Review: The Prestige & The Messengers

Well, I'm really not sure what's going on. Seem to be missing the option to select my font and also my colour. And of course with my patchy remembrance of HTML programming, it's going be loads of fun trying to figure out how to do that. Oh, and I did I mention how bloody slow the stupid words are appearng in the field, which completely dirves me crazy? I'm a touch typer and I actually sorta type somewhat subconsciously. So I actually have to see if what my fingers typed is correct. I can't look at them or else I loose track of my thoughts...sorta like right now. And yes, I type tons worse when I'm looking at my fingers. Actually even w/ my eyes closed, b/c I have to think about what I just typed, instead of seeing it on screen, I'm getting pretty bad.

Hmm, just published the darn thing, and the font is still Arial (Yahhh!!) but it's all in yellow. But the HTML isn't showing up in the Edit version. Whaaaa? Must admit, it is quite easier to see. And the typing seems to come up much quicker when I'm in Edit HTML mode. Okay, well whatever. And the mouse pointer isn't quite pointing to where it should. It's like where it's affecting doesn't seem to match w/ what's on the screen. Particularly on the title field. Blogger doing something again?

Onto the review. Actually saw Messengers first w/ H and D. The bad thing about watching anything with them is that H will loudly comment all the time. Whereas D will be surfing on his laptop and constantly pester you what's going on. Ending was quite disappointing. It seemed they changed the villain at the end, and decided to make John Corbett's char the baddy, b/c the events leading up to it didn't make much sense. What was w/ the Cigarette-smoking Man constantly wanting to buy the house? Why were there tons of crows even before the family got murdered? Why would a sepia-coloured photo be in the locket, when the murder took place 5 yrs ago? How did the pitchfork scratches appear behind the 2 kids when they were running, but also puncturing the walls from either side? Special effects, atmosphere-wise, it was pretty creepy. At least for me. I'm not a horror-veteran, so I get spooked easily. Yeah, I was holding onto Goleo throughout. I'm a wimp. So ending was very dissatisfying, but was good and freaky up until then.

The Prestige was pretty cool. Hugh Jackman looks lovely as an aristocratic magician. Christian Bale's pretty good-looking, but his eyes are too squinty. I think Cutter was working for the both of them the entire time. If Bale had given more of an apology and taken full responsibility, Jackman's char might've been more willing to forgive him. But I guess this is what happens when you're jealous, prideful, and vengeance-obsessed. Bowie was awesome as Tesla. H thinks there's still a Jackman running around somewhere, but I don't think so. I did want Jackman to win, b/c it seemed he lost more w/ his wife's death. Bale's wife killed herself b/c of his duplicity. So I think it's a good movie, and would be good to rewatch, just to see if you can spot all the tricks. I wonder if at the end, Cutter killed the bird when showing the trick to Bale's daughter. I'm not really sure how the cage was supposed to work w/ Jackman's trick. Yeah, I like magic tricks.

***P.S. Looks like Blogger fixed it b/c everything back to normal. ****