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Review: 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'

Baghdad : Iraq | 26 days ago  
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  • U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers with U.S. actor Spacey as they arrive to speak about the new film "The men who stare at goats" in London
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  • U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers with U.S. actor Spacey as they arrives to speak about the new film "The men who stare at goats" in London
    U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers with U.S. actor Spacey as ...
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  • Cast members Spacey, Clooney, author Ronson, producer Listerand stand with director Heslov as they arrive to speak about their new film "The men who stare at goats" in London
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  • Cast members Spacey and Clooney stand with director Heslov as they arrive to speak about theirr new film "The men who stare at goats" in London
    Cast members Spacey and Clooney stand with director Heslov as they ...
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  • U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers as he arrives to speak about his new film "The men who stare at goats" in London
    U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers as he arrives to speak ...
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  • U.S. actor Clooney signs autographs as he arrives for the gala screening of the film "The men who stare at goats" in Leicester Square in London
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  • U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers as he arrives for the gala screening of the film "The men who stare at goats" in Leicester Square in London
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  • British actor Hurt and Rees Meyers pose for photographers as they arrive for the world premiere of the film "The men who stare at goats" in Leicester Square in London
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U.S. actor Clooney poses for photographers with U.S. actor Spacey as ...
But "The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring George Clooney, mostly comes across as a botched cross between "Dr. Strangelove" and "Three Kings" (which also starred Clooney, to much better effect). It's loosely based on a nonfiction book by British journalist Jon Ronson about the US military's...
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  • News Source: Los Angeles Times | 26 days ago
    Back in the '80s, a couple of struggling actors named Grant Heslov and George Clooney were in Milton Katselas' famed acting class. Clooney asked Heslov, then a student at USC, if he wanted to do a scene from Neil Simon's Depression-era play "...
  • News Source: io9 | 26 days ago
    The Men Who Stare At Goats is about warrior-monks with psychic powers, who call themselves Jedis over and over again. But the movie's structure also echoes the original Star Wars trilogy, and it's full of fun Lucas riffs...In Men Who Stare At Goats ,...
  • News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 26 days ago
    But "The Men Who Stare at Goats," starring George Clooney, mostly comes across as a botched cross between "Dr. Strangelove" and "Three Kings" (which also starred Clooney, to much better effect). It's loosely based on a nonfiction book by British...
  • News Source: Leader Post Online | 26 days ago
    On the table, within reach, sits a bottle of extra-strength Advil. The need for a pain reliever probably has to do with the fact that his book, The Men Who Stare at Goats, has just been adapted into a feature film starring George Clooney, Ewan...
  • News Source: io9 | 26 days ago
    The Men Who Stare At Goats transports you from the Vietnam War to present-day Iraq, that journey through time succeeds largely thanks to Jeff Bridges and George Clooney...In Men Who Stare At Goats , in theaters today, both Bridges and Clooney manage...
  • News Source: Chicago Tribune | 26 days ago
    The Men Who Stare at Goats" sounds like some ethnographic documentary about the bushmen of the Kalahari or the Bakhtiari herders of old Persia. Anyone expecting anything like that, or even a Disney family film like "Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar," is...
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  • Blog Source: kevinrong.blogspot.com
    The first-time director Grant Heslov has come up with something wackier and more whimsical, a quirky rapid-fire military comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats" which has hit the nation's movie screens today. ... dark comedy inspired by a real life
  • Blog Source: www.inentertainment.co.uk
    Men that stare at goats? What kind of movie title is that? But believe me, when you see the cast, and the dry comedy that the film beholds, you will be soon convinced like me that this could potentially be a box office smash. ...
  • Blog Source: rongspick.blogspot.com
    George Clooney's Movie "Men Who Stare at Goats" Hits Ttheaters. Posted by Kevin Z. Rong Friday, November 6, 2009. The first-time director Grant Heslov has come up with something wackier and more whimsical, a quirky rapid-fire military ...
  • Blog Source: www.buzzsugar.com
    How could a film possibly disappoint when you have the acting trifecta of George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges? But unfortunately, while the pros work hard to generate laughs — and they do deliver at times — the film on the ...
  • Blog Source: www.bigpicturebigsound.com
    What that mission is will be no clearer at the end of The Men Who Stare at Goats than it was at the beginning. Along the way, interesting characters appear in flashbacks to Clooney's training as a Jedi Warrior, as they call themselves. ...
  • Blog Source: www.inkkc.com
    'The Men Who Stare at Goats'. R, 1 hr. 33 min. 3 ½ stars (out of 5) Starring: Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey Plot: An embedded journalist meets one of the few surviving members of a government psychic-soldier ...
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  • Posted By DarthLucario DarthLucario | 26 days ago
    weird... the commercials seem pretty funny though.
  • Posted By nafisssa nafisssa | 25 days ago
    awww i like this subecjt
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