Max Hardcore

[Ben Jones]

I'm sure this has been covered before, but your opinions would be valued chaps. What do you think of this man and his output??

BJ

[Officer Dibble]

If John Staliano was the prophet, then Max Hardcore was the high priest of gonzo, elevating it to new levels of crassness and distastefulness. Their combined influences, to a greater or lesser extent, are clear to see in almost every porno movie made today.

Officer Dibble

[stripeysydney]

I've said it before ,and i'll say it again ;he's a misogynistic piece of shit.
Anybody who doubt's that should check out the TV programme Louie Theroux's weird weekend's[i think!] when he was in Los Angeles.
Theroux and his camaraman ended up escorting a [admittedly a rather naive]terrified english girl from a location,after a drunken and very abusive Hardcore very nearly assaulted the girl.Theroux and his assistant were clearly shocked by the incident and i dont think they were playing up just for the camara's.
One more thing, Seymore Butt's think's he's a wanker too.

[Pervert]

Eloquently put, Sydney---and just about sums up my feelings about that piece of diseased shite.

[Pervert]

Too violently nasty for my taste.

[Pervert]

Yeah, we're fooling ourselves---but there's a difference between a consentual sex scene, and one that involves a woman choking and in obvious discomfort.

[crofter]

Don?t like agreeing with Dibble ... again, but he seems pretty spot on with that observation between Stagliano and Max Hardcore. I would say Max Hardcore has spawned a new generation of rougher ?gonzo? producers and directors who treat female talent like ?whores?, ?bits of meat? etc., and have compulsory choking, spitting etc., they then try and pass it off as product that we the viewing public want to see when really it is just to ?get them off?. I do not really know too many people who would admit to being turned on seeing women humiliated and degraded, but maybe it lies in the deep recesses of most folks minds ... who knows, certainly these type of ?gonzo? titles seem to sell well enough.
What marks Max Hardcore as being slightly different and even more sinister is the ?young schoolgirl? fixation, plus of course the pissing and fisting, but again there seems to be a market for his tapes.

[Pervert]

Even more worrying is that much of the market for his stuff is men who feel emasculated by independent women, and are thus empowered by seeing women degraded. Maybe I'm reading more into this than is there, but I don't think so. There is definitely something inherently nasty and utterly misogynistic about his stuff, imho.