Thank you, the above is correct. When I say they consider it a glorified movie script, they really pointed out that this was McCarthy's attempt to get a movie deal and was much shorter than many of his other works.
What they actually said was that it was "pulpier" than his other works, and Josh Brolin expressed concern because there was far less dialogue than would normally have been expected in a movie script. Again, I'm not down on McCarthy - I think he's an incredible novelist - but by all accounts the dialogue in
The Counselor is awful. There's no doubt that Scott is at least partly to blame if the movie's that bad, but at the same time he can't be expected to turn - to quote a famous author - chicken excrement into chicken salad. Good actors and directors can't make bad scripts into good movies.
I'm going to have to watch it now, and it's your fault.
