"shoot first ask questions later"

Dr. StrangLove... First of all this is a strange name for a movie.
Now that that's said we can move on. I would like to point out that there never seemed to be anyone driving the plane. It kept showing people looking at the controls, and every once in awhile the pilot was flying. But he seemed to get up alot and walk around without anyone driving.
I love how they play the same song throughout the entire movie. Johnny comes marching home. It's the clique war song. Just like this is a combination of a whole bunch of war cliques all put together to make one movie. There are so many things about this movie that remind me so much of other war movies... You've got the trucks, the sonar, the plane, the meetings of all the men that aren't fighting this war. Which I think is funny in just about every war movie. They never seem to have someone that has been in battle, its always just the president, his office, and some other higher ups. Noone asks the guys that are actually fighting the war what they think.
I loved the list of things that they had in their survival kit : Mini bible, 3 lipsticks,3 nylons, and a bunch of other random stuff. Like any of these things would help if they droppped a nuke right under themselves. They were basically suicide bombers, and they didn't even know it.
I'm learning about the Cold War in one of my other classes, so it was kind of funny to see it played out in this movie. With the whole comi's won't drink water so they have to trick them, because all they drink is vodka. And when he says "the red coats are coming" it has so much meaning to American's because we think of the war for independence against the British. So it's kind of like the war for independence against communism. This movie looked at the cold war from a different point of view, and it may have been funny, but the meaning behind the movie was a very serious one.
The part where the Air Force is attacking it's own base seems redundant to me. How Mandrake has to convince the guy not to kill him because he has to call the president of the U.S. but he can't get connected. Then he couldn't come up with enough change to make the call.
I also thought it was strange that there were almost no women in this movie. There was the "sectretary" in the beginning of the movie. After that one, there was only phone calls to women, and pictures of women in the plane. I think it had to do with the deffinite homosexual tone that this movie is portraying.
I think that's all for now... Until next time.