Posted on 09/08/2009 8:03:03 PM PDT by Saije
U.S. actor George Clooney plays a New Age hippie soldier trained for psychic, peaceful combat in a comedy set during the war in Iraq.
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" is based on a book by Jon Ronson about a secret unit created by the U.S. army in 1979 which, the author said, believed troops could become invisible, walk through walls and kill goats just by staring at them.
Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who stumbles across a member of the unit as he prepares to enter Iraq, and he and Clooney's character Lyn Cassady go on an ill-fated journey that sees them kidnapped, shot at and hit by a roadside bomb.
Jeff Bridges is a long-haired, drug-taking leader of the "New Earth Army," and Kevin Spacey completes the line-up as a rival to Cassady who ends up turning the unit into a lucrative private enterprise operating in Iraq during the war.
"What we love about this film and what's so fun about it is that there's a tremendous amount of it that's true," Clooney told reporters in Venice,
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No, that’s not the real reason they are staring at the goats!
So, Clooney’s having real problems finding real work in Hollyweird these days, huh?
Well, I can kill a goat by staring at it.
If by kill you mean, make comatose...if by goat you mean, a guy...if by staring you mean...giving him 10 shots of Jager...
Always interesting how the anti war trash make money off the war doing war movies.
....I don’t trust Clooney....he’s a smart ass when it comes to standing up for America; the country that’s made him rich....got a hunch he’ll ridiclue the Army in this...sounds like a M*A*S*H redux.
Fixed it.
For the first time in his life, Clooney will be staring at the front of a goat.
So, woohoo let’s make fun of the Army!
I’ll stick to my actors from old Hollywood who supported our troops by representing them as heroes in films. Up yours, Clooney.
In theates across America, you will hear the sound of one hand clapping.
I guess he thinks “Three Kings” wasn’t a big enough loser of a movie so he’s giving it a second shot.
Just more liberal trash they call a movie..I can’t wait till hajiwood dies.
I’ll bet this movie makes almost as much as “Solaris” did.
My dad sent me this one recently. Loved it.
Might be funny. Clooney is a hack of an actor, we like Jeff Bridges... sounds like The Big Lebowski goes to Iraq. :) With goats.
Isn’t George Clooney too old to be a solider in Iraq? He’s older than I am and I’m 48yo.
They peed on The Dude's goat!
Heh - I actually meant Clooney is a heck of an actor... It was supposed to be a compliment, lol! :~)
Donny... Please.
Good film. I rented that a while back.
Isn’t Mr. Clooney getting a little old for movies like that? I can’t see him as a soldier since many of them tend to be young and cute.
I just can’t see what women see in him.
“Three Kings” had some pretty interesting stuff going on in that movie, tho...
A fool and his money... *shrug*
Old George is getting awful long in the tooth for this role. Oh, he plays the goat?
I think Gregory Peck’s most attractive role was in ‘Captain Horatio Hornblower’. I love that film and Peck was dashing. Clooney couldn’t do ‘dashing’ if his life depended on it.
>>>>I guess he thinks “Three Kings” wasn’t a big enough loser of a movie
Never seen it myself, but I know it wasn’t a failure. Not a blockbuster but it paid its way. Clooney pocketed $5,000,000 for that one.
THREE KINGS
Production Budget: $75 million
Domestic: $60,652,036 56.3%
+ Foreign: $47,100,000 43.7%
= Worldwide: $107,752,036
Last time I watched a show all the way through with Clooney, he was Detective Falconer who was married to Sela Ward on the show “Sisters”. Personally I thought she should have chosen his rival Billionaire Simon. But Sela never listens.
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