The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) | Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin

The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) | Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin | 5 Star Hughes

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	The Aviator (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin Warner Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 364 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Aviator rates a high flying 5 stars

Actually, I saw Aviator at the theater, and bought the tape for my boyfriend, whom I thought had not seen it. I personally think the movie should have won best picture of the year. Leonardo, much to my surprise, depicted the real Howard Hughes beautifully. Cate Blanchard, who played Kathryn Hepburn, was amazingly believable, as was the person who played Ava Gardner. The special effects, especially when he crashed the plane were very dramatic and realistic. I am an aviation buff, and love movies about flying. Aviator had enough aviation to be satisfying, and an amazing inside look at the mind of this incredible man. His paranoia, his idiosyncrasies, and his charm were lain bare. It is very worth buying and keeping in your film library. I could watch it two or three more times and still see something new.

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5 Star Hughes

Despite the lack of forestory information, this movie is entertaining. It is very accurate about the life of Howard Hughes. Some fascinating details of his family history is missing along with his Las Vegas acquisitions of casinos and many events that transpired during the latter part of his life (including the loss of Hughes Tool Company). Mr. Hughes strong attraction to have countless movie starlets was never viewed compared to what is documented from reality. This picture touches on his fancination of movie production and aviation which covers the broadest and most interesting facets of Howard Hughes life. It comes highly recommended.

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The Aviator

Good job of props, casting and acting however this movie tends to trivialize the life of a great man. I felt it should have spent more time on his vast acomplishments and less time on his physical/mental ailments which only became apparent in his later years, not early on as the film seems to suggest. I know, because my Grand Father worked with him on the HK-1 (Spruce Goose).

Why did he mess with the color of the film?

I know, the color of the film as Hughes gets older is suppose to reflect the changes in film technology; ie: it gets better as the film progresses.
I think that's getting a little bit too "artsy" for me. For me, it just looks like the DVD's color is goofed up. In parts of the movie the greens are almost a fuorescent blue/green; such as the plants or the peas on his plate at the nightclub.
I love most any movie about Howard Hughes because he is such an interseting "bigger than life" person. And yes I enjoyed this movie; BUT it would have been much better if the color would have just been either black and white or color (Today's color film).

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