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United Arab Emirates. I posted this in the thread for Arrow's release, but figured posting it here couldn't hurt.Basically, my Arrow copy (the Standard Edition) is stuck on a main menu loop every time I try to access anything that's not the feature. I haven't even tried making it through the movie, but that does seem to play fine.Every time I try and access one of the 6 extra feature options like the deleted scenes or a trailer, it just loops back to the main menu, which oddly, for a Blu-ray at least, seems to be rewindable and fast-forwardable.Do I need to return this copy or is there a workaround somewhere for this type of thing? I tried accessing the titles individually but no go.I am using a PS3, which has never given me this issue before, and certainly not on any other of my Arrow purchases.Any help would be appreciated!

I am much obliged. Quote:People have been asking what happened to this book, which I announced over a decade ago. Was it finished? Would it ever see the light of day?

Well, I’ve been wondering, too.The title, proposed to me by Gore Vidal himself, proved all too prophetic. With that title, Gore referred to the people who had made the movie — failures all, he said. He could not have known that the title foretold the fate of the book.I began scribbling an essay about Caligula back in 1998, I think it was. By March 2002 I had transformed the essay into a web page. In 2004 I inherited a coauthor. By some fortuitous miracles, over the next five years we acquired mountains of studio documentation, which told a story we had not been expecting.The book, nearly complete, began to shrink as we had to rethink the narrative.

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I revised it extensively and was just a few pages away from finishing when the co-authorship broke apart, and we went our separate ways. That was in October 2016, and it came as a major blow.

The November 2016 elections turned out exactly the way I had predicted back on the 16th of June 2015. Nonetheless, the reality came as a jolt, and I had much rethinking to do, especially since the new government put my job, income, and savings at risk. The new laws are doing nothing to help the people I care about — on the contrary.

Then Penthouse, which had invited me to explore its business archive, squeezed me out again and forbade me to use any of its materials in my book. That was an even greater blow. It was time to take a break, a sanity break. It did me a world of good. Then my cat, the greatest love of my life, truly the only love of my life, passed away, and I had no further interest in anything at all.For a while I decided never to return to Caligula. I had better things to do. A few months later the book started rewriting itself inside my head, and it wouldn’t stop.

Suddenly I could see with acuity the arc of the narrative, which had been invisible to me before: Caligula was probably the greatest con job in the history of cinema, and the con was brilliant — evil, but brilliantly evil.There is still a problem: I’m too exhausted to continue. To return to the book now would cause a nervous breakdown. Please give me time. How much time? I don’t know. I’ll get to it, though, surely.

I need to do other things now, to cleanse my mind, to give myself a sense of satisfaction. The years 2004 through 2017 constitute a huge chunk of my life, and so now I need to switch gears else I’ll go mad.

Besides, the story the book tells is so vile, so crooked, so vicious, so criminal, so hateful, so vindictive that it gets me down. I need to pull myself up for a while before I can allow the Caligula story to drag me back down again. Let me put this into perspective. Have you ever been in a really good, cheerful mood?

Weren’t you just dancing down the halls and bouncing off the walls, with a gigantic smile that others found infectious? When you were in that good mood, did you get called in to a meeting where all your sullen superiors had black clouds hovering above them? And all they wanted to do was tear you to shreds? Making the process last as long as possible? Didn’t that sap the life out of you? Writing this book is just like being locked into a room with such vampires.

Even after all these decades, the personalities of certain members of the production team come through in their memos, in their letters, even in the photographs of their scowling faces. They were a miserable bunch.You may also have noticed that my web sites are down as well. That is because of an unexpected unilateral change in my web-hosting contract, and I simply could not afford the revised rates.

As soon as I find a better web host, I’ll re-post my sites.Once I sit down to rewrite the Caligula story, yet again, the process won’t take more than a few months. I know how to recast the narrative, I know what to cut, I know what to rearrange, I know what to argue differently.

I won’t make the same mistakes again. I’ll finish the book before I die, because there’s no point in doing so afterwards.R.S.There is a god.

The controveresial, much-derided 'classic' finally makes its way to DVD uncut. And for me it's a fascinating experience, seeing it for the first time (the film is still banned in my native Australia). And what I found most fascinating is that despite all the infamous hardcore porn scenes, it's actually quite a boring film.The story behind Caligula is actually more interesting than the film itself. It was financed (and controlled) by Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione, who wanted to make an opulant, multi-million-dollar historical 'porn epic'. He enlisted renowned erotic filmmaker Tinto Brass to direct, and with a script by the great Gore Vidal, Guccione also managed to rope in a sterling cast of British thesps — McDowell in the title role, O'Toole, Gielgud and Mirren — who clearly didn't have a clue as to what the finished product would be. The 'plot' as such basically deals with the rise and fall of the Roman emperor Caligula, but that's secondary to the opulence and debauchery on display here — everything from anal fisting, explicit lesbian trysts and ritual beheadings to full-on orgies and blowjobs.

It's well known that the more explicit imagery was shot by Guccione, using a collection of his braver Penthouse Pets, after Brass had finished principal photography. Stories have emerged over the years that McDowell is ashamed of the film, but as he says in his marvellous commentary, that's not the case — he was just pissed off with the insertion of all the porn.As an epic, Caligula is truly grand in scale. The set design is magnificent, the costumes are lavish, the production values are as high as you would expect on a film of this kind. Performances, too, are great — especially McDowell, who has brings a gleeful delight to playing madmen. What lets it down is a messy script, misguided direction and sloppy editing. There was, potentially, a good film in there somwhere; sadly, it didn't manage to make its way onto the screen.

The Roman Empire is a fascinating period, and has been the subject of countless films. And Caligula is certainly the closest anyone has come to showing the true depravity of the age on film. But it really is a struggle to watch — even with the sex scenes intact, and a great performance from its lead, it's just dull, uninvolving and hard to follow. Despite that, its certainly worth watching, simply for the sake of curiosity.

And a big thumbs up to the BBFC for deciding to allow the film to finally be released uncut. I guess what helped the boaqrd to make its decision is the fact that with all manner of depravity available on the internet, the sex scenes in Caligula are incrediby tame by comparison.EXTRAS. This is where this 4-disc compilation shows its true worth.

First there is the complete, full-length, uncut and uncensored version of the film, which runs for 2 hours and 36 minutes. The very toned down Theatrical Version (disc 2) runs just 1 hour and 42 minutes, and also includes a collection of trailers, bonus footage and behind-the-scenes footage.

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Disc 3 is the Alternative Version, with a runtime of 2 hours and 33 minutes — plus deleted and alternate scenes, and separate audio commentaries with McDowell (hilarious stuff, well worth a listen), Mirren and Ernest Volkman, who was Penthouse's on-set writer and reporter. There is also an Extras disc, which consists of: a making-of documentary; a second making-of featurette; a featurette called My Roman Holiday with John Steiner; Caligula's Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner; Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power; stills galleries. Additional DVD-ROM content includes press kit notes, cast and crew biographies, the script and the novelisation.