AngieMargie Reviews

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

not good

[28 April 2003]

This is the only movie that my cinema class has watched that I haven't liked. At the beginning, the plot showed a lot of potential. Then as the movie went on, the actions got more and more random and choppy. The movie didn't flow from scene to scene. And the ending was completely illogical. I give it half a star.

M (1931)

good

[28 April 2003]

M was a great movie. I'm real big on murder mysteries in general, and M took a different spin on anything that I had ever seen, with the gangsters and police trying to find this murderer simultaneously. It does drag in some places, but not enough to bring the whole movie down. Peter Lorre's performance was amazing. If nothing else, you should watch the movie just to see him in the end scenes, at the trial. Great movie, I'd watch it again.

Amadeus (1984)

Amadeus

[15 April 2003]

When the two worlds of Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart collide in Milos Forman's Amadeus, it is anything but a symphony. As the court composer of the Emperor of Austria, all Salieri desires are fame and recognition as a composer; it is all he had wanted his whole life. When he learns that Mozart, whose name he had known as long as he can remember, is going to come to the court to play, Salieri cannot wait to meet the outstanding and righteous man that he knows he must be. However, when Salieri learns that Mozart is a young, crude, and unrefined young man, endowed with all the talent and ability that he ever wanted and strived for, it plants a seed of jealousy that soon grows into bitter resentment and hatred, not only for Mozart, but also towards God. Salieri's desire to get rid of him is seemingly boundless as he plots and schemes for Mozart's demise. It is no wonder why Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, with 5-Star performances by F. Murry Abraham as Antonio Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart. Amadeus is an emotionally charged and tragic piece, a story of the life of one of the world's most famous composers, as seen through the eyes of his worst enemy.