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I dunno about streaming codes but the 4-disc steelie for this is £20 at zavvi right now, with the Red Carpet discount it's just £18. Yoink! Now to sell the other three editions of fictional movie The Ten Commandments.
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It's a nice steelie. It's about US$25 here on Amazon and includes the two digital codes which are only good here in the US. I think the UK did away with digital codes a while back ago. I already had standard 4K release but that didn't include the 1923 version, so I splurged on the steelie which left me with the extra digital code for the 1956 version.
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![]() The Ten Commandments (brief user review) Best version in terms of quality and bonus video material There are many historical stories in the Torah and Bible that could easily be made into a movie that is rated NC-17 if the director wanted people to see and hear everything. For example, in the Ten Commandments movie the audio commentary track talks about the orgy scene around the golden calf. Then later on God supernaturally opens the earth and swallows’ people up as part of his wrath and judgment when it comes to sinful activities. Cecil B. DeMille wanted to make a family movie where all ages of people including the youngest of audiences could come and enjoy seeing the scriptures alive on the screen. Therefore, the Ten Commandments 1956 version is rated G for all ages and during the orgy scene everyone is fully clothed while dancing around the golden calf and its up to everyone’s imagination on what is really going on during that scene. The 1956 Ten Commandments movie is historically accurate according to the Torah, however like all faith based movies there is a small amount of artistic license that DeMille uses in this movie that is a little different when compared to scriptures. However, Cecil B. DeMille does an outstanding job of showing the supernatural power and love of Yahweh when it comes to protecting the Hebrew people of Israel. God delivers the Israelites from slavery. After 66 years it still looks amazing to see the finger of God’s spirit writing the 10 commandments on stone tablets as mentioned in Exodus 32:16 . Western civilization morals and laws are based on the foundation of the 10 commandments. Cecil B. DeMille when he walked the earth use to say something like “If you break the Ten Commandments, they well break you”. The Ten Commandments is an outstanding film for faith based families to watch, and I highly recommend this classic faith based movie. See extra features in this user review for more details about the classic 1923 version of the Ten Commandments movie and information about the extra features. Video Comments I should mention that due to limitations with my display only being able to offer native 1080P (2K) at standard dynamic range instead of native 2160P (4K) with Dolby Vision HDR, my OPPO UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player is forced to downscale the image on the screen at 1080P SDR. However, the downscaled 1080P picture quality was around 5% better on the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc when compared to the enclosed 1080P Blu-ray disc(again this is native 4K on the optical disc, its my current display that is limiting me seeing the movie in 1080P with SDR). The high bit rate HEVC codec has a better picture quality when compared to the older lower quality MPEG-4/AVC codec. The HEVC codec appeared to be around an average of 47.39Mbps. Also, the advantage of playing back the 100GB 4K Blu-ray disc is that the entire movie for the first time fits on one Blu-ray disc instead of two. Overall, this Ten Commandments has never looked this good before (nice detail and color quality). When I get around to upgrading my equipment to 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision HDR in the years to come, then I well be able to experience this movie at its full potential. Several different subtitle options are offered. Audio Comments Extra Features Disc 3 1956 Ten Commandments movie bonus material comments For all the bonus features on Disc 3 it is in native 1080P using the MPEG-4/AVC codec (main menu is in 2.0 Dolby Digital at 256kbps). The Ten Commandments: Making Miracles is 1 hour 13 minutes and 14 seconds, and it is a very interesting documentary that is in 2.0 Dolby Digital at 256kbps. Cecil B. DeMille was a workaholic just like many people in Hollywood. The 1956 Ten Commandments was a lot of hard work for Cecil B. DeMille, and it was sad to learn in the documentary that Cecil B. DeMille experienced a very major heart attack, and needed to take a few days off from work. Cecil B. DeMille was so devoted to the 1956 version of the Ten Commandments, that he literally went against his doctor’s orders and returned to the movie set to finish the film (Some people were afraid he was going to die on the set). With the help of the film crew and some family members Cecil B. DeMille was able to finish the Ten Commandments. However, that heart attack shortened his life. In modern times there is more safety protocols on a film set to try and prevent injuries and people having heart attacks from the long endless hours. Of course, there have been other people in the 20th Century that have died or almost died from heart attacks or other injuries on the set. But in general, in the 21st Century, movie set safety is much saver when compared to the 20th Century. Cecil B. DeMille has went down in history as a very talented and devoted director. For the 1956 Ten Commandments, Disc 3 has the following Photo Gallery’s with a lot of neat still slides to navigate through: Storyboards & Concept Art, Costumes, Production, Moses, Press Kit, The Stars, Set Visitors, Premiere, and Around the World. Disc 3 1923 Ten Commandments movie plus bonus material I am a fan of silent movies and I really enjoyed watching Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 version of the Ten Commandments. The 1923 version of the Ten Commandments is in high bit rate MPEG-4/AVC at a native 1080P resolution (maybe one day a 4K scan of this movie might be created, but for now 2K 1080P is the best offered from the year 1923 35mm film negative). The 1923 version of this movie is 2 hours 16 minutes and 12 seconds. The movie uses a 2.0 musical score with a lossy 2.0 Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack at 256kbps. There is also a very interesting audio commentary track on the 1923 version of the Ten Commandments that uses 2.0 Dolby Digital at 192kbps. The 1923 Ten Commandments movie also had experiments with using color for certain scenes. I preferred the scenes with the two-color technicolor segment which appears to be better color quality when compared to the scenes that were hand-tinted. The bonus footage that contains the Hand-Tinted Footage of the Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea sequence lasts 21 minutes and 5 seconds with a 2.0 Dolby Digital music at 256kbps. The bonus footage that contains the Two-Color Technicolor segment lasts 8 minutes and 43 seconds with a 2.0 Dolby Digital music at 256kbps. The 1923 Ten Commandments also contains an interesting Photo Gallery with 1080P still slides to navigate through. There will be major spoilers in this section for the 1923 Ten Commandments movie (so do not read unless one has seen the movie first). Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 version of the Ten Commandments is much more preachy when compared to the 1956 version of the Ten Commandments. Cecil B. DeMille made around 70 movies during his life, and 45 of those movies were made during a 10 year period since DeMille was a very talented hard worker. The 1956 version of the Ten Commandments uses the Old Testament Exodus and other historical documents. However, the 1923 version of the Ten Commandments has quotes from the New Testament with a scene of Jesus Christ healing a person from leprosy. In the 1923 version of the Ten Commandments the movie occurs in two parts. The first part of the movie deals with Moses’s life and God freeing the Hebrews from Pharaoh. However, the second part of the movie occurs around the modern day 1923-timeframe (a period piece for now since almost 100 years has went by). There is some nice beautiful footage of San Francisco and what the city looked like around 100 years ago. This 1923 version of the movie the lady next to the golden calf gets leprosy and the prophet Moses with the power of God has the power to cure leprosy. When one gets to the second part of the movie there is a Christian mother that raised two boys that are now adult brothers. One of the brothers is an atheist who decides to break all of God’s 10 commandments by the end of the movie. Cecil B. DeMille when he walked the earth use to say something like “If you break the Ten Commandments, they well break you”. Therefore Cecil B. DeMille in this movie is trying to show why the Ten Commandants were still valid in 1923 and for all of human history since the 3 Abrahamic religions believe the Ten Commandments was literally written by God himself. In the movie the one brother who is a self-proclaimed atheist leaves home and decides to break all 10 commandments in the movie. In the real world, back in 1923 in California and in other areas of the world some construction companies were stealing money by making buildings that were unsafe for people to live in since they used very little cement and more sand than they should have (they violated quality building codes to pocket money and put innocent people in danger). While the first part of this movie is based on history, the second part of the movie is fictional and shows one of the brothers building a church that ends up killing a woman when the wall falls down. Then later on in the movie the brother commits first degree murder which is considered by many as the worse of the Ten Commandments to break. In the movie the brother also gets leprosy which according to the audio commentary and other sources was a major problem in the United States in the 1920’s and other parts of the world. It was not until the 1940’s was leprosy starting to have a higher percentage of cure rates. During the movie the one Christian brother that believes in the existence of a God tries to get his atheist brother to repent and follow God’s Ten Commandments. To make a long story short by the end of the movie the one brother in modern day 1923 who does not repent and who does not believe in God, ends up being judged and punished by God after he breaks all the Ten Commandments. The movie also shows a woman repenting of her sins after hearing the scriptures being read to her and the story of Jesus healing a person of leprosy. Cecil B. DeMille was a Christian that believed that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (Yahweh in the flesh). The 1923 version of the Ten Commandments is very preachy in its second half with a strong Christian worldview, and therefore was used as a witnessing tool in churches with film projectors in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The 1956 version of the Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille decided to make the movie entirely based on the life of Moses as mentioned in the Torah, Old Testament, and Quran. For many reasons the 1956 version of the Ten Commandments is more popular. The main reasons is it’s a rated G family movie that is in color with sound. The other reason the 1956 Ten Commandments is so popular is because the prophet Moses is liked by people in the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam religions. In fact, some atheists enjoy the 1956 Ten Commandments movie for its high quality with memories of growing up watching the movie with family members. So, the Ten Commandments is for everyone, since even some non-religious families enjoy the movie. Conclusion The Ten Commandments 4K Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD) Last edited by HDTV1080P; 03-29-2022 at 02:53 AM. |
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