Well, I didn't love it, The Men Who Stare at Goats. On the plus side: it's short, clocking in around 90 minutes; it's got a great cast - Ewan McGregor, George Clooney (wearing an appalling mustache), Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges (as a military The Dude); the goats are super-cute. On the minus side: this movie doesn't really know what it wants to be - and not in a daring, genre-defying way. It's not funny enough to be a comedy, nor dark enough to be a black comedy, nor true enough to be an exposé. That often seems to be a problem with "based on a true story" movies. In this case, there actually was a unit in the U.S. military that tried to train psychic soldiers - apparently all the flashback moments in the film are based in fact - but this movie can't decide if it wants to make fun of this or present it in a respectful way, and thus falls pretty flat. They needed to commit one way or another.
At least it was short.
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4 hours ago
Nice write-up. That's how I felt about MWSaG. I wanted to love it for the cast, but the material just never let me.
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