Rate It
|
||||||||||||||||
Rating Averages
My Friends |
Not rated. () |
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
All Flixster |
(407) |
235 |
1191 |
Female |
(107) |
62 |
314 |
Male |
(300) |
173 |
877 |
More Like This
If you liked this, then you'll also probably like...
Got another recommendation for someone who liked this movie? Add it to the list!
Got an opinion? Use the buttons to vote on all the suggestions people have added.
If lots of people vote, the best suggestions will rise to the top.
| How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (Baa... (100%) |
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (0%) |
|
|
| Watermelon Man (100%) |
|
|
Plot: Renegade pimp Sweetback hits the road after hacking up two corrupt police officers who were busying themselves with brutally beating up a young black man.
Photos
Meet Other Fans
Recent Reviews
-
MCT:July 20, 2008
Not the Casablanca, but certainly the Jazz Singer of blaxploitation. It was the first of its kind and is huge for having done what it did. Obviously it had more weight within its time, but there are still some interesting things to see -- from the symbolicly silent protagonist to the ambiguous ending.
-
MCT:January 5, 2008Every movie can be seen as a product of it's time, but this is one film that makes that phrase mean something. It's the kind of film one would probably see in order to understand where the Blaxploitation genre comes from. For a really good show, one should see the movie about the making of this film, "Baadasssss". See that before you see this.
-
MCT:January 3, 2008
On one hand, a vibrant but muddled fugitive-on-the-run story... on the other, a remarkable cultural milestone. Independent, amazingly low-budget and experimental, Van Peebles work influenced the way in which African-Americans would break the color-barrier in film by directly spawning the Blaxploitation genre.
That said, this movie is NOT Blaxploitation, instead having all the earmarks of an independent experimental film... Blaxploitation was merely Hollywood's response to this movies groundbreaking thematic content. To look at this movie without context, only looking at its technical execution, loses much of what made it powerful. While later films would also have low-budgets and deal with similar militant themes, they nowhere near reached the raw content and reality of this film: Peebles' actually contracted Gonorrhea from the sex-scenes in the film, for god sakes. There are some movies which would be impossible to ever duplicate, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song proudly stands as one of them. -
MCT:November 28, 2007This is the first and best of what would eventually become known as the "Blaxploitation" genre. A true spit in the eye of a film. Check out BAADASSSS, as that is about the making of this movie.
-
MCT:June 20, 2007
totally set the bar for blaxploitation films, the first of it's kind and all i can say is that this one must be approached with caution patience and a strong stomach
-
MCT:June 17, 2007It seemed like the last thirty minutes were probably pretty good; unfortunately the beginning wasn't engaging enough to hold interest that long.
-
MCT:May 9, 2007
Love what it did for African-American cinema but, when push comes to shove, it really isn't a very good film. Not without its own idiosyncratic style, but it's basically 80 minutes of a man runnin' & f**kin'.
-
MCT:April 14, 2007
An important landmark in soul cinema/blaxsploitation/black filmmaking in general. Weather it transcends its time or not is up to each viewer. It still entertained me, here and there.
-
MCT:February 19, 2007
As a fan of Blaxploitation films, I went back to this to see the culture significance it had in ensembling an all black cast (something which had never been done before) and then how Hollywood would take the format and make money out of it. Believe me it makes an obvious transgression, especially in its first stages of development of the blaxploitation convention.
The film isn't a masterpiece nor does it come close to resembling a good film (it does largely seem a film made of shots of a man on the run, literally), however despite that one downfall I think it must be remembered as the ancestor to a cult genre in itself.
An interesting watch solely on remembering the effect it had on moviemaking. -
MCT:October 30, 2006
The original Kill Whitey movie, Sweetback is a surreal but gritty art house blaxploitation porno. The film was shaped just as much by the economics of its production as it was by Van Peebles' relentless drive to create the first genuine black film experience untainted by the whitewashes of the studio system, making it a textbook example of the zen of exploitation films.
My Friends Said...
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Recent Reviews
Register or sign-in to see your friends' reviews !
Comments
-
rayman0071posted 267 days ago
