re: The Prestige [SPOILERS]

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As for my thoughts on the movie, it is absolutely incredible. Everything about it is well done. The story itself is something to be admired. The struggle between science and magic (and whether there is really a difference), the struggle of ambitious men, revenge, love, heartache, sacrifice, family, all are explored in this story to wonderful affect.

Unfortunately, it was released the same year as The Departed, Babel, Little Miss Sunshine, Letters from Iwo Jima, and the Queen. I would argue the Prestige is better than all of those except the Departed, but it is not nearly the Oscar bait of those films and, I am sure, was not campaigned for to nearly the extent required to even be nominated, which is a shame. It is one of the better films made in the last decade.

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the prestige, along with assassination of jesse james, are the 2 most criminally underrated movies that i can think of.