A classic, must-see "black" comedy about nuclear destruction.

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2000)

Dr Strangelove, Kubrick's "black" comedy about nuclear war was filmed in 1963, the year I graduated from high school, and I finally got around to seeing it in 2000!
Although the special effects are crude by current standards, they are pretty good for being filmed almost 40 years ago!
I have a very difficult time seeing this movie as one of the 10 best of all time. It definitely is worth seeing, but it is such a strange juxtaposition of comedy (Peter Sellers playing 3 different and funny roles) and tragedy (battle scenes of soldiers shooting and killing each other, nuclear bomb explosions)that one doesn't quite know how to take this film. You never really get caught up in the drama because the director is always poking you in the ribs with "Ha, watch how I spoof this next situation." It reminds me of a short story I wrote when I was 16, "The Edge of Night", and in my spoof the hero, "Her-Bob", was a little late coming home and died when the "edge of night" fell on him and crushed him. Just because it is radical and different doesn't make it great. I give it "8" of "10" for a very entertaining almost 2 hours.