Martin Scorsese's The Aviator

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What do you guys think of the Aviator? Do you thing it had to win the Best Picture or you do not like it.

For it's a masterpiece of technical achievement and acting.

 

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So? What do you think of the movie. I actually heard that a lot of people didn't like it? How so?

 

[Motown Marvel]

its a great movie. scrosese deserved the oscar for this, not the departed.

 

[Hurm...]

^I agree. I liked it more than The Departed.

 

[Figs]

its a great movie. scrosese deserved the oscar for this, not the departed.

Agreed

One of my favorite films of the past decade and maybe in my overall top 10. I hate picking top 10 or top 5 favorites, but I've seen this movie so many times and it never gets old.

 

[CGHulk]

I didn't like it. Leo was way to young, and to short to play Hughes. A Clark Gable type is what they should of looked for. The film didn't focus on his engineering breakthroughs enough imo, not enough on his filmmaking too, where the heck was Jane Mansfield? I've been a fan of Howard Hughes since I was a boy when I saw the Spruce Goose in Long Beach California. The movies Tucker and the Rocketeer had helped too. My uncle worked for him personally at his lab in Santa Monica as well. He thought the movie was entertaining in a yeah that was entertaining kind of way. My uncle saw Howard jump into a dumpster with a with a few co workers to retrieve some part that shouldn't have been throw away. So he wasn't completely a germaphobe. It was common knowledge that issue came with his brain damage from his crash in Beverly Hills. Cate Blanchett was amazing as Catherine Hepburn. I just want a film that focuses more on his career than on his personal life with Catherine Hepburn, more on his aeronautical breakthroughs and playboy filmmaking days. If and when Nolan makes his film I hope it's more like that. Anyone think Hugh Jackman would be good in the part, hey the've worked together before on The Prestige.

 

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its a great movie. scrosese deserved the oscar for this, not the departed.

Hell yeah! I didn't like The Departed at all. I didn't hate it, but didn't like it eighter.

 

[Doctor Jones]

This is one of my favorite Scorsese films. And one of if not the best DiCaprio performance.

Scorsese handles the grand scale and ambition so much better than Gangs of New York. It's more confident. It's still a large scaled film, but much better handled this time.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Excellent movie, love the hell out of it. It's supremely well-directed (duh) and acted and it pretty much flies by. I think that the scene in which Hughes visits the Hepburn family is one of my favorite dialogue scenes ever. I always think of that scene when the film is mentioned, that and the airplane crash which is stunning.

 

[Doctor Jones]

"You don't care about money Because you don't have to worry about it."

One of my favorite deliveries/lines of the film.

Leo just isn't Leo. I compleyely buy into that performance.

The ending is kind of sad in a way.

 

[Hurm...]

Excellent movie, love the hell out of it. It's supremely well-directed (duh) and acted and it pretty much flies by. I think that the scene in which Hughes visits the Hepburn family is one of my favorite dialogue scenes ever. I always think of that scene when the film is mentioned, that and the airplane crash which is stunning.

I love how Scorsese portrayed the chaos at the table completely from Hughes' point of view.

 

[Soapy]

It's not my favorite of Scorsese's films, probably not even top five. But having said that, I do like it quite a bit.

 

[Rocketman]

To me, The Aviator and Gangs of New York feel the "Least Scorsese" of Scorsese's films, but that's not to say that I don't love them. I highly enjoy them, equally.

Keeping my fingers crossed for a Leo / Deniro killer combo with Scorsese soon.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

I understand that opinion for Gangs of New York, I have always found that a difficult film which spins wildly in all directions from revenge plot to love plot to history lesson to U2 song. But The Aviator is vintage Scorsese. It's focuses on the portion of the life of an obsessed, uncompromising individual who is not only an aviator-billionaire-eccentric but a filmmaker. The directing is chock-full of Scorsese-touches. The flying, swooping cranes, the longtakes, the quick flash-bulb cutting, the adrenaline-fuelled airplane scenes down to the oldschool music Scorsese even uses in his modern-day movies. I think it's an ultimate Scorsese movie, one of the reason I love it so much (top 5 easily); it encompasses nearly all of what makes Scorsese Scorsese. And it's a damned fascinating story and subject. I'll admit is has flaws, I do not think DiCaprio is always as believable as the older Hughes, but most scenes he pulls of flawlessly. The best piece of acting in the film might be the ''show me all the blueprints'' scene. So unnerving, and DiCaprio's performance there makes the viewer feel the impact of that scene in the gut. I also will have to add I love the colour grading in this thing, I know that this is also controversial, but I loved the gradual colour-build-up throughout the movie, from blue grass on golfcourses to vivid Technicolor. And Alan Alda's performance I love, Cate Blanchett is pretty amazing.

 

[returntovoid]

The Aviator was superb, Leo was very convincing as someone suffering OCD.

I love how Scorsese portrayed the chaos at the table completely from Hughes' point of view.

Agreed, Scorsese also proved that he was great at showing things from the protagonists point of view with Taxi Driver. According to an interview, he said that like Taxi Driver, he referenced Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man in the sense of paranoia-filled camera movements in The Aviator as well.

 

[dark_b]

i dont know if this is old news. Scorsese said in this interview that he went over budget. 500,000 . and he paid it from his own pocket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omIxkTBHms

 

[lime]

Just re-watched the movie. Fantastic.

DiCaprio's performance here, and in Wolf of Wall Street is why he is one of the best actors in Hollywood.

And man, THAT CINEMATOGRAPHY! The originality to move the movie with the color plate of the generations. Early in the movie everything is blueish, then when we get to the 30's all becomes Technicolor like. Beautiful.

 

[Laderlappen]

Yeah its a great film. I prefer The Departed and 'Wolf' of Scorsese's newer ones, but I loved the film.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

This is one of my favorite films of all time, I'm surprised I didn't know it had it's own thread, it was the film that truly got me into the head of Leo and his brilliance in his acting.

 

[Solidus]

This is actually one of my favorite films from Marty. I too think it was very under-rated. It was the film that completely sold me on Leo.

 

[747]

I was sold on Leo in 1993.

Anyway, I love this film. Top five Scorsese for me.

 

[The Endless]

This along with Bringing out the Dead are Scorsese's most underrated films. Underrated, relatively speaking of course!

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I was sold on Leo in 1993.

Anyway, I love this film. Top five Scorsese for me.

I really did enjoy him in A Boy's Life and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but at the age I was when Titanic came out (I think I was 14), I was a little turned off by him for a little bit. I have to say after Catch Me If You Can came out I started to have interest in him again, now he's one of my top 5 favorite actors of all time.

 

[jacobed]

Great film, great performances but wow the cg is awful, very very dated.

 

[lime]

Great film, great performances but wow the cg is awful, very very dated.

Yeah, the CG was in poor quality, but the Special Effects were top notch!