Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
47% overall with a pattern worth knowing: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb opens well and fades. Early-round voters favor it; the films it faces in finals tend not to. Peter Sellers playing three roles in a satire about nuclear annihilation shouldn't be the funniest film of the 1960s, but it is, and that impossible combination of dread and comedy gives voters something no other film on the ballot can offer.
Synopsis
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Strong at 63% in the opening round, solid at 30% in the semis, then 22% in the final. The further Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb goes, the tougher the opposition — and the results show it.
On the other end of the spectrum: A Clockwork Orange at 67% is a comfortable win, while 2001: A Space Odyssey at 0% is the matchup Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb can't crack.
In Stanley Kubrick's filmography, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ranks #6 of 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey leads at 65%; Paths of Glory at 36% trails.
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