My opinion, one of the best tongue-in-cheek movies ever made

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 1999)

Whether retired Air Force, like myself, this movie was the best whimsical exaggeration of the Air Force I have ever seen. I was in the Continental Presidents Club in Chicago when Slim Pickens came in and we talked for 30 minutes. I told him I was in the Air Force and how much I liked the movie. I passed this story on to him: I was on temporary duty (TDY) to Griffiss AFB New York. This was a SAC base with B-52's and KC135's. I went to the base theatre and this movie was playing. As the movie progressed I started to laugh and really got into it. All of a sudden someone tapped me on the shoulder, I turned around and it was a full colonel. He said, "Captain, this is not funny"! Slim Pickens laughed and said what did you do"? I said, "Yes Sir". Got up, moved to the back of the theatre and muffled my laughs with my overcoat.
Mr. Pickens was such a delight. I asked him how they filmed the scene with him on the bomb. He said it was a little tricky and they had to borrowed a harness from the English Ballet. Along with trick photography, this harness was used to hold him on the bomb. I have my own copy and play it when I need a laugh. I'm sure the Colonel's intentions were good, but in spite of making fun of ourselves, the Berlin Wall still came down.