Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767863728
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 0767863720
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2001-02-27
Running Time: 93
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1964-01-29

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Summary: Strangelove
Comment: This movie could quite possibly be my absolute favorite movie of all time. By no means am I implying that this is the greatest movie ever made, it is quite simply, for what its worth, my personal favorite. And by no means is it a "guilty pleasure" - it has every right to be listed among the top films of all time. After all, the very qualities that make it my personal favorite are qualities that make this movie truly stand out above the majority, critically.

This is a movie that should be shown in every film school in order to teach the ingredients necessary to make a truly great motion picture, for you could analyze any one facet of the film, be it the directing, the acting, the cinematography, and write a thesis paper on it. From a directing standpoint, you have Kubrick's incredible attention to detail and perfectionist eye; and you have his masterful ability to bring out the best in his actors. From an acting standpoint, you have Peter Sellers and George C Scott at their absolute best - which is a bold statement. You also get a perfect example of how to take a small budget and not only tear down the illusion of its limitations, but actually achieve complete freedom from a modest financial backing. This movie takes place in about four different spaces and not once is it limited by this, but in fact, greatly benefits from it. The craziness, the claustrophobic paranoia, is only heightened by the surroundings. You have a script of sheer wit, a powerfully funny, almost dangerous, satire that manages to use abstract absurdity to clearly drive home a very clear, real danger - Or in other words, it is a satire that achieves its purpose absolutely. You have a story set in a specific moment in world history, but a story beyond setting and to the heart of the human spirit - in all its fallacy, craziness, and absurdity - Which leads me to the very thing that has sold me on this film in the first place: the sheer entertainment factor of it all. You can analyze this film to death, but you cannot avoid how downright entertaining the whole production of Dr Strangelove is - the sheer genius of Kubrick's part was making this adaptation into a satire in the first place - for recognizing the insanity of political power and understanding that laughter is sometimes the best means to express horror. He has never been more on the money, regardless of how incredibly effective his other films have been, as well.

Regardless of whether watching for the first time, or the hundredth time: analyze, dissect or marvel, but above all else, grab your popcorn, lean back, and simply enjoy this entertaining film.

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Summary: Daring at the time
Comment: I remember watching this movie near the end of the Cold War and wondering just how daring the film was when it came out back in the mid-sixties. Probably made a lot of people nervous because the prospect of something like this occuring was probably very much in the minds of filmgoers.

I think the greatest parts of the film are poking at the president for knowing nothing of a bill he himself signed into legislation, or how the politicians speak to each other like nervous lovers. Of course, all that pales to Ripper's running fear of flouride finding its way into his "precious bodily fluids." What about the fear of a Mine-Shaft Gap?

Great film, but it may be lacking a bit in the a younger viewer's eye, as the very real fears prevelant at the time probably seem comical by contemporary times.

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Summary: Just Great!
Comment: Good example of a 40 years old madness that don't go away. Almost as much significant today as it was in 1964.

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Summary: GREAT FILM
Comment: Simply Kubrick at his best! Directing, writing, the cast all showing how to make a good film!

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Summary: love not war
Comment: Those who support nuclear efforts and mass destruction against weaker countries of non-democtratice origins are mad, just like most of the characters in this farce.

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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 attach 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