Roger avers,
The Illusionist: worth seeing. The Prestige: not worth seeing.

Surely your have these judgments reversed.

I couldn’t even sit through the first, it was so cheesy – while Christopher Nolan is now the filmmaker whose films I look farward to seeing the most.

I mean who else can handle four story lines and not become incomprehensible and lose the entertainment? Only, maybe, Scorsese in the “The Departed.”