Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

This brilliant movie is a blazing accusation against the entire male gender. Yes, my fellow gentlemen, through rational looking, but deeply down, sexually motivated power play, we placed the knife to the entire world's throat. Nothing nails this better than the iconic ride of a proud 30-megaton tail. The film's humour may redeem our stupidity for some, but the potential death of billions is not an easy fun matter for me. This film makes me feel ashamed to be a man whenever I watch it.

Though i doubt it deserves the place it has in the lists of best movies of all time, it is a very smart movie with a lot of debt and subtle comments on the world we live in and the absurd global situation we still find ourselves in.The idiocy of propaganda, the power of millitary, the social status of corperations, the danger of mindless patriotism, it all gets ridiculed in a dark but funny way.It is for sure the best social critique i have ever seen.Sadly a lot of people who comment here are not able to pick up on it nowdays anymore. What used to be absurd sarcasm and caricature has now become the reality we live in.I wonder if kubric intended it to be a window into our future.

I've have seen this movie three times and l didn't find a masterpiece,a really good movie certainly it is,the unique character whose we could call funny is Dr. Strangelove with your german accent and mannerism,in very short appareance by the way,apart from that all character are quite normal,maybe George C Scott as General has a strong desire to destroy URSS,the phone calling conversation between USA's president and URSS's premier is quite funny,Slim Pickens must be remembered for a good action as a crazy pilot,Trace Reed is eyewash for such sexy single scene...but over it call a masterpiece has a huge distance....8 out 10 fit in perfectly!!!Resume:First watch: 1983 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8

Originally this film was supposed to be marketed to college Audiences. I think that was a complete mistake by people who do not understand the film. First, General Rippers paranoia stems from his conviction that floridation of the US water supply is a communist plot to destroy his ability to have sexual intercourse with a woman. The proof is in the pudding, because he tells his exec RAF Group Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) that he tried and failed. The rest of the movie steamrolls from here. Suffice to say it is fantastic. It is so realistic that when the movie debuted in theaters the USAF showed a disclaimer on the screen to terrified audiences assuring them that nothing like this could ever happen. Just see the film.