This has an amazing and non-revolutionary "touch telephone" communication device roughly the size, shape and weight of a small anvil. You 'dial' the number by pushing buttons! The airplanes are negative. The type is large.
“A tourist unknowingly captured a deadly terror attack while he was filming himself on a zipline ride with a selfie stick.”
Then again, the Day After was a shocking piece of schlock but managed to piece together an almost ensemble cast and captured the attention of the world. I met my wife at a party on the night it was aired in the UK.
There's something about Dr Strangelove. The acting is on point, the script is sharp, the ideas all seem to check out, I even chuckle a bit at some points. But I don't find it especially funny. For me it's less than the sum of its parts. As though everyone is trying too hard.
I remember when people were saying 'you must go and see Blazing Saddles it's incredible'. I found it boring and only stayed to the end because I was going on somewhere else with people there afterwards.
By usian standards, Dr Strangelove was a balls out political satire building on several years of heightened public fear. It's lampooning of deranged warmongers in military and political roles, and the helpless ninnies that enable them, is (unfortunately) dead accurate. Fail Safe's heroes are decent, well-meaning chaps who are going to fix this tragic overreliance on a new technology, and are sorry as heck about it.
“A tourist unknowingly captured a deadly terror attack while he was filming himself on a zipline ride with a selfie stick.”
If only armies around the world today were decent well meaning chaps. Sadly, from Russia to Syria to Israel, they are anything but. As for over reliance on new technology, the IDF can't get enough of its targeting AI system which makes schools, nurseries and hospitals such juicy targets.