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60 of 113 · most liked firstI wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about Ridley Scott’s misunderstood, marrow-sick masterpiece of the End Times, THE COUNSELOR. Not a noir thriller, nor a cowboy noir, nor a crime film at all; rather, THE COUNSELOR is a soap opera of the Grand Guignol. southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
unlabelledView post →MINI THREAD: A premier achievement in my journalism career occurred shortly after I went to a press screening of The Counselor and pledged to myself: “I will force Ferrari to comment publicly about Cameron Diaz sweatily fucking their vehicle.” For days, Ferrari… www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
unlabelledView post →**HOLY FUCKING SHIT** - I genuinely don't know why I've never watched KINGDOM OF HEAVEN before now - but having just finished the Directors Cut, I can confidently say that it's Ridley's second best film after THE COUNSELOR.
unlabelledView post →I was honored and thrilled to write for @southwestreview.bsky.social about a film that is both Ridley Scott's vicious genre morality play and Cormac McCarthy's soap opera of the Grand Guignol -- THE COUNSELOR. Buy a subscription (cheap!) / cop the issue (even cheaper!) below.
unlabelledView post →Javier Bardem - 📽️ The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013) The film is bleak even for a Cormac McCarthy story and often baffling or incoherent, but Bardem (along with his wife Penélope Cruz) completely understands the type of huge side characters it needs. His seductive disco boogie is the highlight.
unlabelledView post →Happy 88th to Ridley Scott—I wrote for @southwestreview.bsky.social about his misunderstood and marrow-sick masterpiece of the End Times, THE COUNSELOR. Not a noir thriller, or a cowboy noir, or a crime film at all; rather, THE COUNSELOR is Scott’s soap opera of the Grand Guignol.
unlabelledView post →THE KILLER reminded me a bit of the genre deconstruction and philosophizing of another Michael Fassbender movie, THE COUNSELOR. This is a good thing IMO: thereveal.substack.com/p/in-review-...
unlabelledView post →I just don’t think late career sloppiness undermines the work you already did. He could retire with his legacy secure (made The Counselor in 2013) or he could make a whatever that dog stars movie is and another dozen David-themed Alien spinoffs.
unlabelledView post →The Counselor. Do not watch this movie unless you have a therapist on speed dial.
unlabelledView post →I feel like a part of a very special club when I get blank looks when I tell folks my fave Ridley film is THE COUNSELOR
unlabelledView post →Ridley Scott's The Counselor has like 50 or so defenders I'm one of them. Brutal, bleak, absurd, a movie about the drug war monster eating its feeders and exploiters (aka Americans and America itself) alive.
unlabelledView post →Perhaps Ridley Scott's most underrated film (watch the directors cut!), I wrote about The Counselor for @cinephiliabeyond.org cinephiliabeyond.org/thecounselor/
unlabelledView post →A movie that feels like this but actually was intentionally made this way was Southland Tales. The Counselor (which is going viral with stan Twitter rn) is this 100% though. John Carter is another example. And as much as I love The Wachowskis, Jupiter Ascending.
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand Pickles (Don't even think about pickles while making my food) The Counselor (Don't watch this movie without a therapist on speed dial) Aqualung (Huge Tull fan. Not that one)
unlabelledView post →The Counselor is maybe the most insane movie I’ve ever seen
unlabelledView post →I might quibble with some of the ranking, but I mostly agree. THE COUNSELOR is one of the most striking examples of a film where the Director's Cut is a significant upgrade — same with KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and NAPOLEON, I believe.
unlabelledView post →Totally agree. The Counselor isn't a great film, but not as bad as I'd been led to believe.
unlabelledView post →Re-re-watched THE COUNSELOR last night, which is a movie made by people convinced that cinema can only contain two kinds of scenes: people giving long and meandering speeches about the state of the world and everyone in it, and people having their heads cut off
unlabelledView post →Stan Twitter somehow got ahold of Cameron Diaz' admittedly ridiculous yet very brooding final speech from the Ridley Scott 2013's cult classic The Counselor, and it became a meme (even though the movie is about a drug deal gone wrong a bunch of named characters get killed in horrific fashion lmao)
unlabelledView post →Woke up this morning and The Counselor memes stopped being funny yeah sorry guys that movie is way too serious for me to even find it as a joke. It is a darkly funny movie though.
unlabelledView post →Under The Silver Lake truly done dirty. I watched The Counselor (theatrical) when I was an (unpaid) film critic for Vancouver Weekly, & I wrote a review that was kind of negative, but I think I was just ashamed to admit that I liked it. I should watch the director's cut.
unlabelledView post →The Counselor. One of Ridley Scott's best films. A great film
unlabelledView post →The Counselor I like Cormac McCarthy. I like Ridley Scott. I utterly loathed that movie. It tried to have something profound to say about hubris and human fault, but just came out as anti humanity completely.
unlabelledView post →It's kinda funny that Ridley Scott tried so hard to make The Counselor a Tony Scott film when he already did it perfectly with Black Hawk Down. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →The Counselor (2013) - script by Cormac McCarthy, directed by Ridley Scott. Superb cast. Very, very bleak. It's a really good movie, IMHO, but the plot, and especially the ending, is SOOOOOOO fucking depressing, I watched it once, and I don't think I'll re-watch it. But it was good.
unlabelledView post →“It is neither a noir thriller, nor a cowboy noir, nor a crime film at all; rather, The Counselor is Cormac McCarthy’s soap opera of the Grand Guignol.” 📌ICYMI, read @aheartofgould.bsky.social on THECOUNSELOR from our winter issue southwestreview.com/volume-109-n...
unlabelledView post →Did I miss the "Cormac McCarthy sucks" cycle after that VF piece dropped? Because he really does. Everything he writes is terribly overwritten. The Road read like a parody of his style. That said, No Country for Old Men is a terrific movie and The Counselor is a truly batshit one (complimentary).
unlabelledView post →I am a defender of this movie and specifically a defender of Cameron Díaz in it. But the same is true of THE COUNSELOR so adjust your expectations accordingly.
unlabelledView post →Wyatt Earp - the Kasdan/Costner movie. Looooove it. The Counselor - Ridley Scott & Cormac McCarthy & Cameron Diaz has sex with a windscreen. Ali - Do people love this yet? The opening 20 minutes is the best filmmaking of Michael Mann's (or anyone's?) career. Soderbergh's Solaris. Over Tarkovsky.
unlabelledView post →Re-watching Cormac McCarthy + Ridley Scott's THE COUNSELOR (2013). IMO an absolute "Horror film." Malkina stands next to The Judge as one of McCarthy's most primal antagonists. Many shat upon it for its misanthropy & nihilism but that's nothing new for McCarthy. The end remains DEVASTATING. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →I'm not an especially big fan of The Counselor, possibly because they didn't stop and extract all of Cameron Diaz's footage and repurpose it for a Bond film for her role as the lead villain. Look at this stuff. People would have gone apeshit to see her do this in a Bond movie.
unlabelledView post →The only actually great movie he's made since Thelma & Louise (thirty-five years ago) is The Counselor -- I said what I said
unlabelledView post →Definitely worth studying McCarthy himself, as I think he's largely responsible for the modern revival. Beyond the obvious examples, the book and film of All The Pretty Horses are in conversation with each other in interesting stylistic ways, then you have The Counselor, which I definitely count.
unlabelledView post →The Counselor imo comes closest, a Ridley movie directed by Tony.
unlabelledView post →Factually true, but he also made the director's cut of The Counselor, which means all sins are forgiven. (Also, The Last Duel - 5 star film)
unlabelledView post →Not everyone is here to appreciate my skillful dual references to the Ridley Scott film THE COUNSELOR and the forthcoming Joseph Kosinski F1 film F1. I’m okay with that. I thrive on being wrong and learning new things.
unlabelledView post →In the spirit of Ridley Scott's unending duality, opening the list with probably his most underrated film: THE COUNSELOR (2013).
unlabelledView post →Maybe one of the reasons I was so taken aback by The Counselor when I first saw it. By then I'd seen Saw, A Serbian Film, Martyrs etc. But such a gruesome death scene from an A-list director directing an A-list Hollywood star? WTF? It's just not what you expect to see. (Not a bad thing, of course.)
unlabelledView post →I'm surprised you didn't know about The Counselor. Ridley Scott joint with Cormac McCarthy (yes, that one). Super fascinating movie, and for me a tribute to his brother's passing.
unlabelledView post →Have you seen the Counselor canonical quasi deleted scene slash lingerie commercial slash short film with Fassbender and Natalie Dormer?
unlabelledView post →I am seeing people talk about THE COUNSELOR 🎥 aka the movie where Cameron Diaz (and her body double) very literally fucks a car. It also has Rosie Perez in it! But hoo boy www.criticsnotebook.com/the-counselo...
unlabelledView post →The director's cut makes it almost a different film (which is so far true of half of the director's cut Napoleon too). I may have a lot of words about some of the choices but also respect for The Counselor and pleasantly surprised at KoH so high.
unlabelledView post →Ridley Scott makes about five bad movies for every good film. The only good ones he’s made since, 2010, is The Last Duel and The Counselor. It’s quickly gaining consensus that Tony Scott was the true steel in that family. Like The Counselor could have been great if Tony directed it as opposed to ok
unlabelledView post →THE COUNSELOR is really all-timer scene after all-timer scene that is made exclusively for freaks! The perfect film to showcase the uselessness of Rottentomatoes
unlabelledView post →If Cormac McCarthy sees a movie in his head when he writes his books I think it's basically THE COUNSELOR
unlabelledView post →The "white guys in bronzer" makeup is a disgusting travesty and it's not helped that the film around them is so boooooring. It's crazy Scott made such a dull movie between two bangers - THE COUNSELOR and THE MARTIAN.
unlabelledView post →Yeah he was def a movie guy. Only specific I can remember is he talked about the different versions of The Counselor and would go back and forth on which he preferred. I left all the Elliot Goulds behind, and there is only one Roger Moore account in my heart!
unlabelledView post →The sequel movie The Counselor explains everything.
unlabelledView post →The second worst film I’ve seen Fassbender in (the actual worst being The Counselor)
unlabelledView post →I love that for the film The Counselor, they brought in another writer not to rewrite McCarthy, but just to reformat his wall of text pages into something the cast and crew could read.
unlabelledView post →I have yet to watch THE COUNSELOR, but I have heard nothing but great things about it. The question is to read the screenplay or watch the movie first?
unlabelledView post →Much like how I replaced Miami Vice with The Counselor (director's cut) as my favourite film.
unlabelledView post →Just watched Ridley Scott's The Counselor (2013) and it completely elided how the titular lawyer or his buddy Javier Bardem were involved in the main plot driver drug shipment in any way. Didn't matter, not what the film was about
unlabelledView post →A movie I’ve watched more than 6 times? There’s no freaking way I’ll find gifs from the Counselor here… …or anywhere
unlabelledView post →I haven't watched an actual movie in quite a while, I just realize. The last one was "The Counselor", which was a really good movie, but it got bleaker and bleaker as the story progressed, with very bummer-type ending. So I stick to David Attenborough documentaries for the time being. 🥰
unlabelledView post →Ha! Glad to help with sanity. The topic of AmE / BrE differences has been a favorite of mine for a long time, especially when movie-related. The Counsellor / The Counselor comes to mind.
unlabelledView post →Unforgettable book. The movie "The Counselor" on the other hand.....
unlabelledView post →I won’t stand for this The Counselor erasure (maybe the worst movie I’ve ever seen) ew.com/article/2013...
unlabelledView post →(Really considering a Ridley v. Tony bake-off at this point) (I'll just say, I've never turned off a Tony Scott movie, but I stopped watching THE COUNSELOR after 25 minutes, and I'm surprised I lasted that long)
unlabelledView post →I can appreciate what Cameron Diaz is doing in THE COUNSELOR. I can appreciate what Cameron Diaz is *trying* to do in GANGS OF NEW YORK, which is belong in the movie. Personally I do not feel she gets there. Honestly I'm glad you like her in it tho. In general, all art needs someone on its side👊🏼🤘🏼
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