Where was the funny again?

I think it's when the film came out that the jokes made sense.

I'm not going to pass judgement on anyone for admitting they don't get it. This film is not for everyone. There are people like me who love it and there are others who hate it. The difference is when they get all indignant and insist it's a stupid film, which it's not. To be totally fair, you didn't say that.

Some people like slapstick and some hate it. Some like stand up routines, others - like me - don't. Some like satire and others prefer something more directly accessible. It's not absolute and there's no reason to pass judgement on anyone for having a different view.

The background to Dr Strangelove is that it's satire. Satire is not for everyone. The best satire is so close to the truth that it's difficult to tell when it's serious and the it isn't. In the case of this movie, it sails so close to the wind that the truth becomes funny. There's also a very strong streak of black humour in there. This was at probably the most dangerous period of the Cold War - just after the Cuban Missile Crisis. So many of the things in the movie are accurate portrayals of nuclear protocols. I don't know if the CRM-114 was a real device - I heard it was - but the Motto "Peace is Our Profession" was real. The black humour is the shooting and killing going on underneath it, all in one shot. The fact that politicians behave like children or get drunk at inopportune moments or that soldiers and scientists try to run the government... The whole insanity is that it was real. And by the way, George C. Scott, who parodies Gen. Curtis Le May (the man who developed the motto "Peace is Our Profession for Strategic Air Command), was brilliant. Peter Sellers plays three characters and is excellent in all of them. The president's name is Merkin Muffley, which should raise a few laughs... but nothing is absolute and binding here.

Some get all hot under the collar and insist it's disrespectful. This actually makes me like it even more.

But some prefer a greater delineation between the two and something that's less subtle. It depends on what your personal preferences are. No one is required to like this or any other movie. To me, it's the second greatest movie ever made but I don't expect others to feel the same way.

The old Latin saying goes "De gustibus non est disputandum" - Of taste there is no dispute or "there's no accounting for taste".

The movie doesn't need to be defended.

I don't have time today to list three scenes that make "Strangelove" "genius," but I can start with the entire conversation between Ripper and Mandrake, when Ripper is explaining that he started a nuclear holocaust because of a commie plot to fluoridate water. In essence, he attributes his impotence to a commie plot and wipes out the world because he can't get a boner.

Wait, here's another: The B-52s are equipped with radios that are deliberately designed not to receive incoming messages that might recall them.

Or the Soviets built a doomsday device to deter an attack, then didn't bother to tell anyone, which negates its ability to deter an attack.

well there are parts such as "gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room" that people find hilarious

it wasn't for me





so many movies, so little time

Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress, come here and feed me this belt, boy.

They call me the Mayor, 'Cause I spend all my days here

It depends though, some comedy doesn't make you outright laugh but you can appreciate the subtelty and the cleverness of it more than some crude joke that you may find funnier... You know what I mean?

This comedy didn't make me laugh the most, nowhere near. But I think it's the best comedy film I've seen.

Why would you watch it three times if you think it's so overrated? Just admit it's not for you and move on.

"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"

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