Castiel said:
The "it still isn't over!" line sounded more like he was going to kill someone then kiss them...
Haha, I never looked at it that way but its so true. I can totally see him grabbing an axe right after that and chopping McAdams head off. Actually, that would have greatly improved the movie, even if it meant we wouldn't get to look at McAdams anymore.
NovaRoad said:
I'm totally interested in what the musical journey is going to be. I've got a bunch of musical movies coming to mind that I thought were terrible so I can't wait to see what you say.
There really are a ton of musical films that are critically acclaimed yet completely suck...I could almost do another top 20 actually.
: As for today's film, well, here we go....
This movie flat out sucks. There's just no other way to describe it and if you've never seen it before, trust me, outside of one actor, you aren't missing a thing. Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to cast Pinto from Animal House as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Probably the same brain trust that approved a script with more slang than you can shake a stick at. Honestly, I don't think people used contractions like "gonna'" instead of "going to" in the 1700's but I'm sure as shit that proper ladies (like the one in this film that says it constantly) did not. There was so much "modern" going on in this "historical" piece that I was sure Mozart and Salieri were going to hit Taco Bell for dinner at one point. Outside of the glaring dialogue errors, the script is preposterous and basically re-writes history as it sees fit, which is beyond annoying considering its supposed to be a bio-pic. Oh and its also boring as hell. Don't believe me? Click on the video below and see how long you last.
[video=youtube;vxcjxN0rPzs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcjxN0rPzs[/video]
That my friends is less than 6 minutes of a film that runs for 2 hours and 40 of them and no, it doesn't get much better than that clip. Amadeus won a remarkable 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. What's remarkable about that is that it actually didn't deserve ANY of those and only really merited a nod for F. Murray Abraham's outstanding performance as Salieri and perhaps the Costume Design. It is a film that is yet another shining example of how the Academy Awards are the biggest farce on the planet. Yet again, as with Reds losing to Chariot's of Fire in 1981, the Academy chose not to reward the challenging film (this year it was The Killing Fields), opting instead to go with the popular, and safe, choice. If ever there was an example of a pretentious piece of garbage getting totally overrated by nearly the entire film community, Amadeus is it.
Next up, we stay in the past and look at a different master.