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George Clooney Is A Jedi!! THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Trailer Is Really Weird, Pretty Funny, And Kinda Cool!!
Merrick here...
I've been interested in this project since it was first announced quite a while back, although I had no idea they were going for such a broad tone.
Still, I really enjoyed this trailer (available in all forms of Glorious QuickTime) and look forward to seeing the whole thing:
STARE AT IT HERE!!
What do you think?
STARE AT IT HERE!!
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I can't wait to see that. Just the right tone. Clooney tends to pick projects with a great "feel" or mood, IMO. And to think, earlier today and last night I was on here bitching about crappy movie titles. I'm loving The Men Who Stare at Goats.
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a fun time at the movies.
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First time in a while I'm considering watching a Clooney movie.
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Anyone who has involved in the creation of Goodnight, and Good Luck is pretty ok in my book, I hope he knocks this out the park.
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Nothing about this screams "See me in a movie theater to fully enjoy my awesome!".
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...cast Clooney as Dean Martin in his upcoming Frank Sinatra movie. You'd have Depp or Dicaprio (as the rumors contest) as Fank and Clooney as Deano. My ticket would already be bought.
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The Dude in the army? Clooney the Jedi? Obi-Wan? Guy running into a wall? I am SO there opening weekend!
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Wow, Ewan finally gets a shot to pall around with a REAL Jedi. Bluescreen need not apply.
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It's hilarious and a little scary. Scary in the sense that some senior people in the US military are clearly too dumb to run a fucking McDonalds franchise, and yet they have power and authority over others.
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Military Intelligence.God that man is needed now.
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quirky stuff. And he does it fast and under the radar. If, say, Tom Cruise did this project, you'd hear about it for months on end.
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Yes, fellow geeks, there was a real Stargate Project and it didn't involve wormholes. Sadly enough.
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I do like Clooney's comedy films. Looking forward to this one!
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I just hope it doesn't give too much away (i.e. the funny).Watching Lang try to walk through the wall nearly made me fall out of my seat.
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George Clooney and Jeff Bridges are my two favorite stars ever and I love this subject matter. Big big win.
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great trailer. maybe a good film overall.
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Oh, well.
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And yet again, homeboy is wearing Army fatigues. Does he sleep in those things?
Thanks for the heads-up, Merrick- I dug the trailer. -
Lookd awesome!!
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Love the cast, sounds hillarious, destined to go on my favourties shelf at home.
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It sure looks like it. Hope it's funnier than Clooney's other comedies.
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It looks like one, it sounds like one, and even if it isn't - this is going to rock. This one can't come soon enough for me. The Dude as a Dude-General??? That's it right there, man. Avatar will crumble in the face of the awesome this film is going to project on screens.
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Count me fucking in, when I read the synopsis I thought shite, but that was fucking great. Hope they just did not put all funny moments of the film in the trailer. The dude abides !
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It's Clooney and The Dude, man. Have faith. This is potentially going to be the funniest movie of the year, after Avatar of course.
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Some guys are like that
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Show him how to get people excited about a movie, not a giant blue cat in sight!
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And do i need to have some of thos,e to watch away the bitter taste left by the year's blockbusters (except the one with the wizard schoolboy).
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seriously, wtf was Burn After Reading?
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but it's just so easy these days to make great trailers with bad scripts, i.e. that Spacey joke at the wedding steals the momentum away, and I would love to get dozens of such in this flick. Id for the trial, for the "help" joke, for the Lang not-to Kitty Prydish and for that falling goat (man there's already more jokes in that trailer than in the Heartbreak Kid)...
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I just got my eyeballs clearly raped, nice and clean, please do it again.
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Live up to your handle.
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I agree, T$$$$$. Though No Country for Old Men is one of my favorite movies, ever.... Burn After Reading was just lame.
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I can't believe Roast Beef is dead. Again.
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This looks crazy funny.
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He is the most smug and conceited prick to come out of hollywood in the history of movies. Not much of an actor, either, he always seems to be playing himself.
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Really friggin' awful - holy christ his American is the worst in Britdom. Bob Hoskin's American is flawless compared to Ewan's.
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..and has apparently joined the army. I pray to God in that jeep scene he is carrying a beverage at some point!
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Although yes, McGregor continues to be a pretty underwhelming actor.
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Aug 28, 2009 1:15:45 PM CDT
Good Night and Good Luck was one of the best movies
by fa_tass_dinomolester
of the 2000's, (not that there's been a lot of competition), so if just for that, Clooney's on my "must-watch" list if he has a new project.
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He gets a lot of flack, but O Brother, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, Leatherheads... The guy brings class to comedy, and cracks me up ALL DAY. That said, JEFF BRIDGES is our greatest living actor. TONY STARK... BUILT THIS... IN A CAVE!
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... and McGregor's character was a Brit, so I'm not sure why the awful accent had to be shoe-horned in. The guy also wrote a great book called Them: Adventures with Extremists. Both are great reads.
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Freakin Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm actually going to see this in a few weeks at the Toronto film festival. I bet it wins the audience award!!!
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http://blogs.nypost.com/popwrap/archives/2009/08/is_the_cloverfield_monster.html
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Aug 28, 2009 1:47:28 PM CDT
Clooney is good as an idiot. Bridges is the selling point, thoug
by juansanchez
"Well, the hooker thing is definitely a lie!"
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It just doesn't work. May Brits do great American accents, McGregor does not. Rewrite the part if you want him.
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Trailers that make me laugh out loud are few and far between... Clooney, Bridges, Spacey, McGregor and even Stephen Root! This has the potential to be great.
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Gonna have to read up on the book later.
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i will see this- even though it does not have megan fox in it!!
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And I hate everything. So well done Clooney, Bridges, Spacey and McGregor.
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So I won't go see it. I'm afraid to plunk down my $8 on a property I don't recognize. There. Happy, Studio Executive Fucks?
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Both are picking some offbeat roles and are indeed american treasures...I for one have been looking forward to this film and by the trailer it appears I won't be disapointed..
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Aug 28, 2009 3:38:49 PM CDT
So, it's now a full-blown slapstick splat boing comedy
by anything but tangerines
I just lost interest in this promising film
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Batman & Robin.
"Don't leave the cave without it."
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Poor guy. He's such a bland actor.
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Aug 28, 2009 4:18:56 PM CDT
If you didn't find 'Burn After Reading' slightly funny...
by cheyne_stoking_dms
and I'm saying "slightly". You don't have a good eye for comedic taste. Brad Pitt's character alone is worth a second viewing.
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Orlando Bloom's in Elizabethtown: both really off, and in the same weird way, like they're treating the vowels like Silly Putty. Both of them, though, better than the new Terminator guy's effort, and none of them even close to Cate Blanchett in The Gift, one of the best examples of a Brit faking an American accent (and a Southern one, at that).
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I'm going out on a limb here and saying that this is the best film ever made.
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Some Brits talk the same they always do, but just drop the accent. It works for some, but not others. Laurie is pretty good, McGregor is not. Still others have to put on a regional accent - like Crowe. That can get old. Really - just cast Americans or rewrite the part to be British or Australian or Scottish or whatever.
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Burn After Reading is a little brutal to its characters, I'll admit. Overall, though, it's hilarious. Clooney stealing the Liberator back after a tiff with Tilda Swinton? Comedy GOLD.
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"...well the hooker thing was definately a lie."
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I officially lost it at that point. Gotta give Clooney credit for going against type. Kinda weird how he's so powerful in this town yet his movies never make any money. The Oceans movies are mild hits at best.
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...Finally a movie I can give a shit about.
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they just stare at the goats...
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Almost like a minor Woody Allen movie in book form (though it's non-fiction). Author Jon Ronson (the basis of the McGregor character) is nebbish as hell, though a funny and perceptive writer and presenter in the UK (he's done a great documentary on Stanley Kubrick's archives). Ewan's accent is as shit as usual (and puzzling as Ronson - the source of his character - is a Brit), though Clooney, Bridges and Lang bring some value. With this, AVATAR and PUBLIC ENEMIES it looks like 2009 will be Stephen Lang's year. Who'd have thought it?
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"We have no serious alternative than to be wonderful"
I can't wait for this, the book is excellent, the trailer looks promising. I'm surprised by the budget & cast of this though, I doubted it would have had enough mainstream interest to be a hit. This will definitely be a cult hit though. -
"Two for 'Men Who Stare At Goats', please...STOP FUCKING LAUGHING!!!"
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Tell that to John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, ect. There is NOTHING WRONG with an actor "playing themselves" so long as their regular persona is AWESOME. Sean Connery always played SEAN CONNERY (even his Russian sub captain had a Scottish accent), but does that make him any less awesome?
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It actually looks like it stung, lol
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can't wait
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sorry about the all caps... I said it aloud very loud.
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I guess it's time to read the script....
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reference. Gee, where's Julia Roberts?
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The guy is SOLID
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Aug 29, 2009 2:54:41 AM CDT
Like, hey man, this is a top secret goverment program, man.
by thebearovingian
Suffocating goats with your fucking mind?! What the fuck are you talking about, man?! Jesus, Walter! What the fuck, man?!
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I don't fucking care! It don't matter to Jesus!
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Aug 29, 2009 3:03:22 AM CDT
I loved the insano book, but I don't want clooney stinking it up
by ironic_name
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and it is? Did anyone ever verify the dudes story?
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Someone read a book, thought it might make a good film and bring us 2 a minute trailer with more class and enjoyment levels than ANY FUCKING REMAKE DONE IN THE LAST 20 YEARS!!!!!!! Oh and James Murdoch..... your going right to top of my list, you utter cunt!!
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This looks fuckin awesome. Between this and Avatar.. I'll take this
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Aug 29, 2009 6:51:10 AM CDT
OK, not a straight-faced look at the psychic spy programme, but
by mr nicholas
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aren't any easier for non-Americans than vice versa. (Note to self: spend more time on IMDB.com and less time working for a living.)
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I was a yes up until the point where they dragged out that horrible more than a feeling song. The song and the crappy voice over turned me into an eh maybe.
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This was one of the funniest trailers I've seen in ages. And Jeff Bridges as a hippie? Well played. Well cast comedy with an interesting sounding plot is always welcome.
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I am SO looking forward to this. I was involved in some weird shit when I was active duty back in the early 70's, so I'm real curious about "art imitating life" with this flick.
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and will understand where non lethal weapons come from. and Uri Gellar was once in the CIA. before then he was in the israeli army. the book peters out towards the end. but the rest of the book is creepy and hilarious.
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Stephen Lang was the psycho from The Hard Way, so fuckin' cool!!!
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It's going to be awesome.
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but what "weird shit" were you involved with, out of curiosity?
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I know I shouldn't, don't know why I do, yet there it is. I's probably been so over-used it's now permanently imprinted on my tiny little man-brain...
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I'm seeing this for General Duderino.
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I am the Walrus... This looks great! I am the Walrus... Does anybody remember Confessions of a Dangerous Mind? I am the Walrus... This reminded me of it. Must rent and review. How often does a trailer get you stoked for a new movie and want to re-watch an older one? Very cool. I am the Walrus... McGregor gets a pass...
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My kind of humor. Clooney would be perfect to star in a remake of "Arsenic and Old Lace"
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With a chance to be very entertaining. It reminds me of the original The In-Laws in terms of silly fun. And a little bit of Spies Like Us.
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That's the lamest shit I've ever heard. IF he was gay, why would it matter? You think an actor of that caliber would suffer any work based on any discretion he may have? That's probably the most banal and ignorant thing I think I've read. I don't think his credibility will suffer. THE DUDE WAS FUCKIN JOHN DOE!!! Get your head out of your butt.
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because he's an actor, it shouldn't matter what the fuck he does with his private life. Your only requirement is to enjoy his movies. That's it.
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sold me on this movie. Hell, the whole trailer sold me. Looks fun, and Clooney has that charm and charisma to carry this. Should be fun.
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would be a whole different kinda flick.This does look great, with a great cast.
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For starters, everyone KNOWS the guy is gay and he still gets tons of film work and is a very well-respected actor. Secondly, he's not a leading man and never was, so even if he announced it I don't think it would have any impact on the roles he's offered. Ever hear of Ian McKellan? Thirdly, it's none of our business.
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Grow up. Next you'll be revealing that some actors are black, or women, or - God save us - black women. There's only two kinds of actors (or people, for that matter) good ones and bad ones.
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Glad there will be some worthwhile movies this year, after all. And gay or not, it was good to see Spacey in the movies again. Too much Broadway and voiceover work, Kev. Get back to playing smarmy douchebags in Hollywood, where you you belong!
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You're sure he wouldn't have been offered Lex Luthor, right? You DO know that Bryan Singer, director of Superman Returns, is also openly gay, right?
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Nutty long ponytail while in uniform???
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Yet, he was one of the biggest womanizers on screen.
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OH...MY...GOD! I Want Black Wang. Tickle My Tits. You Know What? I Don't Think This Is Richardo Montaaalbaaahnn.
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bahahahaha
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You can't respect an actor because he won't admit that he likes to come inside men instead of women? Because that is so important. Yeah Kevin Spacey should hold a press conference just to announce where he likes to stick his penis. So that he can gain YOUR respect. WTF... Please don't bother pulling your head out of your ass. Just leave it in there so we don't have to listen to you. Fuckhead.
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OMG the wikipedia just outed some of my most TRUSTED actors! Thespians like Frank Middlemass and Sam Pancake, famed actresses Miss Coco Peru and Sheqida, and even the legendary Metrobius! Hollywood is a pit of sin!
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I hate to say this, but I haven't read this book. I am familiar with Jon Ronson. He's always funny on This American Life and his interviews on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe are always a riot. I am curious how much this sticks to the book. I thought the book was only about the remote viewing crap the military bought into for a while.
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Aug 30, 2009 5:29:25 AM CDT
"that crappy 'More Than A Feeling' song"....?????...
by cheyne_stoking_dms
You're fucking kidding me right? That song gets nuns pumped up for a good time. You, my boy, do not own a pair.
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Yeah I heard their filming it at your trailer park. Maybe you can get casted as a goat.
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Eat it!!
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after a comment like that, Fareal should keep his head up his ass so he can suffocate. I wouldn't care if Spacey likes fucking halloween masks. He's one of the greatest actors working in CrappyWood today.
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The book covers a variety of black ops with large budgets invested in purely patented bullshit. Remote Viewing is just one that has sort of already come into the mainstream history already. Like the shit they did with Barney the Dinosaur and Sesame Street...
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Just come out and admit the fact that your post was the dumbest fucking thing we've all ever read and you will have earned our respect.
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puuuuusssssyyyyy.
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Aug 30, 2009 7:02:27 AM CDT
That's why there was so much friction between him and Carolyn...
by vicenzov
The alienation, masturbation. If there was a son instead of a daughter and he brought a friend home, that's when we'd have seen some real fireworks.
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Jeeezus. It's just sad to think of all those tax dollars being spent on bullshit. I'm ordering the book right now.
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Aug 30, 2009 7:17:15 AM CDT
I hope it didn't dissapoint you too much, VicenzoV.
by cheyne_stoking_dms
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I like Stephen Lang, too!
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Aug 30, 2009 10:14:19 AM CDT
Wait-did someone go down the Kevin Spacey is a Closet Case path
by sal_bando
What the fuck?! WHO CARES?!!! It's like outing LIBERACE at this point you MORON. He's a FUCKING actor, he's NOT a social Engineer, it's NOT our business what he does in his private life PERIOD. Okay? Shit. You can't even get writers to agree on whether or not Cary Grant, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn swung both ways(or not), decades after the fact. I'd be more concerned if Spacey was miscast or gave a shitty performance in something I paid good money to see. That's All. He don't owe us anything about his private life. You suck Foreeal.
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I can't wait!
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Was that intentional?
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The actors looked photorealistic.
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After years of seeing it and wondering how old Obi-wan lost it somewhere on Tatooine, it looks like it is no longer on his forehead!!!
In the trailer, seems like it is replaced by a consistent forehead crease - the price of plastic surgery?
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Aug 30, 2009 1:31:44 PM CDT
cheyne_stoking_DMS, SORRY BUT YOUR MOM/SISTER HAS BEEN CASTED AS
by carlthormark1978
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Take that James Cameron!!
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Bored hermit + lightsaber = eventual home self-dematology procedure. Fortunately the healing power of the Force is strong.
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Yes, admitting he was gay probably would hurt Kevin Spacey's appeal as a box office star. The rest of the world is not as open minded as people in the West, and unfortunately Hollywood movies depend on global box office. Fans are pretty fucking judgmental.
HOWEVER, who the fuck are we to tell someone to come out of the closet? I only call people hypocrites if they are saying one thing and doing another; if Kevin Spacey was advocating that homosexuality was immoral and should be illegal and was hiding in the closet, like a Haggard, than by all means he should be outed. But Spacey hasn't said anything that should make us interested in his personal life.
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He is a fine actor but I don't think anyone is buying a ticket to a movie cause Spacey is in it. He is a quality support player. That is what he is in this movie and that is where he works best. He can carry a movie but it isn't cause of his fan base. It's cause of his talent. Boston rules. That guitar sound and vocal range are rare in music and non existant on current radio.
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Talk about doubling your women audience. Ewan and Clooney and Neeson.
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Yes her 'southern' accent was great, but as for being a brit, I'm sure she wouldn't like hearing that. SHE'S AN AUSSIE!
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The Big Lebowski
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
and now....
The Men That Stare At Goats
The trilogy of movies I watch until the DVD melts and I then have to go out and buy another copy is complete.
(Fingers crossed)
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They definitely changed the names and story. The book was totally true, but this film looks just loosely based on the source material. The author never went on an "adventure" with the guy represented by Clooney's character (for obvious covert reasons), and in fact the guy in question is just one of several main interviewees.
Still, looks like they got the general lunatic ideas right, and frankly the film looks more entertaining than the book, which doesn't really have a central plot (it's just this guy following random leads into bizarre military activities...as another poster said, it sort of "fizzles out" at the end).
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Kevin Spacey should do a sequel to American Beauty set in the after life. Nick Cave could write the script.
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Clooney, The Dude, Spacey, Obi-Wan, J. Jonah Jameson, T-1000? That is some cast - a fanboy's wet dream of the cool & the geeky. Let's hope that the film lives up to their considerable talents.
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All this movie is missing is Downey Junior. He should have played the journalist
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Clooney has the distinction for me of being the only actor I ever hated that I later stopped hating. Usually once I decide an actor sucks I can't ever forgive them, but Clooney has worked his ass off to redeem his Batman turn.
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I'm a fan of everyone involved. I usually say McGregor is an extremely talented, underrated actor, but I'm not a fan of his accent here. Otherwise the film looks good.
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I got a "and this is where we turn the corner to stop being funny and start putting on serious faces and tell the human drama" vibe from the trailer, but I'm hoping the movie holds up overall because the cast and performances in the trailer seem like winners.
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Couldn't agree more...McGregor and Clooney, Spacey and Bridges. C'mon now, starring in a Clooney means wild times and mega-hit money. What Hollywood actor-man would wish for the invite. Oh! And it looks freakin' hilarious!
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