Saw The Men Who Stare at Goats.
It's a fun movie.
NOT a comedy, a fun movie. Don't expect it to be funny, unless by funny you mean absurd.

It's surprisingly accurate in all areas except the actual plot. Jon Ronson (author of the book on which it was based) never went to Iraq with a crazy former member of the First Earth Battalion and never became a "Jedi Warrior" himself. The goat-staring experiments were not really successful, and the military has not (as far as I know) hired any psi-oriented companies as contractors for the War on Terror. Also, there were a lot more people involved in the attempt to create a super-army than the movie implies, and some of them are downright terrifying.

It seems like the people making the movie concocted a plot and cast worthy of a Saturday morning cartoon in order to make the ideas digestible. The problem is that it only works if you know that the movie isn't supposed to be funny and that a lot of it is true. If you want a quick overview of the crazy stuff our military has done with the paranormal and nontraditional warfare, go see it. If you like it, read the book and get the real story.

Oh, and another thing: How on earth did anyone, even an old hippie, think that putting LSD in the water at a military base was a good idea? And how on earth did the filmmakers miss the fact that if you have a lot of people with guns and tanks, and you dose them all with acid, some of them are going to start shooting people? There's no way you could do that without anybody getting killed. There are also myriad other ways you could end a movie like that without completely ignoring reality.


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By the way, allow me to apologize for taking so long to complete this. My life has lately become a whirlwind of church events and such, and I'm having a hard time keeping track of things that aren't happening at a large building in Westerville or with a crowd of 20-somethings who get together to talk about our spiritual lives. I like being that involved, but I also kinda wish I could have an entire day off at some point.