Would Hollywood make a film like "Dr. Strangelove" today?

[Taverner]

My guess is no...remember Strangelove was a comedy, about Nuclear anhililation, made right after the Cuban Missle Crisis.

I don't think there's a single pair left in Hollywood today...

[minkyboodle]

1. I doubt it

n/t

[amerikat]

2. the next DR STRANGELOVE is writing itself right now

it will be a documentary about iraq......it will take a true prophet to make it funny

[DenverDem]

3. Tim Robbins made "Bob Roberts".

That incredible movie is as relevant today as when he made it 8 years ago.

[Taverner]

5. "Bob Roberts" was different - it was a horror movie

:)

[DenverDem]

7. Black comedy at best.

But soul frightening, unquestionably.

Powerful as hell.

Jack Black was great as a psychotic freeper kid.

[elperromagico]

4. How ironic - I watched Dr. Strangelove again last night.

Brilliant film - it says a lot about our current policies.

[amerikat]

6. how bout this for an ending

Saddam(slim pickens) rides rummy(the nuke) dowm.....sadam waves his shotgun on the way down and it all explodes and the song comes on.....we'll meet again don't know where don't know when.....just a thought

[izzie]

8. I made a stink in it's day. Also long lines to see it.

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[SmileyBoy]

11. You made a stink in its day???

Well then open a window!!!

:):):)

[sir_captain]

9. Hollywood didn't make Strangelove--Stanley Kubrick did

he was an independent artistic genius, and I'm sure if he were alive today, he'd make films without any feeling of pressure to self-censor. My point being, of course, that the Hollywood establishment would never have had the balls, or the talent, for that matter, to make a film like Dr. Strangelove either then or now.

[girl gone mad]

14. There's a funny story..

someone told me about SK back when he was making Eyes Wide Shut.

The studio execs sent some representatives to his home in England to convey their concern over the budget and production delays. Rumor has it SK made them sit in a downstairs waiting room while he communicated with them via a two way speaker box (or maybe speaker phone). Whenever he felt they were talking too much or he didn't like their questioning, he would cut them off with a loud buzzer.

I don't know if it's true, but it's hilarious nonetheless. SK was notoriously stubborn and erratic.

[maveric]

10. A Mel Brooks version of Dr. Strangelove.

[VOX]

12. No. Hollywood no longer has the courage or the originality...

to make a classic like Dr. Strangelove.

What Hollywood would be capable of, after years of meetings and bloating of budgets, would be a remake of "Dr. Strangelove," "updated and much funnier" and utterly de-fanged, with Mike Myers in the multiple roles, and, say, a mugging Jack Nicholson as Gen. Ripper.

It would be another sad and depressing enterprise, and would be as remote to the original classic as was the recent "The Truth About Charlie" was to its source, "Charade."

[Az]

19. Hollywood, like the news media, is no longer directed by art

Its all about profit. Which is why we are inundated with sequels. It is easier to get backing for something that has a proven track record. Same with music. Whatever they can demonstrate has profit making ability is what gets funded. Art is dead. Art cannot innovate in a profit based system.

[RoyGBiv]

13. Oh, it might get made...

The question is, would it get released.

[girl gone mad]

15. I just hope..

they don't try to remake it. It's bad enough they are remaking the Pink Panther with Steve Martin. Can you imagine Steve Martin (or any current comic actor) in the Peter Sellers roles in Dr. Strangelove?

[donhakman]

16. My movie

don't miss 'Day After Tommorrow'.

[donhakman]

17. remake

[no_hypocrisy]

18. If Michael Moore produced it, I promise it would be a documentary,

replete with ingenuous statements from officials and military who would make no bones about their true intentions to dominate the world.

[meow2u3]

20. Hollywood could make a film based on Torturegate

Poke fun at the MP's who took sadistic pleasure torturing, raping, and even murdering Iraqi prisoners and/or POW's.