Join the SCIENCE! Movie group!

stefstef
edited May 2009 in Movies and Shows
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!
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Comments

  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    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!"
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    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).
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    BRAKETED BLASPHEMY!

    It was an excellent film. You're dead to me.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    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 IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • leeshleesh
    edited April 2006
    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 IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    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.)
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    Some of us like to make our own commentary, Mario.

    YOU LOSE AT CREATIVITY! (even though you have a successful webcomic)
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    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?
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    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 IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    What about a trackerless torrent?
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    You can have a torrent without a tracker?
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    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 IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    These errors occurred during execution:
    [15:58:15] got bad file info -
    Didn't work...
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    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.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    I think the problem might be on my end. There's a delat between the time that new software is released and the time that it gets added to the Ubuntu package repositories while it goes through a testing process, so I might just not have the latest version. I did a search on the BitTorrent site, though, and found a torrent for a 700mb version of the movie, which should be reasonably high-quality. My own DiVX version is double that size, though.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited April 2006
    Torrent does not work for me either, but I can potentially blame my crappy dorm internet!

    THERE ARE TOO MANY VARIABLES HERE!
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    *concurs*

    Perhaps one of you could try initiating a torrent, and I'll try to grab it?
  • LangLang
    edited April 2006
    How do trackerless torrents work? I tried reading the page, but my reading comprehension skills are weak right now.
  • mariomario
    edited April 2006
    I know little of the technical aspects of torrenting, but... *cough cough*

    Also, those torrents I mentioned in the preceding posts don't exist anymore, so don't bother trying to download them. They won't work too well.
  • LangLang
    edited April 2006
    That's the same page I couldn't understand before! *shakes fist*
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    Well it's now Monday over here, so I'm assuming that everyone that is going to participate has now watched the film.

    Every time I see this film, I can't help but think that Ben is one of the most capable B-movie heroes I've ever seen. In the end the fools he is lumped with are his downfall.

    I mean, you've got the retarded hick who freaks out and blows up the truck and then the most cowardly/arseholish guy ever working against him. They got deaths they deserved.
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited April 2006
    Thought it was pretty cool. Nice how they didn't really overplay the zombie threat and made a point to mention that they weren't particularily strong and weren't much of a problem except in large numbers. Hell, at the end of the movie they seemed to pretty much have the problem under control, although seeing as how there were three sequels to this movie with the problem getting progressively worse I have the feleing that things weren't going quite as well as they looked.

    Too bad no one thought to bring a Cricket bat. No zombie can stand up to the awesome might of the Cricket bat.
  • stefstef
    edited April 2006
    I thought Ben was pretty capable as well. Quite different from the later-established horror movie cliche of the black guy being one of the first of the party to be killed.

    Speaking of cliches, this movie reminded me a bit of Casablanca in that many horror cliches seemed to originate in Night of the Living Dead. (Sort of like things like "round up the usual suspects" started in Casablanca. NOT that Casablanca was an innovative horror movie.) Those of us who were lucky enough to get a Mike Nelson copy had a few outlined by the commentary:

    Heroine trips and falls while being pursued.
    There was another one that I forget-- Mario can remind me later.

    To this, I'd like to add:
    Ostensibly benign party member is infected, turns on loved ones.
    Person encounters zombified version of loved ones.

    I'm pretty sure there were more than this. Anyone care to add to the list?
  • ApathyApathy
    edited April 2006
    B-movie women continue to prove completely useless.

    It's even in the dialogue. "With the three of us working together we can have this place secure in no time". Apparently women of the sixties couldn't wield a hammer. Not even during a zombie crisis.
  • Doom ShroomDoom Shroom
    edited April 2006
    The whole exterior-crisis-leading-to-a-crisis-and-dissension-within-the-group-of-protagonists thing has been done a fair number of times, as well.

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