Watching this movie for maybe the 3rd or 4th time (Stanley Kubrick films deserve that), I may have got different perceptions from it.
Whereas previously I watched it as a surreal & dark comedy, this time I found it pretty chilling. And the strange thing is, the funnier certain scenes were they were often the most chilling at the same time.

For instance,  - and George C Scott as the Air Force General was the stand out for me this time, not Peter Sellers - as I laughed at the antics of him & the base commander & Dr Strangelove with his Nazi salutes etc, it almost frightened me to realise that, yes, this is in fact true. People like this are often in charge of our governments & so on.

(Resuming after being called away by something . .)

The other chilling thing was the fact of the 24/7 operation by Strategic Air Command. I don't know if that still goes on, but while it was gently amusing to see them go through all the motions of changing settings in their equipment, the frightening part was that in the end it was all unreliable.
As one of the generation which lived with the more immediate threat of the bomb perhaps, including the Cuba crisis, when you're young you tend to shrug it off but as you get older a reminder such as this movie is a much darker & disturbing message.

Finally, Peter Sellers as the President (one of his three roles in the movie) was maybe at his best in his hotline call with the Russian Premier. It was just like one of those old comedy routines - was it Bob Newhart or Shelley Berman? Maybe both.

If younger people haven't seen this movie, they should.
In fact, maybe it should be part of high school curriculum.

Raven wrote on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 1:32am:




I thought it was because Sellers didnt think he could nail the accent


Correction: My error, at first Sellers didnt think he could get the accent, but he did nail it, and then sprained his ankle.

bogarde73 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 10:03am:




Not at all, he's awesome. Also read that Kubrick got Scotts over the top but awesome performance by getting him to warm up that way and telling him he wouldnt use any of it in the film.

I've mentioned quite a few movies on this board Lisa but my tastes aren't everybodies.
See my bit of a ramble.

Yep...here it is ...in its red cover.

The name of the Saturday night cosy dvd he chose for us to cuddle up and watch?

TRINITY AND BEYOND - The Atomic Bomb Movie.

Oh and he reckons I fell asleep when the atomic bomb went off lmao.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 10:47pm:



Really lol? I wouldn't know.

I fell asleep within 10 minutes.