War of the Worlds by the Star Trek Cast 175
eDavidLu writes "Here is a radio remake of The
War of the Worlds. From the promo: 'Join actors from Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation as they recreate this classic radio thriller. The breathless pace and convincing details make it clear why the 1938 broadcast of an eyewitness report of an invasion from Mars caused a nationwide panic in 1938. Originally performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air, War of the Worlds is truly the mother of all space invasions, offering a rare combination of chills, thrills and great literature.' My local NPR station KPCC broadcast this show last Saturday night, and the streaming audio for the entire program is available for one week only on their site. I was going to submit this story for Halloween eve, but KPCC was in the middle of a fund drive. Now that the fund drive is over, the slashdotting can begin. If you like this type of programming, remember to contribute to your local NPR station." Update: 11/05 17:53 GMT by Z : Edited for jerks. Thanks, guys. Seriously. Way to be responsible members of the internet community.
oi you (Score:1, Funny)
Re:oi you (Score:1)
With some funny speech by Quark thrown in.
I like WoW very much and i have the classic book, original movie (not the tom cruise shit), and the audible version.
Re:oi you (Score:2)
You might find Jeff Wayne's musical version [wikipedia.org] interesting to add to your collection.
What, Zonk? (Score:2)
Is Zonk seriously suggesting that Slashdot is some sort of responsible member of the Internet community?
Christ, even Linus Torvalds hates you guys. You post false or exaggerated news, dupes, and you kill everybody's webservers and don't give any crap at all because you're busy getting money from page hits for your corporate employer, OSTG.
wow (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:wow (Score:4, Informative)
Sorry (Score:1)
Yeah I couldn't help it.... but that better be said at least 8 times in this version...
Real Media format (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Real Media format (Score:1, Informative)
Works fine with windows media player 6.4.
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This is over 10 years old (Score:5, Informative)
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REM Start of thisfile.bat
start "1%1"
call thisfile.bat %1
REM End of thisfile.bat
Re:This is over 10 years old (Score:2)
Who has the original? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Who has the original? (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Who has the original? (Score:1)
Re:Who has the original? (Score:2)
The individual files have been slashdotted (getting 2kb/s), the torrent which contains all the files put together is likely to download faster than any of the files individually...
Re:Who has the original? (Score:1)
Re:Who has the original? (Score:1)
cost only 4 dollars CDN in a used record shop.
How to download the stream and convert to mp3 (Score:5, Informative)
Oh - and the original 1938 broadcast can be found here [earthstation1.com].
Re:How to download the stream and convert to mp3 (Score:1)
How to throw away your software freedom in a trice (Score:3, Interesting)
The first page you linked to is particularly unintentionally funny on this ground: its author boldly claims that there is a "spyware free" RealPlayer program from the BBC. How would most users learn what the prog
Re:How to throw away your software freedom in a tr (Score:2)
How much time is left on those patents anyway?
Wikipedia says: MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardised in 1991...
So what, 2008?
Re:How to throw away your software freedom in a tr (Score:2)
Re:How to download the stream and convert to mp3 (Score:2)
I am pretty sure... (Score:2)
That's my favorite myth, too. (Score:4, Interesting)
-Prof. David L. Miller, Introduction to Collective Behavior and Collective Action.
Here's the passage online. [aol.com]
Re:That's my favorite myth, too. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:That's my favorite myth, too. (Score:2, Insightful)
Curious Coincidence on their Site (Score:2)
DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:1)
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2)
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2)
The whois contact number is the LATW office, so I contacted KPCC who are going to contact LATW via their channels.
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2)
I see now that they have removed the offensive photo and have replaced the page with a blank place-holder.
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2)
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2)
Re:Hey, why don't you re-hack LATW (Score:2)
It could get much worse (Score:4, Funny)
I was happily surfing porn sites, and in the midst of an otherwise lovely thumbnail gallery, there was Mr Goatse.
Worse...it was a different shot of him, so we've only seen the beginning of this horror.
I quickly closed the window, but it wasn't quick enough to prevent the horror, as it is hard to act quickly when surfing with only one hand...
Bah, No wonder. (Score:5, Informative)
200 OK
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Re:Bah, No wonder. (Score:2)
Re:DO NOT CLICK THE LA THEATER WORKS LINK! (Score:2, Funny)
*CLAP*
*CLAP*
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Suspension of Disbelief? (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't think thousandss of people are going to be running into the streets after hearing Patrick Stewart and Leonary Nimoy, f'rinstance, declaring that aliens are among us...
Re:Suspension of Disbelief? (Score:2)
Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No.
Re:Suspension of Disbelief? (Score:2)
Um. I really don't expect that happening either way. Thousands of people probably would, however, listen because it's the TNG cast.
Doctor Who - Invaders From Mars (Score:1)
More info on this story (and CD) at http://www.bigfinish.com/drwho_main/bf028_invaders frommars.shtml [bigfinish.com]>Big Finish.
Show begins at 2 minutes 45 seconds into the RAM (Score:1)
GOATSE??? (Score:2, Redundant)
Ahg! (Score:1)
The mercury theatre worked together very well, Orson Wells knew how to tell a radio story, and they had a great sense of timing.
Pa
Site Is Hacked (Score:3, Interesting)
I'd Rather Just Download an MP3 (Score:2)
We should be demanding clean, uncluttered, format neutral downloads of material that they are offering anyway from every provider.
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2, Insightful)
Sure, it's scientifically plausible. But as a novel/play, it sucks. It sucks big time. Just because something is scientifically plausible, doesn't me
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:1)
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It was the cutting edge of science when the book was first published in 1898 (the discovery of viruses and the common cold being relatively new).
It's public domain now and you can read the original book here [gutenberg.org], along with HG Wells complete works (which I highly recommend - he's the grandaddy of science fiction).
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:3, Funny)
And the basic plot device was used in Independence Day... when everything else failed the aliens were vulnerable to a computer virus... but since their computer network was not compatable with anything on earth, and appletalk is also not compatable with anything on earth... makes for a simple resolution.
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:1)
Actually, I could see an invasion ending exactly that way. "Let's scan for harmful bacteria. Yep, there's plenty. Let's innoculate ourselves. Ok, we're innoculated. Nothing can stop us now....... Oh wait. This bacteria is growing immune to the vaccine/it's interacting with other bacteria in us/the vaccine (or some drug, whatever) caused it to mutate, etc."
Of course, that depends on the aliens being just as prone to mistakes and overconfidence as we humans.
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
Different strokes, to be sure... but I think the ending's defensible as one of sci-fi's all-time greats. (Don't be misled by the century of fiction since it was written.)
Meanwhile, fans of War of the Worlds, in all its incarnations but especially the original 19th-century book... should definitely check out the "other", much maligned, direct-to-video recent version [imdb.com]. You may (repeat may) find it to be an unexpected treat, as I did...
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
I assume you're being funny. A friend of mine bought the DVD from Amazon US (not available outside US due to copyright reasons), and 3 of us watched it one night, not expecting much.
We were right. I haven't seen many films that are fucking diabolical, but that was one of them. It was unbelievably long, the acting was terrible, the effects quite literally laughable (pretty sure they were all done on the director's laptop). And there
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
Not being funny. (Not intentionally, anyway.) I confess that I'm only halfway through the Hines version, but I'm guessing that's enough to reliably opine. What Hines was trying to do (imo) was to channel the movie Wells would've made in 1898, including camera-work, pacing, film-stock, acting, etc. (I know there's a ton of anachronisms in there, but make allowances...) I'd even include the movie's Warhol-ian 3 hour running time. For a somewhat related well-regarded effort, t
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
Watch out for the tennacles!
And keep an eye out for the horses! You'll swear they're not actually there ;-)
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:3, Informative)
It was only after his publisher balked at this that H.G. Wells changed the plot so that humanity survived. However, note that humanity didn't save itself.
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2, Insightful)
Contradiction. If Hollywood DID change it, you'd still say typical.
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didn't expect "The Ending" so soon.... (Score:2)
A good bit before the end, humanity (in the form of Tom Cruise - egads!) *DID* find another method to at least destroy the walkers. I had thought they would at least explore this a bit more, show a few more walkers getting destroyed, etc. But alas, it wasn't to be.
However, I believe they still set up the possibility that humanity *could* defeat the invasion on their own - and the ending as it was, was just a "Hah.. well whaddayaknow.. 'guess we
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:1)
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Kiss my kippers, you chauvinist! :-) I'm an American born and raised, never been out of the country (unless you count walking a few hundred yards into a Mexico border town). But several of my favorite authors over the years have been English, and I don't just mean J.K. Rowling.
I would no more find The War of the Worlds improved by having it moved to America than
Re:I thought the movie was pretty bad (Score:2)
How do I trolled web?
Re:[OT]: Is there anyway to filter ACs? (Score:2)
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Re:Communist radio (Score:1)
Re:Communist radio (Score:1, Flamebait)
Oh, sure. Now you'll contribute since Tomlinson has committed to turn PBS into GOP BS
Re:Make it into MP3 & Torrent it (Score:2)
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Re:Make it into MP3 & Torrent it (Score:3, Informative)
I've edited out the hour long performance after it (never liked I Love Lucy anyway), so it's 53 minutes.
Leonard Nimory is good, but Orson Wells is excellent, and overall I like the original much better. Even the scratchiness of the reproductions adds to the realism (AM radio then). I would everyone get the original (linked below) and listen to it instead, or at least get both and decide for yourself.
I'll remove the link when KPCC does.
Re:Make it into MP3 & Torrent it (Score:2)
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Re:NPR already gets my money... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Fair-Weather Libertarians (Score:3, Insightful)
How exactly is PBS and NPR a service for the most well off members of society? Are you well off? Do You listen or watch either of those entities?
Something tells me that the richest memebers of society arent taking telecourses on PBS at 10pm at night. Merely, it is somehow your preconception that only rich people listen to NPR, or watch PBS. Rich children dont watch sesame st, they get taken shopping by their servants.
So, lets take all govt funding out, INLCUDING the standard deduction you get on your inco
Re:Fair-Weather Libertarians (Score:2)
"This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans will earn their high school or college degrees through courses screened by local public television stations. Millions of teachers will use classroom versions of our most famous programs."
Its not that I disagree with your view, which I do. But that you are offering statistics that say just because some wealthy people do watch and listen to PBS that its funding must be eliminated. You simply do not have an original argument. It is the same one that has been go
Re:Fair-Weather Libertarians (Score:2)
We dont have to worry about addressing the ideas you have brought up, anymore than we have to address the ideas I bring up. It has already been decided by the society we choose to live in. And you DO choose to live here, as by your own words, you have the means to live anywhere you want.
You talk about me throwing up straw-man arguments, again it still doesnt change the fact that you do not live the ideas you expouse.
Take a stand, live the way you think you should. After all, the consequences are just proo
Re:NPR already gets my money... (Score:2)
It was Red Lectroids from the eighth dimension! (Score:2)