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Alfred has turned against Batman! Caine to teach Bale's magician enemy in Christopher Nolan's THE PRESTIGE!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here! THE PRESTIGE looks to be shaping up quite nicely. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as turn of the century stage magicians who are at odds with each other, feuding as it were. Now Michael Caine has been added to the cast list as the mentor to Hugh Jackman's character. All this directed by Christopher Nolan, who seems to be borrowing a lot from his BATMAN BEGINS cast. I have the book and have begun reading it. I really dig it so far. Just now getting into the turn of the century stuff (ie it's starting to get reaallll good). Can't wait to dig into the book further and I'm even more anxious to see what Nolan and crew do with this flick!!! Oh, and it seems Caine has also scored a role in Alfonso Cuaron's THE CHILDREN OF MEN!
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Although I want to.
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FIRST! I feel so dirty. And yet so....first.
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You "first" whore, you. Heh heh heh...
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This is one of the best premises for a movie I've heard in a long time, and with such talent attached to it, it can't be anything less than fantastic. One of my most anticipated movies of next year.
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Unless she dies horribly after the first few minutes. No, seriously, she is the only terrible casting choice in Batman Begins.
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A wonderful actor and very pleasant human being (he was kind enough to sign the inside of a book I was reading when I bothered him at a London pub a few years ago). God bless you Sir.
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always good too see vertran actors still hard at work
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I quite understand what you mean. There are many examples of actors where it looks like it wouldn't work when you see the names on paper and try to imagine it but at least give them a chance. Just think about Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I never imagined that Kilmer and DowneyJr. would be a perfect match in it before having seen it.
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i just hope mr. nolan does not cast jackman as the joker...or any bat villian for that matter. seems to me like he is building a "comfort zone."
p.s. where is guy? -
"Mr Caine, there's a proposed role for you; it's a film directed by..." "How much do they pay?" "Well, this much, and the plot involves..." "This much? Great! I'm taking it, just tell whoever's doing this my one rule - no full kiss on the mouth!"
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I'd still rather see the next "Van Helsing" than this. I'm also still disappointed with how "Howl's Moving Castle" turned out. Why change so much of a wonderful book and tack an anti-war message on? -sigh-
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I go through that a lot with men sometimes...I just think it's a shitty double standard that when you can obsess over your favorite movies it's ok, but when a woman does it, you have to be an asshole. So please, I don't do it to you. Also, you would not believe the female fanbase for "Van Helsing"...the monster movies of the Sommersverse are chick flicks...and since he's surrounded by women at home, it makes sense.
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Read the book a few years back. Chris Priest is one of my favourite authors. Done right it'll be tops. Can't wait.
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then we get our next batflick...sweet.
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I hope so, it's always cooler when you get protagonist vs. protagonist instead of simply good guy vs. bad guy.
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Picked up my copy last night after it was shipped to my home home, can't wait to read this. Haven't really gotten a chance to read a book lately with work and crap but now there's this, Anansi boys (gaiman) and haunted (pahlaniuk) sitting around my room.
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Oct 28, 2005 11:30:27 AM CDT
Christopher Nolan is becoming the best director working today. P
by drill
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sound a bit too much like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell?
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And there was nothing wrong with Katie Holmes. Admit it, if it weren't for the whole Tom Cruise thing none of you would give a damn about her performance.
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She was pretty, but not too beautiful. Basically, I don't really remember her performance, which is just about right for a character like hers.
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Lu found her character Rachel to be an irritating bitch. I just don't care for her. I'm glad she's not with Chris Klein anymore, but their courtship sounded nausiating. Another suggested they should do a drinking game whenever her nipples are visible through her blouse in "Batman Begins". And I have a feeling lots of you will do that, too.
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Oct 29, 2005 2:14:24 PM CDT
"Are you retarded or something? I'm the Goddamn Batman!" "Ye
by tall_boy
"Oh, yeah?! Are you dense? I'm Goddamn Austin Powers' dad!" Man, I can't wait till Frank Miller turns in his script on this.
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Oct 29, 2005 3:49:20 PM CDT
PRESTIGE kind of sounds like the premise for JONATHAN STRANGE AN
by orbots commander
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are you prepared?
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The Prestige is about stage magicians- card tricks, that kind of thing, with deception and sleight-of-hand as a major theme. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, while also absolutely fantastic, is about real magic. Also, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell took place during the Napoleonic Wars, if I'm remembering correctly, which is the early 19th century. The Prestige is closer to the turn of the 20th century. Either way, this movie sounds great; here's hoping it doesn't turn out to be another exampe of "great premise, poor execution."
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***I'M NOT KIDDING! THERE ARE MAJOR, BOOK-RUINING SPOILERS AHEAD SO IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK AND PLAN TO STOP READING RIGHT NOW!***
Regarding the very end, I understand that the living Angier transported himself into the dead Angier, but why was he able to stay alive (and apparently immortal) until the present day? It seems like this wasn't really addressed. Or was the man who came out of the crypt at the end not even Angier and I totally missed something?
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I just fresh finished the book this morning and I believe it is indeed Angier that comes out of the tomb as he never died. But it still kind of left me asking more questions about the Bordens and is what the little boy nicholas keeps referring to as his brother, his prestige? I gather I will understand more as the day goes on as I just finished reading it but for now I feel still kind of confused.
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"please, I don't do it to you." ...... Are you serious, Anna? Women do NOT get flamed more for their tastes than men in the TalkBacks. For every person - male or female - professing a love for any particular film or genre, there are a hundred hateful flamers. Asking not to be flamed because you don't flame others is a surefire way to draw withering broadsides from people who take issue with your tastes. Especially considering your diabolical love for Van Helsing and LXG.
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I'm complicated!
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This was due to a bad experience with C.H.U.D. who were just a bunch of assholes. Besides, after the last few I was participating in, you and others were just acting like bitches and I really don't want to deal with it. So nyeh.
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Well, I'm sure I needn't bring up old sayings concerning heat and kitchens. Needless to say, if one suffers sleepless nights as a reslut of being ridiculed for one's tastes by some people, then one ought to reconsider if an internet forum rank with rabid, opinionated fantards is really such a great place to be. If one throws things like Van Helsing and LXG into a public arena, as well as fan-related activities which by some might be considered worthy of derision or at the very least a few laughs, then one is going to have to resign oneself to the inevitibility of being met by both agreement and scorn. Them's the facts of internet fandom.
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