On The Third Day of Caligumas My True Love Gave To Me...
...The three-disc "Imperial" edition of "Caligula" (scroll down to see the other disturbing choices made by the folks who purchased this from Amazon.com).
Honestly, I've only seen this movie once, and it was in 1981 on beta-max at a party (people don't throw the kind of parties today that they use to throw in 1981; or maybe they do, but I just don't get invited to them). The only two things I can recall about the experience were that I was pretty drunk and the movie was pretty bad. But then again, I actually liked "It's Pat".
A little trip over to the trivia section of the IMDB explains why things went so terribly wrong for the production [along with this amazing factoid: "After the film was released, Anneka Di Lorenzo (aka Marjorie Lee Thoresen, a 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year), who played Messalina, sued Bob Guccione, saying that his handling of the film, mainly his adding of the hardcore sex inserts, had damaged her acting career by associating her with a hardcore porno film. She won her case, but was awarded only $4.06 in damages." How the jury arrived at the $4.06 figure would make a better film than "Caligula".]
Anyhoo, I'm going to rent "Caligula" on Caligumas; and I think all of you should as well. I'm not saying that you should necessarily watch it; I'm just hoping that if enough people start renting "Caligula" on the 31st of August every year, then the networks will start running it the way they do with "It's a Wonderful Life" (I have yet to see Caligula pop on The Movie Channel at two in the morning. And while it's far from being a good movie, it's certainly got many more redeeming qualities than "Big Momma's House" and it's definitely far less gratuitous in nature than "The Passion of the Christ"). Maybe it could replace the Jerry Lewis telethon as America's favorite annual charitable event?