The Aviator

Recently, Rosspilot posted:

I went to see it yesterday. I thought it was actually pretty good,
and thought DeCaprio pulled off a believable Hughes.

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

I thought that there were some things that seemed to be glossed over, and
other things that left me wondering. For instance, why was the
Constellation fleet grounded? They referred to the Pennsylvania crash, but
the sequence of events suggested that the reason for the grounding may
have been politically driven. Anyone know the facts?

I was somewhat amused by the wing of the experimental spy plane slicing
through several apartments of a brick building, though I don't think that
the "artistic license" of that move improved the scene any.

All in all, it was entertaining, and made me want to see "Hells Angels"
again.

Neil