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Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Stealth on December 27, 2004, 12:25:15 am: Here's my "review"

December 26th, at 8:45 i saw "Aviator", with an all-star cast including Jude Law, Kate Beckinsale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and Gwen Stefani, to name a few. Everyone i saw it with (3 guys, 4 girls) disliked the movie, and i was the only one that enjoyed it. Granted, it was a little on the long side, but nonetheless a great movie. I asked one of the guys that was with us why he didn't like it... was it because there wasn't enough sex, violence, and blood? He replied (seriously) "hehe well i am a guy"... so it appears that i'm one of the few people of our age group that can sit down and watch a good, clean movie, with a great plot and storyline, even though it lacked excessive language, sex scenes, nudity, blood, gore, violence, etc. I recommend it. A great movie i think, almost on par with other film biographies, such as "A Beautiful Mind".

While i'm no fan of Leonardo DiCaprio, I must say that he's getting good. His performance in "Catch me if you can" with Tom Hanks was good, but in "The Aviator" it's nothing short of spectacular. All acting in the movie, in fact, was great. There were some parts of the movie that for 5 minutes would be nothing more than one of the characters talking about their emotions or feelings, and i think that was drawn out a little long, but otherwise a great movie, and i'd recommend it to anyone who can enjoy a movie with less than a "R" rating.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Sandwich on December 27, 2004, 02:45:14 am: Haven't seen it yet, but I did read somewhere that the average camera shot has gone down from whole minutes to about 15 seconds - following the average attention span of the put-instant-coffee-in-the-microwave-and-it's-ready-before-you-heat-it-up American public. :p
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: aldo_14 on December 27, 2004, 04:56:10 am: Aviator is Howard Hughes biopic, isn't it? Does it have the bit where he goes nuts, buys hotels in Las Vegas to live in and starts to bottle his own urine?
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: WMCoolmon on December 27, 2004, 06:00:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Haven't seen it yet, but I did read somewhere that the average camera shot has gone down from whole minutes to about 15 seconds - following the average attention span of the put-instant-coffee-in-the-microwave-and-it's-ready-before-you-heat-it-up American public. :p

Well, it also makes it easier from a directing perspective...actors only have to keep straight faces for 15 seconds. ;)
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Stealth on December 27, 2004, 07:17:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Aviator is Howard Hughes biopic, isn't it? Does it have the bit where he goes nuts, buys hotels in Las Vegas to live in and starts to bottle his own urine?

yeah it shows that, near the end.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Nuke on December 27, 2004, 12:40:10 pm: we still dont have it here but i saw oceans 12, liked the first one better.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: adwight on December 27, 2004, 06:05:14 pm: I went and saw Meet the Fockers instead of Aviator, and just let me say, I havent' laughed so hard in a long long time.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Stealth on December 27, 2004, 10:58:28 pm: let me just say, i wouldn't see that movie on principle
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on December 27, 2004, 11:03:57 pm: Quote
Originally posted by adwight
I went and saw Meet the Fockers instead of Aviator, and just let me say, I havent' laughed so hard in a long long time.

So then it's good?
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: adwight on December 29, 2004, 03:53:16 pm: Hilarious.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Knight Templar on December 29, 2004, 03:56:29 pm: Dude, everyone knows movies without R ratings suck. That's why R stands for R0X0RZ!!
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Stealth on December 29, 2004, 04:36:24 pm: 9 of the top 10 highest grossing movies of all time were below PG-13 (the only one that was R was passion of christ)

5 out of the top 50 highest grossing movies of all time were PG-13 or below.

i have nothing against R-rated movies, but with all due respsect, to say that movies without R ratings suck would be ignorant at best. that or you have a flawed opinion ;)
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: pyro-manic on December 29, 2004, 06:21:52 pm: I haven't seen it (I don't even know if it's out in Blighty yet), but I was greatly discouraged by the flyer posters, that seem to pimp the fact that Sprout-Boy and Kate Beckinsale are in it, rather than what it's actually about (the posters are basically huge close-ups of their faces, with nothing else on them).

I do have an interest in Howard Hughes, though (I love the 1930s - they were IMO the beginning of the golden age of aviation), so I might see it, especially after reading this...
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 29, 2004, 09:48:34 pm: Bah. Go see Flight of the Phoenix instead. Much better movie on a lower budget.
Title: The Aviator - what did you think of it?
Post by: Stealth on December 29, 2004, 10:08:42 pm: Flight of the Phoenix i saw the week before. one of the best movies i've seen all year, without a doubt.