- I have got to stop seeing movies on opening night at the big downtown theatre. We ended up sitting in the second row because it was so packed and ugh, I hate sitting that close.
- This movie was much better than The Illusionist. For one, I didn’t unravel the mystery halfway through the movie this time. For another, it didn’t have cheese-ass omgglowingfigures, although I did have a tough time suspending my disbelief in order to accept The Magical Cloning Machine as legit. However, the sleight of hand was excellent, especially in the brief shot of Christian Bale fingering his wedding ring while in bed with his mistress.
- Thank god someone is letting Christian Bale use his regular voice for once (or rather, a British accent at the very least, I cannot remember what his natural voice sounds like).
- HAHAHA DAVID BOWIE.
- It seems more than a little fiscally irresponsible to create one hundred tanks with which to provide watery graves for all of those Angier clones as part of getting back at your enemy.
- What I find sort of amusing is that the trailer for this movie gives you a set of expectations about what the film is about, only for the film to be completely different. It’s pitched as these two guys who are friends, and then rivals, and then enemies, but from what you see on screen they weren’t really friends (more like assistants to the original illusionist) and what sparks their rivalry is way more tragic than simply trying to one-up each other.
- I was momentarily fearful that the five-letter word that was the key to Borden’s cypher was going to be “magic”; thank god it was not.
- What I like about this movie is that it’s so explicit about how things can and will unfold and yet the end is still a surprise. When Borden’s wife asks him how to do the bullet trick and he explains it, she says that now that she knows it seems so obvious in retrospect. The same is true of this movie: in retrospect, it’s so freaking obvious because in the very first scene they essentially tell you how it will end, albeit in a rather oblique way.
- Poor birds.
- I rather liked how big the
magic tricksillusions were. The mechanics behind them were fun; it always looked as though they were trying to construct the crazy machines in Da Vinci’s notebooks. - WTF ANDY SERKIS?!
The Prestige
I really still don’t get the fascination with Scarlett Johansson.
IMDB Plot Synopsis Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick.