Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Amadeus -- the movie Message-ID: <974@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 20:10:32 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.974 Posted: Sun Sep 30 20:10:32 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 04:38:41 EDT References: <954@bbncca.ARPA> <235@pertec.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 17 The problem with the movie is NOT that it isn't a "Mozart concert." Rather, it is unwittingly ironic that whenever the film presents exerpts from Mozart's music, their genius just about blows Shaffer and Forman out of the water, revealing just how second rate this effort is; modern-day Salieris, if you will. A good movie doesn't allow you to prefer the musical excerpts to the work as a whole. I hadn't seen the play, though I was aware of its very good reviews. I can only judge the movie on what I saw. Lyons and Gabler last night on "Sneak Previews" both despised the movie, too, though they had enjoyed the play. Interestingly, Siskel and Ebert both loved it, though their reasons smacked to me of grovelling before the altar of high culchah, leaving their critical faculties behind them in the vestibule. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA