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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: John Logan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
"A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s."
DAMN IT! I just about bought a new TV set after watching the DVD of the The Aviator and thinking the color in my 10 year old plasma TV had went out making this gawd awful looking ugly cyan color. It really stressed me out and ruined the movie watching experience, as for the whole 3 hours of the movie I kept thinking, 'Damn! now I have to go buy a new TV set!'.... And I spent half the night messing around with the color settings on the TV, ugh!
Then...the next morning I pop The Aviator DVD into my computer and was very relieved to see the same yucky cyan color. So I knew, my TV was OK and it was just a cheap bootleg DVD that my library had, and I was going to tell them to throw it away!
...Then I read some other reviews of the movie and seen others had the same reaction to the strange color...OMG, so this was Scorsese's attempt at art, ugh! I'm NOT impressed. Scorsese was attempting to shoot the film in early 1930s Two Strip Technicolor. I loved the movie, but the look of it is yuck! and to me the visual appeal of a movie needs to match the quality of the story telling. And the story telling, the acting was all top notch but that cyan color was so distracting that it ruined the joy of watching the movie.
BTW I just watched a Two Strip Technicolor film Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and the colors were much more pastel and pinkish, so I think Scorsese's addition of funky cyan color was not only distracting but inaccurate.
Leonardo DiCaprio nails the role of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Well I don't know for sure what the real Howard Hughes was like in person, as he was pretty reclusive, so what matters is that DiCaprio creates a well defined and sympathetic character that had me believing what I was watching was the real thing. Leo is excellent in this movie and so was all of the supporting cast, and it's a big cast that represents some of the most famous names in Hollywood during it's early days.
The Aviator creates the world of Hollywood during it's golden age (1930s-1950s), to near perfection.
The Aviator (2004)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: John Logan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
"A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s."
DAMN IT! I just about bought a new TV set after watching the DVD of the The Aviator and thinking the color in my 10 year old plasma TV had went out making this gawd awful looking ugly cyan color. It really stressed me out and ruined the movie watching experience, as for the whole 3 hours of the movie I kept thinking, 'Damn! now I have to go buy a new TV set!'.... And I spent half the night messing around with the color settings on the TV, ugh!
Then...the next morning I pop The Aviator DVD into my computer and was very relieved to see the same yucky cyan color. So I knew, my TV was OK and it was just a cheap bootleg DVD that my library had, and I was going to tell them to throw it away!
...Then I read some other reviews of the movie and seen others had the same reaction to the strange color...OMG, so this was Scorsese's attempt at art, ugh! I'm NOT impressed. Scorsese was attempting to shoot the film in early 1930s Two Strip Technicolor. I loved the movie, but the look of it is yuck! and to me the visual appeal of a movie needs to match the quality of the story telling. And the story telling, the acting was all top notch but that cyan color was so distracting that it ruined the joy of watching the movie.
BTW I just watched a Two Strip Technicolor film Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and the colors were much more pastel and pinkish, so I think Scorsese's addition of funky cyan color was not only distracting but inaccurate.
Leonardo DiCaprio nails the role of the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Well I don't know for sure what the real Howard Hughes was like in person, as he was pretty reclusive, so what matters is that DiCaprio creates a well defined and sympathetic character that had me believing what I was watching was the real thing. Leo is excellent in this movie and so was all of the supporting cast, and it's a big cast that represents some of the most famous names in Hollywood during it's early days.
The Aviator creates the world of Hollywood during it's golden age (1930s-1950s), to near perfection.