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Splinter 2008
This isn’t too bad, and the special effects, though limited in showcase, look quite great.
That said, this film does nothing.
It is not scary. It is not exciting. It is not funny except when it is so stupid you laugh at it.
It’s not particularly tense either, because these characters are mostly unlikable and painfully stupid.
And really that’s probably the biggest issue. If you’re already limiting your story and setting and number of characters and have no theme…
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The Long Good Friday 1980
Wish I knew more about The Troubles and generalized world history in this era, because there’s some clear parallels: changing of the guard, Harold Shand's British crime corporation functioning as a stand-in for long-term British imperialism, the Americans in and out on a whim thanks to geographical isolation and economic advantage.
As gangster media in Anglo-economic timelines goes, this is somewhere between The Godfather and its booming period of new money and the fading, crumbling era of post-manufacturing in Tony…