On 30 Dec 2004 00:50:16 GMT, ospam (Rosspilot) wrote
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I went to see it yesterday. I thought it was actually pretty good, and thought
DeCaprio pulled off a believable Hughes.

Yes.

I thought Cate Blanchett did an admirable job with her Katharine
Hepburn role also. I had feared that Leonardo DiCaprio's Hughes would
be a cartoon characture, but his performance was remarkable
convincing.

The flying sequences seemed a little hokey, and the crash scenes were typical
Hollywood crap, but for 3 hours, it goes by quickly.

The black and white Hell's Angeles footage of a sky swarming with
airplanes revealed Hughes' obsessive struggle to deliver a product, be
it aeronautical or cinematic, that far exceeded anything that
proceeded it.

The historic HK1 footage was interesting. Clearly, 169 minutes was
woefully inadequate to tell the full Hughes story, but Martin Scorsese
did a good job of giving the non-aviation viewing-public the Hollywood
dirt they relish, unfortunately at the expense of failing to include
all the little aviation related antic dotes and stories which aviation
buffs relish.

In all, I was quite pleasantly surprised and entertained by this
movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/...c=1;ft=20;fm=1