Check out the latest edition of the Top 5 Movie Guide! This weekend, with inspiration coming from the recently released "The Dictator", we compiled our favorite Political Comedies!
The Shelf of Shame. In each installment, one FilmNerds contributor reveals five indisputable classic titles that for some inexplicable reason they have not yet seen. In an attempt to earn back the respect of their fellow FilmNerds, each contributor will then set out to see all five of these films some time in the next six months.
This is the age of sequels, prequels and remakes. This article asks (and answers) the question: what classic film roles should remain forever untouched?
The Shelf of Shame. In each installment, one FilmNerds contributor reveals five indisputable classic titles that for some inexplicable reason they have not yet seen. In an attempt to earn back the respect of their fellow FilmNerds, each contributor will then set out to see all five of these films some time in the next six months.
This is the age of sequels, prequels and remakes. This article asks (and answers) the question: what classic film roles should remain forever untouched?
Check out the latest edition of the Top 5 Movie Guide! This weekend, with inspiration coming from the recently released "The Dictator", we compiled our favorite Political Comedies!
Plot: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr...