DR. STRANGELOVE Movie Reaction (OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE COMMENT SECTION) 

One of my favorite lines in any film.

Me too....that was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mine was always "...but the entire point of the doomsday device is lost...IF YOU KEEP IT A SECRET! Why didn't you tell anybody?!"

Same here. There's so many quotable moments in this film

@@Corn_Pone_Flicks he was waiting for his birthday

Part of Kubrick's fanatical devotion to minute details. He'd have set pieces and props redone even if they would only be in a background shot for a few seconds.

And hundreds of photos from the Boeing archive.

@@wolfmanjack3451 Actually, the interior of the B-52 was an exact copy that was made up from photos taken from a defense publication article about the plane. Kubrick even got a visit from the feds, because they thought he had access to a real B-52! (The aircraft was new at the time, and classified)

And when the film came out, an irate filmgoer said that Stanley Kubrick should be physically harmed.

​@@MrUndersolo Only one? 😐

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The funny thing is that this is a sarcastic dig at how many former Nazi's were involved in the US's post war weapons and rocket development. Without them there would have been no moon landing in the late 60's.

The music being played during that scene is "Try a Little Tenderness".

That was intentional. Sex and Violence.

Complete with stereotypical nature documentary music.

Hahaha yes! Classic fall

George C Scott was absolutely furious with Kubrick over this.

Mine is probably the Soviet ambassador desperately trying not to laugh as Peter Sellers strangles himself during the last act. That must have been so difficult for the cast and crew not to corpse.

Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, Kubrick tended to favor an interesting performance over a realistic one.

Sellers was supposed to play Major Kong, too, but couldn't get the Texas accent.

@@izzonj I didn't know that. That's pretty cool.

Check out The Mouse That Roared. 😁

@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Cool I will check it out

@@izzonj That was after John Wayne turned it down. Sellers didn't do it because he already had too much to do already, and Kubrick was notorious for shooting dozens of takes for every shot. Very demanding to play 3 roles for him. Sellers had a health breakdown during filming.

Scott was a great chess player but so was kubrick.. supposedly Kubrick would beat him in chess in no time and Scott respected him after that lol.

He did it with Adolphe Menjou on Paths of Glory: in that case, when they were doing it Menjou's way, there was no film in the camera.

It was honestly a blessing. Scott’s work here is phenomenal. It wouldn’t have worked the other way.

Lol! Reagan was either hilarious or a dummy. Probably both.

@@StreetHierarchy There are things I could criticize Reagan for, but I may give him this. "Dr. Strangelove" was so accurate on so many details that I'm sure more people than just Reagan thought we actually had a War Room that looked just like Ken Adams' design.

No. He thought there might be a war room in the Pentagon. All Presidents are briefed on classified things when they take office. They don't know what those secrets are until they are told. No reason not think a secret war room might exist.

yes - without a doubt!!!

He performed it multiple times and each time was different.

It's my favourite bit.

Also great in "The Asphalt Jungle".....and "The Godfather"!

Sterling Hayden was one of the Hollywood people who testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (McCarthy) and named people who were sympathetic to communism, helping to get them black listed. Hayden came to regret his decision and it haunted him later in life.

The nonlinear storytelling of The Killing was later ripped off by Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

@@izzonj I didn’t know that, thanks. Kind of in keeping with his General Ripper character.

That's Kubrick's first film.

I think I remember reading that the hurt(broken?) leg was also the reason Strangelove was in the wheelchair.

I don't think she realized Peter Sellers played three roles. But she says she plans to read about the movie and see it again, so just from that, she'll have a whole new level of appreciation next time she sees it. ;)

The story goes that Sellers was a little put out over playing 4 roles. Since the set for the aircraft required climbing a ladder, he set up being "injured" so that he could skip out of the 4th role. Slim Pickins... more famous for cowboy roles in the past... took the role.

She ain’t seen nuthin’ yet until she sees Sellers in Kubrik’s ‘Lolita’. 😎

Obviously Peter Sellers would have been great in that role as he's great in every role. But in some ways I'm glad he didn't. The famous "riding the bomb" scene is great and funny but it has a tragic quality too. If it had been Sellers it may have just been played for laughs and I think would have lost something

Truly a great movie. It took the idea of nuclear warfare getting out of control and played it as straight drama. The interplay between Henry Fonda as the president and Larry Hagman as his russian interpreter is outstanding.

Excellent film!

Fail Safe - a very good movie that was always described as "Dr. Strangelove without the laughs". Not exactly the same story, as Fail Safe is based on a computer malfunction. Could it have really happened? Google "9 November 1979". I started working in Cheyenne Mt. in 1984, installing and testing SPADOC 4A, and we were still having to deal with the fallout (pardon the pun) of 9 November 1979. 9 November 1979 was probably not as close as the 1983 Able Archer incident...

Both movies were based off the book Fail Safe.. Both debuted in 1964.. Both are terrific movies..

Walter Mattheau film. That's a good one. I think i butchtered the spelling of his surname

Apparently the ending was meant to be a pie fight in the War Room, but everyone was meant to be dead serious. The actors kept laughing through the fight so it was scrapped.

@@Cheepchipsable It was filmed, but Kubrick decided it wasn't very funny. Having seen it, he was right.

You're right. The DoD was VERY interested in how Kubrick came so close to right with the B-52. I was living next to Barksdale AFB in Bossier, which is a B-52 base (and was a SAC base then, too) when this movie came out and a lot of neighbors were surprised at how much Kubrick got right with non-classified materials on the B-52.

CRM-114 became a bit of an easter egg in a number of places... Serum 114 in Clockwork Orange, the designation also comes up in Back to the Future, and even Star Trek DS9

They actually did have self destruct charges. The classified radios were considered expendable if there was a chance the enemy could get one.

@@armastat Well, no, aircrews were typically issued thermite grenades to destroy classified equipment. For the exact reason shown here, a self-destruct charge could malfunction and destruct a piece of equipment while you're trying to use it.

@@CruelestChris i didn't mean built in, sorry. Hell I would be a nervous wreck if my high powered equipment had explosives in it. especially electronically detonated ones. Radio waves tend to do that.

Reminds me of Catherine keener :)

@@ninjavigilante5311 :grins: I was going to make some simp-like comment along the lines of "When did Michelle Pfeiffer start doing a reaction channel?" but I reckon you made a good call there :nods:

@@ninjavigilante5311 yep I was gonna say a prettier Catherine Keener. And Ms Keener is a looker herself!

@@avonlave kazzy is way more pretty! :)

Kazzy is quietly, smolderingly, sensual and seductive, without even trying to be. She’s a template for God’s Perfect Girl.💜🍸

Yeah, that's my take, it is just satire, with the real point that planning for nuclear war and "acceptable" body counts is the true absurdity

Not so much ridiculous when you realize that the 'plan' for wild sex and orgies with 10 women to each man was a real detail of the actual plans. Yes they actually DID build such places or had them in the planning stages.

In the book it explains that it will take about 6 months for the Doomsday Device’s radiation to spread to the US. Plenty of time to act fast.

I think you're giving them too much credit. It was about the powerful destroying everything through their arrogance and incompetence and selfishness, and when they realized they had destroyed the societies they were supposed to lead, their first and only thought continued to be fulfilling their own desires above any sense of moral or actual responsibility. It symbolized that what they really meant by protecting "their way of life" was protecting the status quo that unfairly put people of their appalling quality into roles of power that they only further abused. I'm sure there's more to it, but that's definitely part of it.

Well, it's going to take a few weeks or even months for that deadly cloud to circulate around the globe. Well, before this film was released, the U.S. government had already built massive underground complexes that are in use to this very day. The biggest challenge is storing enough food. These facilities are big but probably not big enough to store a hundred years worth of food.

Hear, hear! While virtually all Kubrick movies are classics, Lyndon is my fav by a mile.

One of those headed up SAC early on and poked the bear a LOT with the thought that they would never react and wow we came close to war several times due to that silly thought process.

@@MrDportjoe Tommy Power was the one that had SAC bombers on airborne alert, but all the Commanders of SAC poked the Bear quite a bit. Air force planes were constantly messing with the Soviets. Not aware that any of those incidents led us close to war...at least not like the training tape incident at NORAD or the Soviet mistaken incoming attack incident. In fact, early on, the Soviets shots down many British and American planes that encroached on their airspace, but both sides covered those kinds of things up to prevent them from leading to war.

The ending is also supposed to show that the people in power on both sides of the conflict (General Turgidson and ambassador De Sadesky) would embrace fascism (Strangelove's plan) if it means they get to stay on top, and if democratic society allows those impulses to get too far, those forces will tear the world apart. It's a pretty streamlined, if not very subtle, explanation of the paradox of tolerance.

@@JaapZeldenrust Well...the World is ending, due to the Soviet's Doomsday Machine...so democracy is over no matter what...they are both just getting boners about all the women they will get to screw. LOL

General Jack D. Ripper was probably based on the real Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was the head of the Strategic Air Command until 1957. He was known for constantly chomping on a cigar like Ripper. LeMay was a rabid anticommunist and at some points in his career was in favor of a preemptive nuclear strike on the Soviet Union to destroy it as an enemy.

Best historical context comment so far.

Didn't the launch warning satellites see an explosion of nuclear yield over one of the oceans which turned out to be a small asteroid or comet? And this put both sides on high alert. Even Carl Sagan mentioned in Cosmos that it's surprising such an event didn't trigger WWIII if it happened over America or Europe.

It was a very scary time. The Cuban Missile Crisis didn't help.

@@henrytjernlund The film "Wargames" , the computer had the best reply to Nuclear War, when it said that a nuclear war was pointless, as there could be no winner. I live in the UK and there was a real fear that the Soviets would sweep to the West while conquering western Europe. And, to our point: there was a real fear that a natural disaster, such as an earthquake, could be mistaken for an attack that could trigger WW3. The dissolving of the Soviet states was, to me at the time, an admission that a nuclear war was a losing position for all concerned.

Things were so much simpler then. At least we knew who our enemies were and how an attack would go.

His father was also a good actor, he was in the Sting, and Sleepaway camp very similar voice

How many times do you think they had to film that before he was able to finish that line with a straight face?

Sterling Hayden is perfect and the lighting on him is brilliant almost a lost art

I did not know that about Mel Brooks! That makes me love him even more!

@@TTM9691 Yes!! Believe it or not, Kubrick and Stanley lived in Greenwich Village in the early 60's, and were actually good friends. Kubrick inspired Brooks to switch from TV to making movies, and Brooks inspired Kubrick to call his film 2001: A Space Odyssey (after Kubrick had watched Brooks's Get Smart .. the episode where a building was named "The Odyssey")

@@xrusted Holy moly, you are blowing my mind!!!!!!!

@@TTM9691 As a matter of fact, *my* mind was blown when I found that out!!!! Kubrick is one of the most mysterious and enigmatic film producer of all time, the man was a genius with a +200 IQ and created cinematic alchemy !!!!!! There are so many other mind blowing secrets and subliminal levels and hidden symbolic themes in all of Kubrick's films.

@@xrusted I worked for a short time with an older indie director who knew Kubrick back in the 1950s (I don't want to say who), but he once showed me a letter Kubrick had written to him and it was typed in a really weird way, basically using the entire paper, with no margins, left to right....and only for a few lines, starting in the middle of the page! (I hope I described that properly). He basically just waved it in front of me, I wasn't able to read it so I don't know what was written, or when it was written.....I was dying to, though! :P

Especially with a firefight going on in front of it.

It's probably Kubrick talking about the class distinctions in the USA.

I can't believe our luck this week. First, a fantastic reaction of the mighty "2001", and now this. Last week, TBR Schmitt did a fantastic "Clockwork Orange" reaction, so I'm in Kubrick heaven reaction heaven right now! :P

For more Sellers try ‘The mouse that roared’

Very cool! What did he say?

He spoke a bit about the production, etc. I was totally star-struck!

I stood next to the body (Dave Prowse) of Darth Vader once at a convention. He was a big guy.

Yes, he was 6' 6" in his bare feet if memory serves. I would've gotten a crick in my neck looking up at him (but it would've been well worth it)! 😉

Oh my gosh Aunt Vesuvi!! That must have been such an amazing experience!

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Yes, when it came out this was a really shocking movie. I don't think there were any satirical movies about nuclear war before this, you just didn't joke about that.

At the time my dad was an apprentice at the UK's Devonport Royal Navy dockyard (which would be a primary target in the event of a nuclear exchange). He told me that at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis they all went outside for a last cigarette and wait for the flash of light...

My memory played a trick on me. Dr. Strangelove didn't come out until I was 21. I saw "The Mouse That Roared" when I was 16.

Weren't there fleets of stratospheric bombers flying around 24/7 ready to bomb stuff at a moments notice, and command codes updated multiple times a day?

Being a B-52 aircraft commander going to bomb the USSR is/was a Very Serious Thing then and now.

Wow that blows my mind! Pickens is just perfectly cast , IMO. But he couldn't have believed it was a serious role for long.

He nailed the accent eventually, Robert, but he fell on set and carried on hurting badly enough to prevent him executing Kong's late-film acrobatics - so the call went out to Mr Pickens. All best!

Wow, Tony. That must have been horrifying. Thank you so much for watching and commenting 🤗✌🏼💜

I couldn't imagine Peter Sellers playing Major T. J. "King" Kong; Slim Pickens has/had the right touch for this role.;)

It's a parody almost of Fail Safe.

Absolutely.

Frightening idea...and you know that it is a good satire when you keep laughing in self-defense.

Exactly. Which is why it’s so terrifying..

It shows what could happen, if your school system lacks a proper sex education XD.

And even then they don't know how to react to it besides "I am so confused" and "this could've been edited a lot tighter" and "oh wait, is the whole thing in black and white?" and "this hasn't held up very well" and "I guess they could get away with a joke like that back then" and "these effects are so cheesy."

Well, most films are suggested by their followers.

And don't understand satire. They would probably be "offended"....or "bored" by no special effects.

@@porflepopnecker4376 This is a perfect comment. You really hit the nail on the head. You've obviously been listening to too many millennials. As time passes, I have less and less patience for this 21st century sh*t and I'm just about out. My hat's off to you. You couldn't have put it better.

@@JedHead77 And therein lies the problem. If all films watched are selected by vote, then one will never watch the 99.9% of good movies unknown to millennials.

Unfortunately his last movie was The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a Blake Edwards bomb.

@@Lethgar_Smith Now THERE was an odd relationship.

@@chrispittman8854 They were close friends and working on the set was always a joy for both men. I think they really didnt care what they were producing in the end so long as they could come to the set each day and crack each other up.

Sellers was great in the first two Pink Panther movies as well.

@@thomast8539 "A Shot in the Dark..." "Do you have a 'lie sonnzzz' monsieur?" "License?"

@@Lethgar_Smith the director knew best !

Failsafe is a very tense film. Peak Cold War stuff there.

@@Bfdidc I saw Failsafe long after seeing The Bedford Incident (1965 w/ Richard Widmark & Sidney Poitier) and Failsafe seemed a bit silly to me in comparison. The Bedford Incident isn't on the same scale as Failsafe, but it's a very suspenseful movie and perhaps a bit more plausible.

Except Kubrick had to trick Scott into getting the scenes he wanted because Scott wanted to play it differently.

There would be survivors then or now. Back then a lot fewer unless General T's advice was taken. Most people don't seem to realize just how much lower than nuclear megatonnage has been reduced by arms control.

Totally. She does these very well.

I have REACTED to TAXI DRIVER! It's on my Patreon and will eventually get a RU-vid edit so STAY TUNED!

@@KazzyCreates Awesome, can't wait!

"Oh, _hell."_

"I say we take off, nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

What we've got here is....failure to communicate.