Just watched "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers." Geoffrey Rush

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was AMAZING as Sellers. Anyone else watch?

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1. Excellent Movie.....

Sad life though, for such a funny guy.. especially his death.

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3. Could be incredibly cruel to his wives and children. Tragic. Died so

young, too (54). Very sad indeed. Comic genius.

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10. how did he die?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Heart attack in his early fifties

He had barely survived a massive heart attack in his thirties.

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2. Switched between the Steelers/Jags and Sellers...

He looked very good especially in the ending Being There scenes, have to watch it again...

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4. Haven't had the pleasure

I've heard Sellers suffered from very poor self-esteem and thought he was particularly unfunny. I've loved him since I was 11, when I saw Return of the Pink Panther (I think that was the one) in the theater. He may not have been immortal, but he was hysterically funny. Bless him.

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5. Sellers is pretty close to immortal

just for Dr. Strangelove, if nothing else.

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7. I found Strangelove to be forced and overdone.

Kubrick's direction was ham-fisted. With Strangelove, Kubrick tried to be Mel Brooks and failed miserably. Sellers gave it everything he had, but he did better in other films.

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11. "Strangelove" was arch and over the top

but it has matured into a kind of iconic Greek Play for the Cold War. Sure it's unreal, but Sellers found the Classic Farcical quality and used it well, I thought. Brooks is not Kubrick nor vice versa. I love Brooks, but vive la difference.

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13. A good review

We almost agree. (Actually, Mel Brooks annoys the hell out of me, but that's a long diatribe.)

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6. Birdy num num. n/t

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8. Does your dog bite?

I thought you said your dog did not bite!

That is not my dog...

It sounds a lot funnier with the accent...duz your doog baht?

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9. it was uncanny!

My husband said "Why is Peter Sellers playing himself?"

Charlize was perfect as Eklund!

I loved the dreaminess and visionary quality, the insimuation that Pater as an actor couldn't help becoming other people, as he played so many roles in the movies and in THIS movie, with Rush becoming Peter's mother and so on. Brilliant.

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12. I thought it was great...

Rush was perfect for Peter Sellers. At some points I forgot it was not Sellers on the screen. So much I didn't know about his personal life.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Saw it last night

Geoffrey Rush did an amazing impersonation of Sellers.

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16. I love Geoffrey Rush, and he was beyond perfect as Peter Sellers,

I loved the movie, it was really different, and it was really neat how Geoffrey would be the people at certain points.

It's amazing that someone as funny as Peter Sellers, could have had such a sad life. :(