@@viborgvee8399 They built the western world. Many things you see in your daily life came from them, including the letters you are using to write and read this.
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
Why with all the world's CGI at our fingertips don't we get more set design like this? It's all identical silvery spaceships and gray square-jawed villains. Gimme more crimson nightmare deathwalls with homoerotic visual themes, cowards.
This is a disgusting depiction of the persecution and execution of homosexuals, and the best description you can think of is "homoerotic"? I think your next RUclips comment needs to be "Gimme more education."
@@Sean-me4fv Persecution of homosexuals? Huh? Did we watch the same movie? I remember the 15 minute long orgy scene, but the persecution of homosexuals scene slipped right past me.
Here’s a theory: Alex from Clockwork Orange is a descendant of this version of Caligula. I mean, I’m sure if Alex had absolute power he would do shit like this
I have to give them credit for going so completely all out with such a seedy, morally deranged film. It’s basically high budget porn, with a bunch of A listers. You could never get away with something this ballsy and nuts today, much less release it in theatres
@@Skinski7Ewwww no! They have no taste anymore. They just look ridiculous and horrid while not caring that they look horrid. I’d rather watch Caligula.
Seedy and morally deranged-the Roman Empire. Emperor Augustus realized this and tried introducing laws of moral virtue but it just kept getting worse after his death. Augustus was one of those once in a million rulers.
This scene is so comically over the top I can't take it seriously. Also, let's face it, if Caligula could've he probably would've had something like this built.
Visually creative, but probably too quick for the Caligula of tradition (evidently the real one was merely an occasionally violent troll). One thing Caligula was supposed to have said while ordering an execution was to tell his henchmen that he wanted the prisoners cut slowly with knives, "so that they FEEL that they are dying." The phrase is so simple and terrible that it might even be true.
The death itself is quick, but imagine being stuck there unable to move while this unstoppable machine of death is coming towards you. The psychological torture alone might be enough for a true sadist to get off on.
“If only Rome had one neck!” Sir Peter Ustinov said something similar in Quo Vadis. “If Rome only had one throat, I could choke it and stop the maddening cries of the people!”
@@ACAPREDDUDE Trying so hard to be different so others can acknowledge your existence LOL Malcolm McDowell is a legendary and one of the best Actors. You probably like johnny depp
@stairwaytoheaven8 Malcolm McDowell had a one-note performance, in 'A Clockwork Orange', and his other films(including this one), were absolute shit!... Oh, and BTW....Johnny Depp is a modern day hero, who has done wonders for men's rights everywhere.
There really is no point to the director having put this thing into the movie. There simply never was any such wall, or machine. But because its in the movie some people think it was real.
Mark Solarz I mean, it is very interesting to see it in the movie. Especially since we know that Roman rulers in general, and Caligula in particular, were sadistic. I am only saying it’s still a disservice to teaching history.
@ To be able to say whether vast majority of texts are gone you have to know how many are supposed to be there. That is not known. But in general Rome has left us with many more written records and books than any other civilization. In any case, no one goes "well there is no document saying it didn't exist, so it could have existed." Logically no one would make a record describing a very specific thing to just state it didn't exist. Records usually describe actions or things which did take place or did exist.
If such a thing had really existed at the time, it would have been an engineering miracle. A bit of re-arranging and it could have been used for threshing and other agricultural uses.
They had some pretty big machines. There was a rotating top floor on a tower on the Palatine that was driven by oxen pulling a treadmill in the basement transmitted to the platform by massive wooden shafts and gearing.
The romans had knowledge to create mechanics like that. No doubt. If they wanted to they could do it. The engineringskill was so developed that it took at least 1500 years to surpass it. We didnt get water in our houses until 19th century. The romans had that!
This movie is debauchery x 1000, as the violence and porn scenes are many. That they had so many top-line actors in the film amazes me to this day. Thanks!
They had no idea about the graphic sex scenes. Those scenes were all filmed independently of the A listers and edited into the film later. Obviously they were enraged about it but there was nothing they could do.
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" Blah blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
Macro was confident of rapid promotion for past services but Emperor Caligula was aware of the potential threat Macro posed and soon removed him from office. According to some sources, Macro was promised the governorship of Egypt but upon arriving at Ostia with Ennia to take ship, he was instead arrested and stripped of his office. Macro committed suicide soon after. Macro was able to leave enough money to provide an amphitheatre for his home town of Alba Fucens
A more prosaic death than this one. Amoral, but Caligula was probably astute enough to reflect that a figure who could kill one emperor might be a threat to another.
@@MelancoliaI nah. In these times this was obvious. He saw his old boss aging. He knew he had to get on the good side of the new emperor while he could, so he merely killed the old emperor to do so. Caligula knew he would do it to him if he had to. His sister even tells him this in the movie.
I remember when this was on at the cinema. Had no idea Malcolm McDowell was in it. Didn't fancy seeing it at the time but I wouldn't mind watching it now.
First time I saw this movie was with my dad. He saw it when he was like 18 years old and it made a huge impression on him so when it got released on DVD he rented it and we watched it together.
Killing Macro led to his downfall. The reason the emperor before Caligula lived so long was because he had Macro in his pocket and therefore could control the prefects and any mutiny. Chaerea was quick to kill Caligula when he got the opportunity.
""Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, giant spiky decapitation death walls, public order… and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
I remember this Grabage playing at selective theaters back in 79' when I was 14. It played at The Ziegfield on Broadway where there were lines around the whole street. My dad was forcing my mom to go because Everyone was hyped up about the Pornographic content. But she wouldn't go. According to McDowell,...it's the biggest grossing independent film of all time and biggest Trash !
This movie, to put it nicely, sucked! It was produced by Bob Guccione who also published Penthouse magazine. Mr. Guccione was a former truck driver from the Bronx who wanted to be the next Hugh Hefner. He tried to come across as a sophisticated, intelligent, well-heeled individual but was nothing more than a truck driver from the Bronx. He would wear polyester shirts, unbuttoned half-way down his chest, and tons of gold chains. Yes, cheap disco Bob. Penthouse magazine was nothing more than softcore porn. The “Letters to the Editor” were a total joke. They were obvious fantasies sent by lonely men. “I never thought I would be writing to Penthouse but I had the most incredible experience. The entire cheerleader squad invited me to their sorority house and we…” ‘Caligula’ was softcore porn. It wasn’t even good softcore porn. As producer, Bob Guccione made a bunch of changes to the original screenplay. “If all of Rome only had one neck”. Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean? That beheading machine? Oh yeah, I’m sure they existed 2000 years ago. I remember when this movie was released. Bob Guccione said in a press conference, “This is a story that needs to be told”. No, it’s not a story that ‘needs’ to be told. It’s a story that sucks!
So was Rome. Phallic symbolism was everywhere, as it was in many ancient cultures, it represents fertility, which in turn means power and wealth of the society!
@@Altair885 This true .In South America,. Many of the Maya temples and such had phalluses protruding from them and iconography everywhere. The Spanish went around smashing them off at the same time killing all the natives. Noice!
Well, since steam engines, internal busting engines, and electric motors were all invented more than a millennia later, what, exactly, was powering this beheading machine?
without the Roman decapitation machine, today we'd have no lawnmowers.
That is absolutely brilliant.
. . . and no French Revolution
What did the Romans do for us? 🤷♂️
@@viborgvee8399 They built the western world. Many things you see in your daily life came from them, including the letters you are using to write and read this.
@@rjr6274well beside those things, what have the Romans ever done for us?
This movie had incredible sets. Can't imagine any modern filmmaker having the balls to put such thing in his movie!
Or hers
Well Bob Gucionne is not exactly a filmmaker
@@wanderlust2279 no balls at all.
@@sleezboy992 the scenes Tinto Brass filmed still include lots of dicks, tits, and ass
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
Didn’t know Caligula was a resident evil boss.
jokes aside, I bet there's a shit to on antagonists in the media based on Caligula.
That death machine looks like something straight out of Jodorowsky's imagination. The cinematography for this movie seems next level
If this is out of Jodorowsky’s imagination, imagine what his nightmares are like.
The amount of hairy pussies is also next level in this movie...
I thought i was the only one who saw parallels to Jodorowsky.
The amount of gore and naked women is very Jodorowsky
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
well, it never existed in actual Rome, so it certainly came out of some modern person's imagination.
this scene reminds me of the dreams i have when i'm sick
Lol i always have weird dreams when sick
sick with corona? or sick like a sadist lol
LEgit LOL there. Spot on my friend
The sound alone is nightmare-inducing.
For some reason it reminded me of the cleaners in Labyrinth.
Why with all the world's CGI at our fingertips don't we get more set design like this? It's all identical silvery spaceships and gray square-jawed villains. Gimme more crimson nightmare deathwalls with homoerotic visual themes, cowards.
Oh shut up.
So fucking true
This is a disgusting depiction of the persecution and execution of homosexuals, and the best description you can think of is "homoerotic"? I think your next RUclips comment needs to be "Gimme more education."
@@Sean-me4fv
Persecution of homosexuals? Huh? Did we watch the same movie? I remember the 15 minute long orgy scene, but the persecution of homosexuals scene slipped right past me.
Hollywood has little imagination nowadays. It's mostly comic book action, sequels, and remakes. Almost no attention is paid to the story.
"If only all Rome has just one neck" that phrase...
Had*
Is fuckin horrible!.... Terrible line. Terrible acting.
According to Suetonius Caligula actually said that.
I thought he said one egg.... now I know it is neck.
"That's it, off you go then, I heard that! you're no good emperor. Your services are no longer required. We're getting someone more sensible."
Here’s a theory: Alex from Clockwork Orange is a descendant of this version of Caligula. I mean, I’m sure if Alex had absolute power he would do shit like this
Explaines his love for a bit of the ol ultraviolence and the in out in out
@@jeremiahdansereau2950 "I've taught you much, me little Droogies!"
Lol, but sadly no Beethoven or Monteverdi to bop the head to.
More likely a reincarnation.
@@ChupeTTehe dances with the screams of the decapitated
Joffrey would’ve loved to have something like this
Yeah lmao
Heh, funny you should mention that
Because Joffrey and the actual Caligula look alike(not even joking, just look at a comparison)
I have to give them credit for going so completely all out with such a seedy, morally deranged film. It’s basically high budget porn, with a bunch of A listers. You could never get away with something this ballsy and nuts today, much less release it in theatres
Just visit a local Pride Parade instead.
@@Skinski7 🤣 True
@@Skinski7Ewwww no! They have no taste anymore. They just look ridiculous and horrid while not caring that they look horrid. I’d rather watch Caligula.
Seedy and morally deranged-the Roman Empire. Emperor Augustus realized this and tried introducing laws of moral virtue but it just kept getting worse after his death. Augustus was one of those once in a million rulers.
@@tomservo5347 Marcus Aurelius was one of those too - only about 150yrs later 'once in a million'
This scene is so comically over the top I can't take it seriously. Also, let's face it, if Caligula could've he probably would've had something like this built.
Oh you're so serious about movies 🤣
Thats good Such a thing never existed
whole movie is over the top
You’re a nerd
Como toda pelicuala hay fantacia y mentiras
Visually creative, but probably too quick for the Caligula of tradition (evidently the real one was merely an occasionally violent troll). One thing Caligula was supposed to have said while ordering an execution was to tell his henchmen that he wanted the prisoners cut slowly with knives, "so that they FEEL that they are dying." The phrase is so simple and terrible that it might even be true.
The death itself is quick, but imagine being stuck there unable to move while this unstoppable machine of death is coming towards you. The psychological torture alone might be enough for a true sadist to get off on.
@@silversnail1413 Yeah I can see that.
That's in the movie. He orders the death of Proculus and gets mad when he dies too quickly.
Psychopaths has been around forever. Caligula clearly was one.
@@emanuel82 thats want the roman elite want you to think..
You can't imagine how cruel a man is when the power is in his hands.
And he's in hell now
actually he's in heaven fuking jesus's ass...
One of the truest measures of a person is how they handle power
You don't need to imagine. just read the history of, well, anywhere there are humans.
Sure we can. Unconstitutional Covid vaccine mandates, anyone?
So this is where that nightmare memory comes from. I wonder how I saw this decades ago.
Prolly ya last life brother
haha me too
The face makes on the death wall makes it even scarier
I love that little "ick" noise he makes at the end.
Over a piece of fruit after watching 20 people beheaded.
It’s so Caligula-ish 😂
Maybe he had #TourettesSyndrome
“If only Rome had one neck!” Sir Peter Ustinov said something similar in Quo Vadis. “If Rome only had one throat, I could choke it and stop the maddening cries of the people!”
The set is crazy. Look at the costumes!!! So opulent.
The beheadings and the head raising to the people. The banging of drums.
Only Malcolm McDowell could’ve played Caligula this well!
Yeah, he should have played Jack the ripper 😂
He was annoying to say the least 🙄.... Until he played Samuel Loomis, in Halloween 2007.
@@ACAPREDDUDE Trying so hard to be different so others can acknowledge your existence LOL Malcolm McDowell is a legendary and one of the best Actors. You probably like johnny depp
@stairwaytoheaven8 Malcolm McDowell had a one-note performance, in 'A Clockwork Orange', and his other films(including this one), were absolute shit!... Oh, and BTW....Johnny Depp is a modern day hero, who has done wonders for men's rights everywhere.
John Hurt did a pretty amazing Caligula in I, Claudius. A different style, for sure, but absolutely chilling.
Hi billy Mays here for the giant Roman wall of death, the fast and easy way to slice and dice them pesky peasants!
There really is no point to the director having put this thing into the movie. There simply never was any such wall, or machine. But because its in the movie some people think it was real.
StopFear your right....they had far longer more amusing death....scenes! This was just crazy.......to short!
Mark Solarz I mean, it is very interesting to see it in the movie. Especially since we know that Roman rulers in general, and Caligula in particular, were sadistic. I am only saying it’s still a disservice to teaching history.
@ To be able to say whether vast majority of texts are gone you have to know how many are supposed to be there. That is not known.
But in general Rome has left us with many more written records and books than any other civilization. In any case, no one goes "well there is no document saying it didn't exist, so it could have existed." Logically no one would make a record describing a very specific thing to just state it didn't exist. Records usually describe actions or things which did take place or did exist.
u don't know that u stupid... u didn't live back then! hating will get u nowhere in life!!
@@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
How have you made it this far being so stupid?
If such a thing had really existed at the time, it would have been an engineering miracle. A bit of re-arranging and it could have been used for threshing and other agricultural uses.
It's plausible. The Romans had knowledge about gear ratios,and mechanics
It didn't exist, just like jeebus didn't exist.
They had some pretty big machines. There was a rotating top floor on a tower on the Palatine that was driven by oxen pulling a treadmill in the basement transmitted to the platform by massive wooden shafts and gearing.
The romans had knowledge to create mechanics like that. No doubt. If they wanted to they could do it. The engineringskill was so developed that it took at least 1500 years to surpass it. We didnt get water in our houses until 19th century. The romans had that!
Could have been built, they had the gears.
Saturday entertainment in Roman times.
Was this execution one of their Matinees?
@@Kelly14UK dude all things besides, caligula was a savage emperor and we need to be glad that we weren't born around his time...
@@sebastiancastellanos9527 Yeah he was a git. Folk must've been relieved.
Better than Britians got Talent.
@@sebastiancastellanos9527 Bollocks. He was a glorious leader. One of the best! It's all propaganda I tell ye'.
0:46 She literally has a leash on her neck.
hot
So did lea in star wars
Helen Mirren in her prime. What's not to like?
Yes she does. And ironically Dame Helen Mirren would probably request putting one on. She''ll never stop embracing her sexuality.
@@Captain-CosmoHelen Mirren fine AF!
An absolutely underrated gem
It's a piece of cheap filth.
If only all Rome had just one neck!
*"crack* ..... euuugh!..."
This movie is debauchery x 1000, as the violence and porn scenes are many. That they had so many top-line actors in the film amazes me to this day. Thanks!
The power of money commands you!
They had no idea about the graphic sex scenes. Those scenes were all filmed independently of the A listers and edited into the film later. Obviously they were enraged about it but there was nothing they could do.
"How would you ever know it's yours?" lol.
Full Auto with Silencers and Drum Magazine...just spray and pray...one of the those discharged sperm cells has got to hit SOMETHING....
At the end when he's assassinated, his mute guard gets decapitated.
Would have been great if they had used this headchopper
Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" Blah blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!
Macro was confident of rapid promotion for past services but Emperor Caligula was aware of the potential threat Macro posed and soon removed him from office. According to some sources, Macro was promised the governorship of Egypt but upon arriving at Ostia with Ennia to take ship, he was instead arrested and stripped of his office. Macro committed suicide soon after. Macro was able to leave enough money to provide an amphitheatre for his home town of Alba Fucens
A more prosaic death than this one. Amoral, but Caligula was probably astute enough to reflect that a figure who could kill one emperor might be a threat to another.
Your account of Macro is exactly what Robert Graves described in his great novel "I, Claudius".
@@wilhiamas We had the same source. Suetonious who wrote about the first twelve Caesars
Calígula talking about Disney 's top movie writters: 1:04
That is such an impractical way to behead someone.
Impractical but COOL!
They doing it for the fun , not the practicality of it
But such a crowd pleaser!
I saw this when at the empire, Leicester square, when it came out. I was around 18.
I am 62 now. Wow.
I saw it at a late showing at a theatre in London (can't remember which one) in 1984. I was 20. Curious similarity of place and time.
Poor Macro. The only real friend Caligula had.
was he really a friend? He smothered his old Emperor.
@@ovechkin100 The man was loyal...to a fault.
@@MelancoliaI nah. In these times this was obvious. He saw his old boss aging. He knew he had to get on the good side of the new emperor while he could, so he merely killed the old emperor to do so. Caligula knew he would do it to him if he had to. His sister even tells him this in the movie.
@@ovechkin100 It's been a while since I saw the movie but I thought that Caligula killed Tiberius himself. I could be wrong 🤔
@@MelancoliaI You're definitely wrong. Macro kills Tiberius and turns to Caligula and says "hail Caesar"
When the devil takes the form of man and the government
I’d also describe Norman Stansfield from Leòn the Professional.
Helen Mirran a lovely & talented actress im today yrs old finding it in 2022 as a baby boomer i should have known this...
She was the only reason I saw this movie.
Mirren
Honestly I'm surprised that she was in this
I particularly like Travis Bickle's cameo!
“One day a great flood of red wine will come and wash the streets of Aventide clean.”
This is absolutely horrible, all that good food they're throwing and wasting 😦
And heck yeah, Helen Mirren 🔥🔥
the wealthy waste food while the peasants starve in abject poverty, that the roman empire for ya!!!
Ladies and Gentleman, I present to to you the newly patented DECAPITATOR
What a sick piece of work.
This set design, costume design, and cinematography is pretty amazing. I gotta actually watch this film now.
This has to be the craziest scene in the whole movie. This whole maniacal contraption, like who thinks up this stuff?
Its crazy that it took them that long to think, "alright this guy is just a bad apple. Time for a coup."
Why are there guys on the decapitation machine swinging canoe padels?
Why not?😂
It slices! It dices!!! It chicken fried rices!!!!!
Fellini must have inspired this appalling depraved gem of a film.
Fellini had better taste.
Did such a machine actually exist in ancient Rome, I mean they used to flood the coliseum and have sea battles .
No, this machine does not exist
I don't know why but RUclips decided to recommend this for me to watch...
I remember when this was on at the cinema. Had no idea Malcolm McDowell was in it. Didn't fancy seeing it at the time but I wouldn't mind watching it now.
That device is entirely fictional but if Caligula saw that in real life he'd definitely wanted to have one.
Never give absolute power to a young man who's frontal lobe isn't fully formed yet, you will get a ruler like Caligula every time!
Kim Jong Un
This scene is insane
and sick
This feels like something envisioned during a bad acid trip.
Inventions for the movie. No ancient writer ever mentioned anything like this.
Thank you. That was the first question that came into my mind. Did a machine like this ever exist? Did slaves power it? ... etc....
Malcoms face in the thumbnail 🤣 what any kid today would look like if you asked them if they wanted to see a decapitation 😂
The most kind emperor ever!
Just in case you're just discovering this, no such killing machine existed
This is more horrific than any of the CGI rubbish nowadays
Why are they throwing potatoes? That's a new world
They probably figured everyone would have to suspend disbelief for the giant death wall anyway.
Its actually eggs and i think they thought if they got one they wouldnt die.
Cool the first combine harvester
I saw part of this on TV in college years ago....this scene sticks out.... was this based on a real thing? Its so outlandish and I never heard of it
There are no records of Caligula building something like this, although if he was able he probably would've had it built.
*"They're all homosexuals who have been castrated."*
That's like a computer CPU chip which has had the smoke liberated from it's epoxy prison.
What's strange is that the term "homosexual" didn't exist back then, they were referred to as Eunuchs by some.
@@austinwillcut4919 What's even stranger is that they are speaking English...
@@austinwillcut4919 because they assumed they didnt use them at all?
This movie is more accurate than Gladiator 2.
My friends mother hired this on VHS for us when we were 12. A little inappropriate in retrospect.
I saw this in my teens too… the uncut full version!
First time I saw this movie was with my dad. He saw it when he was like 18 years old and it made a huge impression on him so when it got released on DVD he rented it and we watched it together.
Clearly the template for Game Of Thrones. MM was perverse and impish as ever, in his role as Caligula.
@@robjones2408 I recall a scene in Game of Thrones when Joffrey forces a guy to drink wine until his stomach gets bloated. Right out of Caligula.
there are time when i think that's a lot of directors/writers are just plain sadistic psychopaths...
Killing Macro led to his downfall. The reason the emperor before Caligula lived so long was because he had Macro in his pocket and therefore could control the prefects and any mutiny. Chaerea was quick to kill Caligula when he got the opportunity.
The actor bahind caligula is soo good
You can never go wrong with Malcolm McDowell.
How is this allowed to stay on RUclips? It’s so brutal im sick
Alex delarge has really moved up in the world I'm glad to see the ludovico thing wore off and hes back to his old self
Imagine being forced to wait and being utterly helpless to stop it knowing your death was certain
""Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, giant spiky decapitation death walls, public order… and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
So no one is gonna ask how potatoes are in 1th century A.D Rome when The Spanish haven't reached to the Americas in 1400 year later.
good point
Those are eggs, not potatoes.
Not potatoes; eggs.
They say time is the fire in which we burn!
Not in The Nexus. It’s nice there, me and my bunch of imaginary kids.
@@GizmoBeach Yes, come in. The eggs are on.
Well, you have to understand they had no cable TV nor internet back then and so they had to do something for entertainment.
Nothing like having some fun with old friends.
Malcolm McDowell was Caligula?! That makes the 'Alex daydreaming whiping Jesus' scene more funnier now.
So that's where Flymo got the idea from...
In Japan the title of the film is "Carigura". No joke..
Really?
That's interesting.
your having a raff
Not velly frunny
That's sick to know what people were capable of, and some still are
Hello, Jerry Jones. actually captivating video. thanks. :)
Imagine the meeting with the engineer that designed it.
"Hey man, I want you to build me a mobile decapitating wall"
I can’t believe this is a mainstream movie lol a straight fucked up epic
It's...not? It's literally a porno. What the fuck have you been smoking?
@@hotelmario510 it was not made to be a pornographic film. It's an erotic historical drama. It was released mainstream.
I remember this Grabage playing at selective theaters back in 79' when I was 14. It played at The Ziegfield on Broadway where there were lines around the whole street. My dad was forcing my mom to go because Everyone was hyped up about the Pornographic content. But she wouldn't go. According to McDowell,...it's the biggest grossing independent film of all time and biggest Trash !
0:44 is that Helen Mirren on a golden leash? Not enough comments about this.
This movie, to put it nicely, sucked!
It was produced by Bob Guccione who also published Penthouse magazine. Mr. Guccione was a former truck driver from the Bronx who wanted to be the next Hugh Hefner. He tried to come across as a sophisticated, intelligent, well-heeled individual but was nothing more than a truck driver from the Bronx. He would wear polyester shirts, unbuttoned half-way down his chest, and tons of gold chains. Yes, cheap disco Bob.
Penthouse magazine was nothing more than softcore porn. The “Letters to the Editor” were a total joke. They were obvious fantasies sent by lonely men. “I never thought I would be writing to Penthouse but I had the most incredible experience. The entire cheerleader squad invited me to their sorority house and we…”
‘Caligula’ was softcore porn. It wasn’t even good softcore porn. As producer, Bob Guccione made a bunch of changes to the original screenplay. “If all of Rome only had one neck”. Just what in the hell is that supposed to mean? That beheading machine? Oh yeah, I’m sure they existed 2000 years ago.
I remember when this movie was released. Bob Guccione said in a press conference, “This is a story that needs to be told”. No, it’s not a story that ‘needs’ to be told. It’s a story that sucks!
Great movie!
Malcolm McDowell always plays a great villain.
Terrifying
This is assuming the machine runs smoothly without any hiccup upon impact. Imagine when it's stuck halfway through the job.
This movie was bonkers. And obsessed with phallic objects in every degree
So was Rome. Phallic symbolism was everywhere, as it was in many ancient cultures, it represents fertility, which in turn means power and wealth of the society!
@@Altair885 This true .In South America,. Many of the Maya temples and such had phalluses protruding from them and iconography everywhere. The Spanish went around smashing them off at the same time killing all the natives.
Noice!
Well, since steam engines, internal busting engines, and electric motors were all invented more than a millennia later, what, exactly, was powering this beheading machine?
Slaves or horses?
That has got to be the worst line of dialogue, in a major motion picture, by a renowned actor, I've ever heard.
lol wtf, they made a giant lawnmower? is this supposed to be goofy?
"If only all of Rome had just one neck." Cold as ice!!
Wholesome fun!
Do these machines have any realism to them? As in, did the romans use antyhing like this?
No 😂
Geez! I just realized that Helen Mirren was in this film. Man O' man! Hubba hubba!
Romans when they accidentally invented a steam engine: it's useless
also Romans: let's build a mechanical head mower