The movie opens with Brigadier General Dean Hopgood (Stephen Lang) staring intently at his wall from behind his desk. He tells his secretary that he will be going into the next room and charges into his wall, hoping to phase through it. He hits the wall hard and says shit.
More of this is true than you would believe.
Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is a reporter at a local newspaper in Ann Arbor Michigan. He opens the film with a narration about how his story doesnt begin where he thought it would. He wanted it to start when he married his college sweetheart, Helen (Rebecca Mader), but he acknowledges that his story started when he interviewed a local man who he heard on talk radio claiming to be part of a secret government initiative. He meets with Gus Lacey (Stephen Root) and Lacey tells him about the psychic spy initiative and tells Bob that he killed his hamster with his mind. Lacey shows Bob a video of his hamster, staring intently at a wheel and then keeling over. Bob is wowed, despite thinking that Lacey is crazy, but then the hamster gets up. Bob asks why it isnt dead and Lacey replies that his mother didnt want him to show the hamster dying so he put in a video if it acting strangely. Lacey mentions that everyone in his unit had different methods and that the strongest Psi-warrior was a man named Lynn Cassady.
Bob writes a small piece on Lacey and forgets about him. A year later in 2003, one of Bob and Helens fat coworkers has a heart attack and dies, which serves as a catalyst for Helen leaving Bob. Helen tells Bob that life is too short to spend not looking for true happiness and leaves to be with Bobs one armed editor, Dave. Bob grows increasingly aimless, and decides that he will go to Iraq in order to get the perfect scoop.
More of this is true than you would believe.
Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is a reporter at a local newspaper in Ann Arbor Michigan. He opens the film with a narration about how his story doesnt begin where he thought it would. He wanted it to start when he married his college sweetheart, Helen (Rebecca Mader), but he acknowledges that his story started when he interviewed a local man who he heard on talk radio claiming to be part of a secret government initiative. He meets with Gus Lacey (Stephen Root) and Lacey tells him about the psychic spy initiative and tells Bob that he killed his hamster with his mind. Lacey shows Bob a video of his hamster, staring intently at a wheel and then keeling over. Bob is wowed, despite thinking that Lacey is crazy, but then the hamster gets up. Bob asks why it isnt dead and Lacey replies that his mother didnt want him to show the hamster dying so he put in a video if it acting strangely. Lacey mentions that everyone in his unit had different methods and that the strongest Psi-warrior was a man named Lynn Cassady.
Bob writes a small piece on Lacey and forgets about him. A year later in 2003, one of Bob and Helens fat coworkers has a heart attack and dies, which serves as a catalyst for Helen leaving Bob. Helen tells Bob that life is too short to spend not looking for true happiness and leaves to be with Bobs one armed editor, Dave. Bob grows increasingly aimless, and decides that he will go to Iraq in order to get the perfect scoop.
memorable quotes :
Lyn Cassady: [driving up behind a running prisoner yelling out the window] It's ok we're Americans, we're here to help you!
Bob Wilton: [Truck shakes and rattles a little bit] What happened?
Lyn Cassady: I think I just ran him over. Oh crap.
Bill Django: I'm liberating this base!
Bob Wilton: So what do you use to remote view?
Lyn Cassady: I drink. And I find classic rock helps.
Bob Wilton: Any music in particular?
Lyn Cassady: Boston. Boston usually works.
Lyn Cassady: Dear Mother Earth... I will drink your blue waters... and eat your green skin.
Bob Wilton: It wasn't the Dim Mak that was killing Lyn. And it wasn't the cancer. He was dying of a broken heart. And maybe, the cancer as well.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Did you crash those computers?
Lyn Cassady: Yes, sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Far fuckin' out.
Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs.
Lyn Cassady: What?
Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs. We put LSD in the eggs.
Bill Django: And the water. I put LSD in the main water tank.
Bob Wilton: What? But, we drank the water!
Bill Django: Yeah!
Lyn Cassady: It's ok, you can "attack" me...
Bob Wilton: What's with the quotation fingers? It's like saying I'm only capable of ironic attacking or something.
[first lines]
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: [with great concentration] Boone.
Lieutenant Boone: Yes sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: I'm going into the next office.
Lieutenant Boone: Yes sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: [breaks into a sprint]
Title Card: More of this is true than you would believe.
Bob Wilton: Every single one of Bill's soldiers fired high. They instinctively hadn't wanted to shoot another person. Later Bill would come across a study which revealed that only 15-20% of fresh soldiers shot to kill. The rest aimed high, didn't fire at all, or pretended to be busy doing something else.
Bill Django: We must be the first superpower to create super powers.
General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research?
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they *are* doing psy-research, we're gonna have to do psy-research, sir.
[leans forward]
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: We can't afford to have the Russian's leading the field in the paranormal.
Bob Wilton: [in a firefight] I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.
[last lines]
Bob Wilton: Now more than ever we need the Jedi.
Bob Wilton: As we ran for cover, I thought this was what I wanted. I was on a mission, even if I didn't know what kind of mission it was. But I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.
Lyn Cassady: I'm very sorry for running you over, sir.
Mahmud Daash: It was an accident.
Lyn Cassady: And I apologize for that security detachment. I don't want you to think that all Americans are like that.
Mahmud Daash: I apologize for the kidnappers.
Lyn Cassady: Not your fault, sir. I mean, we've kidnappers in America and... There's always... bad apples.
Bob Wilton: We've been sitting here for half an hour. How's that "instant?"
Bob Wilton: Would you stop saying that? I've been... I've been blown up! I'm in the middle of a desert! I'm not gonna be okay.
Lyn Cassady: Bob, you're in shock. If you panic, your heart's gonna stop.
Bob Wilton: Is that supposed to calm me down?
Bill Django: Mother Earth, you're my life support system. As a soldier I must drink your blue water, live inside your red clay and eat your green skin. Help me to balance myself. As you hold in balance, the Earth, the sea, and the space environments. Help me to open my heart, knowing that the Universe will feed me. I pray my boots will always kiss your face, and my footsteps match your heartbeat. Carry my body through space and time. You're my connection to the Universe and all that comes after. I'm yours and you are mine. I salute you.
Bill Django: [Having just meditatively fallen off a container] I just saw Timothy Leary!
Bob Wilton: Timothy Leary's dead...
Lyn Cassady: Once you understand the linkage between observation and reality then you begin to dance with invisibility.
Bob Wilton: Like camouflage.
Lyn Cassady: No, it's not like camouflage.
Bob Wilton: [Truck shakes and rattles a little bit] What happened?
Lyn Cassady: I think I just ran him over. Oh crap.
Bill Django: I'm liberating this base!
Bob Wilton: So what do you use to remote view?
Lyn Cassady: I drink. And I find classic rock helps.
Bob Wilton: Any music in particular?
Lyn Cassady: Boston. Boston usually works.
Lyn Cassady: Dear Mother Earth... I will drink your blue waters... and eat your green skin.
Bob Wilton: It wasn't the Dim Mak that was killing Lyn. And it wasn't the cancer. He was dying of a broken heart. And maybe, the cancer as well.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Did you crash those computers?
Lyn Cassady: Yes, sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Far fuckin' out.
Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs.
Lyn Cassady: What?
Bob Wilton: Don't eat the eggs. We put LSD in the eggs.
Bill Django: And the water. I put LSD in the main water tank.
Bob Wilton: What? But, we drank the water!
Bill Django: Yeah!
Lyn Cassady: It's ok, you can "attack" me...
Bob Wilton: What's with the quotation fingers? It's like saying I'm only capable of ironic attacking or something.
[first lines]
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: [with great concentration] Boone.
Lieutenant Boone: Yes sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: I'm going into the next office.
Lieutenant Boone: Yes sir.
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: [breaks into a sprint]
Title Card: More of this is true than you would believe.
Bob Wilton: Every single one of Bill's soldiers fired high. They instinctively hadn't wanted to shoot another person. Later Bill would come across a study which revealed that only 15-20% of fresh soldiers shot to kill. The rest aimed high, didn't fire at all, or pretended to be busy doing something else.
Bill Django: We must be the first superpower to create super powers.
General Brown: So they started doing psy-research because they thought we were doing psy-research, when in fact we weren't doing psy-research?
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: Yes sir. But now that they *are* doing psy-research, we're gonna have to do psy-research, sir.
[leans forward]
Brigadier General Dean Hopgood: We can't afford to have the Russian's leading the field in the paranormal.
Bob Wilton: [in a firefight] I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.
[last lines]
Bob Wilton: Now more than ever we need the Jedi.
Bob Wilton: As we ran for cover, I thought this was what I wanted. I was on a mission, even if I didn't know what kind of mission it was. But I could hear the little man inside me again. He was screaming like a little girl.
Lyn Cassady: I'm very sorry for running you over, sir.
Mahmud Daash: It was an accident.
Lyn Cassady: And I apologize for that security detachment. I don't want you to think that all Americans are like that.
Mahmud Daash: I apologize for the kidnappers.
Lyn Cassady: Not your fault, sir. I mean, we've kidnappers in America and... There's always... bad apples.
Bob Wilton: We've been sitting here for half an hour. How's that "instant?"
Bob Wilton: Would you stop saying that? I've been... I've been blown up! I'm in the middle of a desert! I'm not gonna be okay.
Lyn Cassady: Bob, you're in shock. If you panic, your heart's gonna stop.
Bob Wilton: Is that supposed to calm me down?
Bill Django: Mother Earth, you're my life support system. As a soldier I must drink your blue water, live inside your red clay and eat your green skin. Help me to balance myself. As you hold in balance, the Earth, the sea, and the space environments. Help me to open my heart, knowing that the Universe will feed me. I pray my boots will always kiss your face, and my footsteps match your heartbeat. Carry my body through space and time. You're my connection to the Universe and all that comes after. I'm yours and you are mine. I salute you.
Bill Django: [Having just meditatively fallen off a container] I just saw Timothy Leary!
Bob Wilton: Timothy Leary's dead...
Lyn Cassady: Once you understand the linkage between observation and reality then you begin to dance with invisibility.
Bob Wilton: Like camouflage.
Lyn Cassady: No, it's not like camouflage.
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