"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
Its just simply the most overated film i have ever seen. I dont want to go into the facts of this because i will be here all week. Just read the other 1 star review because they seem to have gone it detail.
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Like most films of the book there had to be compromises.
The main issue I see with the film is that it feels empty - there are very few people around.
Since the climax of the book is the birth of a fully-formed hermaphrodite all-purpose human being and the mass suicide of Europe's population in the sea (after a triumphal procession), this was always going to be a problem in getting the transfer to the screen right. Also there is a lot more depth in the book. All we have here is a prolonged chase between the Cornelius brothers, a couple of shootouts and then the denouement in the mad scientists' lair. Oh, and a bout of vampirism.
Like most films of the book there had to be compromises.
The main issue I see with the film is that it feels empty - there are very few people around.
Since the climax of the book is the birth of a fully-formed hermaphrodite all-purpose human being and the mass suicide of Europe's population in the sea (after a triumphal procession), this was always going to be a problem in getting the transfer to the screen right. Also there is a lot more depth in the book. All we have here is a prolonged chase between the Cornelius brothers, a couple of shootouts and then the denouement in the mad scientists' lair. Oh, and a bout of vampirism.
I saw this film quite a few years ago, and i remember being swept away by the sheer beauty and scope of it. At the time i didn't know that many of the European stars, the main reason i watched it was for Robert De Niro and Donald Sutherland. Now of course it's chock full of people i really love, like the great Stefania Sandrelli, not to mention, Dominique Sanda and Alida Valli.
However for me having seen it again recently, it's the joy of seeing three of my all time favouriet actors right at their peak, De Niro, Sutherland & the wonderful Gerard Depardieu.
Bernardo Bertoluuci's films often leave me a bit cold, they of course are fantastically well made, brilliantly acted and usually very epic, or complex, but often they can i be just a little pretentious ... Read More:
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The single best thing about this movie is Oliver Reed as the downtrodden sidekick to Kinski, whose accent is at best, difficult to understand. It seems that the makers have been caught between genres; is it a horror, or a police thriller. Quite frankly it matches neither criteria particularly well. However, it does have some redeeming qualities, and if seeing an example of the British film industry at its worst is of interest, then this is a great film for you - if not, give it a miss!
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Its just simply the most overated film i have ever seen. I dont want to go into the facts of this because i will be here all week. Just read the other 1 star review because they seem to have gone it detail.
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"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 viewing, but "Dr. Strangelove" seems ... Read More:
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This Review refers to Frank Lloyds 1955 film 'The Last Command' Starring Sterling Haydn, Arthur Hunnicut and J Carol Naish, and a host of well known Hollywood regulars, such as Ernest Borgnine and Slim Pickens. NOT the 1928 Silent Movie by Sternberg, as the review elsewhere on this page suggests. This is one of Republic Pictures great films. It is about the now famous 'Siege of The Alamo' at San Antonio De Bexar in the Texican Republic, during the Texas War of Independance in the 1830's. Frank Lloyds direction is perfect, Haydn plays Jim Bowie with sympathy and feeling, and no better actor than Arthur Hunnicutt for the role of Col. Davy Crockett, probably can ever be found again. Carlson plays an effective Travis, who shares his Last Command with Col Jim Bowie, the film takes us ... Read More:
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I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS MINI-SERIES ON TV IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES - IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER SEEN. I CANT WAIT FOR THE DVD TO BE RELEASED. I HAVE HAD THE BOOK FOR TWENTY YEARS NOW AND THE SERIES WAS VERY LOYAL TO IT. THIS WAS ONE PROGRAMME THAT STARTED MY INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.
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