The Aviator (Howard Hughes played by DiCaprio)

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[theFIRMbss]

The Aviator

Release Date: December 17, 2005 (NY, LA, SF; wide release: December 25)
Studio: Miramax Films
Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: John Logan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Kate Beckinsale, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Nellie Sciutto, Alec Baldwin, Danny Huston, Matt Ross, Ian Holm, Alan Alda, Frances Conroy, Vincent Laresca, Justin Shilton, Brent Spiner, Josie Maran, Sam Hennings, Willem Dafoe, Stanley DeSantis, Jacob Davich
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence)
Official Website: Miramax.com/Aviator

Plot Summary: "The Aviator" tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (DiCaprio), the eccentric billionaire industrialist and Hollywood film mogul famous for romancing some of the world's most beautiful women. The drama recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch when Hughes was directing movies and test flying innovative aircraft he designed and created. It also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical disabilities and phobias, and his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that led him ultimately to isolate himself from his associates and withdraw from the world.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

gwen stefani isnt close to be this generations madonna,she's too punk/ska to be in that catagory,no doubts first album and the one in 2001 was pretty good...after that it went to techno for my tastes

[weegee]

The pic in #19 shows a performer who is neither "punk" nor "ska". In the 40+ year history of "The Best Of Ska", No Doubt would not make the cut.

[theFIRMbss]

>Gwen Stefani is cast to draw the young audiences who know her as a pop singer with some "retro" style

That's part of what's weird!
She's, like, 35 years old!
She's a teen diva

but she's old enough
to be a teen girl's mother!
I hate Hollywood . . .

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The story of Howard Hughes is a great story, but DiCaprio just doesn't cut it as Hughes at any point in his life. DiCaprio is stuck in the "Teen Beat" mode of acting.

In the TV promos, he looks like a little boy pretending to be a man.

[theFIRMbss]

>We are all in awe of your early viewing of the film so that you can report your opinions of Ms. Stefani's performance

Don't get me started about Kelli Garner as babe Faith Domergue!

[bigsigh]

my suggestion is don't get yourself started until you see the movie, then you can yell your head off

[theFIRMbss]

>my suggestion is don't get yourself started until you see the movie, then you can yell your head off

If someone launches
a punch at your face, your first
task is to evade

the punch, only then
do you fight or run away.
You don't have to take

the punch in the nose
before you act. Hollywood
is like a street fight!

[stevie_d_64]

Yeah butt, Farenheit 9-11 is expected to get a nomination before the Passion ever would in that particular crowd...

I wonder who actually is more anti-semetic??? They seem to enjoy throwing that term around more these days...

But thats really not the issue...

[bigsigh]

You have sadly mistaken someone's comments about the performance of a first time actress with world war III. I suggest a little perspective, it will put you in the same ballpark as those to whom you are replying. Whatever crusade you're on is wasted on a movie review, for my money.

[theFIRMbss]

>Yeah butt, Farenheit 9-11 is expected to get a nomination before the Passion ever would in that particular crowd... I wonder who actually is more anti-semetic?

An Empire of Their Own : How the Jews Invented Hollywood by NEAL GABLER "That subtitle may inspire in some readers waves of ethnic pride, and in others waves of ethnic revulsion, but the point of this book is that its claim of origin is quite literally true. And what makes it an interesting read for political types is the way it demonstrates that no matter how much the founding Hollywood moguls and their successors tried to peddle an idealized, escapist form of entertainment, bubbling up under and around their every project was ideology, racism, ethnic prejudice, class friction, domestic and international politics and all the other raw, seething stuff that distinguishes this country from all others. In Gabler's hands, the Industry draws a picture of American political history in spite of itself." [Amazon Summary]

Hollywood is not anti-semitic. They are something very strange, but not anti-Jew. Not pro-Israel, either. I think they're just nuts . . .

[theFIRMbss]

>You have sadly mistaken someone's comments about the performance of a first time actress with world war III. I suggest a little perspective, it will put you in the same ballpark as those to whom you are replying. Whatever crusade you're on is wasted on a movie review

     

[weegee]

Hollywood went Red in the 1940s and there wasn't much love for Jews in Stalin's USSR.

[hattend]

I just noticed the Alec Baldwin is also in this film. That about seals "not going" for me. I'll wait until my friend gets the DVD and watch it at his house.

[Utah Binger]

Finally my wife dragged me to the movie last night. Best part is that the idiot Baldwin portrays Juan Tripp of Pan Am. Appears they wanted to make him out to be a big time capitalist and in so doing AB turns the role into one of the villians of the flick. The kid was not Hughes, just a lightweight kid in a fake beard. Wish we could really see Hughes as he really was. Seems like he really took on the politics of the day.

[Rebelbase]

"I'll wait until my friend gets the DVD and watch it at his house."

Good idea. I saw it last night and give it a C+ to a B in some parts. You won't miss out on anything from avoiding it on the big screen...except maybe the overwhelming size of the Spruce Goose. What a beast that was!

[hattend]

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Have you seen the remake of "Flight of the Phoenix"? ;-)

[Rebelbase]

Nope.

[Hildy]

Saw this today. Wanted to hear some reviews from Freepers. I enjoyed it. Leonardo was very good and I defintely learned alot about aviation at the time. For those of you who won't go to see it because some actor whose politics you don't like are in it, you're missing a good one.

[hattend]

Well, I won't "miss" it, technically. My friend is a NetFlix subscriber so he'll have the DVD sooner or later.

I just won't be contributing to the bag of cash that Baldwin/DiCaprio will be getting. My choice, no need for anybody to follow suit.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Could be a great film...except for the fact that they cast Leonardo DiFaggio as Hughes.

I saw The Aviator today and thought that Dicaprio gave an Academy Award winning performance.