Excellent!

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2006)

The Aviator/2004/
Main Stars:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Cate Blanchett
Kate Beckinsale I never knew Howard Hughes's life was really that interesting. I thought that Howard Hughes was just a rich obsessive-compulsive guy who wasn't worth knowing about. When I saw this movie that thought definitely went away. He really had a big influence on planes and movies about them. Of course, seeing Leonardo DiCaprio's buttocks was extremely nauseating but the movie itself was amazing! Some people may be familiar with the movie "Hell's Angels" (a movie about World War I) and in this movie there was a big scene about that with planes flying around like one hundred birds in the air. What I really thought was amazing in this movie was the cinematography (the filming) because of how the camera moved around it is really difficult to explain why it was so good but in my opinion, it just was. Actually, the movie did win an Academy Award for the cinematography so apparently I'm not the only one that thinks this movie had really good filming. As you probably know, this movie won a few Academy Awards and was nominated for a few more besides cinematography and I thought it really deserved that. I especially wanted Leonardo DiCaprio (playing Howard Hughes) to win an Academy Award for Best Actor but he was only nominated for that. He, along with Cate Blanchett (playing Katherine Hepburn) and Kate Beckinsale (playing Ava Gardner) were the best actors (actresses) in the movie. Howard Hughes is known to be obsessive-compulsive. He also is known to be one of the most famous aviators of all time. Katherine Hepburn is known to be outgoing, independent, and to me she seems quite annoying in a way. And Ava Gardner is known to be adventurous, quite calm, and also independent. In my opinion, the actor and actresses that played them played their roles perfectly. In my opinion, nothing at all was boring in this movie but my brother really thought so because he doesn't like these types of movies at all. He really is a big fan of vulgar comedies. Anyway, in this last sentence, I will tell you what this movie was about- this movie was specifically about the history of Howard Hughes's life. I'm sorry for a very long review but there's just a whole lot to talk about in this classic film. By the way, this movie is very long (about three hours) and I think you know what I am going to tell you- go to the bathroom. Movie directed by Martin Scorsese.