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Summary: Read this review and the truth will be revealed.
Review: The truth is, I've never even seen Dr. Strangelove. But I'm sure it's good. It looks good. Kubrick is riveting anyway. I just wanted to see how useless a review I could write. If you feel that this review is pretty useless please click the No button. This review was not helpful to you. Come on I dare you. I want to see how many people will click it.
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Summary: New DVD a minor disappointment
Review: Though this film is brilliant in any form, I ordered the DVD re-release because it was listed as a "widescreen" version. The first DVD release (and a VHS release) had alternating standard/widescreen scenes (with Kubrick's approval). This version is all standard 1.33:1 which was disppointing for me. The extras are a real treat, and, as I said, the film is worth repeated viewings no matter what format you have. Considering its release date (1964), subject matter and its relentlessly scathing screenplay, it MUST stand as one of the most profoundly essential films of all time. A bit of trivia: This was Sellers' first Oscar nomination; Sellers' is the first for any multiple-role performance to be nominated (Lee Marvin won the following year for "Cat Ballou", the first multiple-performance winner). This film, as well as Kubrick's next 3 films were nominated for Director and Screenplay (by Kubrick...2001, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon.)
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Summary: This is a good movie
Review: This is the best comedy ever! And what scares me, is that it is probably very realistic. Fiction can never outdo reality!!! Thats the genius of this film. If you like sick sick sick comedy, you`ll just love this movie.Just notice this.. The plot is serious and it is possible to believe it. Its the stupidity of the carachters and the entire world-political system that makes me smile. Imagine this. Both the presidents in the movie can destroy the whole world. But they only have a bad phone line to communicate with to each other.. Hehe... And of course, we have the "ragnarok" expert Dr. Strangelove. An imported German scientist, that of course is raving mad, and has the right solutions for the situation that occures at the end of the movie. I challenge you all: Is there any better way to deal with a worldwide nuclear catastrophy then the solutions Dr. Strangelove got???? But remember, if you`re wong, you got to answer to the coca-cola company!!!
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Summary: PURE GENIUS!
Review: One of the greatest movies ever made. Peter Sellers is a comedic genius in his 3 roles. It's sad to think that Sellers died so young. He had much to offer.
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Summary: One of best ever made
Review: This is one of the best films ever made, a comedy worthy of Voltaire or Cervantes, and a thriller to rival the best Hollywood ever produced. I'm willing to bet this movie will be remembered long after most of the movies of the Twentieth Century have faded to oblivion. Part of the inspiration for Kubrick's satirical masterpiece came from the publication in the fifties and early sixties of such absurd academic tomes as Herman Kahn's "On Thermonuclear War" in which the author assured us that nuclear war was not only survivable, but even winnable, and at any rate we could recuperate. Consequently he became one of the focal points of Kubrick's satire, embodied as Dr. Strangelove, the scientist with the arm-jerk Nazi salute and Nazi mentality, played chillingly by Peter Sellers, who also played U.S. president Merkin Muffley and British Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake. Kubrick and Terry Southern, who wrote the rapier-sharp screen play, proved profoundly prescient when it was realized some years later that nuclear war really was not winnable because it would usher in a "nuclear winter" that would becloud the entire planet for months or years to come, bringing starvation and death to billions. By making Dr Strangelove a Nazi, Kubrick was looking back, imagining, as we all were in those days, what horrors would have befallen the world had the Nazis gotten the bomb instead of the U.S. Start World War II five years later and we'd probably have Hiroshima in Chicago. Making Dr. Strangelove a Nazi also allowed Kubrick to allude to how the Nazi scientists were incorporated into the Soviet Union's bomb-building arsenal after WW II. Part of the effectiveness of the movie is how it is dramatically presented as a comedic thriller. As the Strategic Air Command planes are flying toward the Soviet Union to drop their bombs, the tension is emphasized and prolonged by the long, almost languid conversation between a very relaxed Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) ... One of the reasons this movie is still vital even though the Soviet Union has disbanded, is that it almost happened. During the Cuban missile crisis in the early sixties, Kennedy and Khrushchev came perilously close to nuclear warfare. Kubrick, Terry Southern and cast are to be commended for showing us the incredible folly of the age of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction).
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Summary: What else can i say? WONDERFUL!
Review: Three years ago my dad told me about this film, since i liked "2001", so then two weeks ago we broughted this edition of the DVD on a Best Buy store, i din't have much time to watch it, now that i am on Easter Vacation i haved the chance of seeing it this morning, and it was WONDERFUL!, great acting, great story, very funny also, it's also very smart, they are many things on this film that make it one of the best i had ever seen, also it's a bit Weird, as every Stanley Kubrick film, and specially at the ending, which in part was kind of a cliffhanger one but at the same time one very darkish comedish ending, i really do recommend this film to everyone, in case that someday nations get on a war like this, or worser, they should see this wonderful masterpiece.
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Summary: A wonderful dark comedy about the end of the world!
Review: Can a more serious topic be made funnier? I highly doubt it. With such great ideas as a mad General, a drunk Soviet leader and a overly calm President Dr. Strangelove is one of the greatest comedys ever. Kubrick does a wonderful job of making us relieve how futile worring is in such a situation. See this movie before their is a bomber gap a missle gap or even a mine bunker gap.
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Summary: Those Aren't Penguins!!!!
Review: I just love this movie. Love, love, love it. There, I've said it. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'll explain WHY I love it. Dr. Strangelove is the king of black comedies. If you're a film director and want to know how in the wide, wide world of sports you're gonna shoot a black comedy, watch this movie. Every scene is filled with black-brilliance. Because the whole movie revolves the world about to end........ augh, I got to go. I can't finish this review. My mom wants to get on. I'm sorry, really. Please don't click that "no" button below this review! Please don't!
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Summary: GREAT BONUS DOCUMENTARY ON THIS SPECIAL EDITION
Review: "DR. STRANGELOVE" (SPECIAL EDITION) When the late Stanley Kubrick finished directing "Lolita" he said he read about 50 books on thermonuclear war and with his producing partner James Harris paid $3,500 dollars for the rights to Peter George's novel "Red Alert." Immediately, Harris and Kubrick began developing a screenplay for their next production they called "The Edge of Doom." In late night creative sessions, Kubrick and Harris got silly, wondering what kind of food the President and his advisors would order while dealing with an accidental nuclear attack on Russia. Harris went off to be a director and Kubrick worked with the late Terry Southern. The new title announced was "Two Hours To Doom." After two months with Southern, Kubrick found the tone and story he felt best expressed his very serious concerns for an eminent nuclear holocaust. This brilliant, dark farce with its numerous haunting images has become a part of our collective experience. Although released in 1964 at the height of Cold War fears, the madness of nuclear war for whatever cause has never been better portrayed. Nor more relevant. Peter Sellers inhabits three distinct characters in a performance that is unmatched anywhere. Incredibly, some of his most memorable lines, like the fey phone apology to the Soviet Premiere for the accidental nuclear strike, were improvised. George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wyn and the extraordinary Slim Pickens (in a part that was originally to have been played by Sellers until he fell 15 feet out of the B-52 set and hurt himself!) are all operating at the peak of their remarkable powers and under the direction of a perfectly focused Kubrick. "Dr. Strangelove" has been available before, individually and as part of a Kubrick DVD collection. This new digitally mastered audio and video transfer seems even sharper and the incredibly black and white cinematography is pristine. Superior bonus material includes a terrific new documentary on Kubrick as well as an "Inside The making of Dr. Strangelove" and more. (UK, Columbia Pictures, Black & White, Full Theatrical Print, 104 Minutes, Rated PG, 1964)
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Summary: Classical filmmaking. Kubrick's best!
Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worryingand Love the Bomb Score: 98/100 Peter Sellers playing 3 roles. George C. Scott supporting him. Stanley Kubrick directing. South American's accents been mocked. It all sounded like heaven. And it was. Everyone got more out of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb than anyone had the right to expect for an independent film of 1964. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Device" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Permier; and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world? George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones are all excellent in memorable scenes, but this is clearly Sellers' show, even over Stanley Kubrick's never-better directing detail. Sellers' performance is one of the most stunning, extraordinary and utterly brilliant performances ever put to screen. He always gives the film its comedy and he'll put a smile on your face, and volcanically erupts the comic humour deep down in his intriguing characters. There are many classical scenes; the phone conversation between a woman in a bikini who argues with her bosses' boss; the hilarious quote "Gentleman - you can't fight in here, this is the war room" and of course that ending, a final shot in a film that is one of the finest to memory. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has one of the longest titles in film history, but damn, it's all over too quickly! But, since there is not a film by Stanley Kubrick that matches this one, it's a must-buy, and you'll be staring at Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb all day after you've spent your money. It's quite simply the best, most classical dark comedy ever made.
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