I know that The Aviator is being hyped to hell and back as a great picture, but having just now returned from the theater I have to say that I wasn't all that impressed with it. Sue me. This is about the life and times of Howard Hughes (up to a ...
Pros: Leonardo. Cate. Boob-obsessions. Cons: Alec Baldwin was a waste of screen time.
Preamble Greetings and Salutations. Hope everyone is (safely) enjoying their New Year's (Eve and Day - depending on time zone). It's been awhile since I went to see a movie in a theater. My catch-up list is a mile long. I had absolutely no ...
Pros: DiCaprio, Blanchett, Alda, other support, screenplay, direction Cons: Howard Hughes became lost in his own world
The life of Howard Hughes is an examination in contrasts. The billionaire, who inherited the fortune his family had made in the tool business, liked to dream big. He wanted to make big airplanes and big films and date the most beautiful actresses, yet he ...
Pros: Great script...DiCaprio is excellent as Hughes, Scorsese shows he's a master director. Cons: A few period details wrong, but only to nit-pickers.
As the son of a C-46 air freight pilot and a former Avianca flight attendant, I've always had a love affair with aviation. Even though Dad died in a plane crash in 1965, I've never been afraid of planes; indeed, I've always looked forward to heading off ...
Pros: Good CGI, Alan Alda's five minutes, Cate Blanchett Cons: No story, poorly edited, over long
The Aviator (2004) I watched The Aviator reluctantly, knowing if anybody could take the interesting story of a dynamic, multifaceted individual like billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes and make it boring, it would have to be ...
Pros: Acting, especially Leo and Cate, Scorsese's direction and the music Cons: None
If "The Aviator" does not earn at least four major Academy Awards, there is something wrong with the system. Hmm, that's an idiotic statement because there is something wrong with a "system" that has never rewarded Martin Scorsese with an Oscar in the ...
Pros: Beautifully filmed, exciting to watch Cons: Not too much mentioned about his early years or the last years of his life
The Aviator flies right off the screen and into history as a movie that at once tells the tale of obsession and daring while entertaining and delighting the fans of Leonardo DiCaprio in this role of Howard Hughes, one of the most ...
Pros: Di Caprio and Blanchett were very good, interesting... Cons: ... just not very enjoyable, insisted on long-winded repetitive scenes...
I have identified a new genre of film (at least in my own mind) – films that are interesting without being particularly entertaining. To me The Aviator, despite it’s 5 Oscar wins and further 6 nominations, falls into this category. Legendary ...
Pros: Cinematography; Cate Blanchett; Story Cons: Lack of spark between DiCaprio and the women; 30 years of Hughes' life unexamined
What do aviation, big business, and Hollywood film making have in common? Most people would say not a whole lot, since other than film making being a business, there isn’t much else that correlates these three things together. But there is a man who was ...
Pros: Scorsese, DiCaprio, Hepburn, Baldwin, Alda, dazzling technical skill... Cons: Stays a bit too much on the surface at times.
Howard Hughes lived such an enormous and complicated life that most anyone setting out to tell the story of his rise and fall would be hard pressed to fit even half of it all into the tale. He was one of the world's richest men by the age of 20, ...
Pros: Excellent script, sure directing, beautiful music, riveting performances (especially by DiCaprio) Cons: Narrative follows depressing downward spiral of Hughes' tragic life; can be painful to watch
The Aviator is a huge, sprawling, detailed, intriguing, somewhat excessive epic of a movie. Given its subject, billionaire tycoon and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, it almost couldn't have been anything else. Hughes, known perhaps more for his ...
Pros: Excellent cast and acting Cons: Too much filler and not enough meat. Incomplete ending.
The Aviator has been nominated for a slew of Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This $100 million movie has been pulling in a slow but steady draw at the box office, but I don't expect it to turn out big profits. After all the Oscar buzz, I ...
Pros: big, broad biopic with good acting, good direction and good cinematography Cons: a little simplistic, a little heavy on the downer scenes, too many recognizable stars
The Aviator is a biopic about Howard Hughes. When it opens, we see young Howard, buck naked, standing in one of those $12 swimming pools getting the swab job from mommie. Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa nelly!!!! Mommie has a germ fetish. They're everywhere, ...
I love Jude Law. When I heard he made a short appearance in The Aviator I was immediately interested in seeing the movie. I read a few reviews about it and since most of them praised it, I was all the more determined to see it. I finally got the ...
Pros: DiCaprio and Blanchett's performance. Tasteful CGI. Cons: Paper thin plot.
There were a number of big time films up for academy awards this past year, including one blockbuster hit featuring a star-studded cast, and directed by a Hollywood legend. In The Aviator, the life of the eccentric Howard Hughes is dramatized for ...
Eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes inherits his money from his family's tool business and decides to branch out into movies and the airline industry....More at HotMovieSale.com
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