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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)