The Prestige is one of the greatest films of All-time

I love how Nolan has a theme or point he wants to get across in his movies and in the end it delivers. The whole movie they keep talking about "the prestige, the 3 stages of a trick, destroying something then coming back...." And the whole movie is based on those things even to the end. Same with Inception, you have multiple layers and themes going on in the movie but in the end with the top spinning on the table he leaves the audience experiencing inception, he planted the idea, what's real and what's a dream. I love it. Batman: why do we fall? so we can learn to pick ourselves up this sentiment sums up the ENTIRE trilogy, the entire essence of batman, the thesis statement of an entire super hero.

I could go on and on about every detail of all of his movies, but I do believe that The Prestige is his most complete movie. He is a very good director and like most people said, he is not the greatest because others before him have done far greater things, he is just capable of being on the same level. I think he is definitely in the realm of Speilberg, Kubrick, Scorcese, Coen Brothers, etc.
 
calibeebee said:
I love how Nolan has a theme or point he wants to get across in his movies and in the end it delivers. The whole movie they keep talking about "the prestige, the 3 stages of a trick, destroying something then coming back...." And the whole movie is based on those things even to the end. Same with Inception, you have multiple layers and themes going on in the movie but in the end with the top spinning on the table he leaves the audience experiencing inception, he planted the idea, what's real and what's a dream. I love it. Batman: why do we fall? so we can learn to pick ourselves up this sentiment sums up the ENTIRE trilogy, the entire essence of batman, the thesis statement of an entire super hero.

I could go on and on about every detail of all of his movies, but I do believe that The Prestige is his most complete movie. He is a very good director and like most people said, he is not the greatest because others before him have done far greater things, he is just capable of being on the same level. I think he is definitely in the realm of Speilberg, Kubrick, Scorcese, Coen Brothers, etc.
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i read somewhere that the batman trilogy was one big "magic trick" for Nolan like........

Batman begins was the Pledge- nolan promising something coming(joker card)

the dark knight was the turn- the big show

and the dark knight rises was the prestige- the accolades.


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The Pledge is the opening part of your trick, where you say you are going to do something.

The Turn is where you actually DO the trick you said that you are going to do.

The Prestige is the accolades that you will receive for doing a trick well enough that you don't have to completely explain it afterward.
 
love this movie.

got it as a secret santa gift a few years back and was bummed at first, but ended up really enjoying it.
 
PLVN said:
StillIn729 said:
Yeah ok, I remember when this movie was "good not great" now it's GOAT status

Baaaaaaaa
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Good for you?

"You guys shouldn't like this movie because I remember when nobody liked this movie".

But we're the sheep right?
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Indeed, these guys sound like idiots crying sheep and implying you only like Nolans work due to The Dark Knight hype, you have no idea other directors exist, and The Prestige isn't actually a great flick. Stop being those guys.
 
Excellent movie, indeed probably one of Nolan's best, although personally I think Memento is better.
And about being one of the best, well it's a difficult argument and a few more years will have to elapse, but for now, it's pretty far from that status, when put beside legendary flicks like the Godfather, 8 and a 1/2, Vertigo and the list goes on.
 
nocomment6 said:
Excellent movie, indeed probably one of Nolan's best, although personally I think Memento is better.
And about being one of the best, well it's a difficult argument and a few more years will have to elapse, but for now, it's pretty far from that status, when put beside legendary flicks like the Godfather, 8 and a 1/2, Vertigo and the list goes on.
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I think Prestige is better than Memento. Of all of Nolan's major films these two are the most comparable because the payoff comes at the end. You sit there watching the film entertained, and slightly confused.

In Memento the end explains the beginning, In Prestige the ending is such a surprise that when I happens it completely changes they way you think about the movie. Some scenes and relationships that you thought where trivial end up being some of the most important ones. It was genius. Goes way beyond say Sixth Sense where you're like "he was a ghost, and the scenes still work". Prestige's ending, though a surprise, makes you have to go watch it again.

For that alone I consider it amazing. Second best Nolan film after TDK.
 
sckid20 said:
i read somewhere that the batman trilogy was one big "magic trick" for Nolan like........

Batman begins was the Pledge- nolan promising something coming(joker card)

the dark knight was the turn- the big show

and the dark knight rises was the prestige- the accolades.


from yahoo

The Pledge is the opening part of your trick, where you say you are going to do something.

The Turn is where you actually DO the trick you said that you are going to do.

The Prestige is the accolades that you will receive for doing a trick well enough that you don't have to completely explain it afterward.
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:wow:
If true, my mind is melted

I love this flick, probably more than the Batman movies. It's just more fulfilling
 
So people think the classics are locked in and thats it? Next 100 years of film none of those movies can crack the top 20 since they came before and that's that?

I think the best ways to have these lists in by decade or by era.

Fight club, Requiem of a dream, there will be blood, la confidential simply can't be high up on the list of classics but as time passes they will be deemed classics. I don't like that we can't put anything modern on that main list of classic films

I just don't know how to rank modern classics
 
I hope I never see any of you people saying The Prestige is average talk about TDKR as anything more than satisfactory.
 
MR J 858 said:
Movie is :pimp:

But a TREND I've been seeing ever since The Dark Knight came out years ago is how these young NT cats on here be HYPING up and have had his NUTS in their mouth's like he's he's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

You fool SERIOUSLY need to check out other great directors and other flicks besides Nolan's work.

That's REAL TALK for you young NT cats on here.
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lol u mad? drop some better movies so the "young NT cats" to watch. lots of haters in here feeling like they lost their shine when others start to appreciate a movie they may have overlooked previously. grow the **** up.

i really enjoyed this movie, but i think you need to watch it at least twice to really appreciate what's going on. first time had me mind eff'd at the end, but second+ viewing made it all work.

memento i never really enjoyed all that much. it was an aight movie to me
 
I remember when The Prestige came out. Now, I knew Nolan for Memento, but when Batman Begins dropped, the hype for dude was furious. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream's finding out about Memento or getting it rubbed in their face, that they were late to the party. And I know I personally saw Begins 3 times in theaters, geeking out on that ****. :lol:

So when Prestige dropped, there was a good amount people saying it was better than Begins. But dudes didn't want to hear that, cuz Batman is VIP and Begins was the new holy grail. The tumbler was just too damn awesome. At the best, people could say Prestige was better than The Illusionist, the other magician period piece that came out that year. But even then people were trying to argue that Illusionist was better. :smh: Dudes were saying Jessica Biel was a great actress on the comeup. :lol:

Now Memento always gets lost in the shuffle, because it's so different. Not especially rewatchable, cuz you have to be prepared to watch it. And once you know the twist, it doesn't really hit you right again. But The Prestige's still will; even though you know, it's so beautifully edited and scored, that you love it all over again. Oh and none of Nolan's regulars or actors you love are in Memento...No one can knock you for saying it's his best or your favorite, but it just is what it is. Not that quotable and hard to describe on the fly. It's a movie you always say you should watch again, but you never do.

Anyways, It wasn't until The Dark Knight dropped that people really appreciated The Prestige. Cuz suddenly, it was alright to knock Batman Begins down a peg. That wasn't the Chosen One anymore, so people could say okay...TDK is the greatest thing to ever happen to film....maybe Prestige is Nolan's #2? That's what some of the TDK thread was, with people getting sniped as trolls for saying they thought Prestige was better than the god film.

Same thing happened with Inception. Cuz at the time, Inception was the greatest thing that ever happened to film, cuz it was bigger than comic books, and smarter than any summer movie ever, and even better than TDK!! :lol: But once the whole "I'm confused explain the levels and the ending to me" wore off...soon enough, a good amount of people would roll through with "The Prestige was still tighter and better, just sayin." And history kinda repeats itself..suddenly it's not that it was okay, but it wasn't film blasphemy to say Prestige was better than TDK. You wouldn't get a wall of dudes laughing in your face and grandpa simpson gifs.

Now Nolan finally got caught slipping :nerd: and eughk, The Prestige is the GOAT?! :lol:

See if Nolan's the "greatest director of his generation," then obviously one of his films has to be the GOAT. And the consensus is, TDKR ain't it, and we already hit Inception, TDK and Begins with the backlash.


Christopher Nolan has had one of the best, most critically and commercially successful careers in modern film. Every one of his films of the last decade have been a reason to think, a reason to wonder, a reason to debate, a movie you can just watch again and again, all that.

All I can say for sure is, every time he has a new film, it's time to reevaluate his entire career. And The Prestige is the only film of his that maybe wasn't overrated, so there's no backlash to get over in praising it?

Oh and you're just trying to be different or hip if you bring Following or Insomnia into the conversation. :lol:
 
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