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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 2/08, 7/25

DrS
2/08: If there's an easy candidate for the most overrated picture ever, it's Dr. Strangelove.

I saw the film a long time ago and hated it. Trying again, I wasn't sure if I didn't feel intelligent enough to "get" the whole thing. Well, it's true: Dr. Strangelove is that boring.

Everybody talks all the time. I understand the references to the Cold War and the whole Curtis LeMay business, but who cares? Advertised as a comedy, it's not. Every attempt at humor falls flat. Peter Sellers isn't funny as three different characters. He's rather annoying just like how he was in Lolita.

All in all, forget Dr. Strangelove; it's strictly for pseudo-intellectuals.

7/25: Despite upping my rating from '1' to '2', I've probably seen Dr. Strangelove three or four times in total and also thousands of movies in between, yet it never gets better.

Why is that? The script is so boring that I'm put to sleep after half an hour. Comedy? If they say so. It's just talk, talk, talk with Peter Sellers playing three different characters. When he's annoying, the movie begins to suck. How is it that George C. Scott gets to speak all the time while everybody else, except for the president and two Peter Sellers, in the War Room stays silent the entire time?

All in all, Dr. Strangelove continues to be overrated.