The Amazing Howard Hughes
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Movie Reviews of The Amazing Howard Hughes
Movie Review: THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS A GOOD STORY THAT LEAVES SOME PARTS OUT. I GUESS THEY COULDN'T PUT IT ON THE DVD. EVERYONE CAN ACT AND THE STORY IS FINE. IT'S JUST SAD TO BE REMINDED OF A MAN IN HUGHES GO MAD AND LOSE HIS LIFE THROUGH SICKNESS AND DRUGS. IT IS A REMINDER THAT MONEY HELPS AND IS A TOOL THAT IS NEEDED TO SURVIVE, BUT IT IS ALSO SOMETHING THAT WON'T BRING HAPPINESS.Movie Review: The Amazing Howard Hughes
Summary: 4 Stars
... I feel that this is a very good movie; very entertaining. Tommy Lee Jones captured the very essence of the mysterious, strange Mr. Hughes. I'm always pleased to run across it on TV. I have been hoping for a long time that it would be released on DVD for my permanent collection.Movie Review: The Amazing Howard Hughes
Summary: 4 Stars
... I feel that this is a very good movie; very entertaining. Tommy Lee Jones captured the very essence of the mysterious, strange Mr. Hughes. I'm always pleased to run across it on TV. I have been hoping for a long time that it would be released on DVD for my permanent collection.Movie Review: Good, but abridged, biography of Howard Hughes
Summary: 3 Stars
Tommy Lee Jones, in one of his first starring roles, plays eccentric billionaire aviator/moviemaker Hughes in this abridged version of a TV miniseries released a year after Hughes died. (I haven't seen the original, which is not available on video, so I'm reviewing this version as presented on DVD.)
The movie covers the span of Hughes' lifetime, from early scenes of his youth right through his end as the world's most famous hermit and germophobe. The story jumps around between Hughes' adventures in aviation, film, and other businesses. These intertwine in a segment showing the making of Hell's Angels a movie set in World War I, directed by Hughes and finally released in 1930. Hughes can't get any of his pilots to perform a dangerous scene close to the ground, so he does it himself with disastrous results.
Several famous actresses such as Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn, and Jane Russell, who had dealings with Hughes, are portrayed here. The film was based on the 1972 book Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, by Noah Dietrich, one of Hughes' top assistants, who is played by Ed Flanders. (Not the guy from The Simpsons.)
Among the other flying scenes is Hughes testing the Spruce Goose, the famously impractical eight-engine wooden airplane with a 320-foot wingspan that barely flew. Also depicted are Hughes and his crew making one of the first around-the-world flights and his exploits running a major airline.
Movie Review: Good Acting , Sad Story
Summary: 3 Stars
I expected to see more of the genius and contributions to aviation but this focuses less on his rise and more on his disfunction and fall. I thought It was a well done period piece. Just not my taste In movies.