StOP Worrying and LovE it

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2019)

My list of favorite movies has changed over the years, but HILTSWALTB has been my number one since I first saw it, and remains at the top of my personal list. Maybe it's because I served as a nuclear weapons officer, but more likely because of my dark sense of humor. If reading that a guy who handled nuclear weapons has a dark sense of humor disturbs you, you might want to stop now.
This is black comedy at its finest and the film equivalent of a page turner book. Like Blues Brothers, you're not sure you want to watch it again, but once you start it you can't stop-every scene is so compelling. Sellers's scene on the telephone (as the President with the Russian Premier) is as good as anything Bob Newhart ever did, and he was the master of the one-sided call. Add Wynn at the vending machine "you're going to have to answer to the Coca Cola company", Slim reading the contents of the survival packet, and Scott explaining "your average Ruskie" and it just never stops. This movie is the bomb, So stop worrying and learn to love it.