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Review
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Stinker of a film that almost won Scorcese an Oscar that
everyone knows he really deserved for Taxi Driver or Raging
Bull. Biggest flaw: the miscasting of Leonardo DiCaprio--
whose production company was involved in making the film--
as Howard Hughes, a decision so preposterous that it's hard
to take a moment of the film seriously. Why is Katharine
Hepburn fondling a 12-year-old boy? And why did Scorcese
ignore the last, most interesting, 20 years of Hughes life?
Why isn't the test flight of the Spruce Goose depicted as
absurd and ridiculous, when that is obviously what it was?
Nobody seriously contemplated actually using the plane for
anything other than a curiousity. The film dragged. It was
boring, though Cate Blanchett did a whale of a job with her
role.
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