Catch-22 or Dr. Strangelove

[lunchbox20]

What movie better satirizes warfare?

[Puck Bond]

Dr. Strangelove is my fav film by my fav director, and one of my top 10 all time favs...it is such a great film...Peter Sellers is great and hilarious in all 3 of his roles...The President, Capt. Mandrake and Dr. Strangelove...his phone conversation with the Russian Premiere is hilarious...also George C. Scott is great as a U.S. General...plus one of the most memorable final scenes in movie history with the cowboy riding bomb, followed by the numerous nuclear explosions

[neo]

no doubt about it: dr. strangelove.it's a brilliant movie.great humor.dr. strangelove is so fucking funny and so is george c scott.

[Lindsey]

Dr.Strangelove is a very good and funny movie!

[Brock Landers]

I absolutely love "Catch 22"... because of Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Anthony Perkins, Alan Arkin, etc... the whole movie is so overwhelmingly artistic and bombastically brilliant. It really throws a curve ball into the mix. Although truth be told, Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H" gets my true vote for the best war satire flick...

[Alf-Life]

Sorry, but for those that have read Catch-22 (and studied it) the movie is like 1000 times worse than the novel.
The novel of Catch-22 itself is probably the best to satire war, and it didn't work as a film because a lot of the satire was through clever wording by Heller. Also, the huge cast in the novel would have cost a fortune and been too difficult to incorporate into a movie so cuts were made, charcaters were 'amalgamated' and the result was poor.
The bottom line? Catch-22 the novel is the best, but Strangelove as a movie kicks C-22: the Movie's ass /ubb/smile.gif

[Scorchlord]

I agree - the novel is so far superior to the film. And it's the single funniest book I've ever read.

[Briare Rabbit]

I like Catch-22 the movie, and may even like it better than Strangelove one day.

Ive read Heller's book, and studied it a little. I dont like it. At all.

[chinton]

Ive recently read Hellers Catch 22 and I just dont get it. On the other hand the movie is vastly underrated and far superior.

Still im gonna have to give the edge to Dr. Strangelove

[Cronos]

Dr Strangelove gets my vote, i thought Catch-22 was a pretty bad film and i didnt see whats so great about it

[Pvt. Joker]

This is a hard one, good thread. I would have too say movie wise Dr. Strangelove is better and works much better. The movie Catch 22 is no where near the level of the book too bad because if you attach the right director to it, it may very well rival Dr.Strangelove.