David Lesher wrote:
ACC and Kubrick could not have asked for a better legacy.


Kubrick's best-remembered film won't be that; Kubrick's perfect legacy
will be "Dr. Strangelove"... one of the most brilliantly funny movies
ever made.
It's been said that the major problem with filming it was that the
entire cast and crew (Kubrick included) found it almost impossible not
to start laughing out loud when Peter Sellers was doing one of his
multiple roles, and a lot of film stock was wasted due to laughter
showing up on the soundtrack. Kubrick was reported to have laughed so
hard at some points while filming Sellers that he was actually crying
and almost falling out of his director's chair.
Many people who saw 2001 left the theater confused or bored, and didn't
feel they had gotten their money's worth...that was certainly not the
case with Dr. Strangelove... the audience knew they had gotten every
penny of ticket price paid back in full, and then some.
One thing that did come up in interviews with audiences that saw 2001
was that they thought Heywood Floyd had gone to some place called
"Clavius" rather than the Moon, as it's not specifically mentioned that
Clavius crater is the site of the US base on the Moon.
It might have helped if the had put the base on the Moon at someplace
where people had heard of, such as Copernicus crater.
This isn't exactly helped by the fact that the people on the Moon in the
movie walk and move as if they are at full Earth gravity, rather than
1/6 G, so you might think they are on the surface of some other planet
that has near Earth strength gravity.

Pat