Dr. Strangelove is a really hilarious film. George C. Scott and Peter Sellers are especially funny in it.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 2:22:08 pm PDT #9513 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 2:24:08 pm PDT #9514 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
"You can't let him in here! He'll see the big board!"
Nutty - Jun 21, 2007 2:26:50 pm PDT #9515 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I hated Eyes Wide Shut ! Loathed it! Wanted to grab Tom Cruise by his ankles and beat the whole cast and crew with him!
enjoyed Spartacus as the fun spectacle it is.
It's that, but it's also got a clever and classically mid-century Freudian script by Dalton Trumbo. There's this whole other story in there, about spectacle, and about how being put on for show is a trait associated with femininity. I can't say it's a feminist movie, but it's certainly got its gender-trouble, and all the while it has oiled pecs! And Jean Simmons! And flaming logs that roll! Sort of getting your cake and eating it too, you know?
Vonnie K - Jun 21, 2007 2:30:27 pm PDT #9516 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, fine! I'll watch the stupid movie. Geez. :p
Actually, I believe this is only true in the American version. The original has narration by Carol Reed.
Oh, you're right. I checked my copy of the DVD, and it's Reed narrating. I think when I first saw the film back many years ago, it might have been Joseph Cotten doing the narration.
I looked up the Wiki on the film and wow, apparently Graham Greene wanted a hopeful ending (with Holly catching up with Anna) instead of the lacerating one we got. Thank Jebus Reed and Selznick prevailed. That ending is one of my fave film scenes ever.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 2:49:10 pm PDT #9517 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That ending is one of my fave film scenes ever.
Yeah, she's the ultimate in world weary Euro-disdain. I was very pleased and surprised to find that actress again in Eyes Without A Face.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 2:49:52 pm PDT #9518 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"You can't let him in here! He'll see the big board!"
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
juliana - Jun 21, 2007 3:05:09 pm PDT #9519 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
DAMMIT. I just realized that I lent out my copy of Dr. Strangelove to someone, and I forgot who, and now I'll never get it back. Bollocks.
Tom Scola - Jun 21, 2007 3:07:10 pm PDT #9520 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Wanted to grab Tom Cruise by his ankles and beat the whole cast and crew with him!
Apparently, so did Kubrick: [link]
R. Lee Ermey, the actor who played the menacing drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), says that two weeks before his death, Kubrick phoned him to express his despondency over Eyes Wide Shut, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, which reportedly had taken longer than any film in history to film and which was only in a rough-cut state. "He told me it was a piece of s**t," Ermey said in an interview with the online Radar magazine, "and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to have him for lunch. He said Cruise and Kidman had their way with him -- exactly the words he used...He was kind of a shy little timid guy. He wasn't real forceful. That's why he didn't appreciate working with big, high-powered actors. ... He would lose control."
The solution to that problem, of course, would have been to hire R. Lee Ermey as your AD.
Nutty - Jun 21, 2007 3:11:29 pm PDT #9521 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What's shocking about R. Lee Ermey isn't that he can bellow like an ox farting nettles, but that when he's not bellowing, he can be a strikingly subtle actor. He was one of the parents of the murdered couple in Dean Man Walking, and it was cool to see him play subtle.
Sean K - Jun 21, 2007 3:16:09 pm PDT #9522 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The solution to that problem, of course, would have been to hire R. Lee Ermey as your AD.
HELLS YEAH! Loves me some Gunney.
What's shocking about R. Lee Ermey isn't that he can bellow like an ox farting nettles, but that when he's not bellowing, he can be a strikingly subtle actor. He was one of the parents of the murdered couple in Dean Man Walking, and it was cool to see him play subtle.
Also true. His Gunnery Sergeant Hartman/Gunney, the Host of Mail Call schtick is just that -- a character he plays.
In person, he's warm and soft spoken, and as an actor, he's capable of great range and skill. "Gunney" is just the character he's best trained to play, so he plays it well and gets called on to play it a lot. And as you can tell on Mail Call, he frequently likes to play that specific character with a twinkle in his eye.
Loves me some Gunney.