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• • elgar7

    Dec 8th 2011, 9:55

    I think the ending of the Prestige is much like the ending of Inception, its left ambiguous. Yes there are the Angiers in the tanks that could well be clones - or that could be the real trick. Throughout the film we've been viewing through Angier's and Borden's diaries which were written in order to lie to one another. So what if Angier was left humiliated and a lot out of pocket after Tesla created a teleporting machine that not only didn't do that but didn't clone? He'd have to either count it as a loss or use it as a front. He lied to us, the audience. The bodies in the tanks, mannequins possibly? That's the trick - are you looking closely? The prestige is the realisation. I love Nolan films for many reasons, especially the speculation they bring about and obviously this is my opinion and there are many others. =]

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  • Hadouken76

    Dec 8th 2011, 12:23

    Can you imagine a Nolan / Spielberg collaboration? It would be all shades of awesome!

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  • ChrisWootton

    Dec 8th 2011, 12:36

    I love a bit of Nolan but have to say that Following is s**t. Made on a shoe string it's like a bad A-level movie.. avoid

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  • MikeyRix

    Dec 8th 2011, 15:19

    ...Can't even tell you how much I fangirled over this feature. As hard as his films are to watch over and over again, Nolan's my favourite film director, so this is just what I needed to distract me from Uni work (and give me more information on what "Insomnia" is actually about, haven't seen that one due to unavailability). Cheers TF!

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  • BobbyTwoTimes

    Dec 8th 2011, 15:58

    Are these in order of awesomeness? Or just a random 50? If the former, the Truck Flip should be way higher. He did that s**t for real man!!

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  • nkutzler

    Dec 8th 2011, 16:13

    Could've waited until after Dark Knight Rises. I have no reasonable doubt it will be great. Every time you tell yourself it won't live up to your expectations, you're lying to yourself.

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  • douchebag1

    Dec 11th 2011, 3:49

    My favorite Nolan moment, and one I believe is tantamount to the whole Batman series, one that makes my spine tingle: Batman just saved Rachel Dawes and a young boy in the narrows . He rushes to the edge of the roof and is about to take flight, but Rachel stops him. "Wait, at least tell us your name. You could die," she says. "It's not who I am on the inside," he says. "It's what I do that defines me." In the comics, Batman has always defined himself by his parents' death. But in the first Nolan movie, it's not just his parents' death, it's Rachel schooling him on the meaning of justice. I paraphrase what she says early on: "Look around you. Things are worse than ever. This city is creating new Joe Chill's every day. Faclone might not have killed your parents but he's killing everything they've stood for." Bruce takes this lesson to heart. What she's taught him is important. When he comes back to Gotham, she thinks he's just another playboy. She tells him, You still might be that great kid I knew. But it's not who you are on the inside, it's what you do that defines you. And he echoes those words back! In a flash, she realizes she misjudged him, that her words got through, that her childhood friend, consumed with rage and vengeance, now understands the meaning of justice. He is a true hero. He cares about others more than himself. That's BATMAN!

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  • QuietLife

    Dec 12th 2011, 8:50

    I always saw the end of the Prestige to be telling us that Angiers had been cloning himself and then he, the original had fallen into the tank to die. Leaving the clone to repeat the trick in the next performance and so on. Ultimately a highly depressing finale that showed Angiers' commitment to the trick. Again though, Nolan has left it to be interpretation or maybe I missed something to indicate otherwise.

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  • FBCLai

    Jan 10th 2012, 12:32

    How about both the thief from Following and Leonardo were named Cobb and both were thieves?

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