Funny how that despite the self-purported film buff I try to be, I have managed to avoid black and white films to no end simply because I am a child of the nineties and the notion of conceiving a world without colour almost frightens me. Still it is ...
Pros: briliant, funny - and brilliantly funny. Cons: n/a
One of the greatest satirical stories ever committed to film - and easily the funniest anti-war film ever made - Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove: or How I Learned to Quit Worrying and Love the Bomb is a film that seems continually timely....
Pros: Kubrick's very sardonic script and taut direction; Peter Sellers times three Cons: None, unless that fluoridated water has tainted your pure bodily fluids....
General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special ...
Pros: Sellers, Scott, Kubrick, great story, fun Cons: Nothing
Dr. Strangelove was a big landmark for Stanley Kubrick. For one, it was his last black and white movie of the generation as well as it being the only comedy that he ever remotely tried to complete. Adapted from Peter Georges novel Red ...
Pros: Easily the funniest anti-war film ever made. Cons: In Dr. Strangelove?
It was around this time last year that I was looking at a list of upcoming Hollywood movies and I saw two that immediately jumped out at me. The two films were remakes of The Manchurian Candidate and The Stepford Wives. My initial thought on both was ...
Pros: A near flawless film, terrific direction, acting, script Cons: They cut the original pie-fight ending, which I'd kill to see
Stanley Kubrick’s biting anti-Cold War satire is one the best and funniest movies ever made. The stellar cast provides the film’s loony moments with a kind of dignity rarely seen in comedies. The script, hands down one of the best ever written,...
Pros: Sparkling wit, satire, and parody; great performances from Sellers and others; great sets Cons: Reveals the best and the worst of what we are, and the worst ain't pretty
Stanley Kubrick once observed, "A really great picture has a delirious quality in which you're constantly searching for meanings." On that basis as well as others, Kubrick's monumental Dr. Stangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ...
One of the signs of a truly great film is when you notice something new every time you watch it. Does it still seem as fresh and intelligent as when you first watched it? Stanley Kubrick's hilarious 1964 masterpiece Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned ...
Pros: Hilarious. Cons: One must be familiar with the rudiments of the Cold War.
The line of dialogue is immortal in film: You cant fight in here! This is the war room! Go figure. And go weep, or go laugh. This warning, oxymoronic as it is, reflects the sense of the hilariously absurd that permeates Stanley ...
During the early 1960s in the age of the Cold War, paranoia was evident during those times. Particularly in 1962 when the Soviet Union were trying to put missiles in Cuba targeting the U.S. which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The tension between ...
Pros: a perfect satire ahead of its time; great cast; perfect direction... Cons: some pacing problems; jumping from comedy to serious to comedy/
my rating: A-
“A world without nuclear weapons would not be disadvantageous to the United States. In fact a world without nuclear weapons would actually be a better place.”
- Les Aspin, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
A film review I’ve been constantly hesitant to write is for that of Dr. Strangelove. Why? Oh, I don’t know. In my first ever movie review, for that of the rarely noticed Th
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Wars, I wrote, “I really wish there ...
Pros: Masterpiece black comedy now part of Great DVD packed with extras. Cons: Those without any perspective on the Cold War will not understand.
Dr. Strangelove is a classic. A daring, black comic satiric masterpiece which has had a remarkable influence and impact on millions throughout the world.
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and the Cold War was on the minds of most Americans in...
Stanley Kubrick s classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening - and seems...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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