It was bad enough when Republican candidates in the presidential election invoked Jack Bauer from the TV show 24 as their model for how to deal with terrorists.

Now the National Review has published an incredibly surreal list of the “Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years“. Here’s the complete list:

#25: Gran Torino (2008)

#24: Team America: World Police (2004)

#23: United 93 (2006)

#22: Brazil (1985)

#21: Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

#20: Gattaca (1997)

#19: We Were Soldiers (2002)

#18: The Edge (1997)

#17: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (2005)

#16: Master and Commander (2003)

#15: Red Dawn (1984)

#14: A Simple Plan (1998)

#13: Braveheart (1995)

#12: The Dark Knight (2008)

#11: The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)

#10: Ghostbusters (1984)

#9: Blast from the Past (1999)

#8: Juno (2007)

#7: The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

#6: Groundhog Day (1993)

#5: 300 (2007)

#4: Forrest Gump (1994)

#3: Metropolitan (1990)

#2: The Incredibles (2004)

#1: The Lives of Others (2007)

Their #1 Conservative movie of the last 25 years is The Lives of Others, a German film that is ironically about the evils of government wiretapping.

Other movies on their list are equally interesting. They picked #10 Ghostbusters because the bad guy (not counting the ghosts) is an obnoxious bureaucrat who works for the EPA. And how #24 Team America: World Police by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Brazil by Terry Gilliam (from Monty Python) got onto their list is a mystery.

UPDATE: Fark has the complete list, along with the conservative review of each movie from NRO. I love some of their comments — Brazil is “Vividly depicting the miserable results of elitist utopian schemes”. In The Cronicles of Narnia “The White Witch runs a godless, oppressive, paranoid regime that hates Santa Claus”. And in The Dark Knight, Batman represents none other than Dubya, whose “stubborn integrity kept the nation safe and turned the tide of war” against the terrorist Joker — by devising new means of surveillance, pushing the limits of the law, and accepting the hatred of the press and public. I kid you not.