The Prestige

Post by **Sorus** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:44 pm

Okay, so I originally went because I wanted to see David Bowie as Nikola Tesla (how awesome is that?) - but the rest of the cast- Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine were great as well.. good acting, good directing.. Best movie I've seen in quite a long time.

Post by **lucimay** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:53 pm

oh COOOOL!!! i want to see it!! saw the trailers and thought it looked good and i love christian bale. (yes bowie as tesla!! very cool!)

where did you see it?

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:56 pm

I am rather impressed with Hugh Jackman I must confess. His work on broadway in addition to movie work has been great. The Prestige...I must see it.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:23 pm

It's on my xmas wish list along with Apocalypto...

I think I could convince Tam, she was panting pretty heavy after Batman Begins...

Post by **Sorus** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 2:25 am

Lucimay wrote: where did you see it?

At the Metreon. Or Loews, or AMC, or whatever they're calling it these days. I can't keep track anymore.

Post by **taraswizard** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:53 am

The Prestige, good, good movie. Jackman playing a sort of secret identity role, and Christian Bale playing a twist in the plot role. (saying more would be spoilery) Both very good. Did anyone else think Scarlett Johnhansen looked a lot like Billie Piper in the movie? It turned out to be a psychological thriller I did not expect. (BTW, it's better than The Illusionist).

Post by **Cole** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:26 am

I thought it was ok. Well acted and directed but I thought the story was lacking. The twist was kinda lame and too obvious imo.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:41 pm

The Prestige was the far superior of the two Magician movies that have come out recently.

Bale was great in a role that would have been ham-handedly approached by lesser actor, and Hugh Jackman was excellent as the obsessed american magician who

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lost his wife courtesy of Bale and a magic act gone awry

.

Bowie was impressive.

The writing damn good, and Nolan's directing great again.

9 out of 10.

Post by **taraswizard** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:27 pm

If you thought the plot twists were lame, you obviously have issues to resolve with Christopher Priest, since according to someone who read the book the book has the same plot twists. BTW, I saw the movie with a friend who'd read the book.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:58 pm

I kinda saw the whole thing coming myself...hell, at the very beginning

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by breaking down the 3 phases of a good trick...you know to LOOK for twists for pity's sake

... despite that it was till a damn fine bit of filmaking.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:10 pm

We watched this last night, and thought it very good. We were expecting the final twist, but I was a bit surprised. It did have a deus ex machina feel to it at the end.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:06 pm

I watched this for the first time friday. The back of the dvd case says you'll want to watch it again, and damn it, I do!

Post by **danlo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:17 am

DVD store's been rented out for two weeks--time to seriously consider switching to Netfilx!

Post by **Usivius** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:06 pm

Yah, saw this last night. Very good flick. The "twist" is so foreshadowed that it is not a twist at all. But despite that, it is amazing. As taraswizard said, it was more of a psychological thriller/drama than anything else. But very well done. However, I thought Bale was not 'great'. His accent was a little forced. When you are 'trying' to keep a certain accent, many actors usually lose range of vocal tones, and that is what happens here. Yet, he was very good.
I was just a *little* disappointed that

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both guys did not die. Bale's character is just as dispicable as Jackman's. They were obsessed, horrible men.

Great performances from all though, including Bowie!

Post by **Xar** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:24 pm

Usivius wrote:Yah, saw this last night. Very good flick. The "twist" is so foreshadowed that it is not a twist at all. But despite that, it is amazing. As taraswizard said, it was more of a psychological thriller/drama than anything else. But very well done. However, I thought Bale was not 'great'. His accent was a little forced. When you are 'trying' to keep a certain accent, many actors usually lose range of vocal tones, and that is what happens here. Yet, he was very good.
I was just a *little* disappointed that
Spoiler
both guys did not die. Bale's character is just as dispicable as Jackman's. They were obsessed, horrible men.
Great performances from all though, including Bowie!

I think the difference is that

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Bale's character appeared despicable, and the twins surely were callous - carrying on their performance so far, fooling even the wife of one of them - but ultimately they did have human qualities... he cared for the child, tried to rescue Jackman's character (not knowing it was a double), and so on. Vice versa, Jackman's character was originally a "good" person who let obsession rule him, to the point that he actually buried a man alive to get informations from Bale's character, he killed his own duplicates a hundred times, framed Bale's character, didn't do anything to avoid his death (even though he could have done so), and then humiliated Bale's character by asking for his secret and taking over his daughter as her legal guardian. Of the two, the more despicable one in the end was undoubtly Jackman's character, I think.

Post by **Usivius** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:46 pm

welll, if you put it that way ....

Post by **taraswizard** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:54 pm

BTW, if one has problems with bad accents as spoken by actors, avoid (as in run away in terror) The Illusionist, and its absolutely horridly horrible accents.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:22 pm

Another one to avoid is Schwartzenegger's Conan. Arnie's Cimmerian accent is so bad it almost sounds like....I don't know, Austrian?

Post by **Usivius** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:16 pm

ooo, and let's not forget Mr. Costner and his English accent...

Post by **drew** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:31 pm

I thought the Prestige was one of the best whodunit's I've seend in a long time.

And yeah, as soon as you figure everything out, you're like, "Of course!!...It's so obvious now."

Butthat's one of the things that makes it's so great.

I was telling some of the boys about it the other day at work, not saying much, just saying that you keep guessing and guessing, and that you only figure things out about thirty seconds before it's revealed in the movie.
And then one of the guys who had seen it himself pipes up and says, "Yeah, there was a lot of twists and turns, especially the way that they both had doubles!"

Needless to say, none of the people who hadn't seen it have to bother now.

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