Dr. Strangelove (the movie , that is)

[Duffinator]

Originally Posted by cruisaire

This film is "the bomb"!

Great avatar! I watched this movie last night for the first time in decades. One word: Brillant!

[Rex Everything]

What a great movie, a long time favorite.

"Your average commie has no respect for human life, not even his own"

"But...but...he'll see the big board"

I'm LOL'n as I type this.

[herbman1975]

"Animals could be bred and slaughtered!"

[Sandy G]

No, no, no...it's "Animals could be bred...Und SCHLAUGHTERED !!" <grin>

[Cloth Ears]

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

"Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?"
"What?"
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."

Strangelove and Paths of Glory are Kubrick's best, IMO. And most of 2001 (I don't take drugs any more, so the flight through the wormhole is a bit over-the-top now). But, as I've got them all (except for the pre-The Killing ones), I guess I can pick 'n' choose as I like.

Who made his movie debut in this film...?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Originally Posted by Cloth Ears

Who made his movie debut in this film...?

James Earl Jones


Doc

[Tom Brennan]

As far as "Paths of Glory" goes; one can see Adolphe Monjue as the actual "hero" of the movie and the Kirk Douglas character as an unrealistic sap.

Monjue realizes that France MUST beat Germany and this can ony be done by a disiplined army. Douglas takes the high road over three lives while hundreds of thousands are being killed until Germany is beaten. Monjue sees the big picture and Douglas the small one.

[ekmanning5]

Originally Posted by Tom Brennan

As far as "Paths of Glory" goes; one can see Adolphe Monjue as the actual "hero" of the movie and the Kirk Douglas character as an unrealistic sap.

Monjue realizes that France MUST beat Germany and this can ony be done by a disiplined army. Douglas takes the high road over three lives while hundreds of thousands are being killed until Germany is beaten. Monjue sees the big picture and Douglas the small one.

Ahhh, you see, that's the sign of a good movie. One that brings about intelligent discussion. A very tricky argument here.
My take on it is that Monjue belongs to a class of men as old as civilisation itself. The kind that repeatedly see only the small picture. The kind of man that believes that war is a solution to war. When actually the wars just keep coming. I think Douglas comes to believe in the futility of the system. When the three men are executed they have finally beat the system. DOUGLAS may be the only one that truly sees the big picture.

[Tom Brennan]

Originally Posted by ekmanning5

Ahhh, you see, that's the sign of a good movie. One that brings about intelligent discussion. A very tricky argument here.
My take on it is that Monjue belongs to a class of men as old as civilisation itself. The kind that repeatedly see only the small picture. The kind of man that believes that war is a solution to war. When actually the wars just keep coming. I think Douglas comes to believe in the futility of the system. When the three men are executed they have finally beat the system. DOUGLAS may be the only one that truly sees the big picture.

But Douglas's belief in the futility of the system doesn't get them out of the immediate peril, a war with a vicious and predatory nation.

Perhaps Douglas takes a bigger view of mankind and Monjue takes a bigger view of the war.

I haven't watched the picture in a few years, I should watch it again.

Regards

[ekmanning5]

Originally Posted by Tom Brennan

But Douglas's belief in the futility of the system doesn't get them out of the immediate peril, a war with a vicious and predatory nation.

Perhaps Douglas takes a bigger view of mankind and Monjue takes a bigger view of the war.

I haven't watched the picture in a few years, I should watch it again.

Regards

Me too.

[chili555]

"I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts."

Brilliant! Brilliant from start to finish. You are right, they sure don't make them like they used to.

[Donkey!]

This is a great movie. I bought the DVD a little more then a year ago after I saw it uninterrupted on TCM.

Hilarious.

[markc2]

Originally Posted by Cloth Ears

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

"Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?"
"What?"
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."

I was going to quote that part but you got it. Somehow that fits more today than it did back then.

[Teron]

I rented Dr. Strangelove and Citizen Kane years back after reading somewhere they were great important movies.

I watched Citizen Kane first and thought to myself, what a seriously over-hyped movie. BORING. LAME. I know it has a lot of technical(in terms of the making of) firsts as far as movies go but it should NOT be #1. It was so so stupid compared to 100 other movies I've seen that are better.

I then put in Dr. Strangelove thinking...great the first one was such a dud, here we go...

Dr. Strangelove is an awesome movie. Should be #1 in place of Citizen Kane, and CK should be booted off lists.

[Jack Lord]

I watched Citizen Kane first and thought to myself, what a seriously over-hyped movie. BORING. LAME. I know it has a lot of technical(in terms of the making of) firsts as far as movies go but it should NOT be #1. It was so so stupid compared to 100 other movies I've seen that are better.

Ummmmmmmm.........