10 Films Actors Wanted You To Hate

10. Only God Forgives - Ryan Gosling

After the critical and commercial success of Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Winding Refn's first collaboration, Drive, the world waited with bated breath for the release of their follow-up, 2013's Thailand-set thriller Only God Forgives.

While Drive received its fair share of mainstream pushback due to its lack of action and Gosling's stoic performance, that film was positively accessible compared to the aggressively nebulous narrative of the pair's second team-up.

Refn's sparse narrative, full of ambiguous character motivations and eyebrow-raising Freudian imagery, was a major point of contention, though the film's generally antagonistic attitude towards its audience is best felt through Gosling's affect-free brick wall of a protagonist, Julian.

Though Gosling spoke only 116 lines in Drive, he and Refn ultimately decided that Julian would speak just 17 lines in this movie.

For all the talk of Gosling's "autistic" portrayal in Drive, this impenetrable, blank-faced quality was dialled up to 11 for Only God Forgives, giving the audience precious little to chew on as a result.

Gosling is absolutely committed to Refn's challenging vision throughout, even if you can't really blame audiences for being angry that the pair were basically flipping the bird at those just hoping for Drive 2.0.