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vanityfair.com - 13 days ago

Should a Scene Recalling the Fort Hood Tragedy Be Cut From The Men Who Stare at Goats?: Julian Sancton

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goats.jpg In The Men Who Stare at Goats, which opened yesterday, there is a scene where a disturbed soldier runs amok in Fort Bragg, firing at troops during their morning exercises. The all-too-plain parallels with the tragedy that occurred at Fort Hood two days ago, when Major Nadil Malik Hasan ...

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ew.com - 16 days ago

Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

— ew.com — Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | -- Movie Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats

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youtube.com - 11 days ago

The predator as seen in the men who stare at goats (video)

— youtube.com — This is the predator in action on Jon Ronson from the crazy rulers of the world and now used by George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare at Goats". The predator as seen in the men who stare at goats (video)

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filmdrunk.uproxx.com - 10 days ago

THE ACTUAL MEN WHO ACTUALLY STARE AT GOATS

— filmdrunk.uproxx.com — Most people know that Men Who Stare at Goats was based on a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson, and that some of the most preposterous parts of the movie were reportedly the most faithful to things that really happened. Before it was a book or a ... THE ACTUAL MEN WHO ACTUALLY STARE AT GOATS

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Hollywood Elsewhere:  Not Worth Bothering

MovingPictureBlog:  Good movie, bad timing, terrible events

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RT @abraaten TOO WEIRD: The Men Who Stare at Goats .. scene .. soldier goes on a shooting rampage on a mil base http://is.gd/4R79R #FortHood 12 days ago

RT @theauteursdaily: Julian Sancton: "Should Scene Recalling Ft Hood Tragedy Be Cut From THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS?" - http://bit.ly/3ii5ef 13 days ago

Should a scene that recalls the Fort Hood tragedy be cut from "The Men Who Stare at Ghosts"? http://bit.ly/2ofAyL 14 days ago

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Not Worth Bothering
Hollywood Elsewhere — Not Worth Bothering Vanityfair.com 's Julian Sancton noted yesterday that a brief scene of violence in The Men Who Stare at Goats recalls the recent Fort Hood tragedy . The scene (actually a self-contained clip in a montage) shows a disturbed soldier running amok in Fort Bragg, firing at troops during their morning exercises. Sancton is wondering if Overture Films should omit the scene from future prints. HE verdict : It happened, move on, let it ride. No one is going to blame Goats for goading the grief. All chickenshit Monday-morning-quarterback ...

Good movie, bad timing, terrible events
MovingPictureBlog — ... . But I certainly can understand, if not share, the concern of someone like Vanity Fair’s Julian Sancton, who’s wondering whether the unsettling scene should be deleted from all future prints of the film. (It likely would be impossible, Sancton allows, to re-edit the prints already in release – even though, it should be noted, such after-the-fact trimming isn’t unprecedented: A joke about Rev. Martin Luther King was removed from release prints of ...