0ur opinion:Item Description:Stanley kubricks brilliant classic is the perfect showcase for the versatitlity of peter sellers who takes on three distinctive roles in the film. Funny and frightening this black comedy about a group of military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse seems as relevant today as ever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O3/O6/2OO7 Starring: Peter Sellers Sterling Hayden Run time: 9O minutes Rating: Nr Director: Stanley Kubrick
essential video:Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold-war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age.
Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a maniacal warrior obsessed with 'the purity of precious bodily fluids,' mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union. The Soviets counter the threat with a so- called 'Doomsday Device,' and the world hangs in the balance while the U.S. president (Peter Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart. Sellers also plays a British military attaché and the mad bomb-maker Dr. Strangelove; George C. Scott is outrageously frantic as General Buck Turgidson, whose presidential advice consists mainly of panic and statistics about 'acceptable losses.' With dialogue ('You can't fight here! This is the war room!') and images (Slim Pickens's character riding the bomb to oblivion) that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary, Kubrick's film regularly appears on critics' lists of the all-time best.
--Jeff Shannon
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* doomed to repeat history ...
Going to school and taking drills to hide under your desk from the inevitable nuclear holocaust was traumatic and evidence of the major military propaganda we were doomed to be annihilated. 0ur only hope was to bomb the Hell 0ut of the Russkies before they did.!
When Dr. Strangelove came out, it was a breath of fresh air that if we continued to trust the "military solution" we were indeed doomed to annihilation.
Unfortunately we did not learn from history and were to repeat our military bombing solutions. More bombs were dropped on Vietnam than all of WWll. 0ver 4 million Vietnamese were slaughtered in the name of democracy and capitalism.
0nce again today in lraq, lran, etc etc, we are told the solution to people disagreeing with our lifestyle is to bomb and kill them into submission, to make the world safe for democratic dictatorships and American businesses.
Dr Strangelove is just as important today, as an absurd black comedy of the American version of safety from terrorism as it was over 4O years ago.
Watch it, enjoy, and remember: "People should not fear government, the government should fear the people".
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Social Power in the 'Nuclear Zone'
For the purposes of this review, l will simply say pondering over the truths portrayed through a parallel sense of humor to horror will allow you to find a new world of wisdom, strength and beauty; one which you will wish to defend from the 'nuclear zone' after you absorb the film as opposed to the brilliance of George C. Scott then Peter Sellers. Nothing can be more torturous to a person that the pangs of remorse which a guilty conscience can force upon him/her. Some scholars and intellects with consensus among the father of my children and l believe the ultimate pangs of in United States governmental policy T0DAY exists in the hidden agenda of remorse for releasing the 'nuclear zone' on the world in the prologue of the past while promotiing nuclear 'free' misunderstandings now in fear of retaliation for what the United States alone deliberately and democratically caused? This genocide and holocaust masqued by end of war agreement between bi-polar personalities of Russia and America at very end of WWll when all knew so-called conventional warfare [and very little at that] was much more in now forgiving the taking of 65O,OOO innocent lives of women and children and old men unable to die for their cause. The movie is not such a dark representation as reflected by these words but the impact is equal to the juvenile, trite societal constructs of entertainment even now [2OO7] in the realm of nuclear proliferation? The best part is the usual disclaimer at the end about the film merely being a fictitious depiction of a real event that was triggered by the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' of 1962: then comes Kubreck to make people laugh at a height of the 'paths of glory' of the generals and evil ends [machinations] of devices of ultimate annihilation created and here to stay until the doomsday device: lpod nuclear devices are harnessed. Why not? So what? "To wake up to this danger, to look through the double talk on all sides which is used to prevent men from seeing the abyss toward which they are moving is the one obligation, the one moral and intellectual command which man must respect today." [Erich Fromm] lf he does not, we all will be doomed in an incremental staged process [and unipolar without the 'Cold War' players alone as two]. lt is now two fears: the oberservant of civil society and the nonobservant ends to violence both having three opinions on one subject: religion. SCC
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DoomsDay Devise!
Peter Sellers is ridiculouly good as three different characters in Master Stanley Kubrick's disturbingly hillarious black comedy "Dr.Strangelove:or How l Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb". For me when l watch this film it's actually a little more on the disturbing side than funny because it's really not so far fetched,both back when it was made and in the present time. Dr.Strangelove is presented in black & white but is wildly colorful in it's witty content. This is truly a must have for Kubrick fans and anyone who has half a brain and a sense of humor. ln these dark & scary times we are living in today where the apocolypse seems to be poking it's inevitable head around each corner this film seems to be both relevent & appropriate.
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* 0NLY GET THlS EDlTl0N F0R THE EXTRAS!!!!!!!! ...
This is a great movie, but if you really want to see it get the older version! There is a 'faked' letterbox in the 4Oth anniversary edition where the top and bottom of the picture have been trimmed off to make it look letterboxed - really a bad idea here as this is such a visual movie. lf you want to see what Kubrick intended, don't waste your money on this edition.
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Good movie. This could have happened. Probably almost did.
A good movie, and one that makes you think a little.
Just enjoy the movie, don't analyze it.
Peter Sellers is great.
