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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song [1971] [DVD]

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3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Bfi
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Nov 2005
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BMUVEW
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 46,181 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Hustler Sweet Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) sees two cops beating up a black revolutionary. He takes revenge by killing the cops, but is then forced to go on the run. Sweetback uses all his streetwise skills to stay one step ahead of his police pursuers as he makes his way to the safe haven of Mexico. Van Peebles not only stars in but writes and directs this milestone in independent film-making.

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3.8 out of 5 stars
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
An early blaxploit film made on a budget but it works for me.The previous reviewer correctly refers to poor quality picture/lighting but you're not watching a digitally remastered version with the BFI disc.Everything about the movie is raw and has that "fly on the wall" style with many of its scenes.The music is appropiate and messy at the same time and in being so it adds to the urgency of the more dramatic scenes.I will recommend this to any fan of blaxploit with one simple proviso:it ain't polished like "Shaft" - it's down to earth and seems a truly realistic account of life for some members of America's black and ethnic communities of the late sixties and early seventies.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars TRUE BAAAAAAADASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 13 July 2005
Format:VHS Tape
This was pioneering stuff for back in 1971, a film where the black guy isn't just a lovable clown playing it up for the rich white guy, or any other stereotype that filled the big screen back in the day. Melvin Van Peebles created a a film 'for all the brothers and sisters tired of the man,' working against the actors guild of the time and making possibly the most un-Hollywood film ever. No one wanted to touch it to begin with, but it grossed over £11 million, made Peebles a household name (sort of) but most importantly gave birth to the whole Blaxploitation genre and made Black cinema as great and important as anything else commited to film.
Also, don't sleep on the soundtrack. It features a damn funkin' Earth, Wind & Fire before anyone knew who they were, along with Peebles'own madcap chants and outbursts. Anyone who has heard Madlib's Quasimoto albums will already be familiar with some of the tracks as they form a large proportion of his vocal samples.
Anyway, essential inspirational viewing. Proof indeed that if you want to achieve somrthing, it is possible. If you're good enough. And Melvin Van Peebles was/is. Keep it funkin' y'all.
They won't bleed me.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars lord have mercy!!!! 16 Oct 2003
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Format:VHS Tape
i had the pleasure of watching this film on a grubby betamax video that my dad had hidden under the bed when i was 10 years old (im now 30) and i have to say that this film followed me through out my entire adolescence! its the best blaxploitation film ever made EVER!!!!! i still watch it to this day and sing along to the gritty tunes that blast out of my tv set! my partner and i know all the words..and there arent many as peebles doesnt speak much!! but we use them as cursing out lines up to this day!! if u aint watched this u aint lived believe me!!the biggening scene is the most shocking clip i have ever seen on the big screen!!! and i aint easily shocked but it still has an affect on me now( imagine a ten year old!) this guy loves sex and seems to go through the film batteling with his weapon.(not a gun) quite frequently! please get it please watch it please remember it...its BADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
BIG UP!
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