The Aviator

"Rosspilot" wrote in message
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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.

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


Oddly enough, this movie is not even playing at our local theatre. I will
have to go to Poulsbo or someplace to see it.

Agreed!...

I enjoyed it!


A little "Hokey" (aka - "Hollywood" ) at times...

One crash scene (with the twin) was rediculous... but
probably impressed non "aviators"

But worth the ticket...

Dave



On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:33:23 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Rosspilot" wrote in message
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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.

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


Oddly enough, this movie is not even playing at our local theatre. I will
have to go to Poulsbo or someplace to see it.

I saw it and I thought that the DeCaprio was just a little bit too
effeminate to play a guy like Hughes.

"Pilot22a" wrote in message
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I saw it and I thought that the DeCaprio was just a little bit too
effeminate to play a guy like Hughes.

And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit effeminate.

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:58:54 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Pilot22a" wrote in message
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I saw it and I thought that the DeCaprio was just a little bit too
effeminate to play a guy like Hughes.

And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit effeminate.


Where did you get that idea?

From what I've read, Hughes was quite the ladies man, and a rather
authoritarian captain of industry. Consider, he was able to finesse
(over the phone) Jackie Cochran's new Gamma (?) from her for a record
flight before it was delivered to her, and when he needed a wife to
parry Noah Dietrich's gambit, he was able to cause Jean Peters to
marry him on a moment's notice. Certainly, his performance before
Sen. Brewster's inquisition revealed a commanding demeanor
considerably the other side of effeminate.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit effeminate.


Where did you get that idea?


I suppose I was thinking of Hughes' bisexuality.

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:07:44 -0800, "C J Campbell"
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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And here I understood Hughes to have been just a little bit effeminate.


Where did you get that idea?


I suppose I was thinking of Hughes' bisexuality.


This is the first mention of that I have heard. Do you have a source
to cite?

My family and I are going to see the movie today. It will be cool to
watch it now with all this good prepatory info.
Jim
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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

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:37:29 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote:

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

You, me, and lots of others! When I queued it up on Netflix on Dec 27,
it showed as Available Now. By the time my next disk was due to be
mailed, it was flagged Long Wait.