Ewan McGregor become the center of attention in a newly-found clip of “The Men Who Stare at Goats” . The film presents a quirky and dark comedy from Academy Award-nominated film producer Grant Heslov. Based on true events recounted in Jon Ronson’s book, the movie features Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey in addition to George Clooney and McGregor. The Men Who Stare At Goats: Meet Bob Wilton – trailer...
... and sent into Iraq for dubious reasons. Teaming up with Ewan McGregor's sad-sack reporter Bob Wilton, the history of the Jeff Bridges-headed new age psych-army is gradually unspooled. Sadly despite the promising set-up, Goats ends up pulling in several different directions. Is it a subtle satire on Iraq? A screwball comedy? A story of redemption? Talk about having its cake (or grass) and...
... We learn the whole story of the First Earth Batallion and enter into a secret mission through Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), an Ann Arbor newspaperman who encounters Cassady in Kuwait, where Wilton has gone to cover the first Iraq invasion to prove he’s a manly, exciting guy after his wife Debora (Rebecca Mader) has rejected him and their boring lifestyle. Midlife crisis? Check. With...
[Page 2 of 2]"The Men Who Stare at Goats" ***An odder-than-odd farce about a small-town reporter (Ewan McGregor) who stumbles across the graduates of an Army psychic soldier program. Bob Wilton (McGregor) is incredulous when he encounters its most famous member (George Clooney). The movie sends the pair into Iraq, offering moments both satirical and daft, but struggling to be as giddy as its...
... his opponents with his state of mind, and do other wonderful things. This all comes to light when Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), a reporter, learns of an organization within the military that is trying new ways of warfare. Cassady is supposed to be the current best of the bunch. His claim to fame is that he was mentored by the ultimate new age guru Bill Django (Jeff Bridges). Through a series...
Clooney is on quite the roll with turns in this, The Fantastic Mr Fox and the much anticipated Up In The Air all coming in quick succession. Sadly this film is more about Ewan McGregor as journalist Bob Wilton than Clooney and Jeff Bridges whose part in the rise of New Age Army in the post-Vietnam military, told in flashbacks in by far the funniest part of the movie. A wasted Kevin Spacey briefly...
... with the other story via George Clooney, whose ex New Earth Army operative take journalist ‘Bob Wilton’ (Ronson re-imagined as, of course, an American and played by a dodgily accented McGregor) on a mission in Iraq, while telling him all about the New Earth Army, whose story is related in flashback. The problem with this section of the film is that it doesn’t seem sure...
In the new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats, reporter Bob Wilton confronts Special Forces operator Lyn Cassady, “I’ve heard that you’re a psychic spy.” Lyn later comments, “We’re Jedi. We don’t fight with our guns, we fight with our minds.” Mind reading – formerly the stuff of science fiction and crystal gazers – [...]
... (this could take hours). The Men Who Stare at Goats chronicles the real adventures of journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) who was simply looking to make a name for himself in the early days of the war. Bob Wilton was a reporter for a daily newspaper in Ann Arbor. He is assigned to interview a local man who claims to have been a member of a special arm of the military that focused...
An unexpectedly funny film about whacko military special-op types engaged in paranormal techniques to fight the Enemies of Freedom™ The blurb form the Odeon website says: Inspired by a real life story and featuring an all-star cast, ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ is a dark comedy about a top-secret wing of the U.S. military. Reporter Bob Wilton [...]
... stop the hearts of their opponents by staring at them. In the movie, McGregor 's Ronson stand-in, Bob Wilton, gets wind of a "New Earth Army" doing some feature work for his local newspaper, but it isn't until he's in Iraq—trying to impress his estranged wife—that "the circle becomes complete" and he meets the closest thing to an adept among the psy-warriors,...
From : In the new film, “Men Who Stare at Goats,” director Grant Heslov looks at what America's military force would be if it were controlled by New Age tactics rather than violent means.The film starts with reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) looking for a new way to spice up his life. He then encounters Sgt. Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a retired member of the now defunked New Age Army. Wilton...
... you are paying for what you can instantly download and own for free. Synopsis Struggling reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) gets the scoop of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be from a unit of psychic soldiers who have been reactivated for duty. Intrigued by Cassady's assertions that they can walk through walls and kill goats by fixed gazes, Wilton
