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The Men Who Stare at Goats, a review by Tom

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Kinowelt Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: Grant Heslov Writing: Jon Ronson (Original Material By), Peter Straughan (Screenwriter) Length: 93 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35 Audio: German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Commentary: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: German

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Stars:
George Clooney as Lyn Cassady
Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton
Jeff Bridges as Bill Django
Kevin Spacey as Larry Hooper
Stephen Lang as Brigadier General Dean Hopgood

Plot:
In this comedic look at real life evetns that are almost too bizarre to believe, reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) teams up with Lyn Cassidy (George Clooney) and discovers an experimental top-secret wing of the U.S. military. Here soldiers are trained to change the ways wars are fought through New Age psychic powers by passing through walls, reading the enemy's thoughts and even killing a goat by simply staring at it.

Inspired by Jon Ronson's non-fiction best-seller of the same name, this is an eye-opening and hilarious story of the government's attempts to harness soldier's paranormal abilities in order to combat its enemies.

Extras:

• BD-Live
• Commentary
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Photo Gallery
• Production Notes
• Scene Access
• Wendecover

I saw this movie last year at the cinema. I enjoyed it. But this movie's absurd humor is not for anyone. The people I watched it with last night were bored by it.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on February 6th, 2011)

It Waits, a review by Jimmy

Title : It Waits (2004)

OverviewMy Impression
Nice one that looks really like an eighties film. The scare come more from the general mood of the movie than from the creature itself, in fact we have to wait a long time to really see it (something that I've always appreciated) and when it finally happen I was happy to see a man in a suit and not a CGI thing. But sadly they had used some CGI when the creature flies, it doesn't match really well and, honestly, you can do it with a blue screen much better. Cerina Vincent is surprisingly good in the movie (for the reviewer her white shirt was certainly a distraction), since most of the time she is alone. The rest of the acting is correct also. Some ideas could be more developped, but I've appreciated this one in general.

Rating :

(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 1st, 2009)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

Married with Children



What's the show about?
Al Bundy sells (sometimes) women shoes. Peggy Bundy is a "housewive". They live together with their two children and lead a "normal" suburban life.

"Pilot"
The Bundys have got new neighbors: the Rhodes and Peggy decides to invite them over on the evening Al wanted to go to a basketball game.

My Opinion
MWC was a good show for its time, but I wouldn't watch it nowadays. I learned that lesson after I bought the first season.

(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on January 5th, 2008)