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Too Baaad 'Goats' Falls Flatnew
Where Three Kings cast Clooney in a wartime caper story to critique the first President Bush's Iraq war, Goats attempts to use hippie-style anti-authority comedy to satirize his son's sequel. But the early sight gags of super-macho G.I.s failing to run through walls or drive blindfolded don't mesh with the film's anger over the corporate exploitation of the Iraqi occupation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-10-2009 |
Reviews
'The Men Who Stare at Goats' Falls Short of Strangelovian Laughsnew
Grant Heslov's film is so intent on being funny and ironic that it erodes any audience investment in the characters and their plights. We spend so much time laughing at their travails that when it's time to root for their victory, it's just too damn late.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2009 |
Reviews
A Look at the U.S. Army's New Age 'Supersoldiers'new
U.S. soldiers who try to train themselves to levitate and kill goats with a look? British author Jon Ronson uncovers the U.S. military's 30-year flirtation with New Age philosophy.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
06-01-2005 |
Nonfiction
