Just saw "The Aviator" what did you guys think? [View All]

I thought it was alright, though I expected much better from Scorcese. Leo did a commendable job as Hughes, though he still looked too young during the depiction of Howard Hughes as an older man, not his fault Leo's a goodlooking kid.

I'm not familiar with Hughes's actual biography, but one issue the movie took on was whether or not he was a war profiteer who squelched money from the US government during WWII to design the Hercules and the XF-11 (I think thats what it was) spy plane. I thought the point brought up in the movie that Billions in defense contracts for weapons that end up not working are doled out by the military all the time, and if Hughes dumped plenty of his own money into these planes that ended up grounded it probably meant that he wasn't just profiteering and was really trying to make serious advances into aviation. But then again it was all just a movie, Thoughts anyone?