>2 consenting adults want to be together>frame innocent man who then kills himself >It's all a trick bro
>>218421798the prestige mogs this
>>218421798Edward Norton acts so high and mighty about acting as a profession and then chooses complete slop projects like this
>>218421798>innocent mannope
>>218421798Written by a Jew.
>>218421809you should not watch movies
is this the movie where they confuse special effects for illusions?
nolanslop
Magicians are all losers and magic is the singular worst topic to make a film about.
>>218422396Twin films are always done on purpose to either grift or mog prove me wrong.
>>218421811Nobody regretted working on this movie
>>218421811This was better than The Prestige
>>218421798Anons recommended this as comparably enjoyable or even better than The Prestige. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Only a third of the way through I was incredulous and wondering if I'd gotten the wrong film. It seems I was baited into watching a shit movie while they pretended it was fantastic. I lost a lot of respect for the opinions here and will be far more wary next time.
>>218422616t. got lost in the illusion
>>218422249Didn't murder anyone.
>>218422692himself
>>218421809>>218422450Which is it then, fags?
>>218421798democracy is the best form of goverment or sumting
>>218422425>Twin filmsroll my eyes
>>218421798yes, it's just a rom movie
>>218423546no one has heard of this, norton's hulk movie is more popular than this slop
>>218422420the only interesting thing about magicians is learning their twisted worldview apart from magic, they're always wonky and have a very fucked up worldview coz they view everything as smoke and mirrors they haven't figured out yet.
>>218422425>hey mr studio exec, did you hear about the project that *other studio* is working on? it seems like it might be a hit.>look through the pile of scripts that we own and see if there is something similar that we can release at about the same timeshrimple
>>218424718Thats how smart people see this world
>>218424699go to bed Nolan
>>218421809>christian bale is actually twins!WHAT A TWEEST>but wait, tesla's cloning machine actually works because DAVID BOWIE OMG! >so hugh jackedman clones himself then drowns himself every night>there are literally hundreds of drowned hugh jackedman corpses piled up backstageThat movie was so fucking dumb I could hardly believe it
>>218425197You forgot the even more retarded double down>actually the bodies were fakes because he knew all along he could trick the other magician
>>218425237Dumbest shit ever I was so angry by the end because I'd been dubious about watching it but some redditor was like 'Nah bro it's not like other Nolan movies, The Prestige is actually his smartest movie' This was Marvel-tier writing
>>218423546I won't say Prestige is better, but this one is awful.First off, it violates rule 1 of cinema, which is that if something didn't happen onscreen, then it didn't happen. Most of the justification to drive the archduke to madness & suicide came from heresay accusations of him murdering his former fiance and plotting to overthrow his father in a conspriatorial coup, yet we saw none of this happen on screen, even if told in flashback. Only in theatre can you get away with a character saying something happened and the audience has to accept it as having actually happened, due to the nature of a stage production.Btw, it's the same major failure of Stargate from the 90s.These 2 young lovers are murderers, plain and simple. I won't say Prestige won, but Illusionist must not.
>>218426566>if something didn't happen onscreen, then it didn't happenthis is why Quaid really went to Mars
>>218426663Get your ass to Mars
>>218421811it's a good movie tho
>>218422420i have no idea what it is about magic that attracts so many weirdos and so many people who are hypercritical of it as a performance art. a good magic trick is like any good performance.
>>218421811Based Norton
>>218426802Those are probably just dumbasses who unironically thought the magician was trying to trick them into believing that rabbit was literally pulled out of thin air rather than merely trying to entertain. Their intelligence thus slighted, they lash out in anger.
>>218425197>obsession leads to madness and madman creates something horrible What’s the problem?
>>218426749>>218426566only what ya see, pal
>>218421798The archduke was based and he was right about his whore wife.
>>218427142One of the failures of The Illusionist is that the duke was brilliantly played and wonderfully overacted in that manner as villains often are. But Sewel did such a fantastic job that you cared more for him than the fornicators. It is genuinely upsetting what they did to him.pic rel: that movie is now 20 years old
>>218427283Sewell and Giamatti were great, yeah.
>>218427142>>218427283They were not married>>218427283He was a prince
>>218427283I want a kino made about this kitty
>>218427380>He was a princeGoogle the meaning of the archduke title, retard.
>>218427380>Rufus Sewell did not appear in the 1997 film Titanic, but he was considered for the role of Cal Hockley, which ultimately went to Billy Zane. Sewell is notably connected to the film through a brief, three-month romantic relationship with lead actress Kate Winslet in the 1990s.
>>218427436Tbf to anon, he wasn't credited as a duke nor called such in the film, so unless you're a buff for austro-hungarian history, you wouldn't likely know it. I only called him archduke bc that's the first word that popped in my head as he seemed very archdukey.
>>218427436>the duke was brilliantly>dukeThat's not what it says here, moron
best end ever
>>218427559Correctly or incorrectly, he's been alternately referred to as either duke or archduke throughout the thread. Everyone just calm down.
>>218427631What a dookie head
>>218427836You guys can duke it out amongst yourselves.
>>218421798>one person can trick an entire governmentthe most unrealistic partI fucking hate this movie
>>218421798Leopold wasn’t innocent. You didn’t watch the movie.
>>218427631>Everyone just calm down.I will do no such thing
>>218427918Of what wasn't he innocent?
>>218427875>entire government consisted of 3 people
>>218427934>>218427918did he actually shoot himself over that little treason thing instead of the roast's death? I don't remember if Eisenstein also discovered it and revealed it to the imperial spy network just by grinding hard
>>218421811>edward norton getting absolutely hammogged to death by THE giamatti in the reveal scene at the train platformEvery once in a while that sequence will pop into my head and to this day it makes me chuckle.
>>218428292He found out he was in the Eisenstein files.
I watched it for Biel
>>218428424Would the archduke of Austria even lower himself to marrying a gypsy girl?
>>218428452Would a future queen from the late 19th century look like this?
