Kubrick is God

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2004)

Well, after seeing this movie quite a few times (thank God for DVD), I must say that its humor and appeal hasn't become old. In fact, I just finished writing a 11-page paper on the psychology behind the humor in the movie for a class I took this semester entitled "What's So Funny About The End Of The World".
That said, the satire here is brilliant. My initial reaction after watching the movie the first time was, "And we ever thought this was a good idea because..." refering to the arms race. Granted, I'm too young to have any memories of the arms race during the Cold War, but I am a bit of a history buff, especially where it concerns post-Depression 20th Century history, so I generally understood the references, even if I didn't have memories to go along with them.
The guys around the table acting like five year old kids with nuclear capability was so wrong...yet so dead on. And while many of my friends were offended by the last scene with the mushroom cloud footage with "We'll Meet Again" playing in the background, I still find that part to be the most poignant part of the film, as it shows how lightly the political structures of the time took the possibility of the end of the world.