The Aviator

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My husband took me on a "date night" to see The Aviator last night. I really liked it. Visually, the movie tickled my brain with Annie Leibowitz-style lighting and the way they shot his airplane sequences. I particularly like the scenes where is experimental spy plane crashed into houses in Bel-Air.

Howard Hughes seemed very Aspie-like. He was obsessed with ritual and he had problems with flashes and bright lights (I hate those). They say he was deaf, but he only had problems hearing when there was a lot of back-ground noise, which is my problem too.

I didn't know he did so much for the aviation industry.

What did anyone else think of this movie? It was long, but I didn't mind, mostly b/c it is the first night my husband and I have gone out together since our daughter was born six months ago.

The movie completely over-stimulated me and I was physically exhausted after watching it and I feel hung over this morning, but it was worth it.

Tallgirl.

I enjoyed it, but I got the definite vibe that Scorsese made it just to please the Oscar crowd. It was well shot and everything, but most of it was pretty predictable.

I also picked up on the aspie symptoms, but I don't think he had AS. Remember, he couldn't hear Catherine Hepburn on the golf course, when there wasn't much background noise. And after all, near the end it was getting hard to keep track of all his mistresses!

Show me the blueprints. Show me the blueprints. Show me the blueprints. Show me the blueprints.

I've read that Howard Hughes might have had AS. He's on a lot of those 'famous people with AS' lists. I actually read that long before the movie was made.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I want to.

I thought that too! Half way through the movie I thought "I bet he ends up being a shrivelled, reclusive old weirdo living naked in darkened hotel rooms" and I was right - that's exactly how it ended!! !! So predictable....

I liked it. I really enjoyed learning about his life.

I've not seen the film, but I was talking to someone the other week who has. This person had also seen something else on TV about Howard Hughes that must have suggested he had OCD. Anyway, this person knows there's something wrong with me, or that I'm not quite right, or however else you want to put it... so, he suggested I was similar, in certain ways, to this character and so must have OCD. He'd previously thought I was schizophrenic . I'm just waiting for him to see something on TV about Asperger's, or that Mozart and the Whale film

Third time lucky, perhaps.