REACTING to *The Prestige* THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! (First Time Watching) Nolan Movies
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James and Ninetailedbrush watch The Prestige, Nolan's awesome and magical film! Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale made just an awesome movie! Enjoy!
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Is this the best David Bowie movie???
Labyrinth is his best piece imo
The Man Who Fell To Earth if you ask me, he was the main character in that, I don't think it gets enough credit.
Edit: in terms of a film he gets to do something more in that is (he is more of a side player in The Prestige). The Prestige is definitely the best film he's been in imo.
A lot of great ones, but my favorite Tesla-size cameo of his is as Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation Of Christ. Nicely envisions him as a "civilized" man puzzled by religious squabbles in the country he's occupying, while being blind to why anyone would hate the occupation. A very British version of PP but it works.
He wasnt in pans labyrinth just labyrinth
@@uzielmartinez203 Thank you, I was just about to say it.
The layering of this film is unparalleled. The trick of the fish bowl and the boy saying "wheres his brother?" he is toying with us the whole time. The story like many of his, is meta - he is performing a trick on us - he shows us something espeically the whole trick of duplication, tells us how we got there with hints and still catches us with the twist. It is also one of the most rewatchable films since you see things or references throughout
Yes this is one of my favorite films it’s what got me into Christopher Nolan I remember watching this as a kid and really being obsessed with finding the clues on watch back
Nolan doesn't miss. Inception is an absolute cinematic masterpiece, even it's script is something else.
Absolutely! He gives it away so many times - particularly with how Borden "appeared" in her apartment as if he teleported. Completely impossible and obviously means there's a double (twin), but - as Michael Cain narrates at the beginning and end - we want to be fooled. And so we are.
@@4Everlasttenet was the miss
Spoilers for people: In the question of when they switched, he kept saying "which knot did you tie" comes into play at the beginning of the story, showing it's been going on for at least that long. He didn't know, because he wasn't the one who tied it.
Woah, I also never noticed that the husbands and wives died the same way as each other and I've seen this show a bunch of times! :o
Yeah it’s brutal
@@Creativedough Wow! I never thought of it. Nice catch.
This is one of my favorite movies, and I never realized that :o
Per the book, they'd been running this con since they were young kids having first learned magic.
I love this movie so much 💖
The look on Christian Bale's face when the boy asks about the bird's brother is so heartbreaking. It is a complicated mixture of joy and sadness, like he has been recognized for who he really is for the 1st time, while also having a premonition that one of the birds/brothers has to die
This might just be my favorite Nolan film. It is so masterfully written, directed, and performed. It's almost like a puzzle where you have to get those missing pieces to see the whole picture. 10/10🌟 for me and I don't say that lightly.
Its based on a book called The Prestige
Up there with Memento and Inception, brilliant film.
It's crazy that Borden was so dedicated to his craft that him and "Fallon" spent years pretending there was only one of them, far before they actually did the teleporting man trick. So that no one would see two of the same looking guy together ever. To make the trick more believable.
"You want to be fooled."
Love this movie. Should be watched as much as Inception.
Same!!
Nolan threw so many of his broader filming styles and crazy storytelling ideas into this movie, but wouldn't start being known for it properly until The Dark Knight for the former and Inception especially for the latter. But when you come back to this one (which already deserves two viewings, and it earns it), I'd say it's one of his best.
I love this movie so much. As a magician, it is nice to hear them talking about theory of magic such as how important showmanship is. In terms of how accurate it is, duplicates were used all the time, and lots of the tricks such as the bullet catch were done a lot.
What cool insight! 🙌
I have a lot of respect for magicians. I'm constantly annoyed at how they are often depicted in popular culture as buffoons or hucksters (while I love Arrested Development, I feel like a lot of it comes from that show or how that show capitalized on a burgeoning cultural trend). If you have any idea of how many hours of practice and dedication it takes to master even a simple trick, it is humbling. You are basically elevating your reflexes and motor control to near superhuman levels. Also, since Houdini, magicians have been at the forefront of skepticism and debunking of spiritual frauds and con artists because they know what it takes to actually appear supernatural. More recently, you had the great (and late) James Randi with his (to my knowledge) still unclaimed monetary prize for any "psychic" to present him with a credible display of ESP/"magic" that he could not debunk.
People too often get distracted by the stagecraft and showmanship of magic and don't recognize the practice and talent that go into it. That's one of the (many) reasons I love this movie. Also, David Bowie as Tesla is really the cherry on the cake. I especially like how they nod to his experiments at Wardyncliffe tower and his seeming early grasp of WiFi and free power. It's worth noting that Tesla died in poverty and anonymity (Edison is the original patent troll), talking to pigeons in a hotel room. True genius is in a weird Venn diagram with insanity and psychopathy. They don't tend to fare well in the broader world.
One of my favorite movies of all time. The storytelling is so good. It’s got really good rewatch ability. The movie isn’t ruined by knowing the twist at the end. Instead you get to watch it again with new eyes and see a little more of the story each time. It’s my nth time watching this and it never fails to immerse me into the world.
It’s very interesting that you bring up the comparison between a magic trick and the entertainment industry and how both shouldn’t necessarily be a reflection of reality but rather about the escape and the wonder. It’s like the movie said, you want to be fooled. The movie from the get go showed you Hugh Jack man’s trick with the bird being killed and bringing a new bird to replace it. But the movie does a good job of distracting you and you willingly go along with it. At the same time you can’t truly enjoy a movie while criticizing every unrealistic thing about it. You have to be willing to be fooled or to be pulled into this new world to truly enjoy it.
Also i’ve always thought about whether or not it was a true sacrifice on Hugh Jackman’s part. He says he was scared of which one he was going to be that day: the one to die or the one to come out of the prestige. But his current self is always the one that came out because the other one is dead. The clone/his current self presumably doesn’t experience the drowning so it doesn’t seem like much of a sacrifice.
And I showed this movie to my friend and, like most of us, didn’t keep track of the names but she doesn’t really know actors either so the whole time we were calling them Batman, Alfred, Wolverine, and Black Widow 😅
I didn't know the twist not everybody knew the twist it's not predictable
@@SB992REBORN I’m not saying it’s predictable. I’m saying the opposite really. The movie does a good job of telling you the story so that it avoids giving away the answer (despite already showing it to you at the beginning). And even after knowing the twist, after watching the movie once, it’s still a good movie to watch again. The movie isn’t ruined because you know the twist so you can watch it over and over again. At least for me that is.
I remember having to go to the theater twice , cause it was so good and you get the movie better to see the small things ...I'm a magician so I love this movie....
Dude!! I would kill to see this thing in theaters
The closest we'll ever get to a Batman v Wolverine movie.
And batman win at the end. Just like the god intended
Not sure you guys caught it but when Scarlett Johansson gave Angier the Journal she stole from Borden, somewhere in the scene Angier says "I don't care about my wife" and that he cared more about trick. Which was interesting, it was hard to sympathize with him after that.
no that was his brother writing that. It was clear that Borden was the good guy, his brother fumbled and Algiers was so hellbent on coming out on top he framed Borden for his fake murder just to get even
Yeah you picked up on the twins having different personalities. One was a kinder and gentler person. The more arrogant one wanted to do the other knot. The other twin had no idea what happened. Definitely worth a second watch sometime for sure.
Yeah it’s super cool!!!
second? Bro I pick up new things even in the 5th rewatch of every Nolan movie
One of my favorite things about this film is how you slowly watch the moral integrity of both characters fall apart for different reasons.
When Bordon first created The Transported Man trick, without the showmanship of it all, he was doing it ethically. He had a twin who was just taking his place in the other door. They dressed differently during the day, but didn't actually start living separate lives until they involved themselves in relationships with others. Borden literally *lived* his act. His whole life, off the stage and on the stage, became the act.
Angier on the other hand, didn't want to hurt anything in his tricks, but the more the rivalry grew, the more he was willing to sacrifice (literally) to make his trick seem more real. But he literally couldn't without creating a whole other version of himself that he would then have to kill to maintain his appearance in the real world.
In a lot of ways, their dilemmas at the end of the film are inverted, Bordon, who is willing to sacrifice himself for the trick in the beginning wants to preserve himself, his brother and his daughter in the end, at the cost of his trick's secret. Angier, who was unwilling to make sacrifices of himself or his relationships for his magic in the beginning ends up turning his loved ones against him and literally killing himself every night for the sake of the act.
The Prestige is my favorite movie of all time. Well this and Clue. Brilliant work.
You are a person of perfect taste! 👍🏻
"He came in to demand an answer and I told him the truth. That I have fought with myself over that night, one half of me swearing blind that I tied a simple slipknot, the other half convinced that I tied the Langford double. I can never know for sure."
This is my favourite line in the movie because it has so much meaning when you know the twist.
The illusionist is another good one. It ended up under appreciated because it came out around the same time, but it’s different.
Totally agree with you
Honestly, I prefer The Illusionist over The Prestige.
Yoooo lit, I asked and y’all delivered awesome to see it cuz honestly this is just a great movie
Course man!!
@@whitenoisereacts the ending is shocking!
What I love about this film, is that everytime I watch it, I catch something new, or see something that I didn't notice previously... or a line that's said by one of the characters hints at what's ultimately revealed by the end. This is one film that I never get tired of watching.
The twins were in on it from the get go. From the very start of the film. It's like that old Chinese magician who lived as an old Chinese magician with a fishbowl all the time for the act to work. Caine alludes to this in an earlier scene
When Borden and the Guard are talking, Borden says to him;
"Maybe I'm just biding my time, maybe one day I'll open my hand, get your attention, ask are you watching closely, maybe a magic word or 2, and then I'll be....gone"
And when Borden is being marched to the gallows, he asks that guard "are you watching closely?" And his last words are Abracadabra and he's "gone."
Then the twin opens his hand, throws the ball to Caldlow and gets his attention.
I love the foreshadowing in this film, truly a masterpiece.
Ninetailedbrush is confused about Angier enlightening Borden at the end regarding the look on the audience's faces due to an earlier scene where Borden tells Angier about escaping the real world by living an act 24/7. The distinction there is that Borden is referring to the performer escaping reality while Angier is referring to the performer spreading wonder.
It's telling that the author who wrote the book this is an adaptation of enjoyed the film... always a good sign. This is, along with Memento, one of my two favourite Nolan films... glad you guys are enjoying it.
OMG Momento. That movie broke me.
I didn't know that about the author. His book is possibly my favorite work of fiction, and this is my favorite Nolan film. It's cool that the book and the film were so similar yet different enough from each other to both be surprising and affecting in their own way.
It’s about us wanting to be fooled.
They told us - Borden has a twin. And we had a very look alike man who was always with Borden. Case is closed.
But we don’t believed that. Because we are expecting to be fooled. We want that. And we end up being fooled by our own wish to be fooled.
Not movie but we fooled ourselves. Our expecting for something "more", made “less” enough for prestige.
Cutter even says straight off the bat "He's using a double," so we instantly reject that and look for something more.
What are the odds, I was just talking about this movie with one of my buddies yesterday
This is one of those movies you can watch over and over and still notice new things or have new questions which is always so much fun for me.
This movie is so great! One of my favorite mystery type films out there. Definitely need to watch it more than once to get the full experience.
Even though Interstellar is my favorite Nolan film, I think The Prestige is Nolan's best film. I think the script, the acting, the screenplay - I think everything was legitmately perfect.
This one my favorite movies all time!
Nolan's best film as far as I'm concerned!
BY FAR !
One of my fav all time movies. I remember when I first watched it years ago, I had no idea what it was about, but as it went on, I figured out what a gem it was. And what a twist! Fabulously acted and written. Glad you guys are doing this one.
14:49 I heard that about the Tesla Tower too. It was going to serve like a wifi but instead of providing wireless internet, it was going to provide wireless electricity without the need for batteries or any internal power source. I'm not sure if it was my memory of the movie or a documentary I watched, but he did do a small-scale demo and proved that wireless (not battery-powered) electricity is possible. Also, there are a lot demos in YT doing it with light bulbs so it truly is possible but I reckon only Tesla knew how to do it in a much wider scale. In any case, that would've been wonderful--no more cables, no need to carry power banks or lug heavy generators, electric cars wouldn't need to have batteries or recharging, even remote areas could have electricity, maybe no more running out of power, just so many possibilities.
He was basically trying to do a proof of concept for the Carrington Event 1859 where people unplugged the telegraphs and such, some burned out and caught fire and others they could still work without power and bounce signals off the charged atmosphere across the planet and still communicate. I think a big delay but for back in the day it'd be like having satellites now. That kinda event now might fry a bit more than we'd be comfortable with. Missed one by about a day or three and probably got lucky with an earth quake shaking the orbit a tiny bit maybe a year earlier. Space is big and wild but to cut it that close or be double tapped by the sun that's some crazy odds in itself.
In every question in this movie. On and only answer -the PRESTIGE
One of my favourite movies of all time. It is bloody brilliant.
You definitely need to watch it more than once and you'll pick up all the little things :)
Yeah watching it again was SO FUN!
I always loved this movie. Another magician movie that came out around the same time and got overlooked was an Edward Norton movie called "the illusionist"
Y’all should react to the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, a whole masterpiece, up there with LOTR
I think that you can take the movie with a lot of layers.
My favorite alegory is that the movie is about practical magic/entertainment/effects reptesented by Bale/Boden to special effects/CGI represented by Jackman.
In that Bale's performance is about descipline and sacrficing your life and connections to people to make something less flashy but real.
Jackman's CGI is about deluding and using a device but selling the illusion to everyone. In reality the work for it is soul crushing.
Must rewatch! It’s maybe BETTER on the second watch. Such a fantastic and quintessential “Nolan” film. One of his best
Yeah I loved it!!!
You might also like another movie about magic - The Illusionist
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was asking for it and now I can watch it here. 🤩🤗
The best Nolan movie for me. Every member of the cast and crew were perfect. Bale in particular gave an awesome performance. I read somewhere the late Heath Ledger was supposed to be in this, probably for Jackman's role, but there were scheduling conflicts. He had long wanted to work with Nolan so when he missed the chance for this movie, Nolan promised him a role in the Batman Begins sequel, the rest is history.
I love that one of the first lines from Andy Serkis is to do with guessing what people have in their pockets(es).
This is one of those "I need many answers but am not sure which questions to ask" movies.
this is definitely one of those movies that benefits from at least 2 more rewatches because you pick up on so many more things upon subsequent watches. Nolan truly is a genius. also, Christian Bale's acting is top tier in this one as he plays both brothers and now that you know that he's playing two characters, you can totally tell when he's playing Fallon or Borden. the subtleties of both characters is so amazing to watch, especially in the scene right after Angiers' wife dies. you just know it's Fallon because you can tell he feels horrible and he has no idea which knot it was because it wasn't him. so many amazing moments like that throughout! ❤️
I think you'd really dig Rian Johnson's first two movies. Particularly The Brothers Bloom
Aww, I love The Brothers Bloom!
This came out after Batman Begins, btw.
One of Nolan's GREATEST🔥🔥🔥🔥
For sure!!
I had to watch this movie for a assignment in English class in highschool.
I’ve never enjoyed class so much, I always loved movies but I was into superhero stuff, Star Wars, just anything sci fi basically and action.
This was such a refreshing movie and it was really really good, I aced that assignment too lol
SPOILERS
You said that the first time that Borden (Bale's character) was doing the shared-life thing was when he met Sarah and suddenly appeared in her apartment. But he was doing this long before then.
After Jackman's wife dies and he asks Borden "What kind of knot did you tie?" he replies "I don't remember." This is because the version of Borden that he is talking to here is not the one who was on stage that night and tied the knot - it was the other one.
First thing’s first: This is my all time favorite movie. I’ve seen it multiple times and have even read the book the movie was based on. That being said, let’s talk about the movie.
So, Alfred Borden was the combination of both Albert (Al) and Fredrick (Fred) Borden, the twins. Albert loved Sarah while Fredrick fell in love with Olivia. If you remember, he wanted her to call him Freddie.
They lived the majority of their life devoted to being a stage magician and knew their claim to fame was to be their future trick, “The Transported Man.” They willingly sacrificed their lives (as well as both of their relationships) to sharing a singular one. That is how he immediately caught the magician doing the fishbowl trick. He understands sacrifice at its core.
The biggest thing to understand about Angier is he was totally consumed with hatred for Borden and wanted to beat him. One twin, Fredrick, was also wrapped up in this rivalry.
The original Angier was long dead before his 100 show tour (that was meant to draw out Borden). Think about it, does the original teleport away or does he stay in the machine? Whatever happens, we can agree it would be consistent. Either teleported every time or stay the same position every time. First time using the machine Angier killed the teleported one. Second time we assume he was drowned under the stage because the other one was talking to Cutter and the astonished business owner to secure his theatre. Therefore, Angier willingly killed himself over and over again to “beat” Borden. He sacrificed all.
In short, this story is all about sacrifice and what toll it takes on everyone around them.
My favorite Nolan film, based on probably my favorite novel. So glad I got to see you guys experience it for the first time.
My favorite movie ever
Bird cage trick is a real trick, described in Harry Hay's Cyclopedia of Magic. However, the bird is still likely to be seriously injured or killed even with this variation on the trick.
Fun fact about this movie the script took 5 years to complete.
Wekk ut turned out great!!
@@whitenoisereacts yeah the twists were well executed
As I understand it, Tesla believed that electricity could be harnessed from the environment itself. Wireless energy is the best way to describe it. Obviously, if you could make this concept work, energy could just be available to everyone, it would be clean, sustainable, and free. My understanding is that there are people still working on this concept to try and get it to work; if you could get it to work, it would be a revolution to how our economies and daily lives function.
Tesla also had a number of other great ideas, but this is the main one I know him for
This is one movie that I never see talked enough about. And here's the fascinating part; it's following the book loosely but the author still loved the movie.
Pretty sure I remember reading Tessa DID figure out his to make it wireless and free, but Edison convinced people it was dangerous... plus Edison wanted to be able to make money with it. Really interesting stuff!
If you think about teleportation, it really is just long-distance cloning. There would HAVE to be two of you existing at the same time. If not, a number of things could just simply kill you.
You step into teleporter A, and your body is analyzed and broken down. Your body's information is received and rebuilt in teleporter B. But what if there's a communication error, and you are rebuilt inside-out? What if there's a power failure halfway through being broken down, and only half of you arrives in teleporter B? What if teleporter B is simply offline, and your data is stuck in the buffer until power is restored?
So, you would instead want it to be cloning. Rather than your body being destroyed in A immediately after analyzing it, it is rendered unconscious. You have to be successfully rebuilt in B, and then that person chooses to destroy the body currently asleep in A. This verifies that you made it through, and no longer require your original. B has to choose in order to leave his chamber, to prevent people from cloning themselves. If B doesn't make a choice, he is destroyed instead, and A is woken up, and informed of the error.
But this form of digital cloning also opens the door to a way of immortality. With that digital buffer, you could in essence save your file at a point in time, your earliest teleport. If after a few rounds, your body suffers transmission errors, cells being just a touch off when being rebuilt, you could reload your first body, and arrive again as if it was your first teleport again. Sadly, you would still have only the memories you had when you made that first teleport, so you would feel as if you had lost time, and woken up in the future. This concept is used in the game SOMA, as a guy volunteers for a brain scan, and then he wakes up WAAAAAY in the future, in an underwater facility. His brain scan was saved, and the computer was randomly grabbing staff brains to be reloaded, and grabbed his, as it was one of the base brains used to develop the software. So as far as the character, Simon, is concerned, he went in for a brain scan in Toronto, and woke up under the sea, in the future.
That's the basic concept for teleportation in John Carter Of Mars.
Although the amount of information involved is at two different extremes, the basic concept you describe above is no different to copying a simple computer file. Or even 'moving' a computer file - which essentially just copies it to a new location, then deletes the original. The file is never moved in the physical sense that we humans would move from place to place. You have an original, you create an identical copy, the integrity of the copy is verified, and the original is either kept (copy) or deleted (move).
If you haven't already read it, the novel Mindscan by Robert J Sawyer is a very interesting fictional work which touches on the questions around consciousness and what defines a person, and parts of it relate to what you've written. It's set in a near future where wealthy humans can transfer (aka, 'copy') their consciousness to android bodies which essentially allow them to live forever if properly maintained; their original human body then dies offworld and the android body assumes all legal right to continue as that person. It explores what happens when a person changes their mind after the process is complete and the legal & philosophical ramifications of trying to work out which version of that person is now the 'real' one and legally recognised as such.
At the funeral Bale’s character said he doesn’t know what knot he tied. That’s because his twin was the one who did the trick on the stage. Not him so how could he know. Incredible movie by Nolan
My favorite Nolan movie
So I also didn't watch this movie before but when I saw you reacting, I decided to watch it first. Loved it. There was a part in the beginning when I was confused so quickly watched your reaction to hear your thoughts. My roommate came to me and ask how many videos am I watching. Loved experiencing this with you in a sense.
I choked up hearing that the twins loved the two women and the fact that one of the twin must have lost the women he loved due to his brother.
Yeah it’s brutal
Pls watch Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun
"you trust me, trust fallon" only confirmed my suspicions about him switching between 2 lives.
Both brothers are the act. They both were/played Borden and/or Fallon at different times when seen together, so at any single point in time, the brother playing Borden, might not be the actual Borden, the husband to Sarah, or he might be. When Sarah announces she's pregnant, for instance, the "Bordon" reacts as if he is a thrilled husband and quickly says "We should've told Fallon" because the real Bordon had just left as "Fallon."
I realize this reaction is 9 months old but I just got to it. Like it. You guys have some brainy break downs and decent grasps on the twists and a commendable appreciation of good art. I’m not necessarily super artistic myself but I love diving into music, art and creations like this and realize how much it’s enhanced my life. You guys are probably half my age but remind me of myself when I was that age. I’m more intellectually lazy now a days but this is good stuff and entertaining to me. Also the Thom York song during the credits was just a cherry on top for me.✌🏼
You guys should check out Christian Bale in his youth in the movies Swing Kids and Newsies. Also if you like movies dealing with magic you should check out Now you see me franchise and the Illusionist. Also, Michael cane is also in the Now you see me franchise as well...
Another good "magic trick" movie is The Illusionist with Edward Norton.
So underrated!
This is a year too late to be seen but lolz
In answer to your question at around 50:45 about when they started doing the trick:
They were always doing it. The first chronological scene we see is Freddie, the brother who loves Olivia and will end up dying. He's the one who says the Langford double is the knot they should use. The next scene after that is where Borden and Angier go to see the Goldfish Bowl trick. _That_ is Alfred, the brother who loves Sarah. Of the two, he's the ingénieur who designs the tricks. He's the smarter of the two, and I think he's the one who thought of the trick. But he's not a performer, where Freddie is, and Freddie is the one who understands the thrill of the look on the audience's faces.
Another movie about a magician that came out at the same time and that's at least as good is "The Illusionist." Only one person has ever reacted to it.
Such a good movie. It's fun to rewatch after you know the twist and catch onto things that hint towards it. 💕
Still my favorite Nolan film ever made, and in my opinion his second best behind only The Dark Knight. So many layers. So tragic. It's genius. And it's one of those movies that greatly benefits from rewatches and gets better and better everytime you watch it. You notice so many cool little little things everytime you do that you didn't catch on the previous viewing. I love that. It's a masterpiece for sure.
"simple maybe, but not easy"
I love how they basically told you at the beginning about the fish bowl magician. his life IS the act
Memento, next Nolan movie.
i've watched so many Christian Bale movies that i recognised him instantly in disguise and asked myself outloud why they had him playing another character in such goofy makeup and subsequently ruined the twist for myself and my family instantly lmao.
The sad part is that the 'Good' brother and Angier lost people they care about and then their own lifes by the end but the 'bad' brother who is kind of the reason for all those things got to live.
Are you watching closely?
The best line
Yesss. This movie is a bloody masterpiece. Nolan’s best film imo.
You guys should watch Daicon IV that is wild and on youtube. Time capsule for sure.
Titan A.E sci-fi cartoon with drew Barrymore. Its wicked awesome. Highly suggest it. Music sound track is just fantastic. Amazing.
You guys should watch Circle. It's a psychological thriller about a group of people waking up in a dark room with a black sphere in the middle of the room, They have to choose who lives and who dies. I think it's a great movie and you guys would enjoy it, It's on Netflix.
The Current War is a great movie you guys should watch about the Tesla/Edison rivalry
it was fun to watch a reaction to a Nolan film that you have not seen either
28:00 A teleporter and a cloning machine are one and the same machine. There is 0 physical reasons for a teleporter to destroy the original being transported.
Michael Caine's best was and still is Scrooge in Muppet's Christmas Carol
I highly recommend The Illusionist, which I think is another magic movie... :o)
This is based on a book, but I think it works even better on screen! I also think that often the comments in this movie mean more than one thing, like Angier about truly seeing, which isn't just towards the audience but also at Borden who had been so focused on Angier he didn't see the countless others around him. In other words, he didn't see how the trick was done... but at the end I don't think Borden cared anymore and that is in some ways a happy ending. Angier never stopped wanting to know how Borden's trick was done, "never taking his eyes off the ball" and therefor missing it.
You say you are not so familiar with Michael Caine's earlier work: I would especially like to recommend the 1972 film Sleuth (there is a later remake which to me is much less interesting, better to see the original). Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier were both nominated for best actor for that movie (but lost to Marlon Brando for The Godfather). No one else seems to have reacted to Sleuth, which is a pity, because it's a truly extraordinary movie, and one that should especially appeal to anyone who likes the kind of guessing game we see in The Prestige. A major hit at the time, it deserves to be much better remembered, and should not be missed.
We prbly won’t react to it, but I’ll definitely check it out
@@whitenoisereacts Still much better than nothing; you will definitely not regret it. This is a movie to which every movie fan should be introduced.
The first 3 movies I saw Michael Caine in were the classic Zulu (1964), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), and the very first one I saw him in making it my favorite Michael Caine movie is Without a Clue (1988) which I highly recommend watching.
@@mobstercassidy94001965's "The Ipcress File, 1996' "Alfie", 1966' "Gambit", 1969 "The Italian job", 1972 "Get Carter" and 1999' "The Cider House rules" are (to me) some of Caine's finest work.
The Prestige is my 3rd favourite Nolan movie.
Still can't decide what's the 1st and 2nd between Interstellar and Memento.
You guys have to react to prisoners. Its right up your alley and I think you’ll both really enjoy it! 👍
My favorite Nolan movie.
Finally!!!! 🥰🥳🥳🥳
I love this movie! I can't wait to see what you guys think😊
You'll notice that he also cloned his stage hands.
What i enjoy is the morality aspect. You dont know who to root for really, until practically the end, when the movie reveal who is the most morally bankrupt of the two. The fact that the twins shared life, so they both could be "the man in the stage", despite the difficulties, while Angier didnt even though in making a copy of himself, a literally copy, and collaborate with him in the same manner (he didnt even though in turning, as its show by him asking who was Fallon). The ego of being the one standing, the only one, came so natural, he didnt even though of it, not even with another him. He has to use even himself to strike back at his nemesis. He could have enjoyed every advantage of a double for life, but he has to fuck with the other guy.
React to "Gone girl" or "Shutter island"
The fact that borden was a twin made me just rethink everything
love this movie and love to see reactions to it.
Is this a re upload? I swear I already watch you guys react to this, I’m confused hahaha, btw love your videos
Naw not at all dude
This movie was so underrated when it first came out. It was weird unfortunate timing, as there was another "magician" type movie based in the same-ish time period (The Illusionist with Edward Norton) many ppl confused the two.
I chose to watch The Illusionist -- it was meh, imo -- but way later when The Prestige played on cable, late one night I watched it & I swear to you when it ended, it was 3am & I was questioning my entire existence & the meaning of life 🤯😂
Had I ever been truly passionate about anything? What would I sacrifice for? What's the purpose of life if you're not pursuing something that you're willing to give 110% of yourself to? Does anyone ever truly know you? Do you truly know others? Etc LOL!
Great movie haven't seen it in years though
You guys, please do yourselves a favor and review the 1982 movie "Deathtrap" with Christopher Reeve (Superman) and a younger Michael Caine. Very clever with smart twists right up to the end.