By: pegsman
I’ve heard a lot about MANDINGO over the years, but I’ve never felt the need to see it. Slavery, be it the old fashioned way depicted in this movie or the more modern variant where people work 16 hour...
View ArticleBy: Mode7
Well fuck pegsman, if nobody made movies about horrible things for entertainment purposes we’d lose three or four entire genres overnight. I don’t remember you taking a stance against TAKEN because it...
View ArticleBy: Joshua James
Man, I watched this a year or two ago, and the horrible thing that’s stuck with me most is when James Mason goes to bed with his feet on that kid, the kid is smiling so happily seemingly (to me)...
View ArticleBy: CrustaceanHate
When I saw MANDINGO I dismissed it an a cheesy exploitation film that mined a historical tragedy for violence and sexytimes, like SALON KITTY or it’s legions of imitators. I didn’t really consider the...
View ArticleBy: Vern
Joshua – another part like that that I couldn’t believe is when the same kid sees Agamemnon (I think that’s his name) hanging upside down to be whipped and he innocently says “You look funny up there!”...
View ArticleBy: Jake
I love this movie. One of those films that could only be made in the 70s. I’d agree with the STARSHIP TROOPERS comparison, though I tend to think of it as more like SHOWGIRLS in terms of how people...
View ArticleBy: Brimstone
I’m reading Mark Ames’ ‘Going Postal’, where he tries to equate modern workplace shootings to slave rebellions, and he talks about how few slaves actually rebelled. It’s pretty disturbing
View ArticleBy: CrustaceanHate
Brimstone: Man, I really hope that comparison is less wrongheaded and tasteless in context.
View ArticleBy: Stu
Thought I’d link to this since I won’t be able to discuss DJANGO UNCHAINED immediately due to UK release date being later:...
View ArticleBy: psychic_hits
That last paragraph almost reads as a caution to Quentin Tarantino, and I like it. I want to think he’s too self-aware to make an unwittingly offensive movie, but then again, sensitivity to black...
View ArticleBy: Cassidy
Okay. Now I feel like I need to see this. I hadn’t realized it was a depressing satire.
View ArticleBy: Scott West
Vern: “this plays like a parody of GONE WITH THE WIND or SONG OF THE SOUTH. I know those both take place after slavery…” Gone With The Wind covers the period before and after the Civil War. Blacks are...
View ArticleBy: pegsman
Relax, Mode7, I’m not that sensitive. What I meant to say, in my usual inept way, was that I don’t like movies about slavery. They’re always crap. As for TAKEN, that was a satire about how the United...
View ArticleBy: RBatty024
“[P]roving once again that there’s nothing the US could do that the Italians couldn’t do cheaper, crasser and with more boobs.” Does this mean that the Berlusconi administration was just an Italian...
View ArticleBy: Stu
At the risk of being offensive, does anyone else see a musclebound Donald Glover when they look at that thumbnail?
View ArticleBy: RRA
I remember QT comparing this movie to SHOWGIRLS as admiring them for being big budget, shameless exploitation trash.
View ArticleBy: The Original... Paul
Is it a paradox to say that I don’t know if I would ever watch this movie, but from Vern’s review I’m kinda glad that it exists?
View ArticleBy: Pike Bishop
When that movie came to the Cinemas, i was to young to watch it. But i got myself a signed Autograph from Mr. Ken Norton. It was in a Cologne Sports Store. He stood there with a big, baldy Bodyguard...
View ArticleBy: pegsman
I’ve heard a lot about MANDINGO over the years, but I’ve never felt the need to see it. Slavery, be it the old fashioned way depicted in this movie or the more modern variant where people work 16 hour...
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