Doctor Strangelove

Doctor Strangelove
I thought to talk about the movie Dr. Strangelove, as some people, who I will not mention, hadn't even HEARD of it.

Wikipedia says of the movie so:

"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 Stanley Kubrick film based loosely upon the straight-faced thriller novel Red Alert by Peter George. Refashioned as a black comedy from the source material by screenwriter Terry Southern, Dr. Strangelove's subject matter satirizes the fragile nature of the Cold War conflict and the doctrine of mutually assured destruction. The film opens at the fictional Burpelson Air Force Base, where the insane General Jack D. Ripper has just ordered a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The rest of Dr. Strangelove follows the American President and his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a RAF officer as they all scramble to recall Ripper's bomb-wing in order to prevent a nuclear Apocalypse."

The movie is hilarious. It shows Peter Sellers in three roles (thing I only realized after seeing the credits), as the RAF officer, the President and as Doctor Strangelove. The movies gratest strenths are, on addition to the Good Doctor ("Mein Führer, I can walk!") the slightly-less psychotic general ("Now I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I am saying no more than 10 to 20 million killed. Tops!") and the cheerful musics as something evil is happening, something copied later on to the Fallout-games by Interplay (both game-intros are heavily based on this movie, as is the fifties-feel).

The movie has aged very gracefully. While the effects werent very top-of-the-art even when the movie was created, how many modern movies can say that when nuclear bombs are being blown in the screen, they were actual n-bombs, and not just some cheap tricks? Thats work-ethics, folks!

[This was my 50th post, btw.]