83 - The Aviator (2004)

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)   You can join the conversation every Wednesday at 7pm EST on Twitch and Youtube! Available in podcast form on all your favorite podcatchers!   Crew:   TJ // twitch.tv/JSpotJackCheese   Nick // twitch.tv/DrFunkPhD   Socials:   linktr.ee/ThereWillBeDuds Twitch // twitch.tv/ThereWillBeDuds   YouTube // There Will Be Duds   Twitter // @ThereWillBeDuds   Facebook // There Will Be Duds   Instagram // ThereWillBeDuds   TikTok // @ThereWillBeDuds