the prestige

so, last night, i went and saw the prestige. in my opinion it was great. it was well written, with good dialogue.

the concept of the movie is pretty straight forward, 1800's era magicians in london trying to one up each due to a rivalry extending from the death of one's wife during a trick caused by the other.

the whole movie is spent reading the journals of the two men, one from within the other, all while one of them is is prison awaiting the death penalty.

they do an excellent job of trying to keep everyone in the dark throughout the movie, and even for those, like me, that tend to guess the 'twist', they still manage to throw in enough extra turns to make it all worth while, so that in the end, you say, "yeah, i saw most of that coming, but still, it was awesome!"

i honestly believe this to be one of the best movies i've seen in a while, and i see a lot of movies. it's different. it's a new idea that hasn't really been done before, and thus... good....


p.s. i apologize for the crappy writing on this.. i'm in a hurry and don't feel like being more terse.