This is a great review of a great movie.

There’s one fun note at the end of the review that’s worth a second read:

Note: The restored Director’s Cut of “Amadeus” opens Friday at the Landmark Century, and is in revival around the country. The one brief scene of Constanze’s breasts, in medium-long shot, has inspired the flywheels at the MPAA to re-rate the movie R from its original PG. Thus high school students are discouraged from seeing this movie. Our rating system is held hostage by sick crypto-moralists. Surely PG-13 would have been adequate to advise parents of this scene, while acknowledging that anyone over 13 in America who is alarmed by the simple sight of a woman’s breasts is in need of counseling (I include our attorney general).

So true! Rating this movie R while “The Scorpion King” gets a PG-13 while chopping the heads off his victims is just plain insanity.

Have you ever heard anything as arrogant as this?

Some you’ve heard before, and some you haven’t – such as the threat to withdraw Windows from market within six months [par 183], or the reclassification of Embedded Windows XP as “a set of tools”, not an operating system. Or the claim that Internet Explorer browser development costs Microsoft $100 million a year[par 234]. The latter we calculate as enough to employ over 1,000 engineers at current market salaries…

Perhaps the most extraordinary part of his written performance is its context. Remember: this is the plea for clemency from a convicted criminal. Microsoft was found guilty two years ago, and large parts of the conviction were upheld on appeal. The current hearings are being held to resolve the punishment.

If I was the judge, I’d tell Bill to go get stuffed. Where does he get off threatening the US Justice Department??

A Microsoft executive told a federal judge that the company should be allowed to make changes in its Windows operating system that impair the performance of other programs so long as the company believes it is acting in the best interest of Windows users.

And how are they supposed to decide what’s in the best interest of Windows users? I guess that they just know better than the rest of us. Let’s face it, Microsoft **SUCKS** and always will