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Title: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 12:42:04 AM
Awesome is The Aviator

(http://www.fashionclub.com/the-dish/reel-good-fashion/articles/20041203/images/aviator_girls.jpg)
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 12:45:32 AM
Yeah it's awesome except for that little bit with his mother at the end where they had to reinforce themes.

That didn't really bug me so much.  It wasn't as bad as, say, the exposition-rific end of The Prestige.  It probably didn't bug me because it was a short lil thing.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 12:47:11 AM
I like how it captures the period flavor more than anything else, and the performances by the various actors are uniformly nice.  It's a lousy script.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 12:50:04 AM
And Cate Blanchett actually manages to make Katharine Hepburn seem hot.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 12:53:40 AM
This was the first movie I went to see with my future wife.  :-*

Yeah, we had fun that night. :heart
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: FancyFeast on March 10, 2008, 12:54:57 AM
WAAAAY better than the Departed.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:01:16 AM
You were stalking me back then?
 :o

:ninja

WAAAAY better than the Departed.

But worse than Infernal Affairs.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 01:01:55 AM
I just watched it for the first time about a week ago. Yeah, it was fucking awesome. Leo :bow Cate Blanchett gave a really damn good performance too. And Kate Beckinsale was OMG.

Ichi cementing his japa(asian)-cigarillo status.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: T234 on March 10, 2008, 01:02:07 AM
Yeah, this movie surprised the hell outta me one day when I watched it on tv. Seeing it in theaters or on Blu-Ray (the highest resolution device in my house is 1024x768, is 14 inches, and is from 1997) would be glorious.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:05:33 AM
I just watched it for the first time about a week ago. Yeah, it was fucking awesome. Leo :bow Cate Blanchett gave a really damn good performance too. And Kate Beckinsale was OMG.

Ichi cementing his japa(asian)-cigarillo status.

I'm just telling the truth.  I'm a truth-teller.  A teller of truths.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:06:40 AM
Kate so awesome
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:10:39 AM
I'll give you some links to naked pics of her if you want
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:11:33 AM
this thread just got uncomfortable
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 10, 2008, 01:11:42 AM
WAAAAY better than the Departed.
too frigging right.

Marty's best movie in years, easily.
and Cajole dude, Hong Kong cinema is worlds apart from Japanese cinema.  We can all agree that Ichirou is a Japa-eff, that doesn't mean that he's automatically a fan of any sort of Chinese cinema.  Hell, most Japafags can't even tell the multiple Tony Leungs apart.  That Ichi-boy there prefers Infernal Affairs to The Departed is only a sign of his good taste and nothing more.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 01:12:40 AM
I loved the special effects.  I can't think of many movies that used CG in such an organic manner, and the fucking with the coloring stuff looked awesome, too.  It's a really gorgeous movie visually.

That scene at the beginning with him filming Hell's Angels while in the plane is :o

Hell, most Japafags can't even tell the multiple Tony Leungs apart. 

:bow Happy Together
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:14:02 AM
I just love how all his freak outs were shot
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:15:37 AM
this thread just got uncomfortable

My pants just got uncomfortable...maybe I should slip them off. ;)
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 01:16:12 AM
Also Leo acts the fuck out of this movie.  Blanchett, too.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 01:17:04 AM
WAAAAY better than the Departed.
too frigging right.

Marty's best movie in years, easily.
and Cajole dude, Hong Kong cinema is worlds apart from Japanese cinema.  We can all agree that Ichirou is a Japa-eff, that doesn't mean that he's automatically a fan of any sort of Chinese cinema.  Hell, most Japafags can't even tell the multiple Tony Leungs apart.  That Ichi-boy there prefers Infernal Affairs to The Departed is only a sign of his good taste and nothing more.

Well, he was saying Infernal Affairs > Aviator. I don't know anything about foreign cinema so I'll stop now. :P
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:17:14 AM
Not one naysayer yet.  Seems like this should be the official movie of Evilbore.

I like it a lot.  Flying sequences are ace, Leo is miscast but does a helluva job anyway, the movie does a really great job of capturing the period...really, the only bad point is the formulaic script, but then, it's by John Logan, who is famous for sucking.

I own it on DVD.

And yes, Cajole.  Infernal Affairs is better than The Aviator, which is better than The Departed.  Why does saying that instantly make me an asiafag?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 01:19:47 AM
You had to bring up an Asian film.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Yes, I know why.
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Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:20:39 AM
It made sense in the context of the discussion!

Note that you'll never see me talking about any other Chinese movies since I know nothing about Chinese or HK cinema.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 10, 2008, 01:23:36 AM
Also Leo acts the fuck out of this movie.  Blanchett, too.
quite right.

It helps, it really helps, that Leo looks the part of a 1930's-40's leading man, even now I struggle to think of any movie that used Leo better then The Aviator did.  The casting is top-to-down fecking impeccable, any movie that can get a good performance out of today's Kate Beckinsdale deserves some props.

Also, I claim the apparently vacant spot of Evilbore's Chinese/Hong Kong (yes there is a difference between Chinese and Hong Kong cinema) movie expert.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 01:25:28 AM
If you watch the actual footage of Hughes when he was at that hearing at the end of the movie, Leo totally nails his voice.  Some of the footage is in the 9 minute long F for Fake trailer.

Posting this because I love whoring F for Fake because it is such a bizarre movie.  And it might have the tighest editing evar

[youtube=425,350]VtO-o74c3c0[/youtube]
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:25:50 AM
hay watch the kate bashing, she's tops
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on March 10, 2008, 01:26:52 AM
hay watch the kate bashing, she's top heavy.  (bad-dum pshh)
fixed.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:29:22 AM
hay watch the kate bashing, she's tops

Yeah, I wouldn't mind her being on top.

Of me.

In bed.

Get the picture?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:37:04 AM
Kate #1
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: AdmiralViscen on March 10, 2008, 01:37:56 AM
How's the Blu Ray transfer?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:41:01 AM
Was The Aviator shot digitally?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 01:43:46 AM
bluray transfer looks great, but now that I mostly watch blurays its getting harder to tell
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 01:50:18 AM
bluray transfer looks great, but now that I mostly watch blurays its getting harder to tell

lol

I have a 22 inch SDTV. :(
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 10, 2008, 03:52:26 AM
Not one naysayer yet.  Seems like this should be the official movie of Evilbore.

I'm for it. I own it on gloryholeious Blu-gay and it is awesome!
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Raban on March 10, 2008, 04:30:19 AM
From a wall in my room:

(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b288/Gearharaden/IMG_0072-1.jpg)

Only poster I will ever use save for a framed one for Half-Life 2 Episode 1.

Funny story is, my friends gave it to me as a joke present for even enjoying the movie, because they thought it sucked ass.

Haters can suck it  :punch
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 04:37:00 AM
You should watch those films I recommended, Raban.

They are good.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: brawndolicious on March 10, 2008, 06:24:22 AM
WAAAAY better than the Departed.
But worse than Infernal Affairs.
Being better than the departed isn't saying much though.

I'd like this much more if they didn't try to fit a happy ending.  Cause as most of you know, Hughes went into conclusion and died a very unhappy man.  They could have shown the changing times and how Hughes started to look and feel obsolete and they could have still kept all of the awesome scenes that show the lifestyle of pre-WW2 America.  Would have made a much better movie imo.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: drohne on March 10, 2008, 06:54:51 AM
i think i disagree with evilbore across the board here

i don't like the aviator much. it's one of those scorsese movies that strains towards importance. and in the aviator's particular case, it bowdlerizes hughes' story in the process. both his talent and his madness were much weirder than the movie suggests. and i think kate beckinsale as ava gardner was a poor piece of stunt casting. one hopes that she had to suck marty's dick.

the departed is much better. at root it's a b-movie, but working on that kind of material let scorsese drop a lot of baggage, and it comes closer to the kind of energy that makes goodfellas so irresistible -- even now that i'm older and am no longer fascinated with violent criminals. it's an interesting companion piece to infernal affairs...i'm not sure which i prefer. it loses the original movie's geometric arrangement and clarity of theme, but gains a lot of interesting character stuff

on that note, i find matt damon's character more interesting than dicaprio's -- but what's fascinating is to watch him rot away morally behind a mask that looks and acts like matt damon, and i'm not sure if this entails much of a performance
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 10:25:48 AM
Outside of some questionable effects and accents Aviator rocks :bow
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 11:02:10 AM
departed doesnt have kate or cate
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Eric P on March 10, 2008, 11:10:18 AM
yes but did the aviator spawn a simpsons remake?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Raban on March 10, 2008, 11:22:38 AM
You should watch those films I recommended, Raban.

They are good.

Don't worry about me man, I will. Just a bit busy recently, is all.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 12:44:16 PM
The only thing interesting about Matt Damon's character in The Departed is how he can't even keep his accent straight.  I'm guessing Scorsese just got tired of doing retakes and let him do his thing. . . poorly.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Eric P on March 10, 2008, 01:13:05 PM
The only thing interesting about Matt Damon's character in The Departed is how he can't even keep his accent straight.  I'm guessing Scorsese just got tired of doing retakes and let him do his thing. . . poorly.

isn't he FROM that area though?

i haven't seen the departed since theaters
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 01:50:47 PM
The only thing interesting about Matt Damon's character in The Departed is how he can't even keep his accent straight.  I'm guessing Scorsese just got tired of doing retakes and let him do his thing. . . poorly.

isn't he FROM that area though?

i haven't seen the departed since theaters

He goes from sounding believable to having a cartoon-like affectation on a random basis.  It is probably the most inconsistent movie accent in a big picture since Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: T234 on March 10, 2008, 01:53:43 PM
Yeah, Damon's accent in The Departed sucks. I've been to Boston, he has the shittiest Boston accent I have ever heard.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 02:50:44 PM
His accent never bothered me at all in The Departed. I need to pay attention to it the next time I watch it.

And honestly, some people from Boston do sound like a cartoon. :lol
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Eric P on March 10, 2008, 02:51:55 PM
His accent never bothered me at all in The Departed. I need to pay attention to it the next time I watch it.

And honestly, some people from Boston do sound like a cartoon. :lol

gone baby gone taught us that
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 02:58:05 PM
New Yorkers don't pronounce their Rs either.  :-[ Although, we're not nearly as bad.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 03:46:59 PM
:( How was my accent when I played COD4 with you?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 05:58:47 PM
The only thing interesting about Matt Damon's character in The Departed is how he can't even keep his accent straight.  I'm guessing Scorsese just got tired of doing retakes and let him do his thing. . . poorly.

isn't he FROM that area though?

i haven't seen the departed since theaters

He goes from sounding believable to having a cartoon-like affectation on a random basis.  It is probably the most inconsistent movie accent in a big picture since Keanu in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

THE OLD MAN, HE'S TURNED YOUNG!

i need to watch this again  :lol
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 06:01:54 PM
Cajole, upload a WAV file of you saying "Awesome" plz.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: bud on March 10, 2008, 06:05:04 PM
i dunno, he sounded pretty much the same as in good will hunting

talking about accents, don cheadle's english accent in ocean's eleven... lol
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: T234 on March 10, 2008, 06:06:51 PM
:( How was my accent when I played COD4 with you?
I have a MUCH stronger accent than you do cajole :-*
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:08:35 PM
TVC=dark, commanding voice

Drinky=sounds like an 18 year old to me

FatalT=dark, commanding southern voice

Cloudwalking=sounded so innocent but it was a lie

Cheebs=nerdy voice
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Tauntaun on March 10, 2008, 06:16:18 PM
:( How was my accent when I played COD4 with you?

Do you guys play on PC or xfag live?  I PWN ON PC I AIN'T NO FPS NUB! :punch
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 06:20:24 PM
:( How was my accent when I played COD4 with you?
I have a MUCH stronger accent than you do cajole :-*

Yea, you do. It took me a while to get accustomed to it. :P

And I will, TVC.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: T234 on March 10, 2008, 06:43:26 PM
:( How was my accent when I played COD4 with you?
I have a MUCH stronger accent than you do cajole :-*

Yea, you do. It took me a while to get accustomed to it. :P

And I will, TVC.
The only accent I have heard over live that is stronger than my own is a scotsman.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:45:32 PM
*begins to remember speaking to Symbios on vent*  :-\
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 06:46:48 PM
You've heard my voice, PD. I guess my voice wasn't anything memorable. :(
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:47:23 PM
I don't remember your voice honestly. It must not have been NY-ish or I'd have remembered
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 06:49:12 PM
Yeah, it's not really pronounced at all. Just a handful of words.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:51:24 PM
Like harbor, marsh, and wassamatawitu?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 06:53:37 PM
awesome, coffee, call, Huntington
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:55:14 PM
And you can't even pronounce intercourse amirite
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 06:56:03 PM
You can't teach me either
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 06:57:57 PM
hooked on phonics failed us  :'(
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 06:59:12 PM
Wait, how do you mung up Huntington when you say it?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 07:18:32 PM
I don't pronounce the first "t"
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 09:28:33 PM
TVC=dark, commanding voice

Drinky=sounds like an 18 year old to me

FatalT=dark, commanding southern voice

Cloudwalking=sounded so innocent but it was a lie

Cheebs=nerdy voice

Didn't you say Drinky has a lisp, too?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 10, 2008, 10:30:01 PM
i think you got me and fatalt swapped, pd
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: MrAngryFace on March 10, 2008, 10:31:39 PM
drinky doesnt have a lisp
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 10, 2008, 10:34:03 PM
he'th right
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 10:59:29 PM
Nah you sounded like an 18 year old. I remember thinking you were TVC, just pretending to be Drinky. I was disappointed. I expected:

[youtube=425,350]9mSKBgvHdoE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSKBgvHdoE&feature=user

 :-\
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 11:04:13 PM
Nah you sounded like an 18 year old. I remember thinking you were TVC, just pretending to be Drinky.

So, wait...what's that mean?  You thought he sounded too gay to be Drinky?  It can't be that he sounded too young, since TVC's the same age as me.

:rofl
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 11:05:47 PM
He did sound rather gay
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 11:08:59 PM
Did he call you "girlfriend" while you were talking to him?
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 11:10:20 PM
He sounded like a bi curious frat boy, and would leave at random times to put the kiddies to bed - allegedly. I thought I heard a manly whisper coming from his end, perhaps a back door guest  :o
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Ichirou on March 10, 2008, 11:11:03 PM
omg :rofl

I bet he sounds like Perez Hilton. :rofl
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: TVC15 on March 10, 2008, 11:11:22 PM
I am still waiting for Cajole's AWESOME wav so I can assign it to random windows functions.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 11:19:05 PM
I tried earlier today with Audacity, but I'm dumb. :( Either that, or my built-in mic on my laptop isn't working.
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 10, 2008, 11:25:09 PM
Use putfile
http://media.putfile.com/GAFRAP
Title: Re: The Aviator = Awesome
Post by: CajoleJuice on March 10, 2008, 11:26:56 PM
I meant to record it.