Interesting tweets:

Jeff Sneider ‏@TheInSneider 23m
.@DevinCF on THE COUNSELOR: "You probably won’t like The Counselor, but I think you should see it. Not every film wants to be liked."

edgarwright ‏@edgarwright 21h
Almost all 70's movies would have had terrible Cinemascores.
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edgarwright ‏@edgarwright 21h
'The Counselor' is Ridley Scott's 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia'. If you submit to its death trip, you might have a good time. I did.

Just one note, in the first sentence I think you mean "morbid". "Moribund" means near death, inactive or obsolete.

'The Counselor' script page 48/116

Church, interior.
Five women are standing in line
along the rear wall of the church waiting to go to confession.
The women are both Hispanic and anglo.
At the front of the line is Malkina,
dressed casually but fashionably.
The woman in the confessional pushes back the curtain
and exits with her head bowed
and Malkina enters the confessional booth.

MALKINA Hi.

PRIEST Hi?

MALKINA Oh. Bless me father for I have sinned.

PRIEST How long has it been since your last confession?

MALKINA I’ve never been before. This is my first.

PRIEST Are you Catholic?

MALKINA No.

PRIEST Why are you here?

MALKINA I wanted to confess my sins.

PRIEST Have you ever done this before?

MALKINA No. I told you.

PRIEST I couldn’t give you absolution. Even if you did. Confess. You
couldn’t be forgiven.

MALKINA I know. I just wanted to tell someone what I’d done and I thought
why not go to a professional.

PRIEST Have you thought about taking instructions?

MALKINA That’s not something I do very well.

PRIEST I mean in order to become a Catholic. You take what are called
instructions. You learn about the faith. What it means. Then you
could confess and you would be forgiven for your sins.

MALKINA How do you know?

PRIEST Excuse me?

MALKINA What if they’re unforgivable?

PRIEST Nothing is unforgivable.

MALKINA Yeah? What’s the worst thing anyone ever told you?

PRIEST I wouldn’t be at liberty to tell you a thing like that. The priest can
never reveal anything from the confessional.

MALKINA That bad, huh? Well, I haven’t killed anybody. But I’ve been
pretty bad. I think. I don’t really know because I’m not all that
sure about the rules.

PRIEST Where are you from?

MALKINA Buenos Aires. You?

PRIEST Excuse me?

MALKINA Where are you from?

PRIEST Phoenix. Arizona.

MALKINA I know where Phoenix is. Do you ever go out on dates with girls?

PRIEST No. Of course not.

MALKINA Boys?

PRIEST No. What did you want to tell me.

MALKINA What if I’d done something really bad? What if I’d killed
somebody. Would you call the police?
PRIEST No.

MALKINA I killed somebody.

PRIEST You said that you hadn’t. Look. I‘m sorry, but we have people here
waiting to go to confession.

MALKINA They can wait. I did. You want to throw me out because I’m not a
Catholic but what if I’d said I was one? I mean, you don’t carry a
card around do you?

PRIEST Who did you talk to about this?

MALKINA Why did I talk to somebody?

PRIEST You said Bless me father.

MALKINA I asked a friend. But she didn’t know I was going to do it. I asked
her if non-Catholics could go to confession but she said no you couldn’t.

PRIEST But you didn’t believe her.

MALKINA No, I believed her. But I’m a curious person. I just waited to see
what would happen.

PRIEST So are we done here then?

MALKINA I haven’t told you my sins yet.

PRIEST I don’t want to hear your sins. There would be no point. Are you
baptized?
MALKINA I don’t know. It’s possible.

PRIEST Your parents never told you?

MALKINA I never knew my parents. Look, you don’t have to do the
forgiveness thing. All you would have to do is listen. To the sins.
You could even pretend I was lying. If you didn’t like what you
hearing.

PRIEST Why would you lie?

MALKINA I wouldn’t. But you could think that I was. Maybe I wanted to be
wicked but I didn’t have the stones for it. So I would just make up stuff. Women tell you about sex, don’t they?

PRIEST I can’t talk about that.

MALKINA Yes. But every woman who comes to confess tells you that she is
an adulterer or a fornicator or something of else why would she be
here? The only women who don’t come are the ones who aren’t
doing anything. So you must get an unusual picture of women.
You must think that they are just having sex all the time. That
that’s all they do. Anyway I think that women might make up sexy things to tell you just to make you crazy. Do you think that they do
that?

PRIEST No. I don’t.

MALKINA But you don’t know, Suppose that I told you that I had sex with my
sister. Would you believe that?

PRIEST You really have to go now.

MALKINA Because I did. We did it every night. As soon as the lights were out
we were at it. We’d be falling asleep at our desks the next day at
school. They didn’t know what was wrong with us. But that’s not
the worst thing. Do you want to hear the worst thing? You might
say that it’s not really about sex but it is about sex. It’s always about sex. Wait. Where are you going?
The priest pushes back the curtain and exits the confessional.
Malkina, kneeling, turns and pushes aside the curtain. The priest is
hurrying up the aisle, blessing himself.

MALKINA (Standing up and calling to the priest.) Wait! I wasn’t finished!

The women waiting to go to the confession are confused, horrified.

One of them blesses herself

http://variety.com/2013/film/columns/the-counselor-rearview-ridley-scott-1200770790/

Cult classic on the road.

To all you " critics"

can you do a better job ?

After an overnight to recover, I realized that there might have been a decent film in there somewhere, but it was buried in so much pointless dialogue that went nowhere. By rough estimate, it was about 40 minutes too long. So, after a week to let the mess I had seen "digest", I set off to edit a tighter, more dramatic version. The first thing to go were all the extended philosophical meandering scenes or any scene which did not advance the plot: the confessional, the Ferrari sex, the diamond, the unfinished bar, the biker's incomprehensible dog food scene, the counselor's nocturnal walk through the parade, the scene at the polo match, the cheetah walking through the back yard, etc. To my mind, the opening dinner/proposal scene fully established their love for each other, as well as the gift of the diamond. Finally, I combined a few short scenes to make the narrative more cohesive, in particular the biker's dessert cuts. Finally, I changed the closing credit music from the hard-driving guitar stuff to a more elegiac orchestral score. In my cut, the film both opens and closes on Cameron Diaz. She is the huntress, and though she may not have the most screen time, she is, to me, the star of the story. Others may have their human vulnerabilities and foibles, but she is the full-blown psychopath.

Is this cut for everyone? Maybe not. But I do believe it is a cut which would have been better received by the public at large than what they were given.