News Source: Herald Net
| 16 days ago
Friday, November 6, 2009 ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ aims at many targets, and mostly misses Herald Movie Critic In its quest to approach the classic satire of “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Men Who Stare at Goats” gets about halfway down the...
News Source: Belleville News-Democrat
| 16 days ago
tool goes here With a dash of "M*A*S*H," a pinch of "Dr. Strangelove" and a sprinkling of "Catch-22," "The Men Who Stare at Goats" adheres to the grand tradition of loopy military parodies. Yet, for all its flakiness, the movie can't sustain its...
News Source: Denver Post
| 16 days ago
Goats can be funny. Especially the handsome tan-and- black one about to hit the deck in "The Men Who Stare at Goats."The man eyeing the goat in this standoff is no ordinary fella. He's psychically gifted soldier Lyn Cassady, played by George Clooney,...
News Source: The Mercury News
| 16 days ago
With a premise this rich — occult hoo-ha as an allegory for the insanity of war — and a cast including George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Ewan McGregor, how could the film go wrong? Dozens of ways, actually, and it stumbles flat-...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 16 days ago
And so is staring (and often smiling) at the screen for the duration of "The Men Who Stare at Goats," a movie about wacky warriors inspired by people real and reel. It's hard to make a movie about the war on terror that makes people laugh, unless you'...
News Source: USA Today
| 16 days ago
Paranormal activity is not just the stuff of low-budget horror flicks. Apparently the military has its own use for psychic disturbances, a concept that is explored and satirized in The Men Who Stare at Goats . Unorthodox and covert military practices...