The Prestige is in a class of its own. It’s based on an old Christopher Priest book, and the Nolans made excellent adaptation choices. The writing is really superb and emotional in a way Chris and John both usually struggle to achieve. The cast is INSANE. One of David Bowie’s best acting roles. Plus Andy Serkis, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johanson, Michael Caine. The whole movie is like one giant puzzle. You’ll see what I mean in the first ten minutes. Even after you’ve seen it once, there are all sorts of things you’ll only notice on repeat viewings.
Pirates of the Caribbean 1 is infinitely better than you can imagine or it has any right to be.
Leon is very overrated and imo owes all its popularity to men of a certain age being fixated on a certain actress in a movie with some slightly questionable undertones.
I’m kind of astonished you haven’t seen Back to the Future. Like I think it would take enormous effort for anybody between the ages of 25 and 65 to have not seen it.
Do not watch Avatar. The only way to see this movie was at an IMAX 3D premiere. It was the first most appropriate use of the technology I’d seen or have seen since. But it is otherwise Not Good.
Yeah, The Prestige is the one I’ve not seen I feel like I should. Am also missing Interstellar, Finding Nemo, Wall-E and The Lion King but I’m afraid I don’t really care. (And have a 2 year old so I expect I’ll knock most of them off soon enough anyway.)
Also, when I first read it I wondered how the hell the weird adaptation with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman was on there. But then I realised it wasn’t that Avengers movie.
I haven’t seen a lot of those and je ne regrette rien.
Shawshank
Dark Knight
All LOTR
All Batman
Gladiator
Avengers
Star Wars
Wolf of Wall St
Green Mile
Avatar
Guardians of the Galaxy
Back to the Future
American History X
Leon
Pirates of the Caribbean
Wall-E
Braveheart
Nemo
Iron Man
Lion King
I mean, more than half of that list are kids films. Pleased I’ve saved valuable time unless persuaded otherwise.
It’s a mess in many ways but still very much worth watching. Edward Norton is really really really good. There was a ton of inside baseball controversy when it got made, the director is a guy named Tony Kaye who is an absolute lunatic in his own right. Norton basically took the movie away from him and did his own edit, which is what ended up getting released. Kaye took out full page ads in Variety lambasting everyone who had anything to do with it.
It is. Some epic Gary Oldman scenery chewing too. Not in the top 10 on that list maybe but still a super solid genre flick. Don’t need to be a paedo to enjoy it any more than Taxi Driver, @zikzak can let go of his pearls imo.
