04-24-2007, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Must see movie: The Illusionist
If your interested, if you like The Prestiege, you have to watch this movie. Featuring Ed Norton, it keeps you right to the very end in suspense. Very few movies do that for me, a definate must see.
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04-24-2007, 02:02 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Saint John, NB
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i would agree.. I friend reccomended it to me and i enjoyed it greatly.
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04-24-2007, 02:03 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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Great movie and I'm a huge Ed Norton fan, but I found the ending VERY predictable. Other than that, it was a fantastic movie.
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04-24-2007, 02:28 PM
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The Illisionist was a really good movie. Very well made, and I too found the end pretty predictable, but it makes you want to know. Really excellent film. Ed Norton has yet to let me down, although this nonsense with the Hulk movie I think might be a bad call, but we'll see.
Also, I very highly recommend The Prestige, another killer magic movie.
Locke.
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04-24-2007, 02:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
The Illisionist was a really good movie. Very well made, and I too found the end pretty predictable, but it makes you want to know. Really excellent film. Ed Norton has yet to let me down, although this nonsense with the Hulk movie I think might be a bad call, but we'll see.
Also, I very highly recommend The Prestige, another killer magic movie.
Locke.
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I agree, Prestige is pretty awesome. There's a huge debate about the ending, but I'll leave it at that.
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04-24-2007, 02:49 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Maybe its just magic shows that throw me off, cause I expect more of a super-natural ending.
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04-24-2007, 02:58 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Vernon, BC
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I liked it too. He's one of my favorite actors, especially in People vs. Larry Flynt and American History X. . .
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04-24-2007, 03:33 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary
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Haven't seen the Prestige, but The Illusionist was good, I thought. Not great, but good
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04-24-2007, 03:58 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
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Watched it a few weeks back and was pleasantly suprised, definitely worth checking out.
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04-24-2007, 04:18 PM
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I enjoyed the Illusionst far more than the Prestige, great movie.
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04-24-2007, 04:37 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Unfortuantely, the ending is way too deus ex machina for me. Although it tried to show how it was planned out, it seemed highly implausible.
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04-24-2007, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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it was ok... the prestige was better I think
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04-24-2007, 05:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I love Edward Norton.. but I wasn't impressed by the Illusionist at all. Way to predictable. I saw The Prestige a few weeks afterwards and was really impressed, much smarter movie. Both movies have really hot chicks though..
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04-24-2007, 06:53 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before
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Both movies mentioned here are excellent in their own right. I especially liked "The Illusionist" as I went in with no expectations at all. I was very pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Sure it is predictible in the end but the journey getting there was a very good one.
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04-24-2007, 10:02 PM
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Had an idea!
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Ed Norton is a very under-rated actor.
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04-24-2007, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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I've seen both movies and the Illusionst was by far the beter movie. Not only was Ed Norton awesome in his role, but Paul Giamatti was just as great in his role as the inspector.
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04-24-2007, 11:34 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
The Illisionist was a really good movie. Very well made, and I too found the end pretty predictable, but it makes you want to know. Really excellent film. Ed Norton has yet to let me down, although this nonsense with the Hulk movie I think might be a bad call, but we'll see.
Also, I very highly recommend The Prestige, another killer magic movie.
Locke.
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whats this?
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04-25-2007, 01:36 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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The difference between the Prestige and the Illusionist is that that Prestige doesn't have the qualms to present you with the classic Sherlock Holmes maxim of "when all options exhausted, whatever remains, however impossible, remains the truth" and so it presents you with with an out-of-this world, yet logical solution.
The Illusionist on the other hand, has too much utterly impossible and unexplained supernaturalism throughout to satisfy any discerning audience...which is then shafted by just another run of the mill down-to-earth twist and turn CSI type solution.
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04-25-2007, 01:37 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by burnin_vernon
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He replaces Eric Banna as the new Bruce Banner. Marvel was disappointed in the studio driven original Hulk movie which was overhyped but failed to deliver and so they are doing their own sequel.
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04-25-2007, 08:12 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Toronto, ON
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Quote:
Originally Posted by @theCBE
I love Edward Norton.. but I wasn't impressed by the Illusionist at all. Way to predictable. I saw The Prestige a few weeks afterwards and was really impressed, much smarter movie. Both movies have really hot chicks though..
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Pretty much sums up my views of the two as well...
Illusionist had simple magic for the ending, while the "illusions" were completely unexplained
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