Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition) |...

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition) | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott | GREAT FILM

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	Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Two-Disc Special Edition) Peter Sellers, George C. Scott Sony Pictures, 2004 average customer review:based on 413 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Daring at the time

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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GREAT FILM

Simply Kubrick at his best! Directing, writing, the cast all showing how to make a good film!

Just Great!

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

love not war

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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