The Worst Sci-Fi Movie Ever!

Date: 2002-10-05 18:02:51

For your immense downloading enjoyment, festing.org is proud to present The Worst Sci-Fi Movie Ever!. This is the movie where it all began, now available for your downloading enjoyment.

This first installment of the epic trilogy has gained large amounts of critical acclaim. One of the first to review it was the off-beat news and information site Bitscape's Lounge, which included the following paragraph in its rave review:

The screenplay is a dazzling work of poetic genius. The writers obviously took painstaking effort to come up with each and every profound line, delivered with stunning poignancy by the cast. And the scope of the subject matter they have managed to tackle here.... absolutely astounding. I still don't know how they pulled it off. Unbelievable.

Windows users will want to download the latest DivX codec (the Free player is just fine), unless you've done that recently.

Bitscape, Willy, and I each got bored and recorded our own commentary tracks. These commentary tracks are included as separate audio tracks on the complete avi, which works fine in xine and mplayer but fails miserably and differently in each of the Windows players I tried. Windows Media Player sees no compelling reason to either pick the first audio track or to let the user pick which audio track to play. The DivX Player seems to want to play all of the audio tracks concurrently... or something like that. RealPlayer just crashes. So I've also provided a limited version for you Windows users out there with only the main audio track, and each individual commentary track as an mp3 in case you want to figure out how to synchronize them.

(I know there are BeOS users who visit my page... I can't tell you what to download, since I don't happen to have a copy of your OS to try it out on. Your guess is much better than mine. Just in case there are any Mac users who happen to visit, the same statement applies.)

• The Worst Sci-Fi Movie Ever! on Google Video.
• Full version with all of the commentary tracks. 62 megs.

For those with advanced media players, here are the audio tracks. Invoke xine with "-a $i" and mplayer with "-aid ($i + 1)".

• avi audio track 0: The real, live audio track. The same thing that's in the for-Windows-users version.
• avi audio track 1: Director's commentary track (that'd be me) 5.5 megs
• avi audio track 2: Willy's commentary track 5.5 megs
• avi audio track 3: Bitscape's commentary track 5.5 megs