Wow!

Rating: Null/10 (19 May 2002)

Spoilers Ahead
Well I've watched a few Kubrick Movies and I absoulutely love the artistry in the Cinematography. Its like watching (22x60xhowever many minutes the film runs for) postcards. Every single shot is perfect and nothing short of it. He doesn't play around and experiment with funny camera angles or if he ever did you never see it. It's all original and its all perfect. Thats why I was kind of disappointed this movie was in Black and White. I surpose this is good in a way though. I also wish the sound was better as well. Other then those minor gripes I loved this.
Kubrick's comedy is quite as you might expect it. Incredibly dark. You have guys shooting themselves and great action war scenes with member of the same army fighting each other. And then in the end the entire world being anihilated for...wait for it...Body Fluids. Then you also have very light comedy. "Ok but if you don't have the president on the line in under a minute you're going to have some serious explaining to do to the Coca Cola Company", And of course no fighting in the war room, "So Dr. Strangelove about the 10 Woman to each man?", and this crazy russian commander drunk as a skunk and having it explained to him in small words that America is about to attack him.
The whole nuclear threat thing I've seen in a few movies before this but I wish i'd seen this one first because it is the original although I enjoyed the others. "the third world war/der weltkrieg", a european movie using clips of the real leaders of the time of the 1980 cold war peak to suggest what a real world war might look like. Then "Fail Safe" as well which is a virtually carbon copy of this movie cept not funny.
I think I'll watch it again this week. Its just a pity that the people who this film most needs to give a wakeup to are the very people who won't enjoy it and won't understand it.