...and I'm thinking, am I the only one who finds the movie's atmosphere a bit out of the ordinary? At least in the beginning of the movie. Everyone's all hyper, it moves really fast and the camera angles are sometimes a bit unconventional.

This doesn't affect my enjoyment of the movie, I was just wondering if anyone else sees this. Maybe it's just the difference between Black Rain that I was watching before and The Aviator, the difference being in quality.

Well, because that movie is so damned long, you should be just about finished it by now. I thought it was a really weird movie, but it had cool planes in it. That redeemed it, even though that one crazy dude almost just ruined it for me.

It was a good movie in terms of acting (especially for Blanchett) but it was really too long. I liked how throughout the movie they used different types of technicolor (digitally done of course.) The beginning of the movie is two-strip technicolor and then it finally gets into three-strip technicolor.

Christopher Nolan was working on a script for the Aviator before this was made, and I would have liked to see what he might have made, since he considered it his best writing to date.