Only God Forgives

Because it's shit and so is Drive.

>>81551076
Why did critics hate it so much?

The critics are plebs. I expected it to be awful as well and only saw it for the meme potential. It was great

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This nonsense is so inorganic to any sense of globetrotter restlessness or anything explicitly or metaphorically to do with British or American colonialism that it just feels derivative. That Kubrickian scene in Drive of dead-eyed strippers watching an assault gets extended here in a more elaborate whorehouse sequence where catatonic hookers bear mute witness to instances of police corruption. Refn’s tableau of organdy-gowned call-girls listening to pop while watching violence in a bouquet-bedecked whorehouse is the ultimate David Lynch parody.

Gosling and Refn have art ambitions–a strange sense of fun. But how can film culture progress with fantasies like this? There’s no shock or outrage left. Refn relies upon a level of menace (unerotic, non-provocative) that precludes caring about or responding to violence, vulnerability, mortality. This is cinema for unsophisticated viewers who don’t already know Bunuel’s eye-slashing, Altman’s Coke bottle assault or Shakespeare/Julie Taymor’s Titus. Children of Kubrick, Friedkin, Lynch and Tarantino, they remain infantile about movies.

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>>81551076
>relatable characters
This is how to spot a pleb. They always need to have ebin meme characters. It probably would have gotten a higher score if they threw in some meme quips.

>implying humans don't forgive all the fucking time

What a retarded pseudointellectual title.

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>>81551076

>>81551129
>Because it's shit and so is Drive.
>Because it's shit and so is Drive.
>Because it's shit and so is Drive.
>Because it's shit and so is Drive.

>>81551871
He's right, y'know.

>>81551203
Focus groups and studio execs consistently slammed Arrested Development for not having enough relatable characters. They made fun of in the episode where Michael hires a pr rep.

>>81551815
You are fucking STUUUUUUPID!

>>81551183
Is this a refn version of the dullest franchise copypasta?

>>81552011

>he thinks because hes an immature edgy teenager who doesnt forgive people, it's the same for everyone else

Fuck off.

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Bronson is real deal Refn kino.

>>81552064
No, it's the fact you've never heard of "only God forgives" as a saying. It's old as fuck. You're just either baiting, or an actual retard that has never heard that before.

>>81552379
Drive>OGF>Bronson

>>81551076
The script is pure garbage

Cancels out, 6/10