The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

  This movie was hilarious but not in a side-splitting from laughter kind of way.  Everything in it is funny in an amusingly cynical sci-fi way.

For those that didn't hear about it, most of the stuff in here is true.  During the Cold War, the US Army experimented with ways to make psychic soldiers.  Now, whether or not they actually called them "Jedi warriors" I do not know, but it helps you like the movie more if you are already a Star Wars fan.  Mostly they centered their research on Remote Viewing, which is where you have a soldier sit in a room somewhere on your side and have him/her be able to tell you what is going on in a room somewhere on the enemy's side.  What the movie doesn't say is that the project was scrapped because the results were only ever slightly higher than blind guessing.

Bob (Ewan McGregor) is a journalist whose wife has left him for another man, prompting him to try embedding himself with a unit over in Iraq.  While waiting for his paperwork to go through, he meets Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney), an Army Jedi on a secret mission.  Bob follows Lyn around until he can get the full story of this battle between the Light and the Dark.  Lyn tells Bob about how he was recruited into the New Earth Army, a brainchild of Bill Jango (Jeff Bridges) but that they were eventually betrayed and disbanded by one of Bill's students (Kevin Spacey, Sith lord).  The whole thing is absurd and bizarre but Bob begins to believe, despite himself.

It's adorable, really.  Better than Burn After Reading, that's for sure.