The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Men Who Stare at Goats
R | 05 November 2009 (USA)
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A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

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Eka Herlyanti

Cute title and a bit funny and mysterious. The cinematography is good. But I didn't really get the story. I guess this movie wants the war and any kind of violence to end? I wonder if that kind of power shown in this movie does exist. And why goats? That one goat in the end of the movie looked angry. What's wrong with him?

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Usman

Well I have no words to describe this piece of art it was totally something else something that maybe a few people will understand.Some movies warms my heart and this is one of them definitely watch it.If you are a action guy it is not for you but it contains comedy as well so better give it a shot.

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ebiros2

After seeing this movie, I could only surmise that it's some kind of disinformation film to make jokes out of what is commonly known as remote viewing. The movie portrays remote viewers as army's attempt to train soldiers to be new age hippies (seriously). From what I've read the real remote viewers were deadly effective (otherwise the government wouldn't have funded them for 23 years). But if the effectiveness of remote viewing was really conveyed, it would be disclosing one of the closely guarded secrets of US military operations. So my take after seeing the movie is that it was created to be a disinformation campaign to make the world believe that this is what remote viewing is about. None of the characters in the movie could do remote viewing. As if it didn't exist. And maybe that's the real message this movie wanted to convey.

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Mike B

That movie is quite amusing if you know the facts around it being true...It making a mocky of the U.S. Army's extensive history of actually investigating paranormal methods for combat. When it comes to 'murica they will do anything with the tax payers money for improving their warfare.There was a guy named Nick Rowe, a Special Forces operator who spent 62 months imprisoned in a Vietnamese POW camp. I believe it was him to leaked the details of what he believed to be mind controlling goats which he witnessed there. That lead US into extreme researching of the topic.The 'fainting' goat itself is extremely funny which the US government actually researched on as being actually paranormal.Makes sense seeing a certain type of goat dropping dead by human interaction could be easily confused as something more. However, they where very certain it was paranormal power and therefore wanted it for themselves and apply it to actual people! The US government just believed it was due to people actually staring at the goat for long periods of time at them, focusing paranoid brain activity towards them, which made their heart stop. Really it was just anything that spooked them. Due to an congenital (present from birth) medical condition known as myotonia congenita or Thomsen's disease, certain goat's muscles tense up when the animal is startled and don't immediately relax. Younger ones are more affected and it can even stop their heart for a moment - which can label them as pronouced dead, then revived moments later.

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