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Friday, October 20th, 2006 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniHere I'm barely over my fit of pique for having missed "The Illusionist," and I already have reason to regret my almost-certain missing of "The Prestige." To wit:
"The Prestige," directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins"), stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as magicians in turn-of-the-century London. The two begin a game of one-upmanship that draws blood -- and worse. Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie (playing Nikola Tesla) also star.
David Bowie as Tesla. Yes.
"The Prestige," directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins"), stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as magicians in turn-of-the-century London. The two begin a game of one-upmanship that draws blood -- and worse. Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie (playing Nikola Tesla) also star.
David Bowie as Tesla. Yes.
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Date: 2006-10-20 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 02:18 am (UTC)Bowie as Tesla is pretty awesome tho ;)
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Date: 2006-10-20 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 06:44 am (UTC)Wow. Theater time.
iS the ILLUSIONIST in dollar theaters up there?
Rental coming soon...
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Date: 2006-10-20 12:34 pm (UTC)when you have three whole theaters in the city... the dollar spots are a hundred miles south of here.
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Date: 2006-10-20 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-20 02:11 pm (UTC)I'd have bet money that I was logged in when I posted that....
anyhow, it's true -- no discount cinemas within an hour or two of here. Yes, we can get a matinées price sometimes, but that's hardly in the "dollar movie" range...
and the third theater? It's still in the planning stage.
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Date: 2006-10-22 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-22 10:39 am (UTC)There was a dollar theater in Reisterstown, back shortly before the rocks cooled, when we lived in the area.
You get a dollar theater when you have a population-dense area rich in long-standing independently held theaters which is suddenly invaded by a multiplex or three and/or brought face-to-face with the realities of a strong recession. The indie, in its scramble for life, starts showing movies for a buck during the day (and in the case of the Reisterstown theater at least), three bucks in the evening. It may be that they can rent a popular/new movie on unscheduled days before it moves on to the next region, and thereby Get It Cheap. I don't know enough about how film distribution work(s) to say for sure.
Small towns...
Date: 2006-10-20 04:58 pm (UTC)I've lived in a one-theater town. You either move fast or forget about seeing it. (Two days on weekday runs, three for weekends...) Netflix is a great gift to people in small communities.
We finally lost that theater. Now we drive to Ludington to see a movie. 20+ miles.
Reminds me of when I was in Del Rio, a VERY small town in far south Texas. While walking around a small mall, we came to an empty space. There were notes and requests all over the glass, begging B. Dalton to return. The closest bookstore was 100+ miles.
Again, the Internet is mostly a gift to people who live on the edge of suburbian America....
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Date: 2006-10-20 01:42 pm (UTC)Dollar theaters up here...maybe in Portland? Or Bangor? Waterville boasts Railroad Square, the above-mentioned arts theater, and a brand-new Flagship multiplex -- nine screens, I think. They are showing The Prestige (along with Texas Chainsaw Massacre Number Eight Thousand Four Hundred and Three, Flicka, and buncha movies I never heard of). If it sticks around long enough, I have a paycheck coming from Bean...
Paycheck good ....
Date: 2006-10-20 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: Paycheck good ....
Date: 2006-10-21 01:07 pm (UTC)Hope things get simpler soon.
Re: Paycheck good ....
Date: 2006-10-21 08:44 pm (UTC)I see light at the end of the tunnel -- and carefully checked to make sure it isn't an oncoming train.
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Date: 2006-10-20 01:38 pm (UTC)