The Aviator

[flyboy 28]

What a depressing movie. When I saw on the box "nudity" I was thinking maybe a woman. Not Leonardo DiCaprio's ass.. :-/

Sure it has some flying in it, but it's mostly about Howard Hughe's life. Theres this part where he's living in his own little theatre running around naked and pissing in bottles. That's disgusting! :-/

Anyone else see it and have a differant take on it?

[C]

What a depressing movie. When I saw on the box "nudity" I was thinking maybe a woman. Not Leonardo DiCaprio's ass.. :-/

Ha!

Sure it has some flying in it, but it's mostly about Howard Hughe's life. Theres this part where he's living in his own little theatre running around naked and pissing in bottles. That's disgusting! :-/

Make a film about aeroplanes, 75% (ish) of the population aren't interested...

Make a film about someone who had a eccentric, disturbed yet interesting life, your audience could be anyone at all, and you'll make money. He just happened to build (eccentric) aeroplanes too...

From IMDB...

Tagline: Some men dream the future. He built it. (more)

Plot Outline: A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920's to the mid-1940's.

[beefhole]

It was a good movie about a brilliant, yet completely ****ing nuts guy.  I liked it a lot.  It really gave you an idea of what he was going through.

[Jared]

hmm, haven't seen it...thinking I might get it on dvd someday down the road, that way I don't have to pay as much to see it and I won't feel guilty if I don't finish watching it...

[jordonj]

I read a book from a guy who flew for TWA.  As he puts it:

I don't know what went wrong with Mr. Hughes.

He was highly intelligent and had a lot of enemies.  I think he suffered from a form of OCD.  As for the pissing in bottles, others have done that.

By the way, Gandhi drank his urine in the morning!  He didn't have OCD...it was to stay healthy (two older Russian Figure skaters today do that...dunno their names).

The thing to remember is that if Hughes hadn't done all the things he did, flying wouldn't be where it is today!

[BFMF]

Yes, Hughes was a little odd, but then again, we've got a lot of people here who spend all their time either thinking or talking about flying, spending untold hundreds of hours flying flightsimulators, surfing aviation/flightsim websites, and spending a lot of money trying to enhance our flightsim experiance. Myself included

How many of you flightsimmers locked yourselves in your computer rooms to fly and not be disturbed by the outside world, not shower or shave, not cook, or get bothered to dress so you don't have to leave your cockpit's unattended?

So if we're going to label Hughes as a little odd, maybe we should think again

[beefhole]

I don't really think there's much comparison, Andrew.  He was extremely paranoid and had bad OCD.  Yea, we may go to the extremes sometimes, but Hughes definitely whoops us in that category.  I doubt any of us have ever actually gone nuts and locked ourselves in a movie theatre, peeing in bottles (ok, there was just that one time...)

[beaky]

How many of you flightsimmers locked yourselves in your computer rooms to fly and not be disturbed by the outside world, not shower or shave, not cook, or get bothered to dress so you don't have to leave your cockpit's unattended?

That reminds me- I've gotta get another bottle...

[jordonj]

I think there was a French poet who did that (peed in bottles).

[BFMF]

I don't really think there's much comparison, Andrew.

I was really just kidding around.

don't take me so seriously at times

[The Ruptured Duck]

The Aviator was an excellent movie about Howard Huges.  Not specifically Aviation.  Great Cinematography, fine acting(for DeCaprio), and it was not afraid to show the truelly screwed up side of him.

[The Ruptured Duck]

As a matter of fact, when I grow up, I want to be just like him minus the obsessive compulsive and the racially bios part of him.

Howard Hughes represents everything I want to become.  A true renaisanse man-Aviator, businessman, artist.  Except I want to be an Aviator, race car driver, businessman, music producer, politician, and meteorologist.  

Hmmmm, I have alot to live up to.  I think I will need like 2million Red Bulls to keep up with myself.

[beefhole]

don't take me so seriously at times

Right back at you

You were obviously joking

Another case where I should've added smilies

[flyboy 28]

As a matter of fact, when I grow up, I want to be just like him minus the obsessive compulsive and the racially bios part of him.

He was a germaphobe, which was what made him OCD.

And he was taught to be racist.

[Foxtrot Sport]

Not to make fun of the disorder, but....

THE WAY OF THE FUTURE, the way of the future, the way of the future, the way of the future *echoes*

-HF