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

StillIn729 said:
Am I? When I've said the movie is GOOD
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What does it mean when you say a movie is good, but you feel the need to constantly detract from it's significance?

Please inform me without using a contrarian perspective.

StillIn729 said:
Why don't you answer the questions instead of avoiding them when I ask
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What question did you ask that I haven't already answered through inference?

OBVIOUSLY I think it's one of the greatest movies of all time.

OBVIOUSLY I think there aren't 50 better films.

Do you understand that or do I need to put it in simpler terms?
 
Pretty simple to understand actually...

Good =/= Great or Masterpiece
 
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That wasn't my question you ninny.

What does it mean when you say a film is GOOD, but at the same time you're so deeply bothered by people who think it's GREAT that you feel the need to take away from the importance of said film?

What are you trying to prove?
 
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never knew this:

Trivia
Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by a Caucasian American man, William Ellsworth Robinson, who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences' enthusiasm for the exotic. Robinson lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died in March 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong. "My God, I've been shot" were both his last words and the first English he had spoken on stage in 19 years.
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calibeebee said:
never knew this:

Trivia
Chung Ling Soo was a stage character created by a Caucasian American man, William Ellsworth Robinson, who disguised himself as a Chinese man to cash in on audiences' enthusiasm for the exotic. Robinson lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died in March 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong. "My God, I've been shot" were both his last words and the first English he had spoken on stage in 19 years.
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Woah
 
thought the opening scenes with all the hats gave the movie away. I didnt think it was that good.
 
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KingKoopa said:
thought the opening scenes with all the hats gave the movie away. I didnt think it was that good.
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How so? What significance would that have to the viewer at the beginning of the flick? Even then part of the greatness of the movie was having everything told to you upfront, but you're still intrigued questioning. It's like you're being driven by Danton and Professors passion and obsession.
 
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Movie is dope.
Copped the Bluray at Target for only $10.
Worth multiple viewings.
But one of the "greatest" all time? No.

I only buy Blurays if I know i'll watch it more than twice and just lookin at what I have there are plenty I put over The Prestige
Fight Club
A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
Inglourious Basterds
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher version)
American History X
District-9
The 40 Year Old Virgin
The Matrix

Of course, all IMO.
 
Some of ya'll sound like

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Mark Antony said:
How so? What significance would that have to the viewer at the beginning of the flick? Even then part of the greatness of the movie was having everything told to you upfront, but you're still intrigued questioning. It's like you're being driven by Danton and Professors passion and obsession.
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I'm saying...this guy must have the most incredible foresight imaginable.

"What's this? a bunch of hats on the ground? I bet that's the result of a cloning/transportation machine created by Nikola Tesla..."
 
PLVN said:
Mark Antony said:
How so? What significance would that have to the viewer at the beginning of the flick? Even then part of the greatness of the movie was having everything told to you upfront, but you're still intrigued questioning. It's like you're being driven by Danton and Professors passion and obsession.
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I'm saying...this guy must have the most incredible foresight imaginable.

"What's this? a bunch of hats on the ground? I bet that's the result of a cloning/transportation machine created by Nikola Tesla..."
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Will re-watch this weekend. I do remember this joint being straight fire.....

Only reason I personally like Inception more was because it consistantly provokes my brain into thinking that I MAY VERY WELL BE DREAMING RIGHT NOW........
 
PLVN said:
I'm saying...this guy must have the most incredible foresight imaginable.

"What's this? a bunch of hats on the ground? I bet that's the result of a cloning/transportation machine created by Nikola Tesla..."
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Guess I did, saw multiple hats first thing that came to my mind was cloning especially when the movie was based on magic tricks. Lucky instincts i guess but i knew off dribble what the movie was about.
 
Knowing its a cloning machine doesn't make the rest of the movie boring though. It enhances it. Unlike jacob's ladder for example which felt like a gimmick.

The movie is about obsession, rivalry, determination. It isn't just a movie that throws a twist at you
 
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David Bowman said:
Knowing its a cloning machine doesn't make the rest of the movie boring though. It enhances it. Unlike jacob's ladder for example which felt like a gimmick.
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This is true. Jacob's Ladder was a really bizarre, interesting movie on first watch, but after knowing the reveal I think a repeat viewing would be tedious.

I could watch The Prestige over and over and still get chills at the reveal.
 
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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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Well said
 
I loved the Prestige
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, I'd probably say it's in my top 5 list for Nolan movies.

I don't understand where all the hate came from.  Because we like Nolan movies, we have his balls in our mouths?  I suppose if we jut ignored the fact that he's been putting out heat for the last decade then we can be as cool as you guys
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Big fan of this movie, but I wouldn't say it's GOAT.

Definitely ***** on The Illusionist though, irks me when people say the latter was better. I feel like The Prestige was just better casted and produced. I also loved every scene that David Bowie was in. Dude was a good pick for Tesla.
 
Didn't even know Nolan directed this until like last year.  Just knew I loved it.  Didn't know he did Momento either.  And forgot he did Inception.  His "name" hasn't blinded me because I really only knew him for the Batmans and was never feeling the hype over those films.  I've went into his films without bias.
 
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