83 - The Aviator (2004)
Episode description
Odds and Ends: The ramifications of having a date night while your dogs are left at home; T.J. saw Puss in Boots! The… the first one, from like ten years ago. But we’ll get to the new one later; Nick is going through another classic tv show with 30 Rock; T.J. adds The Kid Detective to his list of movies he likes a lot because it fits a very specific niche genre he made up
Feature Film: We talk about Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, a biopic about famed entrepreneur/inventor/filmmaker/etc. Howard Hughes. We also talk a bit about the subject himself, because golly, did that chap sure do a lot of things outside of all that airplane guff. An Oscar-bait flick that rises above some of the more annoying trappings of similar fair, due in part to the deft direction of Scorsese, and a great lead performance by DiCaprio. Am I writing pull quotes for it here? I just ran out of stuff to say early on and the description felt a little thin. But now that I’m describing all this, I feel like it’s getting a bit too long. But if I delete it all now, I’ll be back where I started. Somehow I think I created a bootstrap paradox without using time travel. Oh god. The way of the future…
Next week’s movie: The Hidden Fortress (1958)
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