The Men Who Stare at Goats… I don’t recommend it.
- November 9th, 2009
- Posted in Mundane
- By Thomas Olaes
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So I watched this movie, and I only have a few things to say about it:
- There were a couple points in the movie I laughed, not because it was funny, but because there were some random “What the Fuck?” moments. If you see this movie, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
- It was obvious that, for a movie about a secret Army project, they didn’t have a military consultant. The movie opens up to a man with two stars on his collar, and the words “Brigadier General” in subtitles underneath his name.
- Finally, the whole movie is pretty much anti-war. There’s a really good point in the movie, though, where one of the the protagonists, who is American, apologizes for a shooting that happens in an Iraqi friend’s town, and says that he hopes the Iraqi doesn’t think that all Americans are like that–in turn, the Iraqi man apologizes for a recent kidnapping, and hopes the Americans don’t think all Iraqis are like that… I personally liked that part. Army soldiers on LSD in 2009… not so much. (This isn’t the view of the Air Force… just a view of one guy who happens to be in the Air Force.)
Anyway, I don’t recommend this movie to anyone. Good night.
-TJ
Wow – Hollywood, land of the undereducated & mis-informed (reference the world outside their self-indulgent bubble) making an anti-war flick? Say it’s not so!
I’ve been waiting to read this book before analyzing how badly they bastardized yet another book…The previews make it look like a spoof – kind of like “Pentagon Wars.”
It also doesn’t help that there’s a scene in the movie where a private starts shooting at other soldiers in his home camp. It’s a very unfortunate circumstance that the Ft. Hood tragedy happened right before this film was released to the public.
I don’t remember anyone in the theater genuinely laughing at that.