I know there's a thread about this already but I can't get it without search... anyway, this has to be the best movie I've seen in a while. stellar performance by Christian Bale. How did this thing not win any awards?? fantastic movie, i was locked in the whole 2 hrs. and i have a very short attention span especially if a movie sucks.
If you liked the movie, read the book. It's completely different and even better (I thought the movie was good too).
I read the book first because (shock, horror!) a teacher recommended it to me, and to my surprise the film came out about 4 months after I finished reading. It's drastically diffferent, (as all book-films are), especially with the narrator, but it's a great movie nonetheless. The book has a better ending though imo.
This was my favorite movie that I've seen in the last year or so. I had even made the mistake of reading some reviews and discussions of the movie beforehand and knew the secret to Bale's character's Transported Man...but the movie still had me riveted. That was the cool thing about it, on the surface the film seems as if it is just a standard "twist" movie that throws you for a loop in the end. But if you watch it carefully, they give you dozens of clues throughout the movie to give away what is really going on. But as they say at the end of the movie, you don't catch it, because "you want to be fooled." I watch this every time I see it on TV.
Spoiler the only thing that bothered me about the movie was hugh jackman's character being able to actually clone himself. come on, in the days of thomas edison no less. i did like finding out the little tidbit that the band Tesla was named after the Nikola Tesla in the movie (real life too).
EXACTLY... i was really into this movie up until that hat/cloning crap... i really liked how they were keeping it realistic up until then and breaking down the secrets to the magic (which IMO separated the prestige from the illusionist, bc the illusioinist relied on movie/CG special fx to create magic) but then it kinda lost some appeal after that cloning stuff... still overall i enjoyed the movie tho
The Prestige was FANTASTIC. I have yet to see a Hugh Jackman movie I don't like. But then again, I just like looking at him! Man, he's good lookin'! If by nearly the same cast you mean that both Michael Cain and Christian Bale are in another film together, then yes.
**Spoilers** I think the book handled it better because it's not cloning what happens. "For Angier's trick, Tesla successfully creates a device capable of teleporting a being from one place to another, but which has a surprising side-effect. As well as re-creating the subject wherever is deigned by the device, the subject is also left behind, but as a cold, lifeless shell. Angier, with bitter humour, refers to these shells as 'prestiges'." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige I did like the change in the respect that it shows crazy dedication and obsessiveness of these magicians.
I said the exact same thing. I turned the DVD player off and was like, "Wow, did that movie really just happen?" Cast was great, story was unreal, wasn't predictable at all. Man... that was one awesome movie.
Spoiler Well, that they used Tesla as the character to create this "cloning" device made it work in my mind. There was and still is a lot of mystery surrounding Tesla's accomplishments. The guy was a genius and claimed to have done some things that I think were never really confirmed officially. I had no trouble buying into that part of the movie...especially since it wasn't done just for cheap effect. They used that device to make a deep statement about the characters in the movie, so I was cool with it.
