Reviews of The Aviator 2004

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  • Josh Lewis

    ★★★★ Rewatched by Josh Lewis 23 Feb 2020 7

    Solid movie about an extremely normal guy just being a cool dude. Flying planes, dating teenagers, drinking milk, making movies, taking about titties and llamas, having crippling disorders (that can be traced to visions of American success ingrained in childhood) exacerbated by an industry and culture that celebrates wealth and "progress" above anything else.

  • Patrick Willems

    ★★★★ Rewatched by Patrick Willems 09 Feb 2019 13

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    The plane crash in The Aviator >>> the bear attack in The Revenant

  • demi adejuyigbe

    ★★★★ Rewatched by demi adejuyigbe 09 Apr 2020 7

    I feel like the movie uses both Howard's OCD and wealth for great effect without delving into the explanation/development of how either became such a crucial part of his life, and that's a little frustrating to me– but god, what a film! Nobody makes a breezy three hours like Scorsese. The ending breaks my heart. Also the first moment of the movie is them spelling and saying "quarantine" repeatedly. It was so unexpected we screamed. Who'da thunk the movie about the reclusive billionaire germaphobe would be hittin different right now.

  • Silent J

    ★★★★★ Added by Silent J 2

    The way of the future...
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    The way of the (SLAP)

    *problem solved*

  • Karsten

    ★★★½ Watched by Karsten 14 Nov 2019 11

    This was a lot more entertaining and a lot crazier than what I was expecting. The editing was not doing it for me in a lot of cases which I suppose is the point, it makes things feel pretty claustrophobic, but it just felt sloppy at a certain point. This is such a 2004 movie....

  • SilentDawn

    ★★★★½ Watched by SilentDawn 24 Nov 2019 2

    90

    A tantalizing, old-fashioned film about a rich genius who somehow always existed as an underdog, eventually crumbling into the disparate pieces he constructed of himself. So intricate and operatic, and yet its grandness never feels generic or cheap. It's a film about hollywood as much as it is a Hollywood production. One of Leo's best roles, too. The evolving cinematographic techniques are the icing on the cake.

  • Amy Andrews

    ★★★★ Watched by Amy Andrews 26 Mar 2018 10

    This film is good.

    But it's long as a motherfucker.

  • Will Menaker

    ★★★★★ Watched by Will Menaker 07 Apr 2022 3

    Randian superman fights persecution by the neurotypical.

  • issy 🥝

    ★★★★ Watched by issy 🥝 11 Mar 2018

    according to all known laws of aviation,

  • matt lynch

    ★★★★ Watched by matt lynch 09 Dec 2013

    do everything to control the future and it still destroys you.

  • Neil Bahadur

    ★★★★★ Rewatched by Neil Bahadur 29 Apr 2016 6

    Not the best, but maybe my favorite Scorsese - almost Greek mythology with Wagnerian scope, one of the best films on the correlation between ambition and madness, Icarus flying too high into the sky and crashing - many times we see the sun obliterate the rest of Scorsese's frame in the flying sequences. Also Scorsese's mastery of music is at its best here - I'm thinking precisely of the arrangements of the Howard Shore's score for the flying sequences, the…

  • Ella Kemp

    ★★★★½ Watched by Ella Kemp 16 May 2021

    Surely one of the best Hollywood biopics ever made?

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