Not to mention the constant “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again” has you almost rooting for the bomber crew.
“Well boys this is it. Toe to toe nuclear combat with the Ruskies.”
No “Paths of Glory”?
I love Dr. Strangelove, probably in my top 10. But I can understand not liking it after hearing too much about it in advance. I’d heard all about This is Spinal Tap for years, and seen bits and pieces of it. When I finally watched the whole thing, I was underwhelmed. There’s something about seeing a great movie with no expectations, and then receiving its brilliance all in one dose. When you pick it up in dribs and drabs, it doesn’t have the same impact.
“Nucular”
I was in downtown Boston last summer with some friends, and we found a merry-go-round. And it didn’t have the usual horses, either; this had turtles and owls and all sorts of cool critters. We decided to ride it. It being a warm day, I had a hat on. I started to wave my hat around and it dawned on me. I want a merry-go-round with two H-bombs on it.
I wish to apologize to everyone in this thread for posting that long list of B&W films.
If I ever do that again, I will put the list in spoiler tags so that people who are interested can examine the list but people who are not interested do not have to see that.
Just popping in to say that I love that scene—it leaves me rolling every time. And that Dr. Strangelove is one of my all-time favorite movies: absolutely terrific and hilarious on multiple levels. I didn’t see it until the early 1990s, but I’ve loved it ever since. To anyone who says its humor is no longer relevant, well…you’re just wrong.
But I will add that once again what we have in play here is that there is no work of art, no film, no novel, no musical composition, no anything, that is so beloved by millions that there won’t be someone on the Internet who is proud of themselves for dissing it and feels it extremely necessary to share his or her (usually, his) proud, negative opinion with the world.
Seriously, we may as well post the SDMB Top 250 Worst Films Of All Time and be done with it. Dr. Strangelove, I note, comes in at #49 on the list of worst movies. It’s not quite as underwhelming as Shawshank Redemption, apparently.
I also note Metacritic’s talley that an overwhelming majority of reviewers and movie viewers didn’t like it, either. It’s just must be a very bad movie.
Seems that Leaffan is in good company. Clearly, he has reason to be proud of his taste.
I actually did like that one.
You misunderstand me entirely.
At no point did I ever say. or allude to the fact that I’m proud of my dislike for the movie. I simply provided my opinion on it.
I’ve opened similar threads on movies I’ve just seen for the first time: some I disliked (2001) and some I liked (Ferris Bueller). I merely offer these up for topics of discussion.
I am sort of joshing Leaffan but: did your ex-wife not let you watch movies?
I agree it’s not fall out of your seat hilarious. It is a black comedy* after all. But it’s pretty damn amusing. More so because Slim Pickens is really like that and because George C. Scott wasn’t told that those over-the-top takes would be used.
*I was thinking about what makes a Black Comedy and realized my bar is impossibly high. Just being a movie with serious themes and some comedy elements doesn’t make it a black comedy. On the usual lists of such films I could only vote for Dr. Strangelove, After Hours, and Kind Hearts and Coronets.
We never really had the time. We had two kids 18 months apart. And her taste in movies was nowhere near mine. And we had to always watch TV together and go to bed together. I never had the luxury of just popping in a movie that I might want To watch.
I’m liberated now.
I heard that. Welcome to a special brand of hell.
Good point. Kubrick picks unexpected yet amazing music for his films. But when everyone sang “We’ll Meet Again” on the last Colbert show I kept expecting the mushroom clouds.
When I was in grad school, the default name for our PDP-11 batch files was guano.bat
You don’t enter into a classic movie expecting to be “entertained.”
Dr. Strangelove is the type of movie I typically don’t enjoy: self-indulgent and capricious.
However, it is so good I cannot pretend to deny it. It’s worth it just for Peter Sellers.
People who find Citizen Kane boring are the ones so absorbed in their generational zeitgeist they don’t comprehend the brilliantly innovative cinematography, structure, or sheer daring Welles conjured up to make the film.
I guess they want Transformers…
(That’s right, I’m calling you a simpleton if you think it’s a bad movie)
I liked Citizen Kane, for what it’s worth. And I especially noticed the cinematography.
You probably didn’t like Hamlet, either, because it had too many cliches. 
That last one is still one of my faves (except for a few cringe-inducing things like Coburn’s line to his young girlfriend, “You’re Mrs. ME!”).
If you like those, I guess you’re okay and you get a pass on Dr. Strangelove.
But seriously, to each his own etc.
It may be you’re just not into movies. I’m a pretty cultured guy, but just don’t like the medium. Instead of investing time that doesn’t turn out rewarding, build something, paint something, write something or whatever.
I sure as fuck do. Otherwise, what’s the point of watching it?
But if it’s Orson Welles they’re avoiding it’s an exercise in futility.
You musta watched the bolded Hitchcock film on a black and white TV. North by Northwest is in color.
Yeah, and don’t most folks associate *North by Northwest *with Cary Grant, not James Mason?