Gee whillickers! Goodness!! Thanks for the insight on a profound matter like that.
RE: "Ok, but for the record, I didn't like, The Aviator. There was a way better story that could have been told in that time frame, and no matter how someone tries to make up Leo, he still looks 22. They should have cast someone else to play HH."
I liked the Aviator for the grand, compelling, old-fashioned entertainment that it was, but I did think that the story sometimes bit off more than it could chew in tackling so many aspects of Hughes life at a time and cramming it all into 2 Hrs and 40 minutes. As a biography it felt both deliberate and abrupt at the same time, but individual scenes are spectacular, and the riveting plane crash sequence is worth the price of the ticket all by itself. Leo aquits himself only okay, but Cate Blanchett's Katherine Hepburn is a wonder, quickly moving from a broad parody of Kate's screen image to a more complex characterization of a woman made hard by the demands of her own fame.
I didn't think the Aviator was necessarily Best Picture material or that it was anywhere near one of Scorsese's best, but the movie has an assortment of riches that help me to understand what the Academy was thinking when it bestowed a best-in-field 11 nominations on the Aviator last month. We'll see how it all plays out on the 27th.