Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

A satire -- as "Dr. Strangelove" is -- is the artistic equivalent of "reductio ad absurdum" in Logic...

Posted by orejones on August 29, 2009 at 03:56:03:
...and it works best by exaggerating characters and situations up to a point close to distortion, what makes them even more recognisable...

Or maybe it bites too close to your bone? Your cybermisbehaviour, and the character you portray of yourself, certainly wouldn´t be misplaced if in this film...

Kubrick was a true master, and "Dr. Strangelove" is one of his masterpieces, much better than "Barry Lyndon" indeed. And it will still be alive and fresh as long as there are patrioteer kooks thumbing their hollow chests around...

BF