Mildly funny but important nevertheless

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2014)

Brigadier General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) of Burpelson Air Force Base has gone crazy and orders his bombers to drop their nukes on the Ruskies. He is paranoid about the purity of the American bodily fluids and fluoridation. General Turgidson (George C. Scott) tries to explain how this happened to President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) in the iconic war room as he argues for total nuclear first strike.
This is another masterpiece from director Stanley Kubrick. It is a satire and an important peace movie. It's not really a laugh out loud movie. It is a movie in love with the absurd and the ridiculous. The tension and the pacing isn't that high especially considering the movie has a natural ticking clock. It likes to take its time. The comedy is a time capsule of its era. However considering how many iconic moments this movie has, this is a truly important film.