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So is this cut..

posted 6 months ago by strntz (12480)
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.. a cut with all the porn removed??

[–] DancingintheDark (1681) 6 months ago

Nope, all the boobies are edited out but all the male full frontal scenes remain.

[–] GetWokeGoBroke (766) 5 months ago

All the unsimulated sex scenes that were shot/added during post-production are going to be removed, the nudity and violence is still going to be there.

[–] strntz (12480) 5 months ago

Thanks. That's what I figured but couldn't find anything on line to clarify the new cut.

Unrelated but I have a couple of questions as a person who has never seen any of the several versions of Caligula - have you seen the film and is it worth watching in any form? Do you think if the post-production porn wasn't added it would have been a well regarded mainstream film? If I do decide to watch it, do you think the full 1979 release would be worth watching or is the post-production porn out of place and distracting?

I'm not a prude by any stretch but I can't help but wonder if the added porn is jarring to the story.

[–] christomacin (4660) 5 months ago

I personally feel it's a crude, self-indulgent mess with or without the porn. Watch Fellini's Satyricon instead. That's the movie Caligula wanted be, but lacked the cinematic chops to pull off.

[–] strntz (12480) 5 months ago

Thanks.

[–] whynotwriteme (7725) 5 months ago

I saw it and I don't really consider it worthwhile either as a porno or a mainstream film. The pornography wasn't really distracting, but it wasn't titillating either. The mainstream parts were just vaguely sickening and depressing. The movie didn't really have a genuine Ancient Roman feel to it. It felt like exactly what it was: A fantasy vision of Rome hatched by a coked-out, 1970s libertine.

[–] strntz (12480) 5 months ago

Thanks.

[–] agentalbert (3134) a month ago

I don't think it's jarring to the story, but the new "ultimate cut" is the most cogent version and I'd suggest someone see that if they were going to see one and had never seen it before.