The killed Kubrick because of the 24 minutes he refused to cut from Eyes Wide Shut.
I find 99% of his films unwatchable. This is one of them.
Major T. J. "King" Kong : Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
“I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. General Ripper found out about you’re prevrsions, and thought you were organizing a mutiny of preverts”.
Could Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson survive in today’s air force?? (we need more “Buck’s, by the way)
Without clicking on the “Guadalajaran”, the extras on “Fail Safe” are a hoot.
The creators of the movie, “Fail Safe”, were apoplectic that their “serious” movie would be destroyed by the comedy of Strangelove. Of course, they also get aroused by the back of Henry Fonda’s head…
I enjoy both movies.
In fact, I watched “Dr. Strangelove” two nights ago. It was one of the first DVDS I bought many years ago. It’s still one of the greatest satires ever made and has lost none of it’s teeth.
Wag the dog was pretty cool, too.
At various times this is my first or second favorite movie. What an enduring masterpiece.
I still think back to General Jack D. Ripper’s beliefs concerning fluoride, which has been proven to be true! And Col. Bat Guano? What a laugh.
It was still so over the top, but I still accepted it as a masterpiece.
It is an anti-war movie. Disrespectful to the military. Full of stereotypes.
I absolutely love the movie. Just brilliant.
And I know a lot of military/ex-military folks who feel as I do!
It’s boring and drags, and isn’t funny. Characters aren’t likeable or relatable. I was rooting for the bomb. Overrated Kubrick.
“You can’t fight in here, it’s the War room.”
5.56mm
satire? Hell it has come true!
My second favorite Cold War related movie from that era.
“One, Two, Three” is my favorite:
C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
Yes he was a genius and probably the top film maker of all time.
Well Meet Again--Vera Lynn (1953)
I have never seen this movie but did watch Casino Royale. Peter Sellers actually thought he could become a James Bond type and was hacked off when he saw it was a spoof.
This guy must have had one heck of an ego.
Oh, and that movie was a train wreck
Life imitates art.............................