Comments on: One movie after another

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:40:28 +0000

I believe I’ll always love Dr. Strangelove. To tell the truth, I’m pretty sold on nearly every Kubrick film.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:04:43 +0000

Dr. Strangelove was excellent, despite its political elements.

I’m not the least surprised that One Battle After Another is getting awards. Look at how the left acts these days.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:38:04 +0000

Re: Dr. Strangelove

I watched half of it again and it holds up splendidly. Immaculate cinematography (Kubrick, after all). Great well-drawn characters. Tight funny writing — Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room! Original concept. Cultural significance. Serious questions about nuclear war underneath.

Then there’s Sellers’ triple threat performance as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley and Dr. Strangelove.

There are many reasons people are still talking about this film. It is a satiric black comedy which may rub some viewers’ fur the wrong way, but that goes with the territory.

By: Donzie

Donzie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:00:23 +0000

The Strangelove scene I was thinking about has some current relevance. More than once during Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury, a military guest has responded to the CNN/BBC/NBC questioning along the lines of “won’t the magnificent Iranian antiaircraft forces just shoot down all our planes and parade the pilots like Blackhawk Down?” The contrary responses by some their military guests reminded me of this scene: https://youtu.be/UxLe8MWdWe0?si=jy8JfB95scJpdA-k.

Each time the network went to a commercial break immediately.

By: CICERO

CICERO — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:03:18 +0000

Wow ! 70 comments!

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:33:46 +0000

One ~~movie~~ scam after another…

The country’s newspaper of record (i.e., one of the two) chimes in with a resounding “HEH”…

“Shocking Oscars aftermath pic exposes climate hypocrisy of celebs…”—
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/oscars-aftermath-pic-exposes-climate-hypocrisy-of-celebrities/

By: Tregonsee314

Tregonsee314 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:31:18 +0000

And originally Peter Sellers was going to have 4 roles. Allegedly, he originally was scheduled to play Major “King” Kong. They’d shot most of his other shots and started to work the Kong scenes with the bomb drop scene being early in those sequences. Apparently, Mr. Sellers fell off the bomb from a moderate height and injured himself pretty severely (rumors of broken arm or badly twisted knee/hip) so they had to get someone else and got Slim Pickens.

By: IrishOtter49

IrishOtter49 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:07:39 +0000

“1917” is in my top 5 list of best war movies of all time. Absolutely stunning. Right along with “White Tiger” and “Come and See”, both Russian-made movies.

Dr. Strangelove is, IMO, one of the funniest movies ever made. I mean it. I guess there’s just no accounting for taste.

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:58:31 +0000

As a movie buff I feel the instinct to defend Hollywood a bit. I intended to prove om wrong by producing a list of really good movies that have come out since 1917 (released in 2019). I couldn’t do it. Oppenheimer wasn’t bad, and neither was Nomadland, but I was shooting for more than “pretty good”. Five years is quite a long time to go without a really good movie being released. Sad.

By: Rick67

Rick67 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:40:20 +0000

As huxley points out above they actually gave it the Academy Award for Best Picture along with a couple other awards.

This is astonishing. And utterly revealing. At this point it has been proven multiple times beyond all reasonable doubt that the entertainment industry – in the United States at least – truly thinks its primary purpose is not to create art or to entertain. It is to propagandize. To express genuine hatred and contempt for more than half the population which does not share its collective social-political-cultural views.

A regular refrain on the internet over the last decade has been we must stop giving our money to people who hate us. Yes I know boycotts are often tacky and distasteful. Several years ago I thought the more-than-half-the-American-population which does not share the views of our elites should take a one year break from news and entertainment.

One year.

I recognize it’s easy to say that. Because my wife and I do like to watch one episode of something each evening around dinner. (Our children are grown and no longer at home.) The news and entertainment industry are like a bus on the edge of a cliff. They’re struggling. Many are losing money. One year in which more than half their customers and/or audience say we’ve had enough, we’re not giving a dime to people who hate us and want to destroy what we think is true, good, and beautiful.

I recognize that some who don’t hate us and want to destroy will be caught in the blast. Perhaps the one year sabbatical can be somewhat selective.

One year.