I'm thinking someone should do a remake of Dr. Strangelove in which *everybody*

[Ocelot II]

is as crazy as General Jack D. Ripper. Obviously Ripper is Kegbreath (I keep waiting for Pete to go on about precious bodily fluids, although his most precious bodily fluid is Jack Daniels). We don't have any Nazi scientists left, though we could probably find a few Russians. Of course, the original Dr. Strangelove is a comedy. The remake wouldn't be so funny.

[av8rdave]

1. The problem today is...

The characters in the original movies were exaggerated parodies of people that were ridiculous then - General Turgidson (George C. Scott) lampooning Curtis LeMay* being a memorable example. Nowadays, the real players are pretty much parodies of themselves, so it would be difficult to make it work in a movie. Then again, I have flashes of Steve Buscemi playing Elon Musk (pretty much a real life Dr. Strangelove, complete with the Nazi references).

* I had the misfortune of meeting LeMay in the mid 80s. He may have been a war hero (debatable), but he was a complete horse’s @$$. Being grounded in reality was not his strong suit.

[Dave Bowman]

4. Sorry that you had to meet that maniac. 😕

[Ocelot II]

7. Exactly the problem, which is why it would be more of a documentary than a comedy.

Buscemi would be perfect as Elon Musk. I can see Nicole Kidman as Pam Bondi, and Russel Crowe as Steve Bannon. For that matter, he might be able to do Trump (he was great as Hermann Göring in Nuremberg) The guy who played Riff Raff in Rocky Horror Picture Show could be Stephen Miller. Colin Jost has been a convincing Hegseth on SNL.

[mopinko]

8. every time i hear his name, i think of this sculpture by h.c. westerman-

“brinksmanship”

[wcmagumba]

2. That's a great film, when Slim Pickens rides the bomb down over Russia, wow!

[usonian]

10. Remake

Looking somewhat forward to it, though there may be unexpected consequences.

[Dave Bowman]

3. These damn communists and their fluoridated water. 🤠

[Frasier Balzov]

5. The way Lil Marco described our involvement

sounded very much like we were forced into it by Bibi playing the role of Ripper.

I'm sure Lil Marco was taken to the woodshed soon after making those remarks.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Starring? NT

[mopinko]

9. woody harrelson.

[Johonny]

11. I think Thats My Bush needs a Trump version

There's no way it wouldn't be fucking hilarious. The shit writes itself.

[usonian]

12. We might get it tomorrow as Trump and Epstein meet again. IN HELL.

Iran does its Hiroshima imitation.



Let's discuss a remake on Wednesday, if we get there intact.