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Public Domain from Outer Space
Black_by_Pubic_Deman writes "It is a work of art that truly represents the nadir of film making; a movie so bad that it's good. It has been labelled 'The Worst Movie Ever' by the Golden Turkey Awards and is also the winner of two notable Razzies. Ed Wood's classic and every Slashdot reader's favorite movie Plan 9 from Outer Space is now in the Public Domain and available as a free download thanks to the fine folks over at Archive.org."
Why make one, http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=4612267 there already is one ;)
sadly, it only has one seed and 2 leachers and frankly, it might not be the exact same as the version that was available freely...
No, the truly sad thing is that even though this movie is now in the public domain that isohunt link is probably still illegal due to its source.
Somebody is going to have to mirror the Archive.org version since they don't claim any copyright on their copy and hope they got it from the original source.
Oh dear.
You have no idea.
An MST3K of it? They couldn't do it. There was nothing they could do to it to make it (better|worse|funnier|stupider|more appalling). It would be like taking your absolute favorite meal *ever*, then adding caramel to it to "make it taste better".
Remember - we are talking a movie where Bela Lugosi died, and was replaced by a chiropractor - younger, taller, and blond - as "the Ghoul Man", who played his part crouched down with a cape over his face, so people wouldn't notice.
And the Octopus battle scene! This was conducted in a public park, at night (because they didn't have a stage, a budget, or a permit) with a *stolen* rubber octopus. Unfortunately, they forgot to take the motor(s) that made the octopus run, so "our hero" had to "battle" the octopus, in a shallow pool of water, under a car's headlights, and move the limbs of the octopus himself. It's really a classic scene.
As is the scene where the giant zombie knocks over the obviously cardboard tombstone.
As is the scene where they are "flying" in the "airplane" - the airplane never moves, but they bounce in their chairs to simulate flight.
As is... well, just about all of the movie, in fact.
And how can you beat this quote from the movie - "Future events such as these will affect us in the future" - absolutely classic!
Nope. Sorry. Pass over that geek card, son, and walk away. Just walk away.
And watch out for those future events.
We are the Music Makers, and We are the Dreamers of Dreams...
THIS SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN MODDED FLAMEBAIT. This is a quote from Tim Burton's movie "Ed Wood", a dramatic account of the life of the director of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
The joke here is that Bela Lugosi (of Dracula fame, and whose last role was in Plan 9) was constantly being asked questions about Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, and a somewhat rival), and it drove the already irritable old man into a angry frenzy. In the movie, he goes from happy to sign an autograph for a fan to nearly knocking the guy's head off.
It was hilarious.
Here is an interesting tidbit. In its day, that film was considered communist propaganda for making a common man the hero and a banker the villian. Now, the entertainment industry would have us believe that the public domain is a communist plot, and that "intellectual property" (pure vapor) is worth more than tangible things. Well, it's not!
In the near future people might literally ask, "Public domain? What's that?" and only historians will be able to explain the concept. It will be as extinct as the Dodo Bird.
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Who keeps modding these comments down? "Gay Niggers From Outer Space is a REAL MOVIE", and asking which one worse is on-topic. To answer your question: It's bad, but not even as bad as Plan 9 From Outer Space.
You heard me right, if forced at gunpoint to choose between watching Plan 9 and Gay Niggers, I'd watch Gay Niggers From Outer Space. God help me if it ever comes to that.
I asked them this very question recently.
Here's your answer:
Speed Demos Archive - Lots of speed runs!
I have made the MPEG2 1.78 GB version of this file available via bittorrent. You can download the torrent from the following locations:
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http://www.bogaa.org/details/185874
http://www.bitenova.org/index.php?idx=details&id=
http://www.torrentspy.com/directory.asp?mode=torr
http://www.mininova.org/tor/73675
I distribute the MPEG2 files from Archive.org via http://torrents.pdmdb.org/ but can bet that Slashdot would kill my webserver too. Hopefully it can at least handle the tracker.