As a huge caligula fan i own all there is to own about my fav roman emperor and so when i heard there is a new extended edition of the beloved 1979 film with around 20 or so new footage scenes i was excited and i immediately bought the new spanish blu ray release.
Sadly things did not went well with this.
This cut has a lot of flaws. In fact all went wrong if u exclude some new deleted scenes.
Those deleted scenes were the only worthy part of the film.
U get to see how caligula orders other people to worship his own statues which replaced those of the gods. This scene was great and there are a few more but the good things end here.
Unfortunately this is NOT the original take of the film and everything was changed.
What i mean is even the voices the way the actors performed was different than the theatrical version and that was not good.
More important the divine music which made the original film so much better was not here.
The music used here was boring and added nothing to the film.
I was tired watching this.
I will only keep this cut cause of the new footage and that's that.
I'm very disappointed of this new extended cut.
So i advise you to stick to the imperial edition of the film and the original 155 minutes long version.
Sadly things did not went well with this.
This cut has a lot of flaws. In fact all went wrong if u exclude some new deleted scenes.
Those deleted scenes were the only worthy part of the film.
U get to see how caligula orders other people to worship his own statues which replaced those of the gods. This scene was great and there are a few more but the good things end here.
Unfortunately this is NOT the original take of the film and everything was changed.
What i mean is even the voices the way the actors performed was different than the theatrical version and that was not good.
More important the divine music which made the original film so much better was not here.
The music used here was boring and added nothing to the film.
I was tired watching this.
I will only keep this cut cause of the new footage and that's that.
I'm very disappointed of this new extended cut.
So i advise you to stick to the imperial edition of the film and the original 155 minutes long version.