> While there was some really good casting [...] the
> characters were drawn as cartoons. It was more like
> a bad SNL skit extended out into a movie, than an
> Oliver Stone film. We left after watching 30 or 40
> minutes of it. Ugh. Save your dollars for anything
> else but this movie.
I can't stand Oliver Stone, so I skipped the movie. But apparently Josh Brolin, like the protagonist he plays, is a member of a secret society (of sorts):
[according to Wikipedia]
Sons of Lee Marvin
Jarmusch is the founder of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a humorous 'semi-secret society'. Members of the society reportedly include musician Tom Waits and actor John Lurie, both of whom have worked with Jarmusch on several occasions. Richard Boes, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop (who has also worked with Jarmusch), Josh Brolin and Neil Young are also rumored to be members. The entry criterion for the club is that the person must have some physical resemblance or plausibly look like a son of the actor Lee Marvin — as such, women are not allowed to join. Most current members also share what seems to be a beat mentality in that they represent and express the lives of the down and out.
The club supposedly meets occasionally to watch Lee Marvin movies together. Its members perpetuate the joke in the media.
"I'm not at liberty to divulge information about the organization, other than to tell you that it does exist. I can identify three other members of the organization: Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Richard Bose. You have to have a facial structure such that you could be related to, or be a son of, Lee Marvin. There are no women, obviously, in the organization. We have communiques and secret meetings. Other than that, I can't talk about it."
—Jim Jarmusch: Interview: Vol. XIX - No. 11, 1989: pp 146-150.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jarmusch>
Shane