Since when is paper not flimsy?

Thin and flimsy are not the same thing.

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excellent taste.

That's not what your mom said last night.

Paper thin stuff is pretty much always flimsy dog.

Why do you call it a love it or hate it film? Like me, you're in the middle. I suspect many viewers are the same. Also, maybe I'm being dense but I didn't see many questions - maybe one or two. I'm surprised that you found it ambiguous, the mystical part I can see. Also we agree on the GORGEOUSness of it. I suppose that's the best part.

Btw, I previously praised the violence of this film, but then I went back and re-watched Drive and found the violence in Drive to be much more brutal and entertaining.

Not that the two films should necessarily be compared, but I felt that the violence in Only God Forgives is probably its best feature (gorgeous brutality). So I was kinda sad for it when I found that Drive wins in the violence category on top of everything else.

Flimsy implies it's weak and could fall apart (plotholes etc). Thin just means there's not much there.

I agree with you on the violence. Much has been made of how brutal this film is, but the scene with the icepicks was the only really graphic part. Sure, overall this film is more unsettling with its violence, but Drive was more brutal and gory.

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I saw 2 Guns last night and if you want to see a funny action movie this weekend. You should definitely check it out. Also ignore the trailer, it doesn't do the movie justice.

It has all the one liners and riffing off of each other that buddy cop comedies have but with none of the lame Ebony and Ivory type jokes. Even if you don't like that aspect of the movie, you should see it anyways for all the action sequences and the intrigue about what's going on in the movie. Both of them are undercover agents and think that the other is a real deal trafficker and that's all I'm going to say about it. Don't want to spoil too much.

I think that as time goes by it's going to be love it or hate it but that's a general term to describe films. There's always going to be people in the middle.

The questions that aroused for me are in spoiler territory...

I forget how to put spoiler tags on sh*t so just highlight

Was the cop really God? Was the murdered brother ****ing the mom? Why did Gosling want to be near his mothers uterus? What was his childhood like?

These aren't huge questions, but just holey-y narrative. Also I'd call the violence even with Drive. The ice pick scene made me squirm more than anything in Drive. Drive was more shocking though. It was quicker.

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I saw this is a packed theater in an urbanized area. I expected to have a horrible time but I think the fact that I saw it with so many people better’d my experience because I ended up really enjoying the film. This is a tame rated R film but also a very creepy one that capitalizes on scares the never come off cheap and had me jumping on more than one occasion. The biggest reason I enjoyed this was because it actually had good acting. Horror movies always have interesting ideas that are either carried out half assed or are ruined by cheap “talent”. None of those factors were present here as Vera Farminga, Patrick Wilson, and Lilli Taylor were all fantastic in this. It made the film more believable and ultimately more watchable. James Wan gave us the first Saw which I’m grateful for because I still think that’s a great film and he’s now given us one of the better horror films to come out in the last couple years. Lets just see if his next film which comes out in two months (Insidious II) lives up to his recent success.

4/5

I know what you mean about the 'love or hate' thing but I disagree. I think film buffs will quibble forever about it, and that the neutral territory will win out.

I also believe that non-film buffs will deem it a "mediocre Gosling film" but, admittedly, I'm not great at predicting the future. And I feel that the ice pick scenes are only remarkable because of the talent of the actor who got the picks.

RE your spoiler points..