IMO "Caligula" is not 'good' but not 'terrible'. Maybe 3 out of 10?
The production values were quite good, and the (non-porn) acting was good if you block out Peter O'Toole. The script was OK, not great, but was really screwed by the director and the money men. It certainly suffered by the intent of Guccione to make a 'main-stream' porno. Take out the heavy porno and it would be a much better (but still not good) movie.
Malcolm McDowell put in a fairly typical performance for him and just had overly wicked fun. Helen Mirren (who can do no wrong in my opinion) played it fairly straight and made the most of her badly written part. John Gielgud was late in his career, badly in need of money and just phoned in his part. Peter O'Toole was, as I understand it, completely and thoroughly shitfaced drunk from beginning to end - and it shows.
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Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Dances with wolves totally sucks.
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Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Huh, Helena Bonham Carter
could beat Helen Mirren in whatever the acting equivalent of a mud-wrestling match is!Srsly, yes, Mirren
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For many years, I just prayed that I would live long enough to go to a movie where none of the animals talked. 
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Dennis Hopper makes that movie worth watching...
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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Even he couldn't save Super Mario Bros though. Now THERE was a freaking terrible movie.
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FYI, The Thing With Two Heads is on Svengoolie tonight. Ray Milland and Rosie Grier are the heads. Despite the ridiculous plot, It’s actually a pretty good commentary on racism.
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I think it was overhyped and went WAAAAAY too much into "the Indians are all good and pure and wonderful" trope, but it was a decent movie when i saw it... once, 30 odd years ago.
I preferred "Little Big Man," Dustin Hoffman's movie.
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YES!!!!!!!! "Counting coup!"
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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Ah yes, Dances with Wolves. Where I learned to mostly loathe Kevin Costner's limited skills as an actor. The only thing which made the 3 hour movie okay is that we 6 person college aged crew smuggled in a couple cases of bottled beer in with our trench coats (It was winter) and then the empties clattering around on the cement floor. Other than that, I don't remember the movie. 
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Oh yes, I remember those days, but with cans. “Cough” *pop* “cough.”
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The first five to ten minutes were ludicrous, and it went downhill. You didn't miss a thing.neonzx wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 12:05 pm Ah yes, Dances with Wolves. Where I learned to mostly loathe Kevin Costner's limited skills as an actor. The only thing which made the 3 hour movie okay is that we 6 person college aged crew smuggled in a couple cases of bottled beer in with our trench coats (It was winter) and then the empties clattering around on the cement floor. Other than that, I don't remember the movie.