What Was The Last Film You Saw?

My internet went down at three this morning,which freed up some time to watch Only God Forgives...

Christ, where do I begin. I really want to like this film, but it makes so many fucking errors it hurts my brain. The film is an hour and a half in length and you can genuinely cut half of that away from all the time the film spends having cameras pan around characters or just looking at Ryan Gosling’s motionless face.

Speaking of Ryan Gosling, welcome to one of the worst acting performances of all time. Actually wait, that’s not fair. Welcome to one of the worst written and directed acting performances of all time. Gosling does nothing in this film, literally nothing, name a scene where he isn’t fighting and I can guarantee it involves him staring blankly at someone or something. Terrible.

As I said, I wanted to like this film, the basic concept of a reluctant revenge film makes sense. But it makes so many errors, most of all the time wasting. It’s things like establishing the concept of dream sequences (when Gosling is watching that bitch strip) and then filming an identical scene (where he meets up with his mother) which turns out to not be a dream. It just annoys me, the film as a whole. It’s like someone just said to Refn “hey, I saw Drive, I loved that movie, do what the fuck you want” and he took that as take every dramatic pause and stretch it out, strip away all dialogue and remove any notion of story progression, all in the name of what… mystique?

Even the ending is absolutely ghastly. This film… I can’t handle how extravagantly bollocks it has managed to be, I guess it’s the result of two years of smoke blown up both major stars’ arses.

I don’t know. Fuck that film, fuck Refn, fuck Gosling, fuck whoever allowed that film to be released. It’s shit

Finally got around to watching it also. Agree with everything you have said. The best scenes are pretty much anything without Gosling in it. That is all.

What about the dinner scene with his mom?