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Billy Wonka

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In Reply to: RE: "The Counselor:" DON'T expect your usual caper-gone-wrong action blast, even though it's posted by tinear on May 30, 2014 at 20:58:34

Diaz was right at the limit of her range. AAMOF, she was over the line. Fassbender was melodramatic while Bardem was a super star and my favorite character. Pitt was good also. After a few viewings the dialog really becomes stilted. Scott does an excellent job of telegraphing the plot but one wonders what Diaz true motive really is...like her cats, the thrill of the kill?

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It got pretty bad Rot Tom so I passed the theater and waited for Netflix. Anyhow, I think - tinear 07:21:41 05/31/14 (1)
Diaz was perfect; only problem was she may have been a tad too deadly and evil looking---- how didn't Cruz or Fassbdender get a clue? Javier noticed, but he seemed not to give a damn, the excitement was key for his character.
I think Tarantino or the Coens would have made a better film, but they wouldn't have kept the insanity of the philosophizing. It may have been also more entertaining as a caper film and that's why this was so successful: it balanced the violence with the moral.
I bet a viewer with a taste for the white stuff will think about a headless young woman before her/his next snort.
To make too exciting or entertaining, in the classical sense, a film would have been pornographic, in a deep sense. There's nothing fun about the drug trade, about the cartel, about their heartlessness and savagery. Comparing them to cheetahs, even, is an insult to the felines.
- This is one of the best things Cruz has done . . . - Billy Wonka 09:27:35 05/31/14 (0)
  She really added a special touch to being an innocent, good person unaware of what her fiance really was. She taught us a good point: When running away from danger don't drive your car to the airport and park it far away from the elevator---take a freaking cab.

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