Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: AMADEUS (sp?) review (or How I Spent My Weekend, Part II) Message-ID: <88@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 22:38:47 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.88 Posted: Sun Dec 2 22:38:47 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:57:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 39 After sitting through this three-hour long debacle, I would like to paraphrase my review with three items: 1) I had the flu Thursday and Friday, so maybe I was in a poor mood. 2) I have never enjoyed Mozart's music -- I listen almost exclusively to Bach and Vivaldi. 3) I was expecting a lot from Milos Foremon -- his other movies (all of them) have been terrrific. Well, in short, I found Amadeus a beautifully shot, lavishly decorated movie with an interesting main plot which could have been done in an hour and a half, instead of three. I truly enjoyed the idea of a man who feels he has punished God by destroying his instrument; but a three hour chess match needs more to it then a blow-by-blow routine. Of course, there is the music; but Mozart's work here did not have the ability to absorb me in it on it's own (very little music can; I enjoy soundtracks, but generally because they match tempo with what is happening on the screen. Together, they can accomplish a great deal (e.g. 2001 (and hopefully 2010)). The rest was a record of a scheme, and it dragged its bloated frame along until the inevitable ending (though I enjoyed Saladari's insanity scene at the end very much). In closing, this is not a bad movie; it is simply a good movie padded to excess, which obscures the original too much for enjoyments sake. "There *are* standards. If you can't see one, you *make* one and stick to it come Hell or high water -- until you see a BETTER one." -John Gaunt Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA