{"id":12512,"date":"2010-04-29T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2010-04-29T23:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T21:10:46","slug":"the-men-who-stare-at-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/29\/the-men-who-stare-at-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Men Who Stare at Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I got my hands on “The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/a>” movie.\u00a0 I saw the trailer a few times in the cinema and was waiting for it to start, but either I missed it altogether or the scheduling was changed.\u00a0 Anyway, watched this one in the comfort of my own home.\u00a0 To be honest, this is not being a major visual effects movie or a new 3D silliness, I think I didn’t lose much by missing the big screen.<\/p>\n

In short – I really enjoyed this film.\u00a0 It is original, weird, funny, and smart.\u00a0 The casting is awesome and all these people have a place to act and a role to play – outstanding performances from all of them, including the goat.<\/p>\n

If you are not sure whether you should see this film or not – think Coen brothers.\u00a0 Even though they have nothing to do with this film (as far as I know), it feels like something that they would have done.\u00a0\u00a0 If you enjoyed any of their work – this film is definitely for you.\u00a0 It has the same weird story, irony, and a thin line between a joke and truth. \u00a0 Beautiful work and very engaging.\u00a0 It’s one of those films where you are so busy watching it that you don’t have the time to think and predict how it will end and where the story is taking you.\u00a0 It’s a roller-coaster – enjoy it while it runs.<\/p>\n

Rating this movie doesn’t feel right, because it doesn’t compare much to anything else and stands on its own, like a piece of art that it is.\u00a0 But I’ll give it a 5 out of 5<\/strong>, even though there were bits that I’d love to see changed.\u00a0 Well deserved.\u00a0 We need more movies that can take audience by surprise and engage them through the whole film and not just the first 3 minutes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I got my hands on “The Men Who Stare at Goats” movie.\u00a0 I saw the trailer a few times in the cinema and was waiting for it to start, but either I missed it altogether or the scheduling was changed.\u00a0 Anyway, watched this one in the comfort of my own home.\u00a0 To be honest, this … Continue reading The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1708,1,24],"tags":[1975,1443,1781,1527,1515,2322],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-ewan-mcgregor","tag-george-clooney","tag-grant-heslov","tag-jeff-bridges","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-stephen-lang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9208,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/08\/kingdom-of-heaven\/","url_meta":{"origin":12512,"position":0},"title":"Kingdom of Heaven","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Even if slowly, I do get there. 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