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Posts: 290 (11/07/2009 03:31 PM) Calsvelvet
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hey b!
mmmmmaximus, mmmmmmartin palmmmers words in emmmmmpire decemmmmmber 2009 are winding they're way to you now! postal strike is done so should be with you .................. ? enjoy! I had a life once, but Russell Crowe stole it
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Posts: 4147 (11/07/2009 06:55 PM) Lady Honourable
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woo-hoo! a reason to go to the post office!
thanks! |
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Posts: 22 (11/08/2009 03:36 PM) |
Over at the Awards Daily Oscar blog is a Time Online list of the top 100 films of the oughts, ie; the last nine years. Man is that list a mixed bag but Gladiator is on it at number 32 I believe. Sorry folks I might have gotten that number wrong, but the film is somewhere in the thirties. As for the number one film I think it should be Lives of Others not Cache. These sort of lists reflect the subjectivity of the compilers. As we know making lists of this or that on the internet is seriously overdone. |
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Posts: 3415 (11/15/2009 07:22 PM) Keeper of the Kilted |
As you probably know Isis has done completely new screenshots for Gladiator. The original pages on kaspinet focused on Russell as Maximus but the new images
detail the film as a whole. She has done over 3000 new images, 1000 more than we have in our current section on the film. The blu ray images are stunning
having an almost 3D quality to them. The images aren't "live" yet, I've just finished the Battle of Carthage and the big "My name is
gladiator" reveal but I wanted to post another teaser.
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Posts: 4181 (11/15/2009 07:41 PM) Lady Honourable
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ohhhhhh, tease us some more, please?
that's a good-lookin' trio of gladiator-trainees! becks |
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Posts: 294 (11/15/2009 08:59 PM) |
Bravo to Isis and Kaspinet.
3,000 images....wowie kazowie! |
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Posts: 4055 (11/16/2009 09:49 AM) Lady Giggles |
Woooohooooo!
  I can't WAIT!
Lady Giggles
Mistress of the Bath, Lady of the Dance, Bounteous Countess of Cupid's Bow  , Wet Russelling Watery Wench, Nurturing
Nurse of Neuroses and Phantom Kibbitzer(Swish!!)
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Posts: 3941 (11/16/2009 09:55 AM) Pic Slut |
WoW! That's looking mahvelous, baby, can't wait to see the rest. Gladiator is truly magnificent on Blu Ray and I'm sure Isis has done her usual
wonderful job at capturing it in stills.
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Posts: 4226 (11/16/2009 12:26 PM) Cort's Cat |
Hmmmmm........
CortsVelvet
Catherine, Thane of Thighs; Knight of Knees; Baroness of Biceps; Shahrina of Shoulders; Suzeraine of the Sweetest Smile Ever Seen; Bantiarna of the Byronian Waves; Princess of the Pensive Pause; Champion of the Chained Champion; Lady Honourable Philtrette; member of the K&R Gang, Peeled Kiwi Union, the Fallow-ship of Crowe: Biebe's Babes Posse, and CHERISH - Cuddle His Every Russelly Inch Special Helpers; co-founder of the Crazed for Cort Corterie; Cortesan to the Cowboys (Cort), aka one of the Three Amigas; Siren of the Seafarer, and blissful member of ISHITFAIL. If we stay together, we survive. |
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Posts: 4901 (11/16/2009 02:30 PM) Crowe Crossing Member |
the BluRay caps are darker. I can actually see more detail in Isis' originals.I felt that too with the first teaser but even tho this too is darker it is much clearer looking. It's actually quite beautiful and I agree about the 3-D look. I love my blu ray player and all my BR Russell movies. I was actually able to see Ben fight those Indians where I couldn't with the regualr DVD because it was too dark. Go figure! 
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Posts: 2362 (11/16/2009 03:03 PM) Queen of Pits |
Yes, they are darker because bluray we are seeing true black. Think of it like the many shades from black to white in a greyscale photo. Cat one of the scenes
that show this off to the best effect is at the end when we see Juba and Haken and the rest of the guys in the cells under the colosseum. Remember when
Commodus walks through and the camera pans across the guys and all you could see was Juba's eyes? Now you see many layers of that darkness and you can
actually see him in more detail. Yes, it's dark but the crispness of the images outdo any problems with darkness.
kaspi I await the final unveiling. What we do in life... echoes in eternity.
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Posts: 3942 (11/16/2009 04:00 PM) Pic Slut |
I'm also thinking that the true black and the darker tones help create the layered or 3-D type effect. On the bigger screens with the Blu Ray player the
pictures just pop out at you, it's wonderful.
swept, I just realized that while I of course have Yuma on DVD I don't have it on Blu Ray. I think that needs to be rectified. 
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Posts: 4227 (11/16/2009 05:37 PM) Cort's Cat |
Thanks for the explanation, Isis. That makes it clearer (pun intended And I do agree there somehow is a dimensionality, a depth, to the bluray captures that there isn't with the dvd ones.
CortsVelvet
Catherine, Thane of Thighs; Knight of Knees; Baroness of Biceps; Shahrina of Shoulders; Suzeraine of the Sweetest Smile Ever Seen; Bantiarna of the Byronian Waves; Princess of the Pensive Pause; Champion of the Chained Champion; Lady Honourable Philtrette; member of the K&R Gang, Peeled Kiwi Union, the Fallow-ship of Crowe: Biebe's Babes Posse, and CHERISH - Cuddle His Every Russelly Inch Special Helpers; co-founder of the Crazed for Cort Corterie; Cortesan to the Cowboys (Cort), aka one of the Three Amigas; Siren of the Seafarer, and blissful member of ISHITFAIL. If we stay together, we survive. |
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Posts: 6034 (11/16/2009 09:40 PM) Alias MsMAC |
Everybodys' monitors (and everybodys' monitor settings) are different, too. Isis's old caps look very light to me, on my monitor, and so the
Blu-Ray look just right.
Boy, do they look just right..... 
What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not in what they say about their causes, but what they say about their opponents. ----Robert F. Kennedy |
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Posts: 3757 (11/17/2009 08:55 PM) Riding Mistress
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Isis, did you encounter any of the undesirable artifacts the Blu-Ray fanboys were arguing about a few months back ? Are they in fact making much ado about
something that may only last a frame ? (ie the disappearing flaming catapult shots in Germania)
"Man, if you've gotta ask, you'll never know "
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Posts: 2367 (11/18/2009 12:09 AM) Queen of Pits |
Ro, I honestly believe you would need to be watching it side-by-side with an earlier version, or specifically be looking for the missing bits. I missed
nothing.
What we do in life... echoes in eternity.
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Posts: 4902 (11/18/2009 06:16 AM) Crowe Crossing Member |
I agree. After a couple of viewing I remembered that review so I made a point of trying to see that problem but I guess my eyesight isn't as good as
theirs.
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Posts: 4212 (11/20/2009 11:20 PM) Lady Honourable
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wow.
thanks, isis and kaspinet becks |
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Posts: 2372 (11/21/2009 12:52 PM) Queen of Pits |
Ain't he gorgeous? As kaspi mentioned above, I normally do just Russell (don't I wish
 ) but this film is so beautiful almost every frame was worth keeping. And I'm not the only one who's done something
a bit different this time. I do hope that most everyone has moved beyond dialup because kaspi's made the thumbnails slightly bigger and to watch them load
is fantastic.
A comparison 
What we do in life... echoes in eternity.
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Posts: 307 (11/21/2009 02:09 PM) Calsvelvet
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you know i want to thank you so so so so so much!
the true black makes these great to play with! even just a greyscale makes oooooh just oh! and other noises I can't spell! 
thank you ~ thanks muchly lots no more than that! I once had a life, but Russell Crowe stole it. |
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Perver
Isis and Kaspi
). (And no, I'm not going to ask what kind of black we see on a dvd if it
isn't "true black"! 
)
