Another gallery of captures from Blu-ray discs, strictly for entertainment purposes.  Please only look at these caps as a very vague indication of what the actual image quality is, which obviously will look a lot better on your calibrated 1080p TV set/monitor/display.  HD screencaps look quite different from site to site, monitor to monitor; differences in color, contrast, darkness levels always vary.  Nor is this a review site, simply because I'm pretty bad at spotting meddling, or at least the different versions of this (EE, DNR, grain removal -- there's a ton of grain removal processes, blocking, halos, mosquio noise, ringing, posterization, banding, jaggies, etc.)  All that being said: enjoy, hopefully this site will offer a look at some titles not found elsewhere.  Some of these images will have spoilers and R-rated content.  Updates will be weekly -- if possible.  Lastly, a lot of people have asked, so I'll cheat and let someone else explain, but here's the answer to "Why JPEG?"

Last 20 Titles Added: Män som hatar kvinnor, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Scream, District 9, Gamer, The Others, Mulholland Drive, Public Enemies, Watchmen: TUC, Léon, Skjult, District 13 Ultimatum, Max Manus, Gremlins, Blood: The Last Vampire, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, South Park: BLU, Le dernier combat, Angel-A.

Män som hatar kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women)
(32.6 GB - Nordisk Film NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

("Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's famous novel about a journalist and a young female hacker.  16-year old Harriet Vanger disappeared without a trace, on September 29th 1966.  Nearly forty years later, a journalist gets contacted by an industrial leader who wants him to write the history of the Vanger family.  The family chronicle is just a cover for the real assignment: to find out about what really happened to Harriet.")

(NOTE: Disc does not contain English subtitles.  As always, some of the captures may be [slightly] in motion.  Image selection is again a bit 'dull' to not spoil anything. The tattoo is not a spoiler, trust me, even if the silly English title makes it seem like it's of grave importance.)

The trailer for those who want to get somewhat of a feel for the film's tone...

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Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
(Various GB - Studio Ghibli JP - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

("Hayao Miyazaki intends to make "Ponyo" with a pastel watercolor, hand-painted look.")

(NOTE: These captures do not give justice to this rather glorious transfer, Ghibli in HD does not disappoint... can we have the rest of the films now?)

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Scream
(18.1 GB - Icon Home Entertainment AU - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

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District 9
(22.8 GB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment US - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

(Terribly dull selection of images as I don't want to spoil this film for the two people who have yet to watch it.)

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Gamer
(20.3 GB - Star Media Entertainment NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: B?)

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The Others
(18.6 GB - Pan Vision NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: B)

(Still on my Top 5 "best horror films" of the last 10 years...)

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Mulholland Drive
(21.5 GB - Pan Vision NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: B)

(To compare this with the old HD DVD release, check out Land of Whimsy's captures.)

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Public Enemies
(34.7 GB - Universal Pictures UK - VC-1 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

("I've already heard much discussion of the way Mann shot the film with HD cameras instead of on film, and I think the bottom line is that digital photography will remain divisive with audiences.  Several people I've spoken to hate the look of the film.  Personally, I'm really intrigued by the way Mann's been pushing the use of HD forward in his last few films.  I loved the look of Los Angeles in "Collateral," and felt like it was one of the most accurate reproductions of how this city really looks and feels at night.  I was blown away by "Miami Vice" both times I saw it on the bigscreen, precisely because of how cold and unforgiving the look of the film was.  Here, working in a period piece, the natural choice would be to make everything look burnished and golden and creamy and perfect, like most period pieces look.  Instead, Mann seems to have warned his production designer Nathan Crowley that there is no room for mistakes, and then treated his camera like a time machine, trying to make that era immediate instead of treating it like the distant past, shot through the gauze of nostalgia.  There's one sequence in particular, when the FBI shows up at a mountain lodge in the woods where Dillinger's gang is hiding out, that is spectacular precisely because of that feeling of immediacy.  Mann seems to use no artificial lights while shooting at night now, so the entire thing is lit by headlights or the muzzle flashes of tommy guns, and it's really haunting as a result, as well as alarming because of the way people lurch up out of the darkness." -- HitFix.com)

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Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut
(41.0 GB - Warner Home Video US - VC-1 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

Theatrical Cut (left), The Ultimate Cut (right)

Theatrical Cut (left), Director's Cut (middle), The Ultimate Cut (right)

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Skjult
(16.5 GB - Sandrew Metronome NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

(Note: Disc contains English subtitles.  Film itself may have been shot on HD, don't know the specifics.)

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Léon
(Various GB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment US - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

Comments (0) | Categories: Blu-ray, Semi-Mainstream Cinema

D13-U (District 13 Ultimatum)
(18.0 GB - Momentum Pictures UK - VC-1 Video Codec - Region: B)

(Lots of "camera in motion" in pretty much every scene, which fits the style of the film, but makes capturing frames a bit hard... as usual.)

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Max Manus
(30.8 GB - Nordisk Film NO - AVC/H.264 Video Codec - Region: A/B/C)

("Rousing widescreen historical epic "Max Manus" celebrates the deeds of one of Norway's most daring WWII-era resistance fighters. This engaging second feature from "Bandidas" duo Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning combines artistic ambition and commercial appeal with a well-paced action-adventure approach. The most expensive Norwegian production ever, this exciting blockbuster deserves arthouse berths abroad; fests are a given." -- Variety.com)

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