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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: AMADEUS (sp?) review (or How I Spent My Weekend, Part II)
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Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 22:38:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  2 22:38:47 1984
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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.
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