The Aviator
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United States/Japan, 2004
U.S. Release Date: 12/17/04 (wide)
Running Length: 2:48
MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Profanity, sexual situations, nudity)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Kate Beckinsale, Adam Scott, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Alan Alda
Director: Martin Scorsese
Producers: Sandy Climan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, Michael Mann
Screenplay: John Logan
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Music: Howard Shore
U.S. Distributor: Miramax Films
Movie Rental Review Rating: 8/10
The Aviator is an interesting look into the life of Howard Hughes. This movie really brought his genius and his demons to light and Leonardo DiCaprio played an extremely convincing role. We start this story with his mother washing young Howard in a tub, by this scene I wonder if she is not part of the cause of his extreme OCD (obsessive, compulsive, disorder). The move continues with his first movie Hell’s Angels. Howard bled for this movie, red but mostly green. The movie was quite a feat for the times and in the millions of dollars to make it was the most expensive movie for the times. The movie Hell’s Angels was about Howard’s real love, aviation. Cate Blanchett played a young Katherine Hepburn who offered amazing support and companionship to Howard. Howard returned the favour by stopping a huge scandal involving Katherine and another actor of the time. Noah Dietrich played by John C. Reilly was Howard’s financial right hand, I don’t think he could have achieved what he did without him in his corner. Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) was the president and CEO of Pan-Am and Senator Owen Brewster (Alan Alda) were the villains of the movie. They cooked up this story to discredit Howard Hughes, which ended up backfiring in their faces.
Here at the Movie Rental Review I found The Aviator was a great movie and now I have to see Hell’s Angels.
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What are others saying about this movie?
“Two BIG thumbs up!”
- Ebert and Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
“Martin Scorsese, one of the best of all directors, has made an enormously entertaining movie about the most fascinating of American lives… Incredibly ambitious… This is a great movie.”
- Roger Ebert, Ebert & Roeper
Brilliant Stuff… Alec Baldwin and Alan Alda play their roles perfectly… I believe it’s the front-runner for Best Picture of 2004.”
- Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
