Well, I tend to prefer Cronenberg's elder films as well ("Videodrome" is probably my personal favourite - but also 2002's "Spider" because in my opinion, "Eastern Promises" is sometimes a bit too plain, let's say, apparently. It's still quite subtle, but the intangible (hopefully, that's the right word), unconscious, "disembodied" things that were given more space in his early works, has now decreased a bit. It all seems a bit more "conscious" and material (less spiritual and esoteric) which can be interpreted both as a fortune or a disadvantage (I'm somewhere in between).

Do you mean Cronenberg's previous preoccupation with all things physical compared to his recent film's exploration of the mind/soul - if you mean the intangibles that is? 

@ arsaib & Justin:

Of course, I won't participate in your personal argument.

I would hope this isn't a personal argument, but I understand that it's sometimes easy to fall into that category when all we have are keyboards and late nights to converse about personal things like cinema. But if it does feel like an argument to anyone, I sincerely apologise to arsaib for making a perfectly good topic turn uncomfortable.