Review of Caligula (1979) by Helen S — 03 Aug 2007

Wow, this movie was bad! Amazingly, my main problem is that... it was boring! The pacing was sluggish, and the sex scenes just dragged on forever in an untitillating marathon. If you add a lot of people in an orgy scene, it doesn't make the sex any more shocking -- it just makes the viewer desensitized.

And the sex was not seamlessly integrated with the plot. It jumped from sex scene to boring plot scene to sex scene to plot. The acting by McDowell was creepy good, but he was essentially the same dude as he was in Clockwork Orange.