DISQUS

Conversations With Marva: MovieWatcher: Mandingo

  • PPR_Scribe · 3 months ago
    This is so funny: I was present when this movie was being shown... However, I was a kid and it was at the drive-in, and it was the 2nd or 3rd feature after the more kid-friendly fare, and by the time this movie came on I was in the back of the station wagon with my sister, asleep. So, I guess somewhere in my subconscious is stored dialog from the film but I do not actually remember any of it.

    I have always been curious about it, though. I'll have to check it out.
  • invisible woman · 3 months ago
    yes, campy and cheap--my parents made us go to sleep in the back of the car at the drive in too.

    there was a time when all of these salacious black slave/white massa films came out, based on some jackie collins like fiction books---they were churnin' em out like tyler perry.

    "drum" was the other one i kinda remember
  • Marvalus · 3 months ago
    PPR Scribe & IW:

    I must have been a small child when I first saw this movie (probably at the drive-in too), because all I remembered about it was Ken Norton fighting the man in the courtyard. Someone on Twitter mentioned it, and I put it on my Netflix queue to re-watch it.

    Like IW said, it did have a "Jackie Collins" feel to it...and it didn't fit.
  • clnmike · 3 months ago
    I remember those movies, your right they were basically more soft porn (really soft), than social commentary, but than again the books were worst so thats the basis. The only thing you get out of it if you look hard is the hypocrisy of it all.