In the 1960s, there was a sub-genre of drug freak-out movies involving coloured lights, hallucinations, scenes from movies being projected over people's faces, and other such fun. You know the movies I mean: The Trip, Mantis In Lace, etc.
If you like those movies, you should probably see Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes bio-pic The Aviator. Most of the movie is a better-than-good movie with the famous people of today impersonating the famous people of yesterday (Cate Blanchett does a fun cartoon version of Kate Kepburn; Jude Law is hilarious as Erroll Flynn), but then there are those Other Scenes.
I avoided this movie because it stars Leonardo DeCaprio. I always forget that he's actually a pretty good actor. He's better here than he was in his last Scorsese movie, Gangs of New York. His best role is still the retard in What's Wating Gilbert Grape? - a movie where he managed to out-shine Johnny Depp.
So yeah. 90% a good normal movie, 10% a great stoner movie. Points off for the mis-casting of Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner - what in Hell were they thinking, casting someone merely cute as that smouldering temptress?
Knowing nothing about Hughes mught be a slight handicap.
8 out of 10.
Posted by joey at June 30, 2006 2:03 PMI knew nothing about Hughes, but I still adored this film - it was one of my favourites of 2005.
And yes, Leo is quite a good actor.
Cheers
Posted by: Martin at July 5, 2006 10:21 PM