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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13270
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 6:10 pm: |     |
Other than the King of All, are there any other Dr. Strangelove fans out there?
I just discovered that Comcast Digital on Demand has it in their list of free movies.
What a classic. Peter Sellers and George C. Scott are just brilliant.
I'm going to suggest that the Loews Jersey City should show a double feature of Strangelove and one of my other all time favorites: Fail Safe. |
Cynicalgirl
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Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 1161
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 6:31 pm: | |
Husband and I are fans. Kinda like George C Scott all of the time, but especially in this one... Good thought on Fail Safe. Haven't seen that in AGES.
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5059
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 7:26 pm: | |
One of my all time favorite movies! |
nan
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Username: Nan
Post Number: 1856
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 7:42 pm: | |
I just assume that everyone is a fan of Dr. Strangelove. I thought it was part of every school curriculum by now, like Catcher in the Rye.
I have not seen it for years, though. I keep looking for it in the DVD bins at Pathmark.
And what was that famous song they play as Slim Pickins rides the bomb out of the airplane?
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Albatross
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Username: Albatross
Post Number: 536
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 7:47 pm: | |
One of the greatest movies I know, in my admittedly limited knowledge. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13272
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 8:45 pm: | |
The funniest parts are the dialogue between Sellers as President and his counterpart Dimitri.
"Dimitri, we're in this together!"
Sellers is just hysterial in how he's trying to sell the impending nuclear holocaust to the Russian Premiere so matter of factly.
But I have to say that for me Fail Safe was the film that was the most powerful. Henry Fonda was magnificent as the President and who remembers that his trusted translator was a young pre-Jeannie Larry Hagman? |
Strawman
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4601
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 8:46 pm: | |
The characters in that movie came to exist for real to a degree, in my opinion.
Jimmy Carter and the President
Kissenger and Strangelove.
Alexander Haig and George C. Scott.. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13273
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 9:15 pm: | |
Here is my Loews Nuclear Holocaust Weekend:
Dr.Strangelove
Fail Safe
On the Beach
and Godzilla
(if you have to ask why Godzilla (Gozira), then you've missed out on the symbolism in the film) |
TomR
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Username: Tomr
Post Number: 494
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 10:30 pm: | |
sbenois,
From one Fail Safe fan to another, have you had the opportunity to see The Enemy Within?
I thought it a good updated remake.
TomR |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13274
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 10:36 pm: | |
No! I didn't even know there was a relationship. I've got to look into that.
Did you ever read a short book put out in the early sixties called the Fail-Safe Fallacy? It was put out to refute the book's premise.
Fail-safe was the subject of one of my college papers. |
ken (the other one)
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Username: Ken
Post Number: 239
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 10:47 pm: | |
Ahh Fail Safe....one of my favs from 1964. I'll pull it out tomorrow and watch it during the storm...
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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13276
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 11:05 pm: | |
Put on that and A Hard Day's Night and you'll be set. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 4373
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 11:31 pm: | |
Put me on the list of Dr. Strangelove fans. I can (and have) watched it again and again, much to the dismay of the spouse.
It captured the absolute absurdity of some of the assumptions of that time. We could use a Dr. Strangelove for our times.
"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
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Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 536
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 11:45 pm: | |
Sterling Hayden as the Air Force general decrying the "loss of our natural essences," and George C. Scott unforgettable as General Buck Turgidson, vaunting to the president, "Can those babies fly, sir, you bet yer ••• they can." and Keenan Wynn as Colonel Bat Guano--- all absurd characters superbly acted.
As to On the Beach, I think it's a good movie, but Neville Shute's book, the source of the film, is even better and more somber. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2657
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 9:02 am: | |
Sorry, just couldn't resist! Here are 2 of my faves, Peter Sellers & Slim Pickens:
-s.
BTW: Having a great time down here, and (Heh-heh!) the "pickins" aren't slim. I feel like Tom Cruise in the Green Room in Atlantic City... This shuffleboard hustle might just turn out to be a career move. See y'all in a couple of weeks. Maybe. |
LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2249
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 9:58 am: | |
Get back to the beach,Soda. |
TomR
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Username: Tomr
Post Number: 495
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 11:28 am: | |
Sorry sbenois, looks like I did it again.
The Enemy Within is a remake of Seven Days in May.
Both worthwhile, but sorry for the misdirection.
TomR |
Sgt. Pepper
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Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 716
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 2:31 pm: | |
Nan -- the song at the end of Dr. Strangelove is "We'll Meet Again." |
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