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Caligula

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  • 03-11-1999 11:23am
    #1
    Hecate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭


    jeeesssusss!

    wtf was that? smile.gif


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    Shinji
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    You watched it too, huh?

    Very interesting film. Once you look past the bizarre nature of the whole thing, it's a pretty damn good look at the Roman Empire at the time of Tiberius and Caligula. Caligula is widely considered to be the most nutty of all the roman emperors...

    By the way, remember the fat, mad uncle, Claudius? Read "I, Claudius" for a little more insight into this guy, who actually ruled Rome for quite a while, and was an ocean of sanity in the midst of the nutty Caesar family...


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    Hecate
    Registered Users Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭Hecate


    sure we all tuned in to see From Dusk Till Dawn before it smile.gif

    Weird to see Malcolm McDowell at that age tho, does he ever play anyone but nutters and villians?. Take a look at If.. and The clockwork orange to see him at his best tho.


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    Hobbes
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    Maybe I'm nitpicking but I thought Caeser was a title not a family name.



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    kayos
    Registered Users Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭kayos


    Ya dodgy preverts the two of ya smile.gif I tell you this I wouldn't want to be around the ceaser family to long you might catch something. I didn't watch the whole thing stop when Caligula gave his blessing to the wedding. I found it a bit disturbing but then again it was a good refelection on the roman empires hob nobs smile.gif. As in for the Ceasers being nuts I have one word InBreeding.

    Kayos


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    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    yep. All emperors changed their name and adopted teh title Caesar, which was Julius Caesar's family name by the way.

    eg. Octavian became Augustus Caesar, he was Julie baby's adopted nephew and named successor, to get the throne securely he took his uncle's name.

    Happy?


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    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan



    yeah ceaser was a title for the emporor.
    not a family name

    morans!


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    Toulouse
    Registered Users Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    I mean what do Channel 4 expect....we all watch 'From Dusk 'til Dawn'...that ends...they say the words 'sex epic'...of course we're gonna watch it even if it was pants!


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    Canaboid
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    Pants with lots of panty action. I thought it rocked.


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    Radovar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Radovar


    Hecate, you liked if.... too? I only saw it there a while ago when it was on BBC2.

    Recorded it and watched it a LOT. Best film I've seen in ages. And Malcolm McDowell IS the best thing about it. I could watch that guy all day. Same with Caligula and A Clockwork Orange but he did a lot of ****e unfortunately.


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