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VHS : Dr. Strangelove [1963]
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Dr. Strangelove [1963] starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens directed by: Stanley Kubrick List Price: £5.99 Price: £1.00 You Save: £4.99 (83%)Prices subject to change. |
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5024165274057 Format: Black & White, PAL Label: 4 Front Video Manufacturer: 4 Front Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 4 Front Video Release Date: July 01, 2002 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: 4 Front Video Theatrical Release Date: January 29, 1964 Sales Rank: 442 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, to give it its full title, 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 US president (Peter Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart. Sellers also plays a British military attaché and the mad scientist 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, Amazon.com Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - "Gentlemen, You Can't Fight In Here, This Is The War Room!""In the days after it first opened in early 1964, Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" took on the enchanted aura of a film that had gotten away with something. Johnson was in the White House, the Republicans were grooming Goldwater, both sides took the Cold War with grim solemnity, and the world was learning to be comfortable with the term "nuclear deterrent," which meant that if you blow me up, I'm gonna blow you up, and then we'll all be dead. "Better dead than Red," some said. Others said the opposite. The choice was not appealing. The Bomb overshadowed global politics. It was a kind of ultimate hole card in a game where the stakes were life on earth." Roger Ebert I purchased the 40th Anniversary CD and this is my third or forth ... Read More: Rating:  - Another film that's a product of its own insane hypeNow I know this is a classic, and a supposed masterpiece and all that but I'm going to have to say, quite respectfully, that this film is a little bit overrated, by my reckoning. The narrative seems to be rushed through by Kubrik, his need for the film's suspense to hinge on the all important deadline set by the hastily arranged war cabinet taking clear precedence over characterisation. The film becomes heavily reliant upon the genius that was Peter Sellers, and apart from a quite masterful script, and some nicely conceived scenes, it actually has a strange feel of cheapness about it to me. Right up until the final bomber dispatch scene, (which is a superior movie scene, I do not contest) I can't get away from the feeling this is made in a studio, ... Read More: Rating: - NO FIGHTING IN HERE, THIS IS THE WAR ROOMI had heard plenty of things about this saying how good this is and so I watched it last night and agree with what people say about the film. It's funny. Stanley Kubrick's celebrated black comedy about an "accidental" nuclear attack was nominated for four 1964 Academy Awards. Created during the time when the paranoia of the Cold War was at its peak, the film still seems surprisingly relevant today. Convinced the Commies are polluting America's "precious bodily fluids", a crazed General (Sterling Hayden) orders a surprise nuclear air strike on the USSR. His aide Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) furiously attempts to figure out a recall code to stop the bombing. Meanwhile the U.S. President (Sellers again) gets on the hot line to convince the drunken ... Read More: Rating: - 'Mr. President, I cannot allow...a mineshaft gap!'How best to tackle the subject of nuclear war? Some would say a documentary or a hard hitting docu-drama. Perhaps an action movie or thriller. Some might even use science fiction or perhaps horror. But comedy? Black comedy to tackle the most horrific subject imaginable? It'll never work! Stanley Kubrick, genius that he was turned in his finest film in 1963 with Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Peter Sellers stars in three parts as the quiet but determined Captain Mandrake, the equally determined but powerless President Merkin Mufflin and the crazed, former Nazi Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick was given the story but thought it so ridiculous that the only way to tackle it was through ... Read More: Rating: - Simply brilliant, and not boring at all..."Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" is an old movie that tackles a difficult subject, the end of the world as we know it due to a nuclear war. Despite that, it is simply brilliant, and not boring at all. Why? Well, there are different reasons to say that, but I think I'll point out only those that I deem more important: 1- To start with, even though this film was made in 1964, director Stanley Kubrick managed to create a timeless masterpiece that depicts, in a sardonic way, the dangers of nuclear war. The message of this movie still comes across as valid, albeit nowadays for different reasons. 2- Secondly, even though the subject is undeniably serious, this movie is a black comedy ... Read More: |
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