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Customer Reviews
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Scorsese and DiCaprio at their best
That plane crash was probably one of the most brutal scenes that I have ever seen.
The performances were all excellent. Leonardo Dicaprio gave a so far career best performance. When he is in the car covering his mouth as he said the same thing over and over, It was very impressive.
Blanchett gives the Hepburn in the movie life, energy, humor, depth, one of the best performances of 04. Beckinsale was also good. When she tears down the tape in the house, she serves the movie the way Blanchett does, though without as much depth, but still is excellent.
Alan Alda deserved his nomination. He is a good villain, but also one who is thinking about playing the Washington game. The whole chairman scene with Baldwin was a good entry for his character. Also with the Baldwin character-Citizen Kane did pop into my head. It was probably the set, but his powerful character doing what he can to tear down Hughes reminded me of CK.
The Aviator is one of the best movies of 04, even if it drags with the hearings, it provides for the set up for one of the more triumphant scenes with the flying of the Spruce Goose.
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Recommended... but it is not for everyone
I don't believe this movie is for family. It is not entertaining enough to keep everyone's interest. I recommended this movie for people that appreciate and have an interest in stories about people that are different.
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LOng and boring...
Its been a while so thought I would complain about the hype of this movie. As I recall it was quite touted by hollywood... What a joke... I think if anything Orson Wells was rolling over in his grave... This was a cheap (or rather expensive waste) attempt at Citizen Kane... From beginning to end a carbon copy with a different tycoon... Except Leo does not suit the character... Don't bother unless you are very bored like I was this afternoon....
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Drama at its Utter Best
This really is the sort of film that inspires you to find out about the man behind the legendary film. This film is well crafted, well acted, well styled, beautifully shot and just plain well done. Scorsese freely admits to playing around with time lines, but to getting things "Emotionally" right, which I think is correct. The more you know about the lead topic, the less likely you are to be a nice in hindsight review ( Like I think Jude Law is abysmal as Errol Flynn since I am Tasmanian and Jude is as Tasmanian as Jack Daniels when playing Errol... he did not even try; Knowing a subject too well can be a handicap when viewing an artistic endeavour). Anyways, as a soaring, roaring emotional rollercoaster, the events such as the Flight with Cate and Leo in the plane is as passionate as anyone could hope to get. Its beautifully done. The DVD commentary assists in an understanding of how this film was created, and the performances of the supporting cast is just brilliant. You will love this emotional tour de force, and enjoy exploring the passions of the screenwriters version of Hughes, and I hope it does spur you on to read more about the man himself who helped shape Film, Cinema and Aviation as we know it today
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paid more than it is selling for in stores, three times more !
I paid $ 19.95 for a dvd that I could have gotten for $5.oo in another store the day after I received it.
