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Re: Yep. by fabio 12/27/2013, 5:16pm PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

Been there.

The one that drove me crazy was how the hell are we to believe he was able to pry the jewels out of the bad guy's sword for the few brief moments he held it during the sword trick?

It doesn't help that the movie features a character trying to figure out how he does his tricks, therefore drawing our attention to the absurdity of the whole thing. Suppose instead they used real magic tricks unassisted by CGI played out in one unbroken take?

But then they might not have been able to beat the Prestige to the box office a month earlier.


I assumed they just pried them out in the stable when he passed out. Which leads to another snag: how did they know he wouldn't pass out before he followed her into the stable? The whole thing was so ridiculous. Their whole plan was leaving two vague non-clues half buried in the hay inside a stable the police had no jurisdiction in? Two of her possessions were found in a stable that everyone saw her enter, proving that she dropped something in the stable? Paul Giamatti found nothing when searching the stall in daylight, but found everything at night by lantern light? The plan to get him to look at the stable again and find something he missed the first time was to buy a theater to feature perfect lifelike holographic ghosts?

I still can't believe they expected us to be fooled by the twist. The instant the Duchess said, "As long as we're alive he'll hunt us down," I figured, "Oh, so he's going to hatch a plan to fake their deaths." Then it looks like the Prince kills her, but no one actually sees it, and she rides out slumped on a horse. I figured, "Oh, they're kicking off their plan making it look like she died, framing him for the murder." Then a man no one recognizes shows up claiming to be the family doctor and doesn't want anyone inspecting the body too closely. "Oh, so he's working for Norton." Good thing nobody mentioned the Doctor afterwards. Then she shows up as a "ghost" and you figure, "Oh, they want to frame the Prince and drive him to implicate himself."

Then the end clumsily copies The Usual Suspects with blaring music and Giamatti overacting like it's supposed to be the Kaiser Soze reveal.

If anything it explains how The Sixth Sense and Lost became huge hits.
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The Illusionist by fabio 12/27/2013, 2:41am PST NEW
    Ah, think you're that much better than us eh? by Fabio's relatives 12/27/2013, 5:28am PST NEW
    My sister still holds that this is a great movie by CattleHumper 12/27/2013, 12:55pm PST NEW
    Yep. by Mischief Maker 12/27/2013, 1:45pm PST NEW
        Re: Yep. by fabio 12/27/2013, 5:16pm PST NEW
    Re: The Illusionist by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 12/27/2013, 2:18pm PST NEW
        An on-topic post! I will leave you alone for all of 2014. NT by Souffle of Pain 12/27/2013, 3:29pm PST NEW
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shariki NT by In USSR, Bejeweled clones YOU. >:| 12/27/2013, 7:49pm PST NEW
 
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