Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (DVD)

The year is 1963. The Cold War is at its peak in tension. There is the Cuban missile crisis. The world is living in fear. It is a serious time, indeed. So what does Stanley Kubrick do? Well, he makes a film that pokes fun at the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Dicey, yes, but absolutely and breathtakingly brilliant. Based loosely upon the novel 'Red Alert' by Peter Bryant, 'Dr. Strangelove' began as a straight-laced nuclear threat thriller. A good way into the script production, however, Kubrick realises that perhaps this film might be even better with some humour. Dear me, was the man right (then ...  Read the complete review

In 1964, when the threat of nuclear war loomed over the entire world, those people who believed that the entire Cold War was a pathetic folly were rapidly churning out books, films and articles propounding exactly that most obvious point. Into this fray stepped master director Stanley Kubrick, who, by turning the whole subject on its head and reducing it to farcical black comedy, managed to argue the vital point all the more forcibly. Developed from Peter George’s novel “Two Hours to Doom”, which did not contain any comedic elements, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb was developed jointly by George and ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears on The Student Room and Flixster in part Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is an utterly unforgettable satire that's one of the best comedies of all time and quite possibly the best film made by veteran auteur Stanley Kubrick. However, it's almost as much a triumph for acting legend Peter Sellers as it is for anyone - he creates a wealth of memorable characters, such as Captain Mandrake, an English army captain, as well as The President of the United States, and most famously, Dr. Strangelove himself, an ex-Nazi who is extremely eccentric, and wheels about the warm room in a wheelchair spouting insane ...  Read the complete review

Again, this review was written by myself under a different username here: http://www.empireonline.com/forum/tm.asp?m=2422814&mpage=3&key= The last of Kubrick's feature length films that I had seen (excluding Fear and Desire), Dr. Strangelove came at the height of the cold war. The threat of nuclear war put fear (and desire) into the souls of denizens throughout the western world. With this film, Kubrick attempted to show the ridiculous situation that the USA and Russia had got themselves in. Coming after the relative success of Lolita, Dr Strangelove cemented Kubrick's position as one of the most talented directors in the US. Originally ...  Read the complete review

“Gentlemen you can’t fight in here, this is a war room!”, as brilliant and relevant today as it was in 1963, Dr Strangelove is the seminal satire which rocked the Hollywood boat and has had waves lasting right through to the modern day. If it were to be some kind of cake it would be near perfect, something like a baked Alaska possibly, it has all the right ingredients, one of the greatest directors (and one of the most politically and technically astute as well), one of the funniest actors of all time and one of the greatest writer. I will start with Terry Southern the writer of this farce, purely because he is possibly the least recognisable of the three. Southern ...  Read the complete review