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The hot-line suspense comedy
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 Directed by Stanley Kubrick
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Dr. Strangelove, Dr. Insólito o: Como aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba, Dr. Fantástico, Docteur Folamour, Dr. Divnoláska aneb Jak jsem se naucil nedelat si starosti a mít rád bombu, Telefono rojo volamos hacia moscu?, ¿Teléfono rojo? Volamos hacia Moscú, Tohtori Outolempi eli: Kuinka lakkasin olemasta huolissani ja opin rakastamaan pommia, Docteur Folamour ou : comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe, Dr Folamour, Dr. Folamour, Dr Strangelove, Dr. Strangelove SOS-Πεντάγωνο Καλεί Μόσχα, Il Dottor Stranamore, Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero come imparai a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba, Hakase no ijô na aijô: Matawa watashi wa ikani shite shinpai suru no wo yamete suibaku wo aisuru you ni natta ka, 닥터 스트레인지러브, Dr. Insólito, Dr. Vreemdelust of: Hoe Ik Mijn Twijfel Overwon en de Bom Leerde Liefhebben, Dr. Strangelove eller: Hvordan jeg lærte å stoppe med å bekymre meg og å elske bomben, Doutor Estranhoamor, Доктор Стрейнджлав, или Как я научился не волноваться и полюбил атомную бомбу, Garip Doktor, 奇愛博士, Доктор Стрейнджлав, або Як я перестав хвилюватись i полюбив бомбу, Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
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“i'm sorry too, dimitri. i’m very sorry. all right, you're sorrier than i am! but i am sorry as well. i am as sorry as you are dimitri, don't say that you're more sorry than i am because i'm capable of being just as sorry as you are! so we’re both sorry, alright?”
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The inevitable has occurred: I've watched a hugely popular and acclaimed film and come away scratching my head, wondering what on earth is so special about it. But don't revoke my Letterboxd membership just yet: do me the favor of hearing me out first.
Dr Strangelove is obviously a sacred cow in film circles, and I can see why. It's often hilarious, sometimes visually striking, and full of excellent performances and dialogue. It's a funny film about a thoroughly unfunny situation. It's a perfect satire, really. But it left me completely cold.
Perhaps that's because I'm eighteen and therefore my memory (or even my parents' memories) doesn't extend back to a time when nuclear annihilation seemed almost imminent, and my…
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i want the "gentlemen, you can't fight in here. this is the war room!" line tattooed on my body immediately
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Absolutely outstanding farce. Like a slow-motion screwball. George C. Scott and his faces absolutely run away with this thing. Was about to say Peter Sellers was doing incredible work as Mandrake and I didn’t even realize he was also playing the President & Dr. Strangelove. What a master. I’m the first to say this movie is terrific. What’s dumber than this? Just guys being dudes.
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great cinematography, great performances, and very funny. i think i was supposed to love this more and i probably will someday, just not now.
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Despite being one of the finest examples of genre-filmmaking that's neatly crafted, intelligently scripted & brilliantly acted, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a film that I admire more than I love. I've no hesitation in calling it the ultimate black comedy or the perfect satire but I also won't deny that my experience with it was rather ordinary, regardless of the few laughs in between.
Set during the Cold War era, the story of Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb concerns a paranoid Air Force General who green lights a nuclear attack on Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, thus causing mass panic in the Pentagon War Room where the President, his…
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“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
Laughter is such a strange thing. We laugh because we’re happy. We laugh because we find something amusing. We laugh to displace our discomfort. We laugh because otherwise we might cry. We laugh because we don’t know how else to react. Same response, so many different triggers. The past decade has seen those non-traditional triggers frequently exploited by “cringe comedies” like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Office; laughing at uncomfortable or sad situations has become all the rage. But it’s one thing to laugh at the absurdity of a politically incorrect…
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mandrake: oh please jack give me the code, we have to stop those boys!
jack: oH pLeAsE jAcK gIvE mE tHe CoDe We HaVe To StOp ThOsE bOyS
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Dr. Strangelove is an awful movie...
...is what someone should say to me if they want a quick jab to the throat.
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This is one filthy movie. I know I'm far from the first person to notice this, but, boy, is it ever obvious today.
An opening scene of planes copulating. Then we meet General Erection post-coitus. Ripper explains he is afraid of his fluids being taken from his body...and, we later learn, new ones entering it. Then we go to a War Room of sexual repression: An emasculated president twice named after references to female genitalia; a general still thinking of the woman he left behind; a still unintroduced Strangelove in a nearly useless body (even lacking control over his, ahem, right hand); the Soviet ambassador lurks as a Sadeskic, er, sadistic voyeur of it all. Then we see the flight…