#doctor strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

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dr strangelove bishoujo statue (bomb not included)

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On July 31, 1981 Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was re-released in Finland.

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My previous two movie recommendations for Fallout fans, The City of Lost Children and Brazil, were stated by developers to be influences on the series, while today’s recommendation had no influence on Fallout as far as I know. However, I think it shares some commonalities with the first game in terms of its satirical humor which is often bone-dry and sometimes very silly (a lot of the time the other games will get too silly outside of Wild Wasteland/special encounters). The film I’m talking about is Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)

I admit, the movie’s humor isn’t something everyone will gel with. It’s so dry a lot of it might fly over your head on the first watch, and I definitely recommend watching it with subtitles so you don’t miss stuff.

Dr. Strangelove is one of those movies where you’ve probably seen parodies of it, but not the actual movie, and the parodies tend to be about the sillier parts like the titular doctor, or the bomb-riding scene, so you might be surprised to see just how deep the movie cuts into lampooning American culture and politics, especially for a movie from the early 60’s. We’re talking a movie where a general launches a nuclear attack on the USSR because of him blaming his impotency problems on the Communists fluoridating the water.

Bringing it back to Fallout, think of the scene in the intro where the soldiers execute a Canadian on live TV and wave at the camera. Dr. Strangelove is like that for a whole movie.

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Some of my movie recs that ARE NOT horror:

Joker (2019) - drama

The Interview - comedy

Doctor Strangelove (how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb) - political dry comedy

Natural Born Killers - thriller/drama/IG horror from a few scenes but not really?

Scary movie 1, 2, 3, 4 - parody of horror/comedy (these movies are classic)

White Chicks - comedy

Europa Report - scifi thriller

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If you are undecided on the Doctor Strangelove vs. John Gaius poll, at 4:00 p.m. EST, I will be doing a special showing of the Criterion Collection edition of Doctor Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb + bonus content, including interviews from film scholars and those involved in the making of the film, four short documentaries (most interestingly one on the sociopolitical climate that the film was made in), an audio interview between Stanley Kubrick and theoretical physicist, Jeremy Bernstein, and more. If you’re interested, just message me and I’ll send you a link to the discord I made for this!

Also, to add a bit of spice, if he wins this tournament, I will post a paper that I wrote two semesters back about this film, hegemonic masculinity, and the eroticization of nuclear warfare to my blog.

oof, got back online just in time, huh

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TOP TEN MOVIES YOU FUNKY LIL LESBIAN

LET’S GO!

The Parallax View (1974)

Annihilation (2019)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

What a Way to Go! (1964)

Clue (1985)

Possession (1981)

All the President’s Men (1976)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1979)

Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

Rope (1948)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Network (1976)

The Lighthouse (2019)

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

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Classic Film Review: Norman Lear fires the First Shot in the Culture Wars? "Cold Turkey" (1971)

The golden age of big screen satire began, more or less, with 1964’s “Doctor Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” peaked with “Network” (1976) and wrapped up with “Being There” and “Life of Brian” in 1980. Movies like “M*A*S*H,” “The Loved One,” “The Hospital”and “Nashville” made their marks in a pre-blockbuster era when studios could operate in the black (barely)…

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Dr. Strangelove (1964) and Arrival (2016)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a satirical film about the Cold War, Soviet relations during that time, and fears of nuclear annihiliation. The plot of the movie is based around a US General Ripper who, upon going mad with paranoia about the Soviet Union, makes the sole decision to send nuclear bombers to attack. This sets off a chain of events in which multiple characters on base with Ripper and at the War Room in Washington D.C. are analyzing how to stop the bombers which can only be contacted by Ripper, or how to utilize this impromptu attack in their favor against the Soviets. The titled Dr. Strangelove is a former German Nazi scientist working in the War Room with the American officials advising in this situation while making slips about his obviously still held Nazi beliefs. The movie ends with the officials unable to stop the attack of one of the bombers, and with a Soviet doomday plan further ensuring a nuclear holocaust thst would make the surface of the earth unihabitable, while a romantic tune plays over footage of nuclear explosion test footage. It’s an excellent cut film by writer/director/producer Stanley Kubrick, with black humor that draws well on the fears of the era while brazenly cracking jokes over them, like the end sequence where the bomber pilot rides the bomb down to his death while cheering and hollering. 

Arrival (2016) is a dramatic film in which Dr. Louise Banks and Dr. Ian Donelly are tasked by the US military to help translate the writing of an alien race that has set down 12 ships in different locations across the world. Throughout the movie, which is from the perspective of Banks, the shots of the present day are intercut with scenes of her living with a daughter, who at the beginning is revealed to have died of an incurable condition. As Banks and Donelly learn more of the alien language, tensions about the aliens’ purpose on Earth are rising with other nations turning toward aggression at the seeming danger of the aliens’ possibly mistranslated messages. In the climax of the movie, it's revealed that as Banks has learned the language of the heptapods, she has rewired the way she thinks, and therefore now perceives time in a non-linear way. This perception allows her to use future knowledge to communicate with a Chinese government official, which in turn brings the world together to share their pieces of information given to them by the heptapods. It is also revealed that Bank’s daughter who died was not a child from the past, but from her future, a child she has with Donelly.

The scene in Arrival where Donelly and Banks are conversing with the heptapods while there is a detonation charge in the room threatening to kill the scientists and maybe the heptapods is one of the best scenes in the movie in my opinion. The setup for the scene, with the soldiers setting the charges in advance before they step in, leaves no ambiguity to the plans of the soldiers. Banks and Donelly are working quickly because of the pressure they face from their superiors, but the drama is heightened by frequent cuts to the timer on the charge as well as the dreary lighting and dramatic shots down the ‘hallway’ once shots are fired outside. It’s further heightened by the doctors’ lack of awareness of it, some dramatic irony for the viewer, and for the heptapods, as the end of the movie reveals. The scene ends as the Heptapods shift the gravity in the room to throw Banks and Donelly out in time to save their lives, revealing that due to their perception of time, the heptapods showed them as much as they could in that conversation before the bomb went off.

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Watched two must watch critically loved cinéphile movies today, call it a win for my watchlist.

[that-irishman-fan]

welcome to my new blog/characters i write for!

Hey everybody! Some of you might know me from my other blog @killingitreservoirdogsstyle that I write content for Quentin Tarantino characters on. Well, I wanted to post headcanons and fics for one of my other passions that didn’t quite fit my Reservoir Dogs blog. So this is how @that-irishman-fan was born. I’ll post stuff here for characters and their real life historical counterparts here for all of your viewing pleasures! Here is a quick rundown of what I will and won’t do, so you all can see! 

                                          RULES FOR THIS BLOG

As of the time of writing--January 3rd, 2022--my requests for this blog are currently OPEN. This is subject to change depending on how flooded I become and alongside my busy college schedule as well. Please realize that if I am not getting to requests right away, it is not because I am ignoring you or am ungrateful for your submission. It is simply a matter of my scheduling or that I have writer’s block. 

I will write headcanons, one/two shots of no more than five thousand words, match-ups, drabbles, songfics, and script style fanfics. Please specify exactly what type you would like, this is very important. 

Fluff, smut, very light smut, angst, hurt-comfort, platonic, and modern day or historical alternate universes are all available. 

This blog is for all fans of The Irishman, Scarface, GoodFellas, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb, and the first Godfather movie, plus whatever other fandoms I’m in. 

PLEASE NOTHING DEROGATORY OR HATEFUL, NO UNDERAGE SCENARIOS, and NO DISTURBING CONTENT. If you submit these type of things, I will block you. Smut is something I am not comfortable with yet, so please respect this. The other things go against my morals, so don’t even think about it. 

Go ahead and check out @killingitreservoirdogsstyle for my list of rules there to look at adding dialogue pieces of your choice from that list to your request and anything you like from there. The limitations I give apply to this blog too, please: so only a certain amount of characters, two quotes, etc. PLEASE RESPECT THIS. 

I will quickly mention below about what characters I will write for. You can pick if they are The Irishman version or the real life historical versions. These will update more depending on my tastes:

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN ( The Coen Brothers, 2007 )

Anton Chigurh ( No Country For Old Men )

Sheriff Ed Tom Bell ( No Country For Old Men )

Llewellyn Moss ( No Country For Old Men )

Carla-Jean Moss ( No Country For Old Men )

HELLSING/HELLSING ULTIMATE ( Kouta Hirano )

Alucard/Vlad Tepes ( Hellsing )

Father Alexander Anderson ( Hellsing )

Archbishop Enrico Maxwell ( Hellsing, PLEASE SEND IN FOR HIM, I AM SUCH A WHORE FOR HIM, I’M BEGGING YOU ) 

Jan Valentine ( Hellsing )

Luke Valentine ( Hellsing )

Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing ( Hellsing )

HARRY POTTER ( Film and Book Series, J.K. Rowling ) 

Hermione Granger ( Harry Potter )

Ron Weasley ( Harry Potter )

Luna Lovegood ( Harry Potter )

Severus Snape ( Harry Potter )

Remus Lupin ( Harry Potter )

Sirius Black ( Harry Potter )

Peter Pettigrew ( Harry Potter )

Lucius Malfoy ( Harry Potter )

Fred and George Weasley ( Harry Potter )

Alastor Mad Eye Moody ( Harry Potter ) 

Nymphadora Tonks ( Harry Potter )

Neville Longbottom ( Harry Potter ) 

STAR TREK ( TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT )

Lt. Commander Data ( Star Trek TGN )

Commander William Riker ( Star Trek TGN )

Counsellor Deanna Troi ( Star Trek TGN )

Lieutenant Tasha Yar ( Star Trek TGN )

Q ( Star Trek TGN )

Captain Jean-Luc Picard ( Star Trek TGN )

Lieutenant Worf ( Star Trek TGN, DS9 )

Captain James T. Kirk ( Star Trek TOS )

Commander S’gal Spock ( Star Trek TOS )

Doctor Leonard McCoy ( Star Trek TOS )

Lieutenant Uhura ( Star Trek TOS )

Commander Shran ( Star Trek ENT )

Ambassador Soval ( Star Trek ENT )

THE IRISHMAN ( Martin Scorsese, 2019 )

Jimmy Hoffa ( The Irishman )

Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran ( The Irishman )

Angelo Bruno ( The Irishman )

Anthony “ Tony Pro” Provenzano ( The Irishman )

Russell Bufalino ( The Irishman )

GOODFELLAS ( Martin Scorsese, 1990 )

Tommy DeVito ( GoodFellas )

Jimmy Conway ( GoodFellas )

Karen Hill ( GoodFellas )

SCARFACE ( Brian De Palma, 1983 )

Tony Montana ( Scarface )

Manny Ribera ( Scarface )

DANGANRONPA ( Just the Spike Chunisoft Video Games, V1, V2, and V3 )

Leon Kuwata ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Mondo Owada ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Kiyotaka Ishimaru ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Toko Fukawa/Genocide Jack ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Junko Enoshima ( Danganronpa, Trigger Happy Havoc )

Mukuro Ikusaba ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Chihiro Fujisaki ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Kyoko Kirigiri ( Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc )

Polyamorous options for Ishimondo, Chishimondo, and Togafuka are open for the first game as well!

Gundham Tanaka ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Kazuichi Soda ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Teruteru Hanamura ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Ibuki Mioda ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Mikan Tsumiki ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Chiaki Nanami ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Byakuya Twogami ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Sonia Nevermind ( Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair )

Polyamorous options for the second game for Soudam, Kuzupeko, Soapies, and Twobuki are also open!

Ryoma Hoshi ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Kokichi Ouma ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Kirumi Tojo ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Shuichi Saihara ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Kaede Akamatsu ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Kaito Momota ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Maki Harukawa ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony ) 

Korekiyo Shinjugi ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Rantaro Amami ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Miu Iruma ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Tenko Chabashira ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Angie Yonaga ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Himiko Yumeno ( Danganronpa: Killing Harmony )

Polyamorous options including Tojoshi, Saiouma, Saimatsu, Harukaito, Oumamasai, and Traffic Lights are open here too!

MERLIN ( BBC Show, 2008-12 )

Merlin ( Merlin BBC )

Morgana le Fay ( Merlin BBC )

Arthur Pendragon ( Merlin BBC )

Uther Pendragon ( hate this bastard, Merlin BBC )

Agravaine ( also despise him, Merlin BBC )

Gwynivere ( Merlin BBC )

GORILLAZ ( Band )

Murdoc Niccals ( Gorillaz and Jamie Lee Hewitt )

2-D/Stuart Pot ( Gorillaz and Jamie Lee Hewitt )

Noodle ( Gorillaz and Jamie Lee Hewitt )

Ace Copular ( Gorillaz and Jamie Lee Hewitt )

DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB ( Stanley Kubrick, 1964 )

Dr. Strangelove ( Dr. Strangelove ) ( my canon first name for him is Jürgen, in case you wanted to request with him )

General Buck Turgidson ( Dr. Strangelove ) 

President Merkin Muffley ( Dr. Strangelove ) 

General Jack D. Ripper ( Dr. Strangelove )

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake ( Dr. Strangelove )

THE GODFATHER PART ONE ( Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 )

Michael Corleone ( The Godfather )

Don Vito Corleone ( The Godfather and DADDY )

SHERLOCK BBC ( Mark Gatiss + Steven Moffat )

Sherlock Holmes ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Dr. John Watson ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Mycroft Holmes ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Professor James “Jim” Moriarty ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Irene Adler ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Detective Inspector Greg Lestrade ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Molly Hooper ( BBC’s Sherlock )

Mary Morstan-Watson ( BBC’s Sherlock )

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE ( Stanley Kubrick, 1971 )

Alex Delarge ( A Clockwork Orange )

Dim ( A Clockwork Orange )

Pete ( A Clockwork Orange )

Georgie ( A Clockwork Orange )

Polyamorous options for all four are open too, I love them! 

THE MUMMY ( Stephen Sommers, 1999 )

High Priest Imhotep ( The Mummy, 1999 ) ( A.K.A, DADDY )

Beni Gabor ( The Mummy, 1999 )

Rick O’Connell ( The Mummy, 1999 )

Evy/Evelyn O’Connell ( The Mummy, 1999 )

Jonathan Carnahan ( The Mummy, 1999 )

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK/INDIANA JONES ( Steven Spielberg, 1981 ) 

Indiana Jones ( Raiders of The Lost Ark, 1981 )

Satipo ( Raiders of The Lost Ark, 1981 )

THE GREAT GATSBY ( Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald EXCLUSIVELY )

Jay Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby )

Nick Carraway ( The Great Gatsby )

Jordan Baker ( The Great Gatsby )

Daisy Buchanan ( The Great Gatsby ) 

ARE YOU BEING SERVED? ( Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft )

Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries ( Are You Being Served? )

Mr. Dick Lucas ( Are You Being Served? )

Miss Shirley Brahms ( Are You Being Served? )

Mrs. Betty Slocombe ( Are You Being Served? )

Captain Stephen Peacock ( Are You Being Served? )

Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold ( Are You Being Served? ) 

TAXI DRIVER ( Martin Scorsese, 1978 )

Travis Bickle ( Taxi Driver, 1978 )

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS ( Tim Burton, 1993 )

Jack Skellington ( The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993 )

THE CORPSE BRIDE ( Tim Burton, 2005 )

Victor van Dort ( The Corpse Bride, 2005 )

Emily ( The Corpse Bride, 2005 )

HEAT ( Michael Mann, 1995 )

Lieutenant Vincent Hanna ( Heat )

Neil McCauley ( Heat )

THE THING ( John Carpenter, 1982 )

R.J. Maccready ( The Thing, 1982 )

Garry ( The Thing, 1982 )

Palmer ( The Thing, 1982 )

THE PINK PANTHER ( Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers )

Inspector Clouseau ( The Pink Panther Films )

X-MEN ( Films Exclusively, Bryan Singer )

Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler ( X2 and X-Men Films )

Wolverine/Logan or James Howlett ( X-Men Films )

Storm/Ororo Munroe ( X-Men Films )

Cyclops/Scott Summers ( X-Men Films )

Professor Charles Xavier ( X-Men Films )

Magneto/Erik Lensherr ( X-Men Films )

Mystique ( X-Men Films ) 

PRETTY IN PINK ( John Hughes, 1986 )

Duckie Dale ( Pretty In Pink ) 

FARGO ( The Coen Brothers, 1996 )

Carl Showalter ( Fargo )

THE DEVIL IN ME/THE DARK PICTURES ( Supermassive Games, 2022 )

Charlie Lonnit ( The Devil In Me )

Jamie Tiergan ( The Devil In Me

Mark Nestor ( The Devil In Me )

Kate Wilder ( The Devil In Me )

Erin Keegan ( The Devil In Me )

The Curator ( The Devil In Me )

LITTLE HOPE/THE DARK PICTURES ( Supermassive Games, 2019 )

John ( Little Hope )

Daniel ( Little Hope )

THE FIFTH ELEMENT ( Luc Besson, 1997 )

Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg ( Fifth Element )

Leeloo ( Fifth Element ) 

Ruby Rhod ( Fifth Element )

BLADE RUNNER ( Ridley Scott, 1982 )

Roy Batty ( Blade Runner )

Deckard ( Blade Runner )

Pris ( Blade Runner )

Zhora ( Blade Runner ) 

Rachael ( Blade Runner ) 

I am also open to collabs on this blog and answering asks. I go more into detail about those guidelines on @killingitreservoirdogsstyle​ so please read those before doing anything like requesting, asking, or submitting stuff.

Thank you very much, and I look forward to hanging out with all of my new and old moots on this blog!

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On October 26, 2001, Dr. Strangelove was re-released in Sweden.

Here's some new Peter Sellers art!

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Not sure that I’m happy with the graphic design elements of this, but I do finally like the drawing.

The wheels do not line up “right” when I tried creating a perspective grid, so I just drew them how I wanted to. So if they look wrong to you, they look fine to me.

I think I like the black and white version better.

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Alright, guys.

Here's a list of the DVDs in my room.

Rate My Taste

Here:

13 Assassins

2001: A Space Odyssey

300

47 Ronin

8 Mile

A Fistful of Dollars

AVP2: Requiem

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

Account Rendered

Adaptation

Afro Samurai: The Complete Murder Sessions

Airplane!

Akira

Alien vs. Predator

Alley Cats

Amadeus

Amelie

Anastasia

Arachnophobia

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Back To The Future

Barry Lyndon

Batman

Batman Ninja

Batman TAS: Secrets of The Caped Crusaders

Batman TAS: Tales Of The Dark Knight

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

Batman: Mask of The Phantasm

Battle Royale

Beetlejuice

Being John Malkovich

Ben-Hur

Big Eyes

Big Fish

Big Time Rush: Halfway There

Bill

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Birdman: (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Black Dynamite

Black Mama White Mama

Black Swan

Blackkklansman

Blade Runner: The Director's Cut

Blazing Saddles

Bonnie and Clyde

Boogeyman

Bowling For Columbine

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breaking Bad

Breaking Glass

Brexit: The Uncivil War

Brokeback Mountain

Bubba Ho-Tep

Bugsy Malone

Bula Quo

Capitalism: A Love Story

Capote

Casablanca

Chicago

Children of Men

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

Citizen Kane

Clash Of The Titans

Clash of The Titans

Cleopatra Jones

Cloud Atlas

Clueless

Coffy

Commando

Conan The Barbarian

Control

Coraline

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Curse of The Golden Flower

David Brent: Life On The Road

Dazed And Confused

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

Death Note

Death Proof

Demolition Man

Descendants

Dirty Harry

Django Unchained

Doctor Zhivago

Dodgeball

Dog Soldiers

Double Indemnity

Dowton Abbey: Series One

Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Dr Suess' How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr. No

Drunken Angel

Drunken Master

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Ed Wood

Edward Scissorhands

Elfie Hopkins

Escape Plan

Evil Dead

Evolution

Extras: The Complete First Series

Fahrenheit 9/11

Falling Down

Fame

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest

Family Guy: Season Nine

Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Finding Netherland

Flashdance

Footloose

Forrest Gump

Forrest Warriors

Foxy Brown

From Dusk Till Dawn

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter

From Here to Eternity

Frost/Nixon

Frozen

Funny Face

Gatsby

Ghost Dog: The Way if The Samurai

Ghost In The Shell

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 1

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 2

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Vol. 5

Ghostwatch

Gnomeo & Juliet

Godzilla

Gone With The Wind

Grave of The Fireflies

Gremlins

Groundhog Day

Hail, Caesar

Happy Gilmore

Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold

Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2

Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix

Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone

Hero

Hideo Nakata's Dark Water

High and Low

Highlander

History: Poltergeists

History: Spontaneous Human Combustion

History: Vampires

Hobo With a Shotgun

Horrible Histories: Series One

Hot Fuzz

Hot Rod

House of Flying Daggers

I Know What You Did Last Summer

I, Tonya

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

In Bruges

Inglorious Basterds

Insomnia

Iron Man

Isle of Dogs

JFK

Jackie Brown

Jaws

Johnny English

Joker

Julie & Julia

Jumanji

Jurassic Park

Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass 2

Kill Bill Volume 1

Kill Bill Volume 2

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Kingsman: The Secret Service

LEGO Batman: The Movie (DC Super Heroes Unite)

LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles

Labyrinth

Lady Vengeance

Last Action Hero

Lawrence of Arabia

Legends of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Leon: The Professional

Les Miserables: In Concert (The 25th Anniversary)

Let The Right One In

Life of Pi

Limitless

Lost In Translation

Loving Vincent

Macbeth

Mad Max

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Marvel's Original Spiderman: Season 3 Vol. 1

Mean Girls

Megamind

Memoirs of a Geisha

Metropolis

Michael Jackson: Moon Walker

Miller's Crossing

Miranda Hart: My, What I Call, Live Show

Monster House

Monster in Paris

Monty Python and The Holy Grail

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Moulin Rouge

Mrs. Brown's Boys: Season One

Mulan

Mulan 2

My Week With Marilyn

Mythbusters: Season 1

Napoleon Dynamite

Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 1

Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 2

Nausicaä of The Valley of The Wind

Night of The Living Dead

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Vol. 1

Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Vol. 3

No Country for Old Men

North by Northwest

O Brother Where Art Thou?

Oldboy

Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

One Hour Photo

Open Season 2

Osama

Pan's Labyrinth

Paper Towns

Parasite

Paris When It Sizzles

Patton

Persepolis

Pleasantvile

Pokémon The Movie: Hoopa And The Clash of Ages

Pokémon: 4 Ever

Precious

Predator

Psycho

Pulp Fiction

Pumpkin Scissors

Rain Man

Rare Exports

Red Riding Hood

Reefer Madness

Requiem For A Dream

Reservoir Dogs

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Alec Guinness got an Oscar  nomination for playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. A few other actors who got Oscar nominations for iconic Fantastic roles:

Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. D: Rouben Mamoulian (1931). One of the first Oscar winners got his for playing the good doctor who invents a drug to split his personality in this adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson horror classic.

Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins. D: Robert Stevenson (1964). Andrews won for playing the “practically perfect” magical English nanny, (who really is cool) in this iconic children’s fantasy film.

Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. D: Stanley Kubrick (1964). Sellers plays The U.S. President, a British group captain trying to save the world, and the German mad scientist (“Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!”) whose name has become synonymous with mindless nuclear annihilation.  Nominated for Best Actor. Lost to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.

Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. D: James Cameron (1986). Weaver turned Ellen Ripley, reluctant but heroic Alien fighter, into one of the greatest sci-fi heroes of all time in a sequel that surpassed the original. Nominated for Best Actress. Lost to Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God.

Ian McKellen in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. D: Peter Jackson (2001). The heroic wizard (“YOU SHALL NOT PASS!”) and leader of the Fellowship that is trying to destroy the Ring, brought Shakespearean gravity to the first part of one of the greatest fantasy trilogies of all time. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Lost to Jim Broadbent in Iris.

[eucanthos]

shit happens

Stanley Kubrick   (1928 - 1999)

Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and  Love the Bomb, 1964

giphy/doctor-strangelove

[grimeysociety]

you said a while bakc that you want to give movie recs. I don't watch a lot of old movies so what should I start with? i mean before 1970s-80s

I’ll give you my faves from each decade from the 1920s-1970s.

The Kid (1921), Sherlock, Jr. (1924), Speedy (1928)

It Happened One Night (1934), Top Hat (1935), Modern Times (1936), Swing Time (1936), The Wizard Of Oz (1939), The Women (1939)

The Philadelphia Story (1940), Citizen Kane (1941), Casablanca (1942), Brief Encounter (1945), Notorious (1946), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Third Man (1949)

Sunset Boulevard (1950), An American in Paris (1951), Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Marty (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), 12 Angry Men (1957), Vertigo (1958), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959), North by Northwest (1959), Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

La Dolce Vita (1960), Psycho (1960), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), 8 1/2 (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Shock Corridor (1963), Contempt (1963), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Help! (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), The Dirty Dozen (1967), In The Heat of the Night (1967), The Graduate (1967), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1968), if... (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)