal. The answer to that is: get the Mike Nelson commentary.

[Apathy]

Some of us like to make our own commentary, Mario.

YOU LOSE AT CREATIVITY! (even though you have a successful webcomic)

[Drooling Iguana]

I went out to rent the movie today, but they didn't have the Mike Nelson version so I rented Shaun of the Dead instead. I'll download NotLD for tomorrow. Everyone else ready?

[Apathy]

I'm all set with the downloaded version.

The one I linked is middling-quality, so if anyone finds a better one, that'd be great.

Shaun of the Dead is certainly one of the greatest movies of our generation. If nothing else it has the greatest use of records in a movie ever.

[Drooling Iguana]

The mpeg2 version on that site is much better quality. It's frickin' huge, though. I'm downloading it now and could make a divx version when I'm done, but I don't know where I could upload it.

[mario]

What about a trackerless torrent?

[Drooling Iguana]

You can have a torrent without a tracker?

[mario]

Yeah, it's a recent addition to the official BitTorrent client. Like so.

I've never tried it out before, but there's no time like the present! See if this small torrent I just generated works.

[Drooling Iguana]

These errors occurred during execution:
[15:58:15] got bad file info -

Didn't work...

[mario]

Well that's what I get for trying new things.

I just tried it on my laptop and it works, but then again, it's in the same local network as the eMac. To that I say *shrug*.

EDIT: Hmm, maybe the metadata/permissions isn't carrying over well from OS X to whatever-Linux-flavor-you're-running. I'll try zipping the file before generating the torrent. Stand by.

EDILEDIT: Try this'n.