SO we watched the Aviator today after church. It was an ok movie, considering i dropped 5 bucks on it at blockbuster to buy it. It was really long, which everyone had told me about, but I felt like it didn't really go in depth into who Howard Hughes was. I kept expecting it to flush out more about why he was the way he was but instead I felt Scorcese just sort of hints that it ties back to his mom.
It was a weird movie, because in some ways they seem to want to portray him as a hero for taking on Pan AM and the pushing the aviation envelop but in other ways its painting him as a lunatic, i mean i guess thats what scorcese likes to do, his heros aren't heros.
Cate Blancet as Katheryn Hepurn was annoying, i mean if thats the way Hepurn talked how was she ever successful as an actress because man it got annoying. I thought Dicaprio was actually really good in the movie, though he struggles as always because he looks so stinking young. It was also interesting that even the smallest parts were given to popular actors/actresses. Willam Dafoe is in the movie for two seconds.
Overall the movie was ok, not bad for 5 bucks. Scorcese works too much to get these dramatic moments in there, then drags them out to the point of it being annoying. I'm sorry but if he said, "way of the future" one more time I was going to see how far the DVD could be thrown out my front door. And I'm wishing I knew more about Hughes because I feel the movie was a very Scorcese/Decaprio interpretation that should be taken with a grain of salt and a history text book. Also i was surprised how suddenly the movie just ended, you kind of expect it to go on into his older years and it just sort of stops. Also I've read the Hercules flight was very small and was not viewed as positively as it was in the movie. I read in some of my history text books that it sort of confirmed the stupidty of the plane because it only flew for a few football fields before having to come down. Though I must admit the idea of a mobile transport that could land in water is still a pretty cool idea. Also makes me wonder why a jet hydro plane has never seen much light. Granted a jet taking off on water would probably fall apart if it hit one wave.
In house hunting news not much. Some stupendous houses were found that were always missing one key element. I want to stone the builders of these brand new houses that have kitchens the size of the inside of a sentra and have master beds/bath on the first floor but no half bath on the 1st floor. Thats the problem we have with our current house... our bathroom is the guest bathroom. So if you come over I have to make sure my bathroom is clean because its where you'll make water. Thus the desire for a half bath so people can use that.
The kitchens really baffled me, you can tell that men design these houses because they all had awful kitchens. So all the houses had no kitchen, no half bath on the first floor, or were locked. Most of them were locked but from window peeping nothing really spiked our interest.
Posted by holtonian at June 25, 2006 10:28 PM | TrackBack