Perhaps the best movie ever made.

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2006)

I have enjoyed and in fact loved many movies, but Dr. Strangelove is the only movie that I have seen over and over without eventually noticing flaws. George C. Scott delivers what I consider to be the finest comic performance in a movie (rivaled only by Lee Marvin, in Cat Ballou).
This movie is a satire, but even so the dialogue, ridiculous as it always is, is utterly, realistically human. When General Buck Turgidson (Scott) is explaining to the President what he considers to be the wisdom ofa first nuclear strike on the Soviets, for example, you can easily imagine a real general laying out the same arguments, using the same euphemisms. ("Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. I am saying, no more than ten or twenty Americans killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.") Or Major Kong (played by Slim Pickens) giving his bomber crew a brief pep talk. ("I reckon you wouldn't even by human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong feelin's about nuclear combat.")
I have adopted some of Major Kong's expressions as my own. For example, "I'm going' to get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek." Or, "I've been to a picnic, one world's fair and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I've every heard come over a set of earphones."
Dr. Strangelove is the only movie I can name thatcontains no superfluous scenes. Every minute of this movie contributes to the story. You couldn't cut anything from it without lessening its effect, which is simultaneously horrifying and hilarious.
A great movie, and my choice for the best movie ever made.