As biopics go, it's pretty good. The action scenes are exhilerating though sometimes "fake" looking. The cast is exceptional even in the lesser roles. A good role for dicaprio and a great role for cate. It's not great but it's enjoyable to watch.
show me the blue prints show me the blue prints the blue prints show me the blue prints...ok it was good i admit..but its one of those movies that i dont have to see for like a yr..it was long too.
Leo was good I never new Howard Hughes was such a womanizer. Howard had his hands in a lot of money making business. Howards dwindling of mental health near the end of his life was so overwhelming and was well played by Leo Di.
A technically brilliant and well-directed biopic about Howard Hughes. All of the performances here were awesome, with Cate Blanchett's win for Katherine Hepburn the most memorable. DiCaprio shows he's got some real chops and I love the dynamic he has with Scorsese - the two seem to bring out the best in each other. John C. Reilly, Alan Alda, and Alec Baldwin deserve some credit, too.
A lilttle bit too long but cant be Scorsese without that lol. Good acting by Dicaprio and good work on the story and all the information about this weird guy who was Hughes by the crew! Sometime boring
Leo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes, the famous rich aviator and airplane novice, in this 2004 winner. Fun but not 4 stars here, because DiCaprio is just too much, and he's still made up to look nice even after his character is supposedly seriously burned all over his body from a crash. (As Hughs had been). The depression scene would have made a lot more sense if he was really badly scarred too. Scorsese is kinda losing it here, because some of it is epic, and a lot of it isn't.
Blanchett is great again, of course (even underneath the weird Kate Hepburn makeup). DiCaprio is very committed and gives an admirable performance. This is not the type of movie you think about when you think of Scorsese, but this proves to be completely satisfying nonetheless.
It's fun to look for the famous celebrities - Jude Law steals a scene as Errol Flynn and you can see Cary Grant and George Cukor sitting on the beach when Hughes picks up Hepburn in his plane
"For some men, the sky was the limit. For him, it was just the beginning." What do you expect? Its Leonardo DiCaprio...He always does an amazing job. Its an awesome movie. It won 5 Oscars too. Its sad though the way that Howard Hughes(DiCaprio) is. You have to see it to know what i mean.
I can't believe this movie receives so many poor reviews. While it is not Scorsese's best, it is still very impressive and quite epic. Howard Hughes remains a mysterious character whose biographies are usually based on speculation rather than truth. Scorsese has done an amazing job of showing one adaptation of Hughes' life from his ambitious beginnings as a filmmaker to his later contributions to the world of aviation.
Due to another impressive performance from DiCaprio, Hughes' obsessive-compulsive disorder is shown as both his biggest fault and at times his biggest asset. But the most impressive acting in the film is Cate Blanchett's role as Katherine Hepburn, one of the most famous (and yet still mysterious) actresses in movie history. Blanchett is very convincing as Hepburn, almost as if she had found some way to become possessed by Kate Hepburn's spirit as she frolicked through each of her scenes with biting wit and attractive charm that is shared by both Hepburn and Blanchett, winning her the Oscar she deserved for this role.
All together a great film with some stunning visuals, outstanding performances, and a time capsule glimpse into movie history, a film you may want to watch again and again.
I love Martin Scorsese as a film-maker but this isn't one of his best. Fosuses too much on the headcase side of Howard Hughes' personality rather than his achievements and more interesting aspects of his life. Leo is a boy playing a man.
A truly epic scale biographical period film. Scorsese directs with a unique "Old Hollywood" style. DiCaprio portrays Hughes as an eccentric, perfectionist madman, and of course does a damn good job at it.
A biographical chronicle which charts the early years of famous tycoon, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), whose eclectic career spanned across everything from oil, for which he cared little, to film, casinos, and aviation--as he turned millions of dollars
this was very interesting. i liked how it was about airplanes.
howard hughes is a very different character! i mean he has a obsessive compulsion disorder, that sometime made the movie funny. like my fav was when he's like you dont want to know what kind of crap people have on their hands (something along the lines of those) and then katie's like what crap?!
i never ever knew that back then the paparazzi's cameras lightbulb shattered after a picture. that highly dangerous and would be very annoying! and then i really would not like to step on all the bulbs that are on the ground.
howard is a very professional business man for sure. except i think that he asks just a little too much from his employees.
cate blanchett was superb for the role as katherine hepburn! even though sometimes she talked weird. i liked how she changed her style throughout the movie because like at the beginning of the movie, she was wearing more masculine clothing and her hair looked more like a guy than a girl. she then gets more feminine. her hair is pretty when it's readish colored.
i personally dont think that kate beckinsale did her best performance in this role. it was horrendous when she slapped him after he had had the terrible crash and made him fall to the ground and bleed!!! i dont know anyone who would have a heart to do that (girl that i mean!)
that plane crash was awful!! imean he was on fire and broke the majority of his bones. that would be the most uncomfortable and painful thing i could ever think of! the whole quarantine thing was sad in a way.
A completley overlooked and underappreciated Scorcese film. Leonardo Dicaprio should have won the Oscar for Best Actor for his great performance as Howard Hughes.
AHHHHHHHHHH. Don't watch it. For the sake of your own sanity, don't watch it. Just lame. I love Cate Blanchett, but playing a caricature of the great Katherine Hepburn does NOT deserve an Oscar. It was like watching a muppet. You would think with an amazing cast and a great director that this would be worth something. Instead, I found myself either falling asleep or laughing at parts that weren't supposed to be comical. Yep. It's pretty bad.
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