I knew it was you who agreed with me about this
I've had so much shit from friends for not liking LiT, apparently I don't 'get it'. There's nothing to get! It fundamentally failed as a medium of entertainment.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:28, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

couldn't agree more
having just watched the Prestige I can also confidently state that Scarlett Johanssen is overrated in the attractiveness department
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:30, Reply)

The Illusionist
was better than the Prestige.

But Scarlett Johannsen is very pretty, she has an excellent figure
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:30, Reply)

without wanting to be too blunt: fuck off
the prestige is far superior. Remove your bias towards Ed Norton from the equation.

she is merely quite pretty.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Seen Iron Man 2?
She is fucking stonking.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:40, Reply)

There's something about her nose which doesn't quite work.
She's not unattractive, I just don't see why she's as highly regarded as she is.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:41, Reply)

I haven't seen it so am prepared to review my opinion
she just doesn't do it for me, so find it hard to see how people can get so worked up over her
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:41, Reply)

she has a very fifties look which is nice
she's married to Ryan Reynolds now though. He's fit.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:43, Reply)

AND he's the perfect choice to play Dead Pool
So long as they do it properly, not that abortion at the end of Wolverine. *seethes*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:45, Reply)

she does have a fifties look
she looks at her best in that advert chompy mentions, but still doesn't push my buttons.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:48, Reply)

In certain ways I agree with you, sometimes she looks a bit mousey.
But in that channel advert and in Iron man 2... .... ... lost my train of thought for a minute there.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:43, Reply)

she sucks in it
and her character was pointless.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:42, Reply)

Don't be jealous

(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:44, Reply)

0o0o0o0o, I wanted to see that.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:06, Reply)

Fuck that
The Prestige was overrated in the extreme. Even removing Ed Norton from it, I enjoyed it more. And with the addition of Ed Norton, well.

Edit: though I will admit I was ill when I saw The Prestige. Maybe it'll benefit from a rewatch
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:44, Reply)

give the book a read as well
and do it before you rewatch the film
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:49, Reply)

the book is probably better
but I remember being thoroughly disappointed by the cop-out of the film's ending and the final reveal. It would have been so much cleverer if it had been rationalised
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:00, Reply)

there's kind of two parts to the ending
the christian bale one is much better executed in the film than the hugh jackman one
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:10, Reply)

well Christian Bale is better
than Hugh Jackman so fair enough. I was talking more about the carefulness of how the illusion was unwound in the Illusionist, as compared to how it remained with a supernatural emphasis in the Prestige
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:12, Reply)

it's less supernatural and more "he's got a machine from a brilliant scientist that is supposed to teleport you, but actually duplicates you"
the build up to it, and the actual reveal were quite well handled I thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:14, Reply)

but the fact is
that science is almost as far from us, as it was from the time of the film. So while not supernatural, it was a really lazy way out of a film that was so much about magic and the power of illusion and tricks
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:20, Reply)

I get your point
but that's in the book as well
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 18:35, Reply)

I thought the illusionist was boring
even with Ed Norton filling the boring bits with his epic hotness. Plus I hate Jessica Biel. But I haven't seen the Prestige so I can't really compare
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Watch it
It's awesome.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:33, Reply)

I quite liked The Prestige.
But I think that was 'cus I just read a book, fiction, which was based around Tesla's stuff, but in the modern days. He's really really interesting, only reason he isn't as famous as Eignstine, is 'cus he invented a wireless way of getting power, and [some company] had just layed out a load of powerlines which would have been made redundant. And now, that technology works in labs and will probably be implimented in the next 10 years into most homes.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:33, Reply)

yeah, Tesla was an interesting bloke
Eddison fucked him over some, which is shitty
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:35, Reply)

That's the one, Eddison, not eignstine.
Have you read about this?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Yes, I find it rather fascinating!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:44, Reply)

I'm not sure what theory to that I like best, they're all awesome, it would make a brillient film.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:54, Reply)

didn't the X Files do something about it?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:55, Reply)

Maybe, not sure.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:05, Reply)

I thought you might
part of the problem is that Eddison was an American, so they bigged him up more. Whereas Tesla was a cleverer eastern european type, which didn't do him any good ;-)

I have read about it, but not for some time. Interesting stuff
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:45, Reply)

Yup, plus Eddison was in pockets of [I forgot his name, some rich guy, famous in the early 1900s, 'morgan' something?].
It makes me think "Wow, if he was 'round today".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Morgan Stanley?

(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:55, Reply)

he was the guy who invented the knife wasn't he?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:56, Reply)

Maybe, I can't remember, it was quite some time ago when I read the book.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 17:01, Reply)

I liked The Prestige
But certainly don't rate SJ much.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:31, Reply)

the book is excellent
but I really wish I'd read it before seeing the film because I would have enjoyed the surprises more.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:32, Reply)

Christopher Nolan really seems to make amazing films

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:33, Reply)

he does indeed

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 16:36, Reply)