The Men Who Stare at Goats
I feel like I need to give this movie a do-over because I fell alseep about 2/3 of the way in. It was actually engaging me, but the problem was that I’m still exhausted from my whirlwind trip to Michigan (see the following post) and the combination of the dark theater room combined with a lot of dark scenes just killed me. Still, I remember enough to know that this quirky movie is definitely not for everybody. The humor is hit and miss, not to mention very subtle at times. “Inspired by a true story,” it says at the beginning, it’s difficult to make out just how much of this is for real and how much is fantasy. I have no doubt the military must have blown some cash in the 80s on trying to develop paranormal warfare, but the truth is probably weirder than we can imagine. It did feel awfully weird that this movie begins in Ann Arbor, where I just was on Friday. It’s a sign.