Posted: 2/10/2007 7:39:18 AM EDT
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If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. This movie has so many different twists and turns, all I can say is WOW! I definitely rate this movie 10/10. This is a MUST see movie. 
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Same here, my wife loved it too. And of course, Christian Bale is the man in this one. Totally dedicated, no matter what it takes. www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ |
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Wow, Best movie I've seen in a long time! I usually can call a movie beginning to end after watching about 15minutes of it. Well done. I'm hard to please. SPOILER: I thought for sure all the comments about magic being a trick Telsa was duping him into funding research, not building a truely remarkable machine... It would have been so easy to set all sorts of hats and cats out there in that pile... sort of a flim flam thing. I was fairly sure that their was some special perspective shattering detail about Bale's bearded assistant early on... that I figured out but the Telsa machine... that was a good twist. Movies rarely get me. |
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It was so-so. Surprisingly predictable - partly, I think, because I knew the movie was going to try and throw a twist or two in, so I viewed it while looking for specific parts that could be twisted. Possible Spoilers: As soon as the diaries were introduced, with each having the other's, I figured the drowning was a setup. It seemed a bit obvious. Once Tesla's machine spit out a duplicate cat it was really obvious. Initially, I thought the plan was to get him in jail, then threaten the guy with his daughter's well being in order to get him to give up his secret. I was wrong there. The ending was poorly done - i.e., the twin brother. They alluded to it with the whole split personality/loving his wife thing, but even then, it seemed like they threw it in at the very end, and it turned out to be a disappointing copout. Basically, they wanted one last twist and they ran out of decent ideas. I don't know - don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, it was reasonably entertaining and the acting was good. It just seemed like the plausible twists were too predictable, and the unpredictable twists weren't plausible, or at the very least, just boring. Best of 2006, for me, goes to The Departed. |
You felt like they just threw the twin brother thing in at the end becasue they ran out of ideas? I couldn't disagree more. The hints of what he really was appeared throughout the movie, and the while concept is integral to the plot. The clues were very subtle as opposed to the obvious clues that most movies give. I thought |
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Just rented this movie... I LOVED it! I loved the double twists at the end... and how one little obvious thing (spoiler: Like a twin brother) could have caused all that hubbub. I may end up buying this flick. Really good movie. Rented it with Stranger than Fiction (liked it) and Borat (needed a cheap laugh, fortunately there were a couple in this otherwise awful movie)... I ranked them 1: Prestige, 2: Stranger than fiction, 100: Borat. 
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maybe i just wasnt in the mood for it, but i really didnt like it i didnt understand what was going on half the time and had a hard time following the story--either they were mumbling or it was dark and i couldnt see what was happening--which im sure was the point i saw memento and LOVED it, so maybe it was just me |
Nope. Tesla tells Jackman that he never did anything for Bale. The entries about Tesla in the "diary" were simply a red herring. It was his twin. |
I disagree, I think the duplicate is the man in the prestige while the host is the one that is drowning. |
SPOILER: They were blind so they could not tell anyone what was in the box they took out after every show. i.e. They couldn't tell anyone that they were drowning a man every night. |
Meh. I preferred The Illusionist. |
So did i. |
At some point Angier says that it was very difficult not knowing if he would be in the prestige or in the box. I agree that from the way the machine appeared to work, that the man who goes into the machine is the one who would fall into the box. Maybe it is some sort of quantum thing where he is really in both. |
the highlighted line is the way I took it FWIW |
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If you liked this movie, I would also recommend "The Machinist", also with Christian Bale. us.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/ |
Kharn |
I recommend it due to some comments here. A movie with some twists and turns starring a dedicated actor. It doesn't get much more dedicated than this (Yes, that's Christian Bale).    |
A-yup. He was the first to use radio waves... in 1947 (posthumously), the Supreme Court proved that Marconi made his transmissions using tuned circuits that Tesla had already designed. Eccentric to an extreme, but a gifted man. |
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I rented & watched The Prestige last night. The plot twists kept me tuned in, wondering where it was going to turn next. I had figured out some elements of the ending, but was interested watching events unfold and to see how it was going to be resolved. I'm glad I saw it before reading the spoilers that have been put in this thread. Maybe a "Spoilers" warning should be added to the title? |