One of my most anticipated films of 2013 with an all star cast, one of my favorite directors working today, and it's an orginal screenplay from Cormac McCarthy.

This first teaser's in Russian:
http://collider.com/the-counselor-teaser-trailer-russian/

And even though I have no idea what they're saying, it still looks cool.

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I'm in just off those names. I thought Scott did a fine job directing Prometheus, but the movie was let down by the screenplay. hopefully one of my favorite authors can correct that.

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>One of my most anticipated films of 2013 with an all star
>cast, one of my favorite directors working today, and it's an
>orginal screenplay from Cormac McCarthy.
>
>This first teaser's in Russian:
>http://collider.com/the-counselor-teaser-trailer-russian/
>
>And even though I have no idea what they're saying, it still
>looks cool.
>

Link's been updated w/ a UK trailer in the King's english

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http://collider.com/counselor-images-script-excerpt/

NIGHT. TWO-LANE blacktop road through the high desert. A car passes and the lights recede down the long straight and fade out. A man walks out from the scrub cedars that line the road and stands in the middle of the road and lights a cigarette. He is carrying a roll of thin braided wire over one shoulder. He continues across the road to the fence. A tall metal pipe is mounted to one of the fence posts and at the top—some twenty feet off the ground—is a floodlight. The man pushes the button on a small plastic sending unit and the light comes on, flooding the road and the man’s face. He turns it off and walks down the fence line a good hundred yards to the corner of the fence and here he drops the coil of wire to the ground and takes a flashlight from his back pocket and puts it in his teeth and takes a pair of leather gloves from his belt and puts them on. Then he loops the wire around the corner post and pulls the end of the wire through the loop and wraps it about six times around the wire itself and tucks the end several times inside the loop and then takes the wire in both hands and hauls it as tight as he can get it. Then he takes the coil of wire and crosses the road, letting out the wire behind him. In the cedars on the far side, a flatbed truck is parked with the bed of the truck facing the road. There is an iron pipe at the right rear of the truck bed mounted vertically in a pair of collars so that it can slide up and down and the man threads the wire through a hole in the pipe and pulls it taut and stops it from sliding back by clamping the wire with a pair of vise grips. Then he walks back out to the road and takes a tape measure from his belt and measures the height of the wire from the road surface. He goes back to the truck and lowers the iron pipe in its collars and clamps it in place again with a threaded lever that he turns by hand against the vertical rod. He goes out to the road and measures the wire again and comes back and wraps the end of the wire through a heavy three-inch iron ring and walks to the front of the truck, where he pulls the wire taut and wraps it around itself to secure the ring at the end of the wire and then pulls the ring over a hook mounted in the side rail of the truck bed. He stands looking at it. He strums the wire with his fingers. It gives off a deep resonant note. He unhooks the ring and walks the wire to the rear of the truck until it lies slack on the ground and in the road. He lays the ring on the truck bed and goes around and takes a walkie-talkie from a work bag in the cab of the truck and stands in the open door of the truck, listening. He checks his watch by the dome light in the cab.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4rTztvVx8E

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I bought it today and I'm about half way through. Some of the dialog is hilarious and I stopped reading tonight at what I think is the start of the major conflict in the movie that I think was somewhat spoiler by the trailers.

>I bought it today and I'm about half way through. Some of the
>dialog is hilarious and I stopped reading tonight at what I
>think is the start of the major conflict in the movie that I
>think was somewhat spoiler by the trailers.

are you talking about that clip of pitt specifically or just in general?

>>I bought it today and I'm about half way through. Some of
>the
>>dialog is hilarious and I stopped reading tonight at what I
>>think is the start of the major conflict in the movie that I
>>think was somewhat spoiler by the trailers.
>
>are you talking about that clip of pitt specifically or just
>in general?


The clip doesn't involve Pitt, at least I don't think it does; it shows for a brief second a scene involving a motorcycle driving in the night. I won't say anymore in case you haven't seen the scene in question because saying too much will spoil what I think is a major scene in the flick, at least from the limited amount I've read of the screenplay so far.

>>>I bought it today and I'm about half way through. Some of
>>the
>>>dialog is hilarious and I stopped reading tonight at what I
>>>think is the start of the major conflict in the movie that
>I
>>>think was somewhat spoiler by the trailers.
>>
>>are you talking about that clip of pitt specifically or just
>>in general?
>
>
>The clip doesn't involve Pitt, at least I don't think it does;
>it shows for a brief second a scene involving a motorcycle
>driving in the night. I won't say anymore in case you haven't
>seen the scene in question because saying too much will spoil
>what I think is a major scene in the flick, at least from the
>limited amount I've read of the screenplay so far.

Saw that one. There's another they're showing now w/ Pitt which looks very telling but I guess could be misleading.

and its kinda weird how all of the commercials are basically quoting preview articles over and over....seems weird to me

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watched the making of segment on hbo the other night & the diaz scenes were very troubling

... how audience unfriendly the movie is going to be.

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>... how audience unfriendly the movie is going to be.


You based this on anything else other than the screenplay? Oddly enough, I thought Penelope Cruz was going to play the Malinka character at first and Cameron Diaz was going to play The Counselor's love interest; I think mainly because of Blow. I think the fact Diaz is going to play that role rubs the the wrong way. I don't want to say too much to spoil the movie though, but I can easily see her mucking up the movie. The only other aspects outside of possible shoddy directing is some of the longer dialog that some of the characters make in the film, but if the acting is up to snuff, that shouldn't be a major issue.

I know critics haven't taken kindly to it, but I know a few critics I respect who said early that they loved it, but it's far too cold and philosophical and McCarthyish for the general public to do anything other than hate it.

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From what I've been told and what I've read, this seems like something I can catch on HBO in March/April/May.

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"Mr. Scott manages all these swiftly spinning parts with impeccable control and a lucid visual style. The story may be initially elusive, but there’s a clarity, solidity and stillness (the camera moves but doesn’t tremble) to his images that augment the narrative’s gravity and inexorable momentum. The beauty of the landscapes is about all that feels coherent in an often unrecognizable, unsettling world."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/movies/the-counselor-a-cormac-mccarthy-tale-of-mostly-evil.html?ref=movies&_r=0

Despite some subpar reviews, I'm still very much looking forward to this...

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Might check it out

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I love Ridley Scott, love the actors, love Wolski, love McCarthy, and I love films that are dense, cold, novelistic, and philosophical (Cosmopolis was one of my favorite films last year).

But it's bleaker than any McCarthy film on screen to date (which says something), its philosophical blather doesn't add up to much, the events are predictable, and it sprawls shapelessly like... well, a novel. It feels like an adaptation of a McCarthy novel with no edits made for cinematic considerations-- just thrown right onto the screen, every word.

It's also a film that for 75-90 minutes contains nothing but people talking about what happened or what will happen. Until the motorcycle incident, it's almost more like a play. Which, again, normally I would like.

Brad Pitt is the best with the McCarthy dialogue in the film by far. Some of the actors don't seem to be striking the right tone, so the novelistic lines sound stilted. Pitt home runs every line he has, though. And obviously the movie looks gorgeous with Wolski as d.p....

... but yeah, I didn't like it. And I'd ignored all the reviews too. I figured it'd be a Cosmopolis type of flick-- talky, novelistic, cold-- which is 100% my bag. And it is all of those things... but it just plain didn't work for me.

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Her and some of the longer speeches by some of the major and minor characters are two of the aspects of the movie I am worried about.

The speeches are probably fine on their own, but the movie is pretty damn talky when it all adds together.

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It's a bunch of bullshit that adds up to nothing. People said it's worth checking out on cable.

Which is a shame cause everyone said that everything beside the script and Diaz is solid, but it just doesn't come together.

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Her character is just a cartoon, it's not her performances' fault. She handles the dialogue decently.

Fassbender is the real disappointment. His character is pretty empty, and the dialogue is so restrictingly novelistic that he can't really do anything until the end, when he suddenly emotes passionately, but it feels unearned since he's been so cold nearly all film long.

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The sum of it's parts don't add up to much

Trailer gives it all away except for the fucking ferrari

They was just a rambling on and on, lol, when i got home i had to go to wikipedia to read about what happened geez. Did y'all know Malkina hired the wireman? I sure didn't.

Cormac McCarthy, PLEASE stick to writing novels.

Grade F

>Did y'all know Malkina hired the wireman?

I think I recall hearing her voice on the phone during the exchange

Didn't really matter tho

>They was just a rambling on and on, lol, when i got home i
>had to go to wikipedia to read about what happened geez.
>Did y'all know Malkina hired the wireman? I sure didn't.
>
>
>Cormac McCarthy, PLEASE stick to writing novels.
>
>Grade F


I didn't watch the movie; I instead read the screenplay, so bear that in mind. I was under the impression Malinka only hired the people who killed Brad Pitt's character, but that the drugs were going to be stolen outside of her control. So her character was behind the entire deal getting screwed up? Interesting.

just lots of talky characters who lose their heads (literally) when they can't take their own advice. Fassbender was surprisingly inconsequential; daresay even bad. the many, many monologues tried to add heft, but they came off forced (I did like the grief parable).

it's kind of entertaining, pretty to look at, but mostly stuck in neutral.

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>Fassbender
>was surprisingly inconsequential; daresay even bad.

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Mostly because Fassy is so good in 12 Years a Slave, and Pitt with his Amish beard and Inglourious Basterds speech rhythms is easily the weak link...

... but then in this, Fassbender is a non-entity, defined mostly by his wavering accent, whereas Pitt for me was by far the stand-out, easily the most comfortable with the novelistic dialogue.

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Shit didn't connect and shit happens for no reason. Hank Schrader kind of just shows up out of nowhere and just fucks around with John Leguizamo for a minute.

Too many monologues that tried to be profound.

Fassbender was boring. Javier did his thing. My man Pitt was the clear MVP in this whole thing. I wish he had more screentime.

The bolito device shit was cool though.

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