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abcdefz
10-21-2006, 12:03 PM
Boy, this movie really, really works until the last few minutes. It still works at that point, but it doesn't kick quite enough butt where it needed to at the very very end to have you sailing out of the theater on a big high

But so, so much is right. Boy, it's good. Christian Bale's best performance, I think.

8/10 (y)
jackrock
10-21-2006, 12:04 PM
You just got me excited for this, I'll try and go tonight.
abcdefz
10-21-2006, 12:12 PM
My buddy and I were in accord on this one. (y)

Very nice mounting tension, nice use of horror visuals/ideas... kind of like Spy vs. Spy meets E.A. Poe. (y) (y)
kaiser soze
10-21-2006, 10:58 PM
I'm very interested in this movie....maybe will hit it up next weekend
Waus
10-21-2006, 11:21 PM
I really liked it. My only wish is that they had actually just left a few things for you to know without spelling it out for you.
abcdefz
10-23-2006, 09:35 AM
...that'd be a tricky thing in this case, but I see what you mean.


For what it's worth: David Bowie was outstanding. He's either gotten incredibly accomplished as an actor or Nolan knew exactly what to do with his limitations. He was just perfect.
icy manipulator
10-23-2006, 09:42 AM
did Christopher Nolan direct it?
Loppfessor
10-23-2006, 09:51 AM
What the crap is this movie about? My lady friend wants to see it badly...
abcdefz
10-23-2006, 09:58 AM
did Christopher Nolan direct it?


Co-wrote and directed, yeah.




What the crap is this movie about? My lady friend wants to see it badly...



Rival magicians in late 19th century England (and Colorado Springs, actually). Used to work together, became enemies, and try to do very bad stuff to one another to sabatoge each other as magicians then, what the heck, ruin each other's lives, etc.

Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johanssen (sp?), David Bowie, Andy Serkis, and Michael Caine are in it.
Loppfessor
10-23-2006, 10:05 AM
^ sweet I could probably get down with that...plus it gives me an excuse to eat a box of milk duds
beastiegirrl101
10-23-2006, 10:25 AM
Christian Bale's best performance, I think.

better than Patrick Bateman?
abcdefz
10-23-2006, 11:20 AM
better than Patrick Bateman?


Oh yeah. I think so, anyway.
Loppfessor
10-30-2006, 11:28 AM
Okay I saw it over the weekend and really did enjoy it. I had figured out most of the ending before it happened but the last few minutes were great!
abcdefz
10-30-2006, 12:04 PM
I'm too lazy to go back and re-read my previously-spouted opinions, so:

The movie is really quite a bit better than the book. The book gets kind of bogged down in the mechanizations of its plot and ramifications (and curiously obsessive about tallying the money each magician makes); the movie streamlined a lot of that stuff -- it made the story better by enhancing the potboiler aspects, which actually then gives it more room for symbolism. Very nicely adapted. (y)
icy manipulator
04-06-2007, 01:40 AM
did Christopher Nolan direct it?
i forgot making this comment. anyway i saw it last night and couldn't help but thinking it was a bit like Memento and that chris nolan was the director. the thought was prolly in the back of my head but oh well.

very good movie. i thoroughly enjoyed it
DIGI
04-17-2007, 02:03 PM
Far and away the best movie I've ever purchased without previously watching it. David Bowie is outstanding and I agree with a-z that this is definitely Bale's best performance.(y)
abcdefz
04-17-2007, 02:09 PM
You bought it before you saw it? On this movie, I think that was kind of risky. I think The Prestige is something that either works for you or really, really doesn't.

It's better than the book, though. The book is good, but kind of dodgy.
sercomdj01
04-17-2007, 02:35 PM
Id fuck scarlette j
abcdefz
04-17-2007, 02:37 PM
Guys are always, "I'd hit it, I'd hit it!" about some pretty nasty skanks.

Scarlett-lust, however, needs no apologies. (y)
sercomdj01
04-17-2007, 02:39 PM
Guys are always, "I'd hit it, I'd hit it!" about some pretty nasty skanks.

Scarlett-lust, however, needs no apologies. (y)

She's making a cover album of tom waits songs.
I mean wtf!
I'd hit it!
abcdefz
04-17-2007, 02:43 PM
I'm a little nervous about that one, but what the hell. Better than when Cybil Shepherd did her Cole Porter album.
sercomdj01
04-17-2007, 02:49 PM
I'm a little nervous about that one, but what the hell. Better than when Cybil Shepherd did her Cole Porter album.

It'll suck balls. WTF. Craziest thing every.
I'd still hit her.
She may do it bad, but fuck, she has taste!