So I finally Watched it and....

I just watched it and thought the exact opposite! I was expecting a campy C-movie but was surprised by the brutally frank depiction of the Ante-bellum South. Of course there was plenty of melodrama and salaciousness thrown in but it was a much better film than I could have imagined it would be.

I agree with the other two.
Some scenes were campy but the movie overall was quite intense.
Your favorite line is mine as well. Love that scene.

I found it to be equal parts trashy and intense.

What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!

Intentionally funny and campy. But also genuine drama. Observes from distance.

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It's not a perfect movie but I don't think it made slavery out to be a joke at all. I thought it was a brutal and justifiably uncomfortable portrayal.

I loved the fact that that mansion was about as derelict as could be, and no attempts were made to pretty it up. Maybe they found an actual old plantation house and that's why it looked the way it did. I saw the movie years ago in a theater and loved it then and love it now, although the ending is quite disturbing. I know it's a "potboiler," as netflix said, but it is based on a novel, and I suspect it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility back then for both the mistress as well as the master to dally with the help.

I loved the fact that that mansion was about as derelict as could be, and no attempts were made to pretty it up. Maybe they found an actual old plantation house and that's why it looked the way it did. I saw the movie years ago in a theater and loved it then and love it now, although the ending is quite disturbing. I know it's a "potboiler," as netflix said, but it is based on a novel, and I suspect it wasn't beyond the realm of possibility back then for both the mistress as well as the master to dally with the help.