I should get paid for this
February 18, 2005 popcorn and choc tops 1 Comment
On Tuesday night I saw the Aviator with Tom, David and Anmol. But I forgot to blog about it and give it the big rating out of 7.
It was on $5 Tuesday. Fantastic, the person in charge of the $5 Tuesday at greater union deserves a 600 ml coke buddy.
Anyway it was a good film, I’m not generally a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan but he was good in this. Actually he was good in that one where he was on an island too, cant remember the name of it you know the one, bah I cant remember.
Anyway the Aviator, I had no idea what the movie was about before I saw it, I figured it was about planes and some romance with lots of Leonardo taking his shirt off. But instead its about a crazy eccentric entrepreneur who finds himself with a massive inheritance and spends it on making the biggest film the work has seen and also in the process making the worlds fastest plane.
The film follows the highs and lows of his career in the Air Travel business in the early 1900’s. A very good film. Also very long I think it was about 3 hours long. All films are long these days if its less than 2 hours its like you are just watching a trailer. Bit of a shame that because long films used to be a bit of a specialty but now they are just annoying because dodgy b grade films go just as long as little rippers.
Anyway the film was good, I would say that the character of DiCaprio was really an olden days Richard branson or that Branson is a modern day Howard hughs (di Caprios character).
I give it 5/7
