Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Movie Review

In 2024 this Kubrick classic looks outdated. Yet it's influential groundwork can be spotted by a trained viewer. Lest the desperate landline phonecalls and radar reading airforce pilot scenes be considered brilliant.

Parody, hilarity, hysteria amongst authorities that control GDP, Executive Military Desicions, etc. 

Competency, navigation, decisiveness in soldiers that strangely follow their superiors command.

Old school black and white depictions of mushroom cloud nuclear explosions.

The technology of the film archaic, but it's content remains relevant.

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