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@@Gerhardium However, it should be noted that people now graduate from American schools knowing nothing. When I went through, you'd just flunk out and not graduate.
@@brandonflorida1092 while it’s true that people graduate now generally knowing less about history and literature and culture generally, many know a lot more about science and technology. So I think it’s more that things change, more than they just deteriorate. Every generation since forever thinks the next generation is going to hell in a hand basket.
@@HkFinn83 They may know more about the technology they encounter every day, but I'm very dubious that they know more about science. Ask one of them the simplest astronomy question. I also think that the average level of knowledge of history is not merely a little lower but absolutely unacceptable. Ask someone from gen Z when the United States was founded or against whom we fought the American Revolution.
Good Lord. The two dudes helping talk over EVERYTHING with pointless questions and observations. There is an art to being a reactor and that includes knowing when to shut up, even for dialogue you are hearing for the first time.
Those not knowledgeable or smart enough to understand the target of satire will miss the humor and the dark, underlying message -- that in a nuclear age the fate of the human race and this planet rest in the hands of people hobbled from mental frailties both common and rare.
The fact that Peter Sellers didn’t win an Oscar for this film is a damn travesty. Kubrick, who was so famously meticulous, allowed Sellers to ad lib so much (most notably the call to Premier Kissoff) because he knew exactly how amazing he would make it. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this incredible movie!
He's absolutely amazing! Didn't even realize it was the same guy for Mandrake, Merkin, and Strangelove! I also read that George Scott was a little more extra with the because it was supposed to be practice take!
@@732ReviewCrewThe George C Scott thing is by all accounts true! Kubrick had him do each scene twice, with Scott doing one set completely over the top and the other in a more straightforward way. Apparently Scott was not thrilled when he saw which takes made the final cut. If you want to see more mainstream comedy from Sellers, check out the Pink Panther movies. He plays the bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau, and his physical comedy skills are top tier.
Anyone who doesn't find this film hilarious obviously has had their precious bodily fluids contanimated with flouride...... Peter Sellers playing so many roles is brilliant too lol... You can't fight in here, This is the War Room....
This is a brilliant movie. It has aged very well. Wish dialogue hadn't been talked over so much. This came after the Cuban Missile Crisis. History is important.
Please, don't do classic films anymore. You're not able to understand. Saying that "the nazi jokes did not age well" was so shamefull. Keep with superheros, Gen Z/Millenial stuff
The Nazi jokes have aged like fine wine. Also, there is far more truth to this movie than you would believe. The entire scenario is insane, but far too real.
Great film that seemed to go over the heads of 2 of the 3. A little too subtle and sophisticated by today's standards, even with over the top names like Bat Guano, Jack D. Ripper and Merkin Muffley. Ah, well.
i cut them some slack. Amateurs giving an extemporaneous performance in front of a camera. Perhaps, they should each be able to pause the movie when they want to talk.
There is no way you can understand the paranoia about Atomic Bomb attacks and the commie threat that was in society when this was made. I was in first grade and I vividly recall the A Bomb safety drills and the what to do films. This is brilliant comedy but for many it’s not emotionally connecting to those that did not live through the state of fear. For Instance, Peter Sellers’s based his President character on Adlai Stevenson, Dr. Strangelove was how Sellers viewed Henry Kissinger, and Sterling Hayden played General Ripper as a great imitation of the very controversial General Edwin Walker. But for modern reactors it might as well be Moe, Larry, and Curly. There are many great films before 1980..the key is to select ones that deal in timeless subjects. Many Westerns, Crime Stories, and Mysteries deal with greed, love, power, pride, moral choices etc. that never age. Comedies are more difficult to understand by their nature of dealing with how we view life at the time. I enjoy your reactions . You really can interact and make the viewers feel part of your discussion. Keep it up and don’t write of some very good films due to the age. Quality writing about thoughts and intentions never really ages.
I remember the duck and cover drills in elementary school where you curled up under your desk. And the fallout shelter signs on the government buildings. And the air raid siren that went off every day at noon. Had the Russians attacked at noon, everyone would have died 'cause they would have been checking/setting their watches...
@@seafodder6129 My favorite were the movies showing what to do when you were outside. You are playing and you see this bright light… drop to the ground and first try to roll against a curb and cover your head. My favorite segment showed the family having a picnic. The Dad (shirt and tie of course), Mom ( dress and pearls,)the boy and girl laughing while they ate some type of sandwich…. When suddenly there is a bright light and calmly everyone stands up, steps back, Dad and Mom pick up this gigantic picnic blanket, casually toss the food and cover themselves and the kids with the blanket and safety. Nothing protects people from a nuclear blast or radioactive material like a strong American made picnic blanket. You are so right about making sure the attack was at noon. When was the last time you can remember seeing a fallout shelter sign?)
Thank you very much for not only your kind words but your insight into some relevant things that we weren't very aware of because we weren't around when this movie came out
The Dr Strangelove character has also been suggested to be a mixture of Edward Teller (father of the H-bomb, had some wacky ideas about "useful" things to do with it) and Wernher von Braun (Nazi rocket scientist, built the V2 missile for Hitler, later became head of NASA). If you've ever seen or heard recordings of von Braun himself speaking, Sellers' voice for Strangelove is almost exactly like it.
During the Cuban Crisis I was in High School. I remember waiting in the hall for one class, and having my fellow students wondering if we would be alive to finish the class that day. That's how close we thought we were to nuclear annihilation.
This movie is satire at a PhD level - an American who doesn't know his/her country's flaws/failings is more dangerous than a Communist, a terrorist, or a National Socialist - it is fracking funny bunny that old sweet song of Mutually Assured Destruction No worries Mclovin' that bomb 🤠
If you watch Raising Arizona, there is a reference to this movie; "POE-OPE" is spray painted graffiti on the bathroom door when the jailbirds are cleaning themselves up after escaping the prison.
I was born in 1964 and have seen all the great movies of the 30s, 40s and 50s. I never got people thinking Oh, well I was born on this date, and everything GREAT STARTED THEN, that's just dumb as hell. Like Mozart was born in 1756. LOL. Most modern movies are shyt tbh.
Shyt? I haven't found a word that describes modern movies. The two braintrusts probably had a full frontal lobotomy and their level of humour is people slipping on banana peels and having pies thrown in their faces. FFS I hope they don't breed or vote.
Gen. Ripper had Peace On Earth and Purity of Essence written repeatedly on his notepad, which is how they figured out the letters POE made up the recall code.
I’m as perplexed about the reaction as the reaction is perplexed about the movie. Umm… Satire? You don’t need to appreciate it, but might be good to learn to recognize it.
One needs to know the historical and cultural context of the era to get a lot of the jokes. For example, you need to know what life was like for the average Soviet citizen in 1964 (and what Americans *imagined* it to be like, because ordinary people on both sides of the Iron Curtain were exposed to a lot of hysterical propaganda and had very limited access to reliable information on how their counterparts lived on the other side) to understand and chuckle at the lipsticks and stockings in the survival kit: they're for bribing impoverished Russian women into helping the downed pilots.
Another movie "FailSafe" was released later in the same year (1964) as "Dr. Strangelove". "Failsafe" is a more serious film based on a somewhat similar situation.
Right, Fail Safe was scary as hell! Stanley Kubrick and the Strangelove studio sued the Fail Safe studio and director to keep them from releasing it before Strangelove could release because Kubrick worried it would hurt their sales. The actors of Fail Safe were Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.
You guys might be overthinking this. The movie is really only about one thing, the stupidity of Nuclear War and the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (which was a real thing).
Another thing to keep in mind: the movie "On the Beach", released in 1959, was about a nuclear holocaust ending all life on Earth, with Australia as one of the last places to receive a lethal dose of radiation. It was set 6 years in the future: 1965. Those who had watched "On the Beach" in theaters at the time must have been totally freaked out during the October, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. EDIT: 1962.
Enjoyed your reaction to this classic satire. Love Peter Sellers in his multiple roles. LOL at Joe & Mikey trying to guess which roles he played. He was such a great comic actor especially famous as Inspector Clouseau in the 1960s Pink Panther movies. One of my favorite Peter Sellers movies is The Ladykillers, a British Comedy from 1955 where 5 criminals planning a bank robbery rent a room from an old lady. The movie was later remade with Tom Hanks but it is not a good as the original. Peter Sellers also starred in another cold war "bomb" comedy from 1959 called The Mouse Who Roared. Not as critically acclaimed as Dr. Strangelove but still very funny it is about an impoverished backward nation declaring war on the USA, hoping to lose & get reparations, but winning.
Basically, this was Kubrick pointing out that the Cold War (and the politicians who supported it) was just as insane as the film he was making, in an era where Hollywood would never ever take a film like that. (e.g.: Imagine making a comedy about 9-11). This was that era's South Park.
Turgetson's gum and Ripper's cigar are references to General Curtis ("Bombs Away") LeMay who was head of SAC in the early 60s was always scene smoking a cigar.
Damn Philistines 🤣 So many Liberties taken in this docudrama of my life. On a serious note, the film displays that it's irrational to think Nuclear war is rational or indeed anything other than a terrible accident waiting to happen, Don't Look Up is a More recent film that catches this vibe too....
As a couple of others have said, this plays heavily into the feeling of dread and paranoia around nuclear warfare. At this time, there were far more nuclear weapons ready to launch than there are now (about 3x as many). Both sides were convinced the others were about to launch, and there were several false alarms and close calls. Another aspect for General Ripper was his obsession about the "purity of our precious bodily fluids" (POE = purity of essence). Today almost all water is flouridated, but this was really just beginning in the 1950s and a lot of people were suspicious of it and distrusted it. Others were sure water flouridation was a Communist plot. Ripper, however, knew nothing about the Russian Doomsday Device. Failsafe was based on the same novel, but was a serious take on it rather than satirical. They came out near the same time, and there was a bit of controversy about it. Failsafe starred Henry Fonda and a young Larry Hagman.
The acting is great. George C. Scott as the general. Peter Sellars in 3 role, Ripper, The President and Dr. Strangelove. I was in my teens when this came out, my friends and I loved it.
Ripper gets his pure clean water... To replenish his pure bodily fluids.... From Lead pipes. Another serious nuclear standoff drama worth watching is "Deterrence".
The comedy is in the satire. Peter Sellers was a crazy genius. It's worth watching some of his other films, such as, "A Shot in the Dark," and the other original Pink Panther films.
They had to CHANGE Slim Picken's comment (using dubbing): "A guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff" from "A guy could have a pretty good time in Dallas with all that stuff" because of President Kennedy's assassination that happened, there, just after this movie clip was made. And yes, OBVIOUSLY, the movie scenario WOULD have been just after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Based on real events circa 1960 ... but the bombers weren't rogue, and the Russian doomsday weapon was real ... Tsar Bomba. In this movie, George C Scott earned his job as general Patton.
The problem is that these generals have never seen the Expanse. If they had, they wouldn't be talking about half lives so much as nuclear winter, much as asteroids kick up dust into the upper atmosphere. Much reduced solar radiation, much freezing, little photosynthesis, people starving.
Copyright holder unfortunately hit them with copy right so I had to edit those out. We put the full length for free to compensate, it felt like a lot missing sorry.
I lived through the nuclear crisis over Cuba. I'm wondering if I will live through the nuclear crisis over the Ukraine. Unfortunately, the entire scenario we just watched could take place in almost EXACTLY the same way today.
🔔 TRC @ 9:31: THIS MOVIE, FUNNY AS IT IS, IS ALSO NOTORIOUS FOR MAKING A COMPLETE MOCKERY OF LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT CHEMICALS ARE ADDED TO OUR PUBLIC DRINKING WATER. SODIUM FLUORIDE IS LITERALLY RAT POISON.
This is not correct. Sodium fluoride is not and never has been used in rat poison. Additionally water fluoridation is absolutely safe. The people who are against fluoridation deserve to be mocked.
@@wackyvorlon WACKY IDEA: GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU COMMENT! 😂 "History of Sodium Fluoride in Rat Poison - Sodium fluoride was used in rat poison because it was deemed to be a safer and more effective alternative to other poisonous compounds. When mixed into grain or other food, rats would readily consume the poison and die." Also: 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation - Fluoride Action Network
@@Rocket_Man232 Warfarin is also a historical rat poison, and yet it is routinely prescribed to humans as an anticoagulant. The dose makes the poison, even table salt; too much will kill you, but you're also in real trouble if you don't get any salt in your diet at all. Look up the concept of a "therapeutic window."
The more recent remake with George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Harvey Keitel is actually pretty good too. Daringly, they broadcast it live, in a tribute to the way TV dramas used to be done back in the 50s & 60s.
so now you can watch the serious movie about the same topic ! ''Fail safe'' 1964 with Henry Fonda, a masterpiece, the Kubrick movie was certainly made in comparison with the 1964 movie which is much more frightening !!!
Absurdism. This movie and Catch 22 do an absurdist, full-frontal on the reality we found ourselves in. Leonid Brezhnev was the new Russian prime minister in 1964 and quite the notorious boozer. “Dimitri” being drunk was a bit too close to the truth, although it probably was not widely known when the movie was made.
Interesting. Not the reaction I was expecting. I remember picking this at the video shop younger than you guys and knowing nothing about it and as I watched cold, I thought it was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. Still do. Are you guys Ritalin babies or something?
This reaction was scathing. You ruined the world's greatest comedy by both not being cultured enough to understand, and talking over every other joke. You have earned one non-subscriber. Thanks for the waste of time.
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If Operation Paperclip "aged badly" as satire, that's your fault. Period.
Ya its a film that requires a depth of knowledge that is largely non-existent under-35/40.
@@Gerhardium However, it should be noted that people now graduate from American schools knowing nothing. When I went through, you'd just flunk out and not graduate.
@@Gerhardium Perfect...
@@brandonflorida1092 while it’s true that people graduate now generally knowing less about history and literature and culture generally, many know a lot more about science and technology. So I think it’s more that things change, more than they just deteriorate. Every generation since forever thinks the next generation is going to hell in a hand basket.
@@HkFinn83 They may know more about the technology they encounter every day, but I'm very dubious that they know more about science. Ask one of them the simplest astronomy question.
I also think that the average level of knowledge of history is not merely a little lower but absolutely unacceptable. Ask someone from gen Z when the United States was founded or against whom we fought the American Revolution.
Check out the russian ambassador during Dr. Strangelove's final scene, he can barely control himself.
Good Lord. The two dudes helping talk over EVERYTHING with pointless questions and observations. There is an art to being a reactor and that includes knowing when to shut up, even for dialogue you are hearing for the first time.
Really terrible...
Those not knowledgeable or smart enough to understand the target of satire will miss the humor and the dark, underlying message -- that in a nuclear age the fate of the human race and this planet rest in the hands of people hobbled from mental frailties both common and rare.
The fact that Peter Sellers didn’t win an Oscar for this film is a damn travesty. Kubrick, who was so famously meticulous, allowed Sellers to ad lib so much (most notably the call to Premier Kissoff) because he knew exactly how amazing he would make it. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this incredible movie!
He's absolutely amazing! Didn't even realize it was the same guy for Mandrake, Merkin, and Strangelove!
I also read that George Scott was a little more extra with the because it was supposed to be practice take!
@@732ReviewCrewThe George C Scott thing is by all accounts true! Kubrick had him do each scene twice, with Scott doing one set completely over the top and the other in a more straightforward way. Apparently Scott was not thrilled when he saw which takes made the final cut.
If you want to see more mainstream comedy from Sellers, check out the Pink Panther movies. He plays the bumbling detective Inspector Clouseau, and his physical comedy skills are top tier.
@@732ReviewCrewAlso the tumble Scott took in the War Room was a total accident. Scott tripped over his feet but stayed in character.
Pink Panther films are great!!!
mmm think you guys should prolly stick the vampire slayer stuff tbh
Or movies based on comic book characters
Anyone who doesn't find this film hilarious obviously has had their precious bodily fluids contanimated with flouride......
Peter Sellers playing so many roles is brilliant too lol...
You can't fight in here, This is the War Room....
General Turgidson : Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
This is a brilliant movie. It has aged very well. Wish dialogue hadn't been talked over so much. This came after the Cuban Missile Crisis. History is important.
How did the Nazi jokes not age well...? I thought the humor was timeless all around.
Peter Sellers, a genius!!.
Satire isn’t for everyone. Maybe listen to the dialogue and chill guys
Please, don't do classic films anymore. You're not able to understand. Saying that "the nazi jokes did not age well" was so shamefull. Keep with superheros, Gen Z/Millenial stuff
The Nazi jokes have aged like fine wine.
Also, there is far more truth to this movie than you would believe. The entire scenario is insane, but far too real.
Nazi jokes never get old.
"The Nazi jokes haven't aged well" 🤣 WTF
Good Gawd Mjke. NEVER show those two "Blazing Saddles" or "Airplane!"
Airplanes is satire I get!😭
-Mikey
Great film that seemed to go over the heads of 2 of the 3. A little too subtle and sophisticated by today's standards, even with over the top names like Bat Guano, Jack D. Ripper and Merkin Muffley. Ah, well.
Yeah... they should keep with comercial/Marvel movies
What’s even more amazing about this movie is that it is practically a documentary.
Such a good film with great actors. Notice that the Generals's "Secretary" is also in Kong's playboy centerfold.
IMO it’s a superb film and a marvellous slice of satire.
Oh and not forgetting the superb production design. Hi
Man, almost ALL the comedy flew way over the heads of the 2 who hadn't seen it. 😂
Terrible... Anything above Marvel is a Everest that they can't climb
The younger generations have zero sense of humor!..You can't find the irony and humor in this, there's no hope for this world!
@@Veigueta Facts!
i cut them some slack. Amateurs giving an extemporaneous
performance in front of a camera.
Perhaps, they should each be able to pause the movie when they
want to talk.
" Ice Cream, Mandrake! ... children's Ice cream."😂
See. All that fluoridation worked. Biden just loves that stuff.
Once the game came out, I considered this movie a prequel to Fallout.
There is no way you can understand the paranoia about Atomic Bomb attacks and the commie threat that was in society when this was made. I was in first grade and I vividly recall the A Bomb safety drills and the what to do films. This is brilliant comedy but for many it’s not emotionally connecting to those that did not live through the state of fear. For Instance, Peter Sellers’s based his President character on Adlai Stevenson, Dr. Strangelove was how Sellers viewed Henry Kissinger, and Sterling Hayden played General Ripper as a great imitation of the very controversial General Edwin Walker. But for modern reactors it might as well be Moe, Larry, and Curly.
There are many great films before 1980..the key is to select ones that deal in timeless subjects. Many Westerns, Crime Stories, and Mysteries deal with greed, love, power, pride, moral choices etc. that never age. Comedies are more difficult to understand by their nature of dealing with how we view life at the time.
I enjoy your reactions . You really can interact and make the viewers feel part of your discussion. Keep it up and don’t write of some very good films due to the age. Quality writing about thoughts and intentions never really ages.
I remember the duck and cover drills in elementary school where you curled up under your desk. And the fallout shelter signs on the government buildings. And the air raid siren that went off every day at noon. Had the Russians attacked at noon, everyone would have died 'cause they would have been checking/setting their watches...
@@seafodder6129 My favorite were the movies showing what to do when you were outside. You are playing and you see this bright light… drop to the ground and first try to roll against a curb and cover your head. My favorite segment showed the family having a picnic. The Dad (shirt and tie of course), Mom ( dress and pearls,)the boy and girl laughing while they ate some type of sandwich…. When suddenly there is a bright light and calmly everyone stands up, steps back, Dad and Mom pick up this gigantic picnic blanket, casually toss the food and cover themselves and the kids with the blanket and safety. Nothing protects people from a nuclear blast or radioactive material like a strong American made picnic blanket. You are so right about making sure the attack was at noon. When was the last time you can remember seeing a fallout shelter sign?)
Thank you very much for not only your kind words but your insight into some relevant things that we weren't very aware of because we weren't around when this movie came out
The Dr Strangelove character has also been suggested to be a mixture of Edward Teller (father of the H-bomb, had some wacky ideas about "useful" things to do with it) and Wernher von Braun (Nazi rocket scientist, built the V2 missile for Hitler, later became head of NASA). If you've ever seen or heard recordings of von Braun himself speaking, Sellers' voice for Strangelove is almost exactly like it.
During the Cuban Crisis I was in High School. I remember waiting in the hall for one class, and having my fellow students wondering if we would be alive to finish the class that day. That's how close we thought we were to nuclear annihilation.
1980 is the line for movies while a Star Wars poster is on the wall behind you...
That's Darth Vadar's voice himself, James Earl Jones, as the bombadier @ 17:09.
This movie is satire at a PhD level - an American who doesn't know his/her country's flaws/failings is more dangerous than a Communist, a terrorist, or a National Socialist -
it is fracking funny bunny
that old sweet song of
Mutually Assured Destruction
No worries
Mclovin' that bomb
🤠
Stanley Kubrick is considered a genius in movie making.
If you watch Raising Arizona, there is a reference to this movie; "POE-OPE" is spray painted graffiti on the bathroom door when the jailbirds are cleaning themselves up after escaping the prison.
I was born in 1964 and have seen all the great movies of the 30s, 40s and 50s. I never got people thinking Oh, well I was born on this date, and everything GREAT STARTED THEN, that's just dumb as hell. Like Mozart was born in 1756. LOL. Most modern movies are shyt tbh.
Shyt? I haven't found a word that describes modern movies. The two braintrusts probably had a full frontal lobotomy and their level of humour is people slipping on banana peels and having pies thrown in their faces. FFS I hope they don't breed or vote.
OPE is usually regarded to be an anagram for Purity of Essense.
Our Precious Essence
Gen. Ripper had Peace On Earth and Purity of Essence written repeatedly on his notepad, which is how they figured out the letters POE made up the recall code.
These two reactors (left, center) are as clueless about dark humor as a block of granite.
I first watched this flick 60 years ago - it's still hilarious !
I’m as perplexed about the reaction as the reaction is perplexed about the movie. Umm… Satire? You don’t need to appreciate it, but might be good to learn to recognize it.
I know, right? Ridiculous remarks such as why are the characters talking so calm underscores your point.
One needs to know the historical and cultural context of the era to get a lot of the jokes. For example, you need to know what life was like for the average Soviet citizen in 1964 (and what Americans *imagined* it to be like, because ordinary people on both sides of the Iron Curtain were exposed to a lot of hysterical propaganda and had very limited access to reliable information on how their counterparts lived on the other side) to understand and chuckle at the lipsticks and stockings in the survival kit: they're for bribing impoverished Russian women into helping the downed pilots.
Another movie "FailSafe" was released later in the same year (1964) as "Dr. Strangelove". "Failsafe" is a more serious film based on a somewhat similar situation.
Failsafe isn't a comedy.
Right, Fail Safe was scary as hell! Stanley Kubrick and the Strangelove studio sued the Fail Safe studio and director to keep them from releasing it before Strangelove could release because Kubrick worried it would hurt their sales. The actors of Fail Safe were Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.
@@naynay3710 Also Larry Hagman gave a great performance as the translator. In fact there are many great character actors from the 60's in the movie.
@@williambranch4283 You are right. I should have made it more clear in my original post.
@@bsquared3809 Yes, I forgot about him! I need to watch that one again. 😃
You guys might be overthinking this. The movie is really only about one thing, the stupidity of Nuclear War and the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (which was a real thing).
We over think everything 🤔
@@732ReviewCrew In that case, you guys should seriously give "The Good Place" a try. That show is designed to be picked apart and analyzed.
The movie was made 2 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Another thing to keep in mind: the movie "On the Beach", released in 1959, was about a nuclear holocaust ending all life on Earth, with Australia as one of the last places to receive a lethal dose of radiation. It was set 6 years in the future: 1965. Those who had watched "On the Beach" in theaters at the time must have been totally freaked out during the October, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. EDIT: 1962.
Enjoyed your reaction to this classic satire. Love Peter Sellers in his multiple roles. LOL at Joe & Mikey trying to guess which roles he played. He was such a great comic actor especially famous as Inspector Clouseau in the 1960s Pink Panther movies.
One of my favorite Peter Sellers movies is The Ladykillers, a British Comedy from 1955 where 5 criminals planning a bank robbery rent a room from an old lady. The movie was later remade with Tom Hanks but it is not a good as the original. Peter Sellers also starred in another cold war "bomb" comedy from 1959 called The Mouse Who Roared. Not as critically acclaimed as Dr. Strangelove but still very funny it is about an impoverished backward nation declaring war on the USA, hoping to lose & get reparations, but winning.
Basically, this was Kubrick pointing out that the Cold War (and the politicians who supported it) was just as insane as the film he was making, in an era where Hollywood would never ever take a film like that. (e.g.: Imagine making a comedy about 9-11). This was that era's South Park.
Turgetson's gum and Ripper's cigar are references to General Curtis ("Bombs Away") LeMay who was head of SAC in the early 60s was always scene smoking a cigar.
Damn Philistines 🤣 So many Liberties taken in this docudrama of my life.
On a serious note, the film displays that it's irrational to think Nuclear war is rational or indeed anything other than a terrible accident waiting to happen, Don't Look Up is a More recent film that catches this vibe too....
As a couple of others have said, this plays heavily into the feeling of dread and paranoia around nuclear warfare. At this time, there were far more nuclear weapons ready to launch than there are now (about 3x as many). Both sides were convinced the others were about to launch, and there were several false alarms and close calls. Another aspect for General Ripper was his obsession about the "purity of our precious bodily fluids" (POE = purity of essence). Today almost all water is flouridated, but this was really just beginning in the 1950s and a lot of people were suspicious of it and distrusted it. Others were sure water flouridation was a Communist plot. Ripper, however, knew nothing about the Russian Doomsday Device.
Failsafe was based on the same novel, but was a serious take on it rather than satirical. They came out near the same time, and there was a bit of controversy about it. Failsafe starred Henry Fonda and a young Larry Hagman.
The gentleman on the very right gets it lol
Two of you are clueless. You talk over dialogue essential to the meaning of the film. Try shutting up when you're reviewing.
The acting is great. George C. Scott as the general. Peter Sellars in 3 role, Ripper, The President and Dr. Strangelove. I was in my teens when this came out, my friends and I loved it.
What have they been teaching in schools the last 20 years?
Ripper gets his pure clean water... To replenish his pure bodily fluids.... From Lead pipes.
Another serious nuclear standoff drama worth watching is "Deterrence".
Ripper’s cigar should have got a screen credit.
Absolutely
Great catch with H-bomb + OPE - that’s the kind of super subtle joke that Kubrick loves
The comedy is in the satire.
Peter Sellers was a crazy genius. It's worth watching some of his other films, such as, "A Shot in the Dark," and the other original Pink Panther films.
Oh-so you didn't get the anti-nuclear war thread - or the joke.. I DOUBT we'll meet again.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, it's the War Room! 😂❤
One piece of trivia
This movie was suppose to have its first showing the day that Kennedy was shot
The premier was postponed until the following year
They had to CHANGE Slim Picken's comment (using dubbing): "A guy could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff" from "A guy could have a pretty good time in Dallas with all that stuff" because of President Kennedy's assassination that happened, there, just after this movie clip was made. And yes, OBVIOUSLY, the movie scenario WOULD have been just after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
One actor, three roles !
Based on real events circa 1960 ... but the bombers weren't rogue, and the Russian doomsday weapon was real ... Tsar Bomba. In this movie, George C Scott earned his job as general Patton.
The doomsday device is a reference to the Dead Hand system, which actually still exists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
The problem is that these generals have never seen the Expanse. If they had, they wouldn't be talking about half lives so much as nuclear winter, much as asteroids kick up dust into the upper atmosphere. Much reduced solar radiation, much freezing, little photosynthesis, people starving.
Hahahaha
Lame take with "Nazi joke didn't age well" - what nonsense!
This was pretty painful to watch. Dudes not getting it.
2:23 What is that British accent? At first you went Irish and then Borat 🤣🤣
They don't show it but did the guy riding the Nuke survive ?
That's ok, Mike, I liked it. You could have included more clips with Dr. Strangelove, though. After all, he's in the title.
Copyright holder unfortunately hit them with copy right so I had to edit those out. We put the full length for free to compensate, it felt like a lot missing sorry.
@@732ReviewCrew ugh, those people require a Kubrick satire of their own. Thanks.
Sellers was going to also play the pilot but couldn't pull off the accent
Jesus!You are so overthinking this, it's hilarious.
I lived through the nuclear crisis over Cuba. I'm wondering if I will live through the nuclear crisis over the Ukraine. Unfortunately, the entire scenario we just watched could take place in almost EXACTLY the same way today.
Well no, judging by how bad the Russian regular equipment was, the nukes weren't maintained and I would be surprised if any work.
12:40 - best moment so far
🔔 TRC @ 9:31: THIS MOVIE, FUNNY AS IT IS, IS ALSO NOTORIOUS FOR MAKING A COMPLETE MOCKERY OF LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT WHAT CHEMICALS ARE ADDED TO OUR PUBLIC DRINKING WATER. SODIUM FLUORIDE IS LITERALLY RAT POISON.
This is not correct. Sodium fluoride is not and never has been used in rat poison.
Additionally water fluoridation is absolutely safe. The people who are against fluoridation deserve to be mocked.
@@wackyvorlon WACKY IDEA: GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT BEFORE YOU COMMENT! 😂
"History of Sodium Fluoride in Rat Poison - Sodium fluoride was used in rat poison because it was deemed to be a safer and more effective alternative to other poisonous compounds. When mixed into grain or other food, rats would readily consume the poison and die."
Also: 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation - Fluoride Action Network
@@Rocket_Man232 Warfarin is also a historical rat poison, and yet it is routinely prescribed to humans as an anticoagulant. The dose makes the poison, even table salt; too much will kill you, but you're also in real trouble if you don't get any salt in your diet at all. Look up the concept of a "therapeutic window."
"The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Coming." A 1966 cold-war comedy.
My favorite movie of all time. Godfathers 1 and 2 as one film is number two.⚛️
The Cuban Missile Crisis was 1962. This movie was 1964.
General Ripper released the bombers because he was impotent
now do "Fail Safe" 1964
The more recent remake with George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Harvey Keitel is actually pretty good too. Daringly, they broadcast it live, in a tribute to the way TV dramas used to be done back in the 50s & 60s.
"Little Big Man"
so now you can watch the serious movie about the same topic ! ''Fail safe'' 1964 with Henry Fonda, a masterpiece, the Kubrick movie was certainly made in comparison with the 1964 movie which is much more frightening !!!
Every first watch of any Stanly Kubrick movie is jarring at first. You don't get them until you've seen them several times.
Great movies are sometimes wasted on some people. These two are a case in point. Just not equipped.
lol 2 of the 3 reactors just didn't get it. That's fine. Kubrick isn't for everybody. It is a brilliant movie
Absurdism. This movie and Catch 22 do an absurdist, full-frontal on the reality we found ourselves in.
Leonid Brezhnev was the new Russian prime minister in 1964 and quite the notorious boozer. “Dimitri” being drunk was a bit too close to the truth, although it probably was not widely known when the movie was made.
5 star movie, from the Master, Kubrick. 😂😂😂😂❤
Interesting. Not the reaction I was expecting. I remember picking this at the video shop younger than you guys and knowing nothing about it and as I watched cold, I thought it was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. Still do. Are you guys Ritalin babies or something?
Nope, they iz just dum folk.
More Kubrick
This is what trump and his cabinet would look like if we were under nuclear treat lol
This reaction was scathing. You ruined the world's greatest comedy by both not being cultured enough to understand, and talking over every other joke. You have earned one non-subscriber. Thanks for the waste of time.
Its a parity of the seriously un funny movie " FAIL SAFE" worth a watch .😊