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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 9745937" data-attributes="member: 6871736">I find a few short bits of it very funny, but much more than half the ostensibly comedic material doesn't land a muted chuckle. In its essence, I feel, Strangelove isn't even a comedy—it's a satire, and while there's a big Venn overlap between those categories, they are essentially unrelated. They just happen to go together really well, and so, often, both are characterstics of the same work.I learned to stop worrying about the comedy and love Strangelove when I read the contemporary review from New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, who called the movie a &quot;sick joke,&quot; &quot;malefic and sick&quot; and &quot;dangerous&quot; (before &quot;dangerous&quot; was complimentary), and who proclaimed himself &quot;troubled&quot; by the film's feeling of &quot;discredit and even contempt for our whole defense establishment.&quot;I realized then that you really can—in fact, you really have to—divide the world of cinema into before and after Strangelove, just like you have to divide it into before and after 2001. And it kind of doesn't matter how either movie plays in 2025, because (I presume) we've all lived our whole lives firmly entrenched on one side of those divides and even the historically minded of us will never fully succeed in understanding what it was like to live through them.&quot;A Modest Proposal&quot; isn't funny either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 9745937, member: 6871736"] I find a few short bits of it very funny, but much more than half the ostensibly comedic material doesn't land a muted chuckle. In its essence, I feel, [I]Strangelove [/I]isn't even a comedy—it's a [I]satire[/I], and while there's a big Venn overlap between those categories, they are essentially unrelated. They just happen to go together really well, and so, often, both are characterstics of the same work. I learned to stop worrying about the comedy and love [I]Strangelove[/I] when I read the contemporary review from New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, who called the movie a "sick joke," "malefic and sick" and "dangerous" (before "dangerous" was complimentary), and who proclaimed himself "troubled" by the film's feeling of "discredit and even contempt for our whole defense establishment." I realized then that you really can—in fact, you really have to—divide the world of cinema into before and after [I]Strangelove[/I], just like you have to divide it into before and after [I]2001[/I]. And it kind of doesn't matter how either movie plays in 2025, because (I presume) we've all lived our whole lives firmly entrenched on one side of those divides and even the historically minded of us will never fully succeed in understanding what it was like to live through them. "A Modest Proposal" isn't funny either. [/QUOTE]

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