"The Aviator" Report-

short span wings..

No canopy in the ground shots, canopy in the flying shots. The beet field crash landing was pretty intense, but the XF-11 crash left you exhausted.

Act? Oh yeah! Almost three hours of watching a man's mind unwind was unerving and Di Capro pulled it off with room to spare. Hated the Kate Blanchett role as Kate Hepburn, though.

The Senate committee scenes near the end was eerie. He nailed those scenes.

The Hercules scenes could have been better, at least the short flight.

All in all I'll be grabbing the DVD when it comes out. Oh, and was that the Boeing Model 100 in the early scenes during the filming of Hell's Angels? They did a good job with the computers making the whole field of Witchita Fokkers, SE.5s, etc., at least better than the Hercules.

Tom

Definitely....despite our misgivings about DiCaprio; anyone who can open up a can of "ass whup" on Alan Alda....is "okay" in my book.

:o)

History and Howard Hughes MIGHT have helped him a little.....

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

I saw a snippet on TV, how did Howard live through that? Punctured a lung in six places with associated broken ribs. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Also don't forget as he lay in the hospital he designed the hospital bed.

The guy was brillant

I wish my great-grandfather had pattented the hospital bed tray when he was stuck in a bed for months back around the time of the California gold rush.

You know, tray attached to a frame which wheels under the bed. He even had the tray tilt up for reading the way they are done now. Have his journal with the sketches from that time. A patent search shows that it wasn't patented untl

Oh well.

Tom

Keep in mind............. this is A c t i n g............