
Analysis Film Releasing Corporation - Analysis Film Releasing Corporation
Release date: 2007-10-02
DVD
Director:Giancarlo Lui
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Guido Mannari
Adult Language, Biopic [feature], Color, Crowned Heads, Decadent, Disturbing, Drama, English, Epic, Episodic, Exploitation, Feature, Feature Film-drama, Forceful, Graphic Violence, Historical Epic, Historical Film, Italy, Low Artistic Quality, Lurid




All I know is that this movie mesmarized me as an 18 year old boy in 1982 just coming to terms with being gay.(It explores the homosexual theme a lot)I had never seen a real "movie" that was almost like a porno film before.I thought it was as funny as it was decadant and violent. Some of the quips by the characters are hilarious.I love it when Nerva asks Tiberius "How could I go on living with this (pause)reptile"? as he gave Caligula a dirty look.
I finally broke down and bought the movie. It does have some decent sex scenes, it's just very choppy. I am not sure if they were trying to show how crazy stuff was back then or the movie makers were just unexperience. If you heard of this movie and just wanted to see it for all it's hype and still don't know. Try to find someone who has it this way you can watch it and save your money.
This is a movie about caligula which meant little boots in latin.
He was the son of the great prince and general Germanicus and he was Romes third emporer. He started out ok and then began to push the boundries into the realm of either insanity or just selfish evil. His life was [...] , you can't tell about Caligula unless you tell about how he made the wives of senators into whores. He was driven to sexual excesses that were shocking to the Romans. His cruelty was legendary and finally they assassinated him. This movie depicts him in all his monstrous excesses. And it does a great job doing it too. Malcolm Mcdowell really portrays the essence of the man. Was he insane? or was he the ultimate spoiled young man who is allowed to do whatever he wanted? Did he actually believe that he was a god or did he just want to get away with anything he could? An interesting fact is that he was killed as he attempted to put his statue on the Temple Mount in Jerusalum. This was seen as a act of god. And perhaps he should be in the bible as a lesson that NO man shall become a god. after all he was contemporary with peter, paul and the other biblical figures. Sure the movie has lots of sex in it but it still tells one of histories most bizaare stories and on blu ray things are only better!