Kevin's Watch

The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese. When, I heard about this movie and the casting of Leonardo deCaprio, I was skeptical, let's be serious a matinee, and teen, idol in what everyone thought would be a demanding role (most would think Scorsese had lost it). For example, one would not cast Fabian as Jim Stark or Annette Funicello as Daisy Clover. However, after seeing the movie, benefits of premium cable, I see the casitng of deCaprio as a real coup. To most of us today, our memory of Howard Huges is the very bizarre old man, unkept long beard and hair, and uncut fingernails, kept a prisoner in random and private hotel rooms attended by fawning sycophants and bound by his own paranoias and phobias. But, Howard Hughes was not always like that, he was once a young man with a young man's passions and ambitions, to be a great name as an aviator and aviation engineer, a passion for women and to make movies. Casting deCaprio captured that reality.

Was there already, a thread for this movie?

I'm not a fan of DiCaprio but he was good as Hughes.

I prefer the guy who played Hughes in Rocketeer.....well, not really, but I wanted to say that before Jay did.

dANdeLION wrote:I prefer the guy who played Hughes in Rocketeer.....well, not really, but I wanted to say that before Jay did.

Thats funny. Terry O'Quinn who plays John Locke on Lost was the actor who played Howard Hughes in The Rocketeer. I like most everything he's done. FYI

Terry O'Quinn was the only cool guy in the X-Files movie, too.

dANdeLION wrote:Terry O'Quinn was the only cool guy in the X-Files movie, too.

Yeah but he managed to get himself blown to bits in the first 10 minutes.