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In Reply to: RE: How about one out in left field? posted by wazoo on October 13, 2007 at 21:03:53
Well, "sci-fi" essentially revolves around the theme that technology threatens man, either because it itself has run amok or some evil people (or aliens) are using it.
For that reason I would submit my favorite, Dr. Strangelove.
Yes, it is set in the cold war, but just 30 years before then it would have been viewed as sci fi and some people have submitted 2001 here, and we already have eclipsed much of the technology shown in that movie, so I think mine is a valid choice.
There has never been a wittier, better cast, more cutting and delicious movie ever made. George C Scott is brilliant. Sellers is sublime. Every line is a gem, from the flouridation of water to rampant sexual innuendo.
"Look Dimitri, I am just as capable of being sorry as you, so don't say you're sorrier than me. Of course I'm sorry. I'm just calling to tell you something awful has happened, something dreadful, but it's not an unfriendly call.....of course it's not. Listen.... if it was an unfriendly call, you probably wouldn't have even got it..."
It's all about the music...
Follow Ups:
Funny thing about this movie is that it's the spoof of one of my all time greatest movies, "FAILSAFE", but Dr. Strangelove, aka How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released prior to FAILSAFE.
On my lists (hey, it's just the way I have *my* lists arranged - we can each put these things wherever we like), 'Dr. Strangelove' stands among the top five comedies of all time. Kubrick was one heck of a director; it's a shame he is gone. Sellers is positively brilliant, as is Scott, as is... It's hard to pick a favorite line, but the bit about, "No fighting in the War Room!" always kills me. We've recently touched on one of the others - Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles'.
I suppose it fits into the genre of SciFi. It certainly works as a better SciFi vehicle than the myriad monster movies in SciFi guise. Your justification is sound - it's all a matter of perspective. As Rod mentioned, that would drag 'A Clockwork Orange' into the mix giving Kubrick three masterworks in the genre.
"Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny" FZ ♬
I forgot about "Strangelove" and it's one of the few DVDs that I've actually bought!Actually it's arguably one of the best war films, and one of the best comedies ever made too.
Kubrick gets a pretty good score for Sci-Fi, having made three of the best if you include "A Clockwork Orange" as also being in the genre.
Rod
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