Dr. Strangelove

Kubrick's film is one of the greatest satires ever put to film. Originally he set out to make a realistic cold war thriller, but realized he and Terry Southern kept accidentally going overboard and found it worked better as a farse. Like any great satire, there's a dark truth to much of what happens. Of course, the threat of thermo-nuclear war with Russia never came. And as it seems now such a threat isn't immediately present. But a similar film, depicting a government lead by a maniacle and imature government obsessed with oil and starts silly wars in strange faraway places, plunging the world into chaos would offer excellent stuff for a present day satircal film - oh wait, I guess that's already happening...damn, I wish I'd thought of that first.