Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop… Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Directed by Stanley Kubrick
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The hot-line suspense comedy
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. A classic black and white war satire from director Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers.
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is an absurdly hilarious film, with a lot of memorable quotes and fantastic characters, being the best war satire I've seen until this day. This is another masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick and I can totally see myself watching the film over and over again in the future, never getting tired of its brilliance. Dr. Strangelove is consistently entertaining and features countless crazy and over the top situations that take place in the Cold War period. Characters like the maniacal General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott steals every scene he's in and presents a brilliant comic timing and delivery), the paranoid General Jack D. Ripper who has some…
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Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is the ultimate pick-me-up when I'm down and feeling sorry for myself. I watch it to make me feel small, when I need that deepening sense of dread as the world collapses to make my own problems seem miniscule in comparison. Because every single misstep is completely avoidable, I end up laughing at how dumb people can be, and then it makes me feel really smart in comparison. The film itself is so smart I feel really dumb after its over, which somehow makes me feel really good.
Jack D. Ripper, an out of control American Air Force General, puts into motion a plan to drop a…
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This used to be one of my least-favorite Kubrick films for no apparent reason whatsoever. But after not viewing it for quite a long while, I have grown to appreciate it more than ever with this viewing. Such a hilarious movie that still works after all these decades.
I love how this movie takes its time and still never seems slow or uninteresting. There are moments where the camera just lingers on the scene, sometimes not even moving. Many scenes in themselves are upwards of 10 or 15 minutes in length. The movie is not hurried in any way, yet still retains a strong pace and constant tension - the mark of quality storytelling.
There are still about 5 Kubrick…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I finally saw this and I think it's the greatest satire ever made! It's very funny black comedy with an horrific theme, nuclear war.
Each performance is so great and hilarious. Peter Sellers as Mandrake, the President and Dr. Strangelove is just amazing so as the rest of the cast. Sterling Hayden as Jack Ripper also made me laugh so much!
The music helps to create the humorous sarcastic environment too and cuts the seriousness of some scenes. The cinematography is also great.
I think this movie is above all a critique to the society and still can be very actual in these days, specially in a political point of view.The ending is epic! "Mein Führer! I can walk!"
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What is war? Is it the simple idea of armed conflict between two nations? Or is it more than that? What defines war? How does it start? How do we stop it? The complexity of questions that arises around the controversial topic of war is almost astronomical.
In actuality war is not simple. It can almost never be fully understood. War is something started for a many number of reasons; whether they be political, social, or cultural reasons, the inevitable truth and ending is negative; death, chaos, confusion, and overall loss.
We constantly look back at war in our past, in school, through books, news, and the many different outlets available to us. We learn through this analysis and through…
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is an absurdly hilarious film, with a lot of memorable quotes and fantastic characters, being the best war satire I've seen until this day. This is another masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick and I can totally see myself watching the film over and over again in the future, never getting tired of its brilliance. Dr. Strangelove is consistently entertaining and features countless crazy and over the top situations that take place in the Cold War period. Characters like the maniacal General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott steals every scene he's in and presents a brilliant comic timing and delivery), the paranoid General Jack D. Ripper who has some…
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a new film for me to start quoting left and right.
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Matenme, pero no me gustó. De hecho hubo escenas que tuve que ver dos o tres veces porque me ponía a pensar en otras cosas y ni leía los subtítulos.
Explíquenme ustedes donde ven el entretenimiento (por favor, sin hablar de la genialidad de Kubrick y su visionarismo) en esta cinta anodina y monótona.
Eso sí, Sellers en su papel de Mandrake muy bien, en los otros bastante tedioso.
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This is Kubrick at his best. A razor-sharp satire, chock full of smart dialogue and enjoyable characters (most of whom are portrayed by Peter Sellers), "Dr. Strangelove" was released shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis and at the peak of Cold War tension. Yet long after the fall of the USSR, the film's message retains its relevance especially in an age where Mutually Assured Destruction is more prominent than ever, but dismissed as just another paragraph from the history books.
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To be completely honest, as a first time viewer, I was expecting a little bit more from mastermind that Stanley Kubrick is, and considering what he has done with his other films, primarily 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining. Although he didn't yet fully shape his style with masterful cinematography, good script is the thing to look for in this film. Not just good, but excellent, in fact. It could be defined as drama, but mild pieces of dark humour should be visible to anybody.
'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!'
Film's primary function is beyond simple. It ridicules and mocks American and Russian tendency to think about ruling the world, and forgetting about…
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Of course it's mostly about the Cold War, but these people desperately trying to control what they've set in motion work as a universal parody of humanity.
Not Kubrick's funniest (that's Lolita), but close.
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There are very few classic movies that don't lose some of their appeal the later you see it. For instance, The Matrix was groundbreaking at the time but has been so copied that if you saw it fresh today, you'd wonder exactly what the big deal was.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is that rare movie. I didn't see it for the first time until about five years ago and it delighted me. I'm old enough that I somewhat remember the end of the Cold War but young enough that I didn't have "duck and cover" drills in school. I can't imagine the shock that the movie elicited when released smack dab in the middle of the nuclear scare.
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I think I am wrong or my approach towards this film was wrong; that i did not liked the film !!