Which 4, GL? Have you seen Clockwork Orange or Lolita? The Shining?
If I were to guess, I’d say that you’re the unwitting victim of the vast Communist conspiracy that has sapped and impurified your precious bodily fluids.
I’ve seen A Clockwork Orange, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and I was trying to think of the fourth one, but I think I was thinking of AI, which isn’t really his film even though he intended it to be. Though like I said, I have seen clips of Dr Strangelove.
Just not my cup of cold sick.
Then there’s the scene where Slim Pickens is reading the list of items in their survival kits
“Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
Priceless!
When my parents start quoting Glenn beck to me, I reply with General Ripper’s quotes about Fluoridated water being the most monstrous communist plot ever conceived.
Ah, well, if those two made you come away disappointed and bored, we live on different planets and will never speak the same language. The Shining I can kinda see your point, it’s my least-favorite Kubrick, but that’s because I was so into the book, a seriously scary book, and he made it campy and not scary at all. Kubrick’s my all-time favorite director so I’m already pre-disposed to love everything he does, even Eyes Wide Shut, but I never have been able to get into The Shining.
Seen beginning to end, you still might like Dr. Strangelove though. It’s funny and entertaining.
Just an example of the real world sometimes exceeding anything a satirist can write.
Regarding its “classic” status, from Wiki:
I think it would be a very rare “top 100 movies of all time” list that didn’t include it.
Worse then Barry Lyndon? I saw that when it came out, but never again. Beautiful movie, but overly long and dull - but then I don’t like novels from the period for the most part.
The word “worse” doen’t come into it. All of Kubrick’s movies are brilliant, though I haven’t seen Sparticus, which was a work for hire. I just meant that I’ve never been able to get past my love of the book to get into it.
I think Barry Lyndon is amazing. Man, I would love to see that on film, on the big screen. I’ve only ever seen it on video.
Like it but I prefer Fail-Safe. I think on the SDMB, Dr. Strangelove is more well known than Justin Bieber. In other words, the SDMB is probably not a good place for gauging pop culture trends.
As usual, the poll doesn’t quite include the option I’d have to use, which is…
I have always known of it, but have only seen it haphazardly in the background.
My opinion is that I’m a fan, I just…haven’t sat and actually watched the whole thing in one sitting.
Yet. 
We’ll see if the Bieb holds up as far into the future as the film has.
Never seen it (Kubrick, in general, rarely clicks with me), but I can quote several scenes (‘Precious bodily fluids!’ ‘Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!’ ‘Can’t fight in the war room.’ And not a quote, but the bomb scene I recognize instantly.)…
If that’s not a sign of a classic, I don’t know what is.
Justin WHO-ber?
Now, look, Colonel… Bat GuanoLad, if that really is your name…
Speaking of Fail Safe, a book in front of Turgidson in the War Room is “Equivalent Cities in Megadeaths” - which I’ve always taken to be a comment on FailSafe.
Great movie…the insane dialogue between Colonel “Bat” Guano and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is the best:
Col. Guano: “What are yo, some kind of prevert”?
Mandrake: “I need to make a long distance phone call-shoot into that coke machine”
Col. Guano: “OK-bt yo will have to answer to the Coca Cola company”
:D:D:D
I believe the binder says “World Targets in Megadeaths” and is from a lecture in Kahn’s On Thermonuclear War about the absolute morality of nuclear deterrence.
Stranger
I thought we were talking about classics, not pop culture trends.
Yeah, a black & white movie from 1964 is hardly “pop culture.”