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This weekend I saw The Queen, which you know, what can you say about Helen Mirren that hasn't already been said (awesome, awe-inspiring, holy-fucking-cow I thought it was a documentary, she was so brilliant, crap like that) and The Prestige.

Now, I had no expectations of The Prestige. None. Despite it being Chris Nolan and Michael Caine, and like other people -- because you know Scarlett Johannsen makes me gag, and Christian Bale may be Bruce, but holy fuck is he a scary one to look at. And well, damn.

Every now and then a movie comes along that towards the end you find yourself cocking your head to the side more and more until your head is at a 45 degree angle, and you're all '...the fuck?' Did they really just pull that off?'

Remember when you saw The Usual Supsects for the first time? Yeah, this is kind of like that. Not quite that shocking. I saw it coming, but still, it was very good.

So good that I yearn longingly for someone to write it for yuletide. Really. Don't make me go there on my own. Come talk to me about it in the comments if you've seen either one.

If you haven't, what are you waiting for? A goddamn invitation from the queen?!

Comments

[rosekay.livejournal.com]

I tend to be gullible/flaky and never see these things coming, so The Prestige pretty much blew me away. I've always been a Christian Bale fan, but he was particularly effective here. Cheekbones you could slice yourself on and a weird ear for accents. I swear he's used a different one in every role I've seen him in. It's so hard to pull off Cockney, but he rocks it.

And gahh his wife. You don't mean it today - that makes the days you do mean it better.

Also that shot of the hats with the cats scurrying through them was the perfect angle of subtle creepiness. In more scattered reactioning, David Bowie! I didn't see that casting coming.

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Dude, the bit with the wives and the twins was great. I really applauded that bit; Chris Nolan is the man like that, and David Bowie made me SO happy. I went in completely spoiler free so when he showed up with Andy Sirkis I was all GEEK!MOMENT!

[rosekay.livejournal.com]

Ahaha it was like pop culture shock!moment. So guys, the movie is about Gollum helping Ziggy Stardust to build some freaky machine so Wolverine can upstage Batman.

The technical stuff makes me shiver - the bird in the cage? And the look on Borden's face right before Angier fires the gun during his trick. And I totally bought the emotional pay off with the daughter at the end, the moment when Cutter says, You have to bring it back and Borden reappears - I mean, set up to be so cheesy, but it just worked for me. I might be sitting on my fingers squealing for Yuletide at this point.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Ahaha it was like pop culture shock!moment. So guys, the movie is about Gollum helping Ziggy Stardust to build some freaky machine so Wolverine can upstage Batman.

*pauses*

You win.

[rosekay.livejournal.com]

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[moonlitpines.livejournal.com]

So guys, the movie is about Gollum helping Ziggy Stardust to build some freaky machine so Wolverine can upstage Batman.

I am in love with this sentence.

Bwahahahaha! Fantastic!

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I know!