"Women are predatory whores" vs. "Cameron Diaz's character is an aggressive predator."
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 7 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
I think it's essentially being pulled from theaters after today btw.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/fashion/in-the-counselor-fashions-and-furnishings-play-a-pivotal-aesthetic-role.html?src=me
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Thursday, 7 November 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
Oh man this movie
Definitely "worth seeing"
I liked it,kinda
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
pretty much my feelings.
i look forward to seeing it again actually. something tells me it'll play well on cable.
it really reminded me of Cosmopolis--particularly in that it seemed to revolve around a series of rather abstract conversations. intriguing.
― ryan, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
Ha that was almost a haiku
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Self xpost
But yeah, ryan otm
― goth drama is universal (latebloomer), Monday, 11 November 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
Also, it doesn't become clear for a while that half the movie at least must be conversations between The Counselor and a character who only appears in a single scene.
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Monday, 11 November 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
really want that ruben blades coffee service
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 06:36 (ten years ago) link
on motorized decapitations
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2013/11/cormac-mccarthy-truman-capote-herschell-gordon-lewis.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
lol there's three names I never expected to see together
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/10447186/The-Counsellor-when-good-scripts-go-very-bad.html
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
what sux about the movie is mostly in the script
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 November 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
Wasn't that bad, did have some interesting bits, but seemed to overstretch the amount of subplots and be self-consciously amoral which is probably totally oxymoronic.
Saw it in a cinema with one other person in the audience which is a bit weird. Guess word of mouth is out about the film. I enjoyed some of it quite a bit.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
imo the best things about it are the peculiar digressions and the particular flavor of mccarthy's dialogue and ideas
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7PvtbkH0I (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
And that one sunflower Versace shirt Bardem wears.
― Bailey (Collins) Lover (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
I've been saying "I've seen it all; it's all shit" pretty regularly since I saw it. I love pithy nihilism tho.
― ryan, Wednesday, 27 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
I haven't finished watching it but ws penelope cruz + fassbender in that opening scene daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 December 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
extended disc cut in Feb, 21 mins longer
no thx really
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
I think the early conversation with the Amsterdam jeweler about love and death and fate and god is much longer.
― tbd (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
longest Bruno Ganz monologue since Hitler rant
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
unironically cant wait
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
psyched
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
http://www.uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2014/01/cormac-mccarthys-ex-arrested-brandishing-gun-pulled-vagina-dispute-aliens/
― akm, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'll be checking out the longer cut. Hopefully there's not more of *that* scene.
― ryan, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
this was terrible imo. everyone in it is miscast, save maybe penelope cruz. the dialogue is the major problem, a brisk no thank you sir to the extended cut
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
More like michael miscastbender and javier boredom and brad shit in this one, thanks for nothing boremac mcsharty
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
so who has watched the expanded version, and...?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Eszterhas scripts are better.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 30 August 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
Four-hour commentary track.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
HBO Max has the extended version (20 minutes longer), though you have to search under extras to the page to find it. Much better than the original cut.
Reminds me structurally of Gomorrah as far as a collage of how many people have jobs to make a smuggling operation happen.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 5 August 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
Yes, that was the most canny thing about the movie: the way that the scenes of abstract philosophical speech were interspersed with scenes of people going about the operation with minimal or functional dialogue, a really striking contrast.One of my least favourite things in this is the trope of the powerful evil guy who says, "I know you don't want me to do this evil thing, but fate makes it inevitable". There's a lot of interesting stuff in this movie, but I'm not convinced its moral compass is any more evolved than Mötley Crüe's "Dr. Feelgood".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 5 August 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
I love this movie. I own the director's cut Blu-Ray. I don't need an evolved moral compass from a movie whose entire message is "fuck around and find out."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:41 (one year ago) link
I should rewatch this.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 August 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
I watched the 138 minute cut. Somehow I had completely blanked on both the movie and McCarthy's connection -- total "wait, what?!" when his name appeared.
Cormack McCarthy filmed as a big, expensive capital-G Giallo sure sounds like a great idea, but every director eventually misses threading that needle of misunderstood masterpiece or camp classic. It's manic and feeds off of its own energy now and then, but I think I like the writing about this more than I do the actual film. "Bardem looks like John Cassavetes in a fright wig." -- I miss Morbs.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 07:46 (one year ago) link