Dmitri, how do you think I feel?

Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(1964)

Huh! Why was I thinking this was released right before the Kennedy assassination? In fact, its 50th anniversary is almost 3 months away. Though even then people were probably less inclined than usual to laugh about nuclear holocaust.

You know what this is besides brilliant satire with brilliant language? One hell of an action film, that's what. Though, to get a little Hemingway-vs.-Huck Finn, I never have been able to and still cannot stomach the Strangelove/mineshaft crap between the detonation of the first bomb and the "We'll Meet Again" concluding sequence--well, except for General Turgidson's "mineshaft gap" line, of course.