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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Forgive the brevity of today’s pic, but I’m packing up from my New Orleans trip and heading back out on the road for the long drive back to Austin and wanted to get this up before leaving.
Dr. Strangelove is great, Stanley Kubrick is great, Peter Sellers is great, this picture is great. There.
Enjoy! Click to (slightly) embiggen!
Tomorrow’s pic hasn’t been chosen yet… I thought I was gonna be up in heaven, so I’m kinda flying loose right now…
-Quint
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May 21, 2011, 7:09 p.m. CST
This photo taken just seconds before Peter Sellers was murdered....
by Ronald Raygun
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I'm a rather strange duck, in that a film has to earn its laughs from me. I also don't just like cheap laughs, as anyone will attest to me sitting through 'Shrek the Third' and not gaffawing out loud even once). However, there's something about Strangelove as a film that just works. And along with Kubrick's direction, I think it is also chocked up to screenwriter Terry Southern. I've read some of Southern's books like 'The Magic Christian,' 'Candy,' and 'Blue Movie,' and the man writes on multiple layers that really makes the stories entertaining. I had heard rumor that 'Blue Movie' was considered to be made once-upon-a-time, and reading his text, I could see it all laid out...so to speak.
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this is the war room!
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And pretty much EVERY movie war room since is just like it.
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May 21, 2011, 8:08 p.m. CST
This movie had it all, including some amazing lines, like:
by empty_headed_animal
...100 dollars in gold, 9 packs of chewin' gum, 1 issue of prophylactics, 3 lipsticks, 3 pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a feller could have a pretty good time in Vegas with all that stuff!
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... behind Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, but my favorite dark comedy by a long shot!
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Can't hold a candle to Passion of the Christ.
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of the alternate ending with the pie fight. While theres no footage available, some pics of it survived and are floating around.
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May 21, 2011, 8:53 p.m. CST
I still vote for Some Like it Hot as the best comedy
by TheUltimateMathTeacher
I can watch that movie every weekend and still laugh at the same parts. I watch that movie with a perpetual smile on my face...
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May 21, 2011, 9:14 p.m. CST
This and Ghostbusters are the only comedies I can watch over and over and not only do they never get old, the get better everytime
by ndally
I know some will say "Ghostbusters, really?" but I don't care that is one of the 2 greatest comedies celluloid has ever captured. Just dry, witty, totally leaving you wanting more while making you think at the same time. Just genius. I couldn't even pick between the 2. The other day when people were quoting GB on the talkbacks of this column it was some serious quoting on a unprecedented level. Every other post was a quote and probably one of the reasons Talkbacks were invented in the first place. Geeks trying to out do each post, quote the line that everyone can picture perfectly in their mind and laugh out loud. These two comedies should be more recognized. Id say Ghostbusters is a more underrated masterpiece of comedy than Strangelove. Ghostbusters has a pathetic 7.8/10 on the imdb. Go, now, fellow geeks and see if we can get it up. Ghostbusters should @ LEAST have a fucking 8.0/10. 7.8 is a shame, I don't care that it's just the "lame imdb" alot of people us it. Anyways what do you ladies and Gents think? Ghostbusters and Strangelove make a great duo to watch after the other while being the two best examples of comedy one can watch.
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thanks for the pic, i love this stuff
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A perfectly cromulent article, Quint.
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if that really is your name."
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May 21, 2011, 10:27 p.m. CST
" ... good time in Vegas ..." had been "... good time in Dallas ..."
by zacUpquark
But, Kennedy had just been shot, so they changed it! Next time you see it, watch Slim's lips.
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Lifeless eyes, a doll's eyes. Very intense character and scary as fuck (and funny, thanks to Sellers). Best comedy? SOME LIKE IT HOT (and close behind, no particular order) PSYCHO SUNSET BLVD. STRANGELOVE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (apologies to J Russo)
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is he's basically correct. A little nuts, maybe, but its all true. You think some kid's eatin ice cream when its really a sugarcone fulla SLOW DEATH.
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than in almost all of the movies of 2010 combined.
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May 22, 2011, 1:38 a.m. CST
I think the self destruction mechanism got hit and self destructed.
by Gabba-UK
Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras. Recently just got this on Blu ray and it looks staggering good. Tip for you here. Got a family member or friend who claims that they can't tell the difference between HD and SD material. Put on a blu ray of a old black and white classic like this and watch their preconceptions explode when you explain that ALL films ever made on celluloid are in fact HD, even black and white films.
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Blazing Saddles is also great but it doesn't wear nearly as well with time... the timing is off. This, on the other hand... still timeless. Maybe after "Duck Soup", I would place this 2nd in all time... but in terms of what I can watch again and again and still laugh... this is it.
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... this movie had always eluded me. So had Blade Runner, but I watched that and wished I hadn't. Strangelove, though, is two hours of my life that I never want back. Perfect in every way.
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May 22, 2011, 3:12 a.m. CST
Love the pic, but this day screamed for a Night Of The Comet BTSPOTD
by TheJudger
I mean of all the days to homage NOTC.
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May 22, 2011, 6:24 a.m. CST
@themagicalhornofguntata Are you saying blade runner isnt any good?
by claxdog
If so you need to turn in your geek card right fucking now.
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Absolutely love his delivery of that line. Only watched it for the first time recently, can't believe I have missed out for this long!
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...right between "Bedtime for Bonzo" and "The Exorcist"
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Where someone exposes the negative twice and you end up getting a portrait of yourself with Abe Lincoln sitting beside you.
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by linlijung
we make a mistake
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I love movies about the nuclear side of the cold war. While I find Strangelove hilarious, it's not the brilliant script that makes me love it so much as all the detail and realism in the bomber scenes. Even though I'm pretty sure the art department extrapolated most of the inside of the bomber from just a couple reference photos out of a LIFE magazine. The most similar movie I've found in terms of putting you "on mission" is an HBO movie from 1990 called By Dawn's Early Light, set on a more modern long range nuclear bomber. I also really like movies where the bombs are about to fall, or threatening to fall, and again there are only a couple good ones I've found. "Deterrence" which has Kevin Pollak as US president snowed into a diner during a nuclear showdown with the soviets (or Russians, as I'm pretty sure it's set in the 90s). Also "Miracle Mile" which has a young Anthony Edwards (he's not bald) being the first guy in L.A. to find out the bombs are coming down in an hour. Wargames is also pretty much in the same box in my mind...
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This is the type of flick that suddenly comes to mind some lazy Sunday morning and you decide to just watch it on Youtube in parts. Maybe this is the type of thing I should get NetFlix for... thus far I've avoided any kind of streaming movie rental service because I gots to have that blu-ray quality. But if it's Night of the Comet, or Maximum Overdrive, or some shit like that I could probably accept paying for DVD quality or better.
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I find more to enjoy in it as I rewatch it throughout life. And older movies are great... I have yet to watch a really old movie on blu-ray though... I'll probably start with Citizen Kane, then do some Hitchcock, some film noir.
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I hated Blade Runner. I thought it was probably the worst film I'd ever seen, so I watched it again to see if I was misjudging it. I wasn't, it's shit. If it's all the same to you I'll keep hold of my geek card. After all, we all have different tastes.
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Fuck old movies.
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Fuck you.
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is like holding a sign that says" I don't know what I'm talking about and I have the attention span of a prairie dog..." Yeah, you apparently can't distinguish good from bad so your opinion is worth less than a cows.... it's not even moo. Just watched Fail Safe again a few nights ago, and aside from being a vastly underrated Lumet work it's amazing how much Strangelove turns that movie on it's ear. Both excellent films, but Strangelove is probably one of the ten most enjoyable movies I've ever seen.
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Ran that a coupla decades way back when via corporate 8-plex (evil) - after the first night or so the place was deserted, rightly so. But what a great nihilistic pisser (and the end's funny somehow, following the dino's down into the muck of ages simmering next to LACMA). And the 80s - them clothes, the hairstyles, those wacky leg-thingys. I'd have pushed the button on that shit myself had I the chance. If I got that phonecall the cops woulda found me at El Coyote face-down in the house marg vat gurgling in the cellar.
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is like holding a sign that says "I'm an easily duped, minimally discerning fanboy who mistakes pretentious nonsense for good film, and I've never read a book." moo.
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It just didn't gel with me. I didn't engage with the characters, thought the music was more slumber-inducing than innovative and felt the film as a whole was overlong, over-convoluted and boring. I know Blade Runner has its fans and if you love it, great. But I didn't. I think the multiple different cuts/special editions prove that you can't polish this particular turd.
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or I'll have your daughters raped and killed.
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