I found Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator an odd film. Not bad, not great – good, but odd.
It’s strange in that while it’s engaging, it’s not emotionally engaging. It keeps you at a distance, sort of like a science experiment. You’re curious about it but in a dispassionate kind of way.
Well, you can read more of my musings in my review.
One thing I don’t really talk about in it is the performances, which are all good. Scorsese assembled quite an array of today’s talent to play yesterday’s talent: Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner, Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, Jude Law as Errol Flynn … it’s quite a list.
By the way, I didn’t get far in the special features. I was watching the Biography thing on Howard Hughes and ran out of gas because it was basically a grocery list – Hughes did this, then that, then that … kinda boring.
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