So I never moved this movie up in my Netflix queue. I had heard it was good, sometimes really good...people told me---"It's about Howard Hughes, and Katherine Hepburn and how he goes kinda bonkers but redeems himself and..." to which I replied...."Yawn!"
OK...so I was wrong! I should have moved this movie WAY up in my queue. It was fantastic! Yes...it was about all that was described above, starring Leo Decaprio as Howard Hughes, the billionaire who lost as many fortunes as he made, and with Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn, his lost love. It really is an epic film about an epic man, directed by an epic director, Martin Scorsese.
The Aviator (2004) traces Hughes' genius and neurosis and shows his rise and the beginning of his fall into mental illness and self imposed exile and exhibits a quiet brilliance. The acting is understated but pretty extraordinary, especially by DiCaprio and Blanchett, with great support by John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsdale and others.
This film cannot be described in a way that does not sound as boring as I heard it. "Yawn!" But watching it is a different story. How the hell does that happen? How do you take the medium of words and transform it into images that create something unique and wonderful? I guess that is why we honor people like Scorsese, for his brilliance at doing that.
So if the description of this movie has always put you off a bit...just watch it...it is amazing.
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