Who doesn't love this bomb?

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2001)

George C. Scott is the best thing about this film. He makes me crack up every time the camera focus upon him. The reason he is so funny is because of the atmosphere he creates. He behaves like a child, not knowing the serious crime they have committed or are going to commit. He never takes himself too seriously or the whole situation about the United States beginning an apocalyptic war between Russia.
Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb is my personal favorite film. I am a big Stanley Kubrick fan and this one is his best in my opinion. Kubrick knew how to get an audience to laugh, shriek or simply sway their hands by presenting the unbelievable. In Dr. Strangelove, he achieves this height by making a world of all three. He has us laughing at characters so twisted and comedic that you cannot help but laugh. He has us shrieking from the terror and dread of an actual nuclear war breaking out. And he has us swaying our hands at the absurdity of these characters and situation that we are viewing as an unbelievable satire of this government struggling to save us from doom.
Peter Seller's performances as The President, the British officer and of course, Dr. Strangelove are brilliantly blazed onto the screen. Sterling Hayden gives deranged generals a brand new meaning as Jack the Ripper, the man who starts the mess. And of course, George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson. Scott gives one of the most hilarious performances in motion picture history as a man bent on worldly destruction. He doesn't care how many people die, he wants his nation to win the cold war. Chaos is what makes this man go around, with facial expressions that are non-approachable from even the greatest comedian. I love this movie because it fits my style of comedy, and it's characters are so relentlessly funny that it is irresistible. Its truly not a serious film, yet it has a serious subject.