More Jedi Tricks from George Clooney in Second Trailer for The Men Who Stare at Goats
Posted 10.19.09 by reelz
The Men Who Stare at Goats purports to tell the true story of the U.S. military's flirtation with psychic warfare. And Ewan McGregor, who plays the reporter hot on the trail of this surreal story, insists that's where the weirdest parts of the story come from.
Most of it's true! In fact, the most unbelievable parts of the film are the true ones. The mundane bits are the bits we made up. The journalist in Iraq — my story, the character I play — is an invention. But there was a rumor that the Russian psychics were bombarding the U.S. president with negative energy, and there was a group within the military trying to combat it. It's crazy, but war is crazy.
Still, in the second trailer for the movie, we see that those "mundane bits" aren't lacking in comic potential. Not only does George Clooney continue to celebrate his skills as a self-professed "Jedi warrior," he introduces us to his "sparkly-eyes technique" and provides McGregor with a neat lesson in irony. It's all in a day's work for a member of the First Earth Battalion out to put his psychic powers at the service of his country.