3 hours to kill- and it's not The Lord Of The Rings!

So next on our list was something we weren't sure about categorizing.

Amadeus is not a musical- it's about the life of Mozart and does have a lot of music in it, but it's not a musical because it doesn't have the main characters singing songs about how they feel all the time.
It's actually an interesting portrayal of Mozart as an arrogant young man who knows that he is musically gifted and better than everyone else. I don't know if that is how we think Mozart was when he lived, i'm not an expert and never thought about it much, but i think if i had that much musical talent i would be really arrogant as well.
The story is told from the point of view of his rival basically.
I could write you an essay or I could say that if you're an opera fan or a Mozart fan... watch it! It is almost 3 hours long, but when you listen to a classical music concert, the three hours you sit there for only feels like one. Time flies when you're relaxed.
Certainly make time to watch it and try and watch it in one sitting. It loses some of the easy flowing ability to just watch if you start from an hour in a week later.
The only name that I knew when I watched it was Simon Callow and it took me a while (3 hours) to work out who he was!
It was made in 1984, so you have to bear with the quality, but as it's set in Vienna, it has a similar feel to the setting of Casanova (the Heath Ledger film).