The Aviator

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.





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Rosspilot wrote:

I went to see it yesterday.

Thanks for the review.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

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ospam (Rosspilot) wrote:

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

Only the last half, where he was interacting with Sen. Brewster.


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


I saw it the day after Christmas and thought that it was miscast -- at
least the first half of the movie. DiCaprio obviously has never flown a
plane, as he showed no trace of a scan and moved the yoke like a kid
"playing airplane." The only thing missing was the "Brrrrr" sound. In
the flying scenes he looked like the typical Hollywood airhead.

There was also one major script error. When hughes was plotting to take
TWA international (about '43-'44) he was stalking about the competition
and included Lufthansa. HELLO! We were fighting Germany at the time and
certainly wouldn't expect Lufthansa to survive the war. (They didn't fly
again until the late 1950s)

I agree. I was happily surprised at how good it was, and how little I
objected to the boy-man star.

On 30 Dec 2004 00:50:16 GMT, ospam (Rosspilot)
wrote:

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.

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:02:26 GMT, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:

Lufthansa to survive the war. (They didn't fly
again until the late 1950s)

In 1958 I was working at The Overseas Weekly, which had its offices on
the second story of the Frankfurt Press Club. (Which no doubt was war
booty of some sort.) A lot of the members of the Press Club were
American pilots flying for Lufthansa.

Someone told me that the deal was that Boeing or Douglas sold the
airplanes to LH complete with air crews.

(Good point about the film and the war. There was little sense that
WWII was actually happening, save as a possible market for Hughes
Aircraft. I doubt that was true even in Hollywood.)

Did the ending bother anybody else? We have a rough idea of how it
should end, but after sitting there for three hours I thought they may
as well show it.

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

"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"
wrote:


"Rosspilot" wrote in message
...
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.