Prestige is best Film this Year

[Filmboys]

It's been another poor year for Hollywood. Remake after Horror Film after poor excuse for filmmaking. There has really only been one truly decent film this year and that has been The Prestige.
For some reason, people are just ignoring how good this film actually is. If you look at the acting ensemble and the directing as well as the clever story, this is truly a great film that makes you think long and hard afterwards.
I am baffled to hear the names of The Departed and The Queen being named as the best films of the year. Wow, it seems that Hollywood has really sunken very low.
Give The Prestige the accolade to show truly great filmmaking.

[Dracula]

I disagree, The movie didn't make me think long after, I figured the whole thing out as soon as he saw the two cats. I spent the next third of the movie were boring, watching the inevitable play out. the thing with the twins was a bit of a suprise, but nothing that had me thinking after the movie was over. good acting, but the script isn't as twisty as I expected. The prestigue was ruined by a lack of distraction in the set up.

[chaotic]

I finally get to see it tomorrow. Im excited. Ive heard awesome things about it.

[the elmo zombie]

well i disagree. i havent seen presige yet but this year was far from a failure. this year may be better than last year. maybe the spring and summer didnt live up but the fall sure as hell is. the departed, apocalypto, casino royale, borat, and children of men are all fantastic films. i have yet to see pursuit of happyness, dreamgirls, the queen, rocky balboa, flags of our fathers, or letters from iwo jima, but they all look promising. this year was a great success. many box office records were beat and i feel that there were more good films than bad from what ive watched. how many films have you actually seen this year?

[Disgustipated]

Well, it wasn't the best film of the year. But one of them. I'd say The Fountain and The Departed were easily the best films of the year. I also have yet to see; Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, and Inland Empire.

[Mat]

It wasn't even the best movie about magicians released this year.

[fantasticfour40]

The Prestige is my fifth favorite movie of the year. I missed the Illusionist and I'll probably check it out on DVD. The Prestige may get a nomination for visual effects, it may I'm not saying it won't but it may.

[Dracula]

The Prestige may get a nomination for visual effects, it may I'm not saying it won't but it may.
It won't, it wasn't short-listed

[masterful misha]

as dracula said. its didnt make me think long and hard wen it was over. films like little miss sunshine and the queen, and departed are going to be the more favoritble ones

[Disgustipated]

as dracula said. its didnt make me think long and hard wen it was over. films like little miss sunshine and the queen, and departed are going to be the more favoritble ones

Well, there wasn't much to think about. The ending was self-explanatory. The Departed was a great film, but it's not exactly a film to be talked about.I mean, as far as thought provoking films go (like The Fountain). As for Little Miss Sunshine, I hate these kinds of films. It's along the same indie-lite ilk that Garden State would also be placed in. Both are sappy films not really worth the merit they received.

[moviebuff801]

The Prestige truly was a great film, ranking #3 on my list this year thus far; #1 is "The Departed" and #2, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". I honestly think that this film is Oscar-worthy, with the outstanding performances from Bale and Jackman, a really well-written script, and it DOES make you think after you've seen it, in terms of the details of the plot twist etc. But, we'll have to see where it ends up on my list after I see a really potential-filled film being released tomorrow by the name of "The Good Shepherd".

[fantasticfour40]

I wish the Prestige made the short list for visual effects.

[spide-ed]

I thought this movie was fantastic. Its almost as if that people are so used to Chris Nolans films being fantastic that when they are, they dont notice now.

As for the ending it far less predictable than The Departed.

[Dracula]

I thought this movie was fantastic. Its almost as if that people are so used to Chris Nolans films being fantastic that when they are, they dont notice now.

As for the ending it far less predictable than The Departed.
The Departed isn't a suprise ending dependent movie, The Prestige was.

[Disgustipated]

The Departed isn't a suprise ending dependent movie, The Prestige was.

I don't believe The Prestige relied on any sort of gimmick. The film was about human nature. How deceptive we can be as humans. The ending was hardly the point of the film. It was a surprise ending, and a good one, but it didn't rely on it. It seems to me the people who think that just went and saw it so they could know how it ended.

[spide-ed]

The Departed isn't a suprise ending dependent movie, The Prestige was.

Not really, its not a M Night Shaymalan movie. Its more amovie about the cost of obsession, i thought.

[Jen512]

I don't believe The Prestige relied on any sort of gimmick. The film was about human nature. How deceptive we can be as humans. The ending was hardly the point of the film. It was a surprise ending, and a good one, but it didn't rely on it. It seems to me the people who think that just went and saw it so they could know how it ended.

Exactly. It wasn't trying to hide a big secret from the audience. It's set up like a magic trick--once you figure out the secret, it's so obvious you can't believe you were ever fooled by it. One of the characters even says the same thing, after she sees how the bullet trick really works.

I'd read the book, so I knew most of the twists from the start. But I still saw the movie 3 times, because I kept finding more and more twists within the film itself. If it was just one big payoff at the end, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.