Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove : or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is , hands down, my favorite movie of all time. It is a hilarious satire about the Cold War and Nuclear Warfare as a whole. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick who also directed Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, and The Shining. Dr. Strangelove stars Peter Sellers in a triple role (did they have more of those back then because now just Eddie Murphy does them....badly) as the President of the United States, the lieutenant held hostage by the man who starts the nuclear warfare due to him having problems in the bedroom, and the wheelchair bound ex Nazi genius titular character. It has to be some of the smartest dark comedy ever made. Being that it is based around the idea of war and the people who make them happen it is as potent now as it was and will be far into the future. One of my favorite characters in the film is Jack Ripper played by Sterling Hayden. His uber tough guy with a dark (yet humorous) secret bent on paranoid propaganda against the "commies" is one of the bizarrest characters ever made in fiction. Here is a clip of my favorite part with him.
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