100 Words Or Less: “Amadeus”
Michael Smith | Mar 09, 2010 | 2 comments
Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director and Actor, Amadeus is a semi-fictionalized account of the last ten years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life. Through flashbacks during an extended confession to a priest, Mozart’s pier and self-proclaimed rival, Antonio Salieri, tells of how he came to “murder” the great composer. Amadeus is a somewhat irreverent journey into the life of one of music history’s most prolific figures. Miloš Forman constructs his film with audacious exaggeration – in set design, costumes, acting and plot – the only way to truly complement the legendary music man’s outrageous persona.
I must admit I really disliked Amadeus. This summer when the pickens were getting slim for our netflix account my wife and I gave it a shot, primarily due to the amount of awards it one. I just found the movie to be too boring and really lacking something.
To me it felt cheaply made, very dated, and more like a tv movie than a studio-produced picture.
It might not have helped that it was almost impossible to watch more than a minute of Mozart’s character without having an urge to punch him in the head.
hmmm, I think I’ll add this to our queue of movies to see.