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“i'm sorry too, dimitri. i’m very sorry. all right, you're sorrier than i am! but i am sorry as well. i am as sorry as you are dimitri, don't say that you're more sorry than i am because i'm capable of being just as sorry as you are! so we’re both sorry, alright?”

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The sexual tension between President Muffley and Premier Dimitri tho

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i want the "gentlemen, you can't fight in here. this is the war room!" line tattooed on my body immediately

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The inevitable has occurred: I've watched a hugely popular and acclaimed film and come away scratching my head, wondering what on earth is so special about it. But don't revoke my Letterboxd hip just yet: do me the favor of hearing me out first.

Dr Strangelove is obviously a sacred cow in film circles, and I can see why. It's often hilarious, sometimes visually striking, and full of excellent performances and dialogue. It's a funny film about a thoroughly unfunny situation. It's a perfect satire, really. But it left me completely cold.

Perhaps that's because I'm eighteen and therefore my memory (or even my parents' memories) doesn't extend back to a time when nuclear annihilation seemed almost imminent, and my…

Review by cinéfila... 🕯️ ★★★★

HE'LL SEE THE BIG BOARD

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so smart. so funny. who cares what I think my father was one years old when this came out.

SO, WHAT I WILL SAY IS THIS: I think it's so insane that this movie was entirely made by men who were miserable. Stanley Kubrick? Miserable. Peter Sellers? Miserable. George C. Scott? Miserable and Mean. Movie? Fantastic. Ayo? Doing fine despite this!

Peter Sellers God Tier.

I also cried because of a shot of Sterling Hayden that was lit so perfectly.

how fun!!! (2 jack & cokes btw)

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Absolutely outstanding farce. Like a slow-motion screwball. George C. Scott and his faces absolutely run away with this thing. Was about to say Peter Sellers was doing incredible work as Mandrake and I didn’t even realize he was also playing the President & Dr. Strangelove. What a master. I’m the first to say this movie is terrific. What’s dumber than this? Just guys being dudes.

4

great cinematography, great performances, and very funny. i think i was supposed to love this more and i probably will someday, just not now.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about my Cinephile Credibility and Accept not Every Kubrick Film Will Blow Me Away or Strongly Resonate with Me

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If “You’ll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company” isn’t in your “The Magic of Cinema!” montage get the absolute fuck away from me

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This is one filthy movie. I know I'm far from the first person to notice this, but, boy, is it ever obvious today.

An opening scene of planes copulating. Then we meet General Erection post-coitus. Ripper explains he is afraid of his fluids being taken from his body...and, we later learn, new ones entering it. Then we go to a War Room of sexual repression: An emasculated president twice named after references to female genitalia; a general still thinking of the woman he left behind; a still unintroduced Strangelove in a nearly useless body (even lacking control over his, ahem, right hand); the Soviet ambassador lurks as a Sadeskic, er, sadistic voyeur of it all. Then we see the flight…

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Excellent Oppenheimer sequel!