AdamSmith Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/mar/06/sympathy-for-strangelove-kubrick-film-science-history Quote
Members RA1 Posted March 6, 2014 Members Posted March 6, 2014 Regardless of the black comedy and very serious implications on several levels I still can and do enjoy this movie regarding only the very surface thereof. Too many memorable gags to not do so. "I can't do that honey. It robs a man of his very essence." "Yahoo, yahoo" as Slim Pickens rides an H bomb out of the bomber. The scenes leading up to this as well as this scene are no doubt my favorites. ALL pilots would rather die than look bad. Best regards, RA1 AdamSmith 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted March 6, 2014 Author Posted March 6, 2014 ...the cockpit device that receives the Go Codes... ...which the crew decodes with their onboard documentation... ...and discover is, in this case, The Real Thing! ...and, in the end, fail to receive the Cancel Attack code because the CRM 114 was damaged when the missile near-strike caused the nearby Self-Destruct switch to -- of course -- BLOW ITSELF UP! Leading to... Just now struck me that the CRM 114 is precursor to the AE-35 Unit, the device in '2001' that keeps the Discovery antenna aligned on Earth, and whose impending failure HAL mistakenly misdiagnoses -- the catalyst that sets his crackup sequence in motion. Quote
