Burnt Eyeballs: Critics Stare "Goats" to Death

Although I haven't had a chance to see The Men Who Stare at Goats movie, the reviews are pouring in and it doesn't look good for Clooney and Company.

Ouch! I'm still looking forward to seeing the fictionalized version of Jon Ronson's darkly humorous introduction to the world of black ops psychic ESPionage. Based upon the reviews, it might be out on video before I make to the theater.

Here are a few examples:

MTV: What went wrong with this movie?

Boston Herald: Goats cheesy

Washington Post:: An amusing but finally trivial picaresque, part Hunter S. Thompson, part Stanley Kubrick, with none of their ferocious genius.

WIRED: Maybe the greatest conspiracy of all was turning The Men Who Stare at Goats into another middlebrow Hollywood action flick – complete with a saccharine ending.

CNN: 'Men Who Stare at Goats' is baaaaaad

TORONTO STAR: The Men Who Stare at Goats: Uncontrollable bleating