Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove was one of the films I liked most this year, mainly because its sense of humor was ahead of its time.  Kubrick's satire was very well balanced between maintaining a serious plot and adding comedy through the characters wherever possible.  The numerous similarities between this film and Runaway Train are due to the existential theme that we merely distract ourselves in our daily lives from the death we are all racing toward.  In Runaway Train death was the train crashing, and in Dr. Strangelove it's the doomsday explosions.  In both of the movies there are characters reading Playboys, eating excessively, women obsessing over their appearance, etc.  These distractions are our day to day pleasures that E's believe we should indulge in each day.  However, where Runaway Train used action and tension to present these ideas, Strangelove uses satirical humor.
One of the greatest parts of the movie was when the "cowboy pilot" rides off on the bomb, looking exhilarated.  He's one of many characters that portrays the macho "boys with their toys" theme, and this scene is the epitome of it.  While falling to his death(and that of millions of people on the ground) he still has a cocky excited attitude because he was able to successfully open the doors on the plane and drop this bomb.  Also, the phallic imagery associated with the large missile adds to his pride for how big and powerful he feels he is. ( lol )
In the end, the Americans decide that they're going to survive the doomsdays in deep mine-shafts, and the Russians will likely do this same.  Because of this the war will only continue in a hundred years, with most of this human population already annihilated.  This emphasizes the mindless stupidity that war is.  The fighting goes no where, no one will cave, and everyone ends up dead.  Yet even after "everyone" is dead, the fighting still manages to continue.  Kubrick does a flawless job at capturing this absurdity on film.