Bacon wrote:Off topic from the main discussion, but I just want to stress:

The Prestige is Christopher Nolan's best film. It amazes me how I can watch one scene from it and still get so much from it. I really need to watch it again and analyze it more.

It's absolutely my favorite. Here's an unnecessarily lengthy post explaining why I have a hard time saying it would be his best:

http://www.nolanfans.com/forums/viewtop ... ead#unread

ChristNolan wrote:

Bacon wrote:

ChristNolan wrote:I've never seen a perfect movie

Then actually get to watching the film we're talking about, bub.

Perfect it ain't

It's about as close to perfect as it could be

Can't think of a single thing I would change.

If you wanna observe near perfection - watch Kubrick post 2001, or David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. The Prestige is nowhere near that level. Sure, the structure is impecable and it's near and dear to most of us round here, but there are far better cinematic achievements out there, from decades ago as well. Be realistic.

Could it be perfect and still have something that is better than it? Does perfect mean best?

if perfect=infinite
and Lawrence of Arabia>the prestige
and the prestige=perfect
then Lawrence of Arabia is like=infinity+5
and infinity+5=infinity

what the fuck am I talking about?

It's us. We brought ourselves here.

The closest Nolan got to 'perfection' the way I see it is with The Dark Knight... it needs to break new ground and create something unique as well, I don't feel like Prestige did that...

Second movie from recent memory that I'd call 'perfect' - Mad Max: Fury Road.

The Dark Knight is even less "perfect" than The Prestige.

The Dark Knight is pretty close to perfect.

josephcq wrote:The Dark Knight is pretty close to perfect.

I can show you a shit load of mistakes.