Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "Men Who Stare At Goats"

Sci-Fi Bri's Movies: "Men Who Stare At Goats"

Characters/Actors: Ewan McGregor, Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), Bill Djambo (Jeff Bridges), Kevin Spacey, etc.

After his wife leaves him, a distraught reporter travels to the Middle East around 2006 to seek out a man who turns out to be a "psychic soldier". This reporter gets the story of a lifetime when Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) tells him about self-proclaimed real-life Jedi Knights who can supposedly walk through walls, disarm the enemy without weapons with only mind power, and who are trained to kill goats just by staring at them, among other things. Cassady tells the journalist about a soldier in Vietnam who while in combat has a spiritual awakening and becomes a hippie who implements ideas for "psychic soldiers of peace rather than war". Clooney and the other members of the "New Earth Army" are a hoot as they scrunch up their eyes to subdue the enemy, kill goats, drive blindfolded, and practice by getting clouds to disappear. Like MASH with psychics instead of doctors.

"Saw VI" (Rated R for graphic violence, torture, and depictions of death) Actor(s): Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), Costas "Picket Fences" Mandylor, etc.

Believe it or not, there is a genre of movies that are so violent and sadistic that it is called "torture porn". The two "Hostel" movies and all of the "Saw" series are in this category. In the latest "Saw" movie, master torturer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is long dead, but his work is far from done by his protege', (Costas Mandylor) a detective investigating the murders. At the end of "Saw V" his identity was revealed. In "Saw VI" the authorities are on the verge of discovering who is continuing Jigsaw's work with ingenious torture devices. In one of the opening scenes, two people compete to cut off the most flesh, and the 'winner' resorts to sawing off her own arm to escape a deadly fate. In this film, all of those being tortured are insurance people who think nothing of denying coverage to seriously ill or dying people. The tortured people have decisions to make to stay alive. They can either live or die, but in order to live someone else has to die (usually in excruciatingly painful ways). Not for the squeamish, or for those with a full stomach.