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Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 26, 2008, 06:57:42 am
I saw this last night. I have an extreme hatred for this entire series. My friend said he'd pay for my ticket, so I'm like "okay, why not? i mean, at the very least i'll be slightly entertained!!!"

So I walk into the theatre. I'm like, "oh i want popcorn to distract me during this" so I leave, but the concession stand is CLOSED. I go back to the theatre and the movie starts.

And, actually, it was pretty ----------- man this movie blew huge monkey bowler hat chunks. It was SO BAD.

I saw the first Saw. And the third. I thought the first was pretty entertaining, and all I could think the whole movie was "AS YOU WISH" (princess bride everybody), but I was entertained. The third sucked huge donkey tits. This movie... Ugh.

It opens with a dude laying on a table, and he has to shove his hands into this contraption that will crush his hands into a pulp fiction or else the swinging axe will slice him in half! he has 30 seconds. Probably the least clever thing I have ever seen. So, he crushes his hands but the axe slices him anyways. Then the badguy comes in and CUTS AND JIGSAW PEICE OUT OF HIS SKIN. Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeety clever!!!

Then we are introduced, kinda, to Sylvester Stallone's little brother. He's like a detective for something. And then there's another police man that also happens to look exactly like Sylvester Stallone. So, the whole movie the only way to tell these two clowns apart is that one of them stabbed himself in the trachea with a pen so that he didn't drown and he has like a bandaid on his neck.

Basically, this movie sucked gigantic pikachu cheeks. I literally RAN out of the theater when the directors name came up at the end of the movie. I don't think I was ever so bored in my life. The acting. Oh man. THE ACTING. I like how one reviewer put it: "It's not a good sign when watching someone stick their hand into a table saw is easier than listening to them recite dialogue."

I don't know what I was expecting, but this was a terrible, terrible film. Everyone else in the theater loved it though.

Highlight of the movie is when I farted at a silent part of the movie - TWICE. The second one was like a higher pitched one. So it was like, *low fart* *wait one second* *high pitch fart lasting about a second*

Saw V. More like... Big Momma's House V. 0/5
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 26, 2008, 07:01:08 am
I thought Jigsaw fucking died in Saw III or something.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 26, 2008, 07:07:30 am
he did but they keep going with it.

The concept of giving something up for the greater good and learning a lesson is great and all, but they take it too far and ruin every single movie by doing so. The first one was decent but they've gotten worse and worse with each movie and they should just stop because no one except die hard teenagers are going to pay to see that shit.

its like they all sit at a meeting and say "LETS SEE HOW POINTLESSLY BRUTAL AND GOREY WE CAN MAKE THE NEXT ONE" with no real goal in mind except that.

I hate the saw series with a passion and I used to think it was a good thing until midway through the second onward.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 26, 2008, 07:09:05 am
JIGERsAW SPEAKS FORM THE PAST BECAUSE HE SWALLEWED A TAPE RECORDER

fuck this shit I hate saw so much
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 26, 2008, 07:11:19 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
Title: Saw V
Post by: Neok on October 26, 2008, 07:34:40 am
Saw 2 was pretty craptastic. Saw 3 was better, but still pretty meh. Personally, I like to pretend no other Saw's exist past Saw 1.

Quote
I thought Jigsaw fucking died in Saw III or something.

This is my reason for not watching any of the ones past 3. Well, besides the fact that I know its just going to be more of the same bloody gore trauma fest.
Title: Saw V
Post by: The Dude on October 26, 2008, 09:53:33 am
I like to pretend that every Saw movie, and every The Hills Have Eyes movie are ground into a fine powdery dust, and funneled into the stomachs of their creators and directors. Especially Hills Have Eyes. Saw is gross sure, but it doesn't have weird ass mutants fucking raping a teenager and a new mother in a shack. God I wanted to take shovel to the head of whoever thought that would be a good scene. Honestly, a shovel. Bam. Bam. Bam hehehehehehehe yes.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 26, 2008, 10:07:11 am
Hills is terrible as fuck too but its got its novelty.

Just like saw i think they took a decent idea and fucked it up pretty bad. I've never seen the original though. But really what would a group of demented, cannibalistic, atomic radiation freak people do other then kill and rape young women?

I thought the soldiers in the second movie were too retarded and I wanted to stop watching it.
Title: Saw V
Post by: UPRC on October 26, 2008, 11:57:24 am
The funny thing is that a sixth movie has already been announced.

When five movies in a series come out over the course of four years, SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Warped655 on October 26, 2008, 12:52:50 pm
Yeah I like the first one. After I watched 2 I swore off the rest.

I actually like The Hills Have Eyes... but The Hills Have Eyes 2 was utterly terrible. like of god this is bad I want to hurt someone.
Title: Saw V
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on October 26, 2008, 03:05:41 pm
I didn't think the movies are actually great or anything. The only reason I watch them is to see how they will continue with the story. Since they are cranked out so fast, it seems like they pretty much just put stuff there as a filler and reason to continue. Otherwise, I do actually enjoy them for the most part.
Title: Saw V
Post by: something bizarre and impractical on October 26, 2008, 03:44:31 pm
Liked the first, tolerated the second, forget the third, never saw the fouth, and don't plan on seeing the fifth!

But since we are THE UNTHINKING MASS they will continue to make these movies and it will have 5% on rottentomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com) and gross $1000B
Title: Saw V
Post by: Roman on October 26, 2008, 06:29:48 pm
Quote from: UPRC on October 26, 2008, 11:57:24 am
The funny thing is that a sixth movie has already been announced.

When five movies in a series come out over the course of four years, SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONG.

They're supposed to come out every Halloween.  That's the gimmick!  They were going to do the same thing with the Halloween franchise but I guess that fell through and they just made shitty sequels whenever they felt like it.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Kaworu on October 26, 2008, 06:55:23 pm
Wait has it really been five years since the first saw film? I thought it was only like 2005 or something.
Also Saw are garbage.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 26, 2008, 09:56:49 pm
Sixth and Seventh were announced.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Mongoloid on October 27, 2008, 01:07:11 am
None of them were really great, save for the first one when there were no hostel movies and torture was for the most part absent from mainstream film. I think the only reason Saw is so successful is because the horror genre is pretty much dead.

But I love sequels and I've seen the new saw movie every year, so I will continue to see them.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 03:16:07 am
I'm hijacking this topic. Let's think up cool ways to kill people:

1. I put a key behind your eye. You have to dig your eye out and get the key to unlock the door or else... you see that big door there? That door's gonna open and a boulder's gonna roll in and kill you. An eye... or your life... you decide. The trick is, though... which eye did I put it behind?

2. Just an hour ago, I injected a poison in your dick. The antidote is hidden in your bum. You'll have to reach in and get it. When you get it, you have to inject the syringe into your dick. if you fail to do this, the poison will shut up your bowels and you will die a slow and painful death... that is, if you manage to kill the rabid wolves I'm about to release in 15 minutes.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Sapsuker on October 27, 2008, 03:22:24 am
I really liked the first Saw but never bothered to watch any of the others. Which is good because it sounds like the sequels all suck. I'm pretty proud of my self.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 03:24:55 am
3. Kill Justin Timberlake or suffer my wrath.

4. You might notice there's a basin of poop in the center of this room. I have handcuffed your hands behind your hands behind your back. The remote to open the locked door is in the basin of poop. You have to get it with your mouth in 10 minutes... or die...
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 27, 2008, 03:28:59 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 03:16:07 am
1. I put a key behind your eye. You have to dig your eye out and get the key to unlock the door or else... you see that big door there? That door's gonna open and a boulder's gonna roll in and kill you. An eye... or your life... you decide. The trick is, though... which eye did I put it behind?
Infinitely more clever than anything from Saw V.


5. An IV is connected to your leg, and it is slowly injecting you with apple juice from concentrate. You have to use a spoon to dig into your stomach because there is a combination hidden somewhere in there that will unlock your right arm and neck from the vice grips. You have, like, 4 minutes before you start pumping 100% Pure Apple Juice from concentrate.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on October 27, 2008, 03:50:13 am
that key eye thing was in a saw movie already.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 04:08:52 am
6. Hello. It's me. Jigsaw. Yup. THE Jigsaw, bitch. You might notice you're hanging upside down from your dick. You might also notice that below you are spikes. Your task is simple. You must swing to safety but you can't swing too hard... or else...

Quote from: Pidgeotto221 on October 27, 2008, 03:50:13 am
that key eye thing was in a saw movie already.

What? How did he get the key in his eye
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 27, 2008, 04:09:33 am
Wasn't it in someone elses eye though?
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 27, 2008, 04:09:58 am
Quote from: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 04:08:52 am
6. Hello. It's me. Jigsaw. Yup. THE Jigsaw, bitch. You might notice you're hanging upside down from your dick. You might also notice that below you are spikes. Your task is simple. You must swing to safety but you can't swing too hard... or else..
I would watch this
Title: Saw V
Post by: AdderallApocalypse on October 27, 2008, 04:19:36 am
7. Let's play a game. You are shackled to a pipe by your wrist, and in front of you is a girl with razor sharp metal teeth. The rules of the game are simple: use the handsaw beside you sacrifice your hand and free yourself, or experience the must gut-wrenching act of fellatio ever seen to man.

Title: Saw V
Post by: Beasley on October 27, 2008, 04:28:51 am
11. welp HELO TO TYOU SIR i thnk you wil notic that ther is a tv in front of you buit i am afraid what it is yo udont know is tht it is abotu to play season 11 of mash. at thee end there is the combination to yuopr locks.

**hatch opens revealing gun...................**********

or perhaps you oculd just...............

end it now.

the choigce is urps.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 27, 2008, 04:29:56 am
12.Hello Jared.

Lets play a game...

You have spent your entire career convincing people to eat subway sandwiches for their health. When the truth is, subway sandwiches really aren't all that healthy.

Well now Jared it looks like you have a choice to make...

I have replaced on of your testicles with a small neutron bomb. There is a detonator for the bomb with a switch to disable it. But the detonator is at the bottom of a vat of superheated vegetable oil. Hidden in one of the many Chicken Mcnuggets I've dumped into the vat for frying. The bomb will go off when the chicken mcnugget containing the detonator floats to the surface and is exposed to the air.

You Jared, must reach into the vat and locate the chicken nugget that has the detonator in it.

Oh, and Jared... I wonder how much cholesterol you can burn in the next few minutes

Title: Saw V
Post by: Dale Gobbler on October 27, 2008, 04:35:31 am
13. Watch saw V
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 05:05:06 am
14.

 :fogetunsure: : Where... Where am I?

 :doom: : Foget, hello. Let's play a game.

 :fogethuh: : Hello? Soap? Is that you?

 :doom: : You have not appreciated life to the fullest, therefore you have ended up here.

 :fogetangry: : This is not funny, whoever that is! Reporting this to the admins!

 :doom: : They can't help you. You think they are going to do anything? Your naivety amuses me.

 :fogetgrr: : Do you know who you're fuckin with? It's me. Foget, bitch.

 :doom: : You might notice that you're strapped to a table and you have some cheese on your dick. You might also notice that the room is surrounded by rats. This television screen will soon play the movie "Snatch". The password to the voice-activated device that will free you is located somewhere in Brad Pitt's dialogue. Hope you can understand 'pikey'.

:fogetgasp:
Title: Saw V
Post by: Mongoloid on October 27, 2008, 05:18:26 am
I just saw this, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as Jojoface said but it was definitely the worst of the 5. Hopefully the next two will be better, Saw has it's ups and downs.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 27, 2008, 06:30:54 am
Dude. It WAS that bad man. Seriously, it was awful.


Also:

14. i am jigsaw. You may notice that there is a noose around your neck. All your life you hated black people...
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 06:52:45 am
I have a new idea for a horror movie. It's called "www.rotten.com". The whole thing is just the first person perspective of someone browsing www.rotten.com and looking at gore. Give the audience hwat it wants...
Title: Saw V
Post by: The Dude on October 27, 2008, 07:45:46 pm
Quote from: Eric on October 27, 2008, 05:18:26 am
Saw has it's ups and downs.

They should make the next one Seesaw

15. You and the person across from you are attached to a seesaw. If either of you stop the motion of the seesaw when the timer starts, you will die. You must continue playing this game for 2 hours and 15 minutes. Also, there is a canister of acid inside your stomach. It will explode when the seesaw stops. ...Go.
Title: Saw V
Post by: maladroithim on October 27, 2008, 08:07:51 pm
Man I didn't even know Saw IV was out and there is already a V.  I wrote a report once about how successful Saw I-III and Hostel were and how it is a bad sign for humanity.  These movies make so much money it is gross.  I think this happens because half of the people in this thread are complaining about how bad the movie is - because they went to see it.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Ragnar on October 27, 2008, 08:22:30 pm
Quote from: maladroithim on October 27, 2008, 08:07:51 pm
Man I didn't even know Saw IV was out and there is already a V.  I wrote a report once about how successful Saw I-III and Hostel were and how it is a bad sign for humanity.  These movies make so much money it is gross.  I think this happens because half of the people in this thread are complaining about how bad the movie is - because they went to see it.

I bet the people who write those articles make a lot of money too
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 27, 2008, 09:49:46 pm
It's #2 in the Box Office :(
Title: Saw V
Post by: PTizzle on October 28, 2008, 04:49:13 am
At least it's not number one.

GO HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

But seriously Saw is a pretty god awful series. There's plenty of good horror coming out still but fffuuu stuff like this and Hostel 2 (the first wasn't that bad guys) is shitting all over the genre and not giving it any more respect even though it's generally evolving past bad supernatural slasher shit. Not to mention all the J-horror remakes and so on (liked the ring though).

I liked the first because it was well done and interesting the first time I saw it and it was made by two Aussie guys who never thought they'd be in Hollywood. As far as I know they basically severed all ties with the series after that and it's just being pushed out for money (surprise surprise heh). I thought this was the last one as well! How many fucking movies can they make this last for if everyone is dead (I haven't seen IV or V because III was so thoroughly terrible I wanted to stay far away).

Saw III was seriously so bad. Has anyone seen Stay Alive? I have to make a topic for that because that movie was so disgustingly bad but it was also awesome with dialogue like MAN A GAME HASN'T SCARED ME LIKE THIS SINCE FATAL FRAME and I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOU...EXCEPT YOU'RE A WEAK GAMER. saw iii had nothing redeeming.

fuck saw
Title: Saw V
Post by: Yeaster on October 28, 2008, 01:14:58 pm
I love all of the Saw movies, and I loved this one. The first one is easily the best, as with any horror franchise reaaly, but the sequels are good too imo. Unlike other horror series, the Saw series has near-perfect continuity. The movies constantly reference each other, and the same characters always return (or at least mentioned, even the minor ones). It's gotten pretty popular, so naturally when something becomes well known, it's cooler to hate it I guess. But, I mean, look at how the other horror "classics" have turned out by their 5th film...

A Nightmare on Elm Street - The 2nd movie is totally ignored, and the 5th and 6th movies are hands-down the worst in the series, and the 7th movie, though one of the better sequels, doesn't take place in the same  universe.

Friday the 13th - This was a disaster of a series from the start, but how does Jason go from being a kid in part 1 to a grown ass adult in part II if the two movies supposedly takes place only a few months apart?

Halloween - Won't go there. The 3rd one might as well not even be in the same series, and movies 4-6 were practically wiped from existence when H20 came out.

Unless there's a "Jigsaw in Space" or a "Jigsaw goes to Manhattan," I think the Saw series have a ways to go before becoming the "worst" anything. Hostel was a horrible inferior clone and its sequel deservingly flopped. The 1st Hills Have Eyes was forgettable, and the second one was a complete joke.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Kaworu on October 28, 2008, 06:18:10 pm
Dude the 7th elm street was the best because it was way more than slasherfest, it was kinda a more successful version of scream (with life imitating and being affected by art) Elmstreet 3,4, 5 and 6 are pure garbage because it tried to establish a form of continuity which isn't always clever when the premise of the films are SCARY SLASHER DREAM KILLER.

Saw is utterly dire. The whole approach to violence in them is closer to fetish than to horror. It's overly gratuitous and in a sick way glorifies the violence in such a way that it feels like it's purpose is to desensitise people to gore. As a series it has no real redeeming factors... unless you like snuff films. It's "cool" to hate Saw, because they are garbage, and just appeal to your average moviegoer with no real idea of movies as something other than entertainment. To dismiss valid criticism as people trying to be "cool" is stupid. It's baffeling how someone could still think that after being here for six years.
Continuity is effectively useless when you make it overly convulted about how he had set up all of these traps for after his death, enough to make endless sequels worth and milk as much money out of this unimaginative franchise until it becomes unpopular(which is how Hollywood tends to work, particularly with instant gratification movies such as horror/slasher), and so this amaziing story serves little more than the hamburgers waiting on the rack at mcdonalds ready to be consumed by someone. Yeah. Saw movies are hamburgers.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Bill Murray on October 28, 2008, 07:56:26 pm
the other night

i did see saw 2

my words are wit on the internets
Title: Saw V
Post by: Brad on October 28, 2008, 08:56:37 pm
i saw saw two too
Title: Saw V
Post by: Lyndon on October 28, 2008, 10:39:36 pm
yeah it was on channel 5
Title: Saw V
Post by: Yeaster on October 28, 2008, 11:18:25 pm
Quote from: The Octave Doctor on October 28, 2008, 06:18:10 pm
Dude the 7th elm street was the best because it was way more than slasherfest, it was kinda a more successful version of scream (with life imitating and being affected by art) Elmstreet 3,4, 5 and 6 are pure garbage because it tried to establish a form of continuity which isn't always clever when the premise of the films are SCARY SLASHER DREAM KILLER.

A Nightmare Elm Street is my favorite movie ever, and the series as a whole, flaws in all, is still my favorite horror series. The 1st, 3rd and 7th movies were great, I thought. A lot of people don't like Part 4 because that's when Freddy became funny instead of scary, but it's still one my favorite sequels, because it's at least entertaining.

I was just saying, that as far as horror franchises go, the Saw movies have been the best at connecting each film together to lead to a bigger story. A Nightmare on Elm Street was great at this too, but some of the movies/characters were completely ignored in later sequels (probably for the better, but still).

I do agree that Saw became gory just for the sake of it after it's tame beginning, but this movie was pretty tame actually. In comparison to the others at least. Saw III was the worst in terms of gore.

Quote from: The Octave Doctor on October 28, 2008, 06:18:10 pm
It's baffeling how someone could still think that after being here for six years.

I joined six years ago, but I started posting regularly earlier this year.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Puppet Master on October 28, 2008, 11:58:15 pm
16. Let's play a game. I have hooked you up to a personal CD player containing "Love, Hate and Everything Between" by Rone Rivendale. Every button on the player along with the volume control will set off a bomb inside these headphones that have been superglued to your head. You can either listen to the entire album at full volume or suffer an exploding death.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Strangeluv on October 29, 2008, 12:01:52 am
Ohhh that one was just uncalled for!
Title: Saw V
Post by: Puppet Master on October 29, 2008, 12:10:54 am
sorry...

And yeah these movies keep getting progressively worse.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 29, 2008, 02:39:48 am
Quote from: PTizzle on October 28, 2008, 04:49:13 am
At least it's not number one.

GO HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

But seriously Saw is a pretty god awful series. There's plenty of good horror coming out still but fffuuu stuff like this and Hostel 2 (the first wasn't that bad guys) is shitting all over the genre and not giving it any more respect even though it's generally evolving past bad supernatural slasher shit. Not to mention all the J-horror remakes and so on (liked the ring though).

I liked the first because it was well done and interesting the first time I saw it and it was made by two Aussie guys who never thought they'd be in Hollywood. As far as I know they basically severed all ties with the series after that and it's just being pushed out for money (surprise surprise heh). I thought this was the last one as well! How many fucking movies can they make this last for if everyone is dead (I haven't seen IV or V because III was so thoroughly terrible I wanted to stay far away).

Saw III was seriously so bad. Has anyone seen Stay Alive? I have to make a topic for that because that movie was so disgustingly bad but it was also awesome with dialogue like MAN A GAME HASN'T SCARED ME LIKE THIS SINCE FATAL FRAME and I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOU...EXCEPT YOU'RE A WEAK GAMER. saw iii had nothing redeeming.

fuck saw
"My Dad got run over by a horse drawn carriage" was nmy favorite line from Stay Alive. Awesome movie.
Title: Saw V
Post by: The Dude on October 30, 2008, 01:22:42 pm
My favourite slasher movie was "Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2"

...GARBAGE DAY!!!!!!!!
Title: Saw V
Post by: Kaworu on October 30, 2008, 03:47:01 pm
umm Elmstreet was terrible at making a connecting story, it was essentially Bringing back the survivors from the previous film. The first film was pretty vague about details, so from 2 onwards they just kept adding to it, while bringing nothing new to the fold.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Yeaster on October 30, 2008, 10:22:07 pm
That's not all the way true. The 3rd movie provided a lot detail about Freddy's old life, practically the origin of his birth (his mother being raped by a bunch of crazed lunatics and the like).

But yeah, I don't really pay too much attention to plotlines in horror movies, just the characters. If they're entertaining, then I'm good, no matter how over-the-top they are. Sleepaway Camp is probably one of my favorite movies, and most people think it's a piece of shit. And it probably is, but it's fun.

Many people hate everything about Saw, but I never understood why people take the series so seriously.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 31, 2008, 12:43:52 am
Because the only way they can "frighten" people is by making it horribly gruesome. But the movies aren't even scarcely scary anymore they're just gross as fuck.

I like plots, i'll watch a shitty horror movie for kicks. But I took saw on a fairly serious level, because it was a fairly serious movie. Its not like kind of ridiculous you find in most shitty horror flicks because it seems like the creators of those bad movies know that their movie is complete tripe on a basic level.

its "we think we're doing a good job and our movies are actually scary" when in actuality they killed their series with the second one and every one after that is just another gallon of piss on the twitching corpse that is saw, ridiculous.

They've successfully become THE WORST of the worst scary movies because they're so fucking full of themselves.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on October 31, 2008, 12:56:45 am
Honestly, I don't even think of Saw movies as Horror movies. Even though they fit into the genre TECHNICALLY, I just don't recognize them. They fit more into the... SPECIAL INTEREST / PORNOGRAPHY / MEDICAL / CRIME genre.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Lyndon on October 31, 2008, 02:23:33 am
I think technically to be a horror film it needs some sort of supernatural element, otherwise it's a thriller or slasher or something
Title: Saw V
Post by: Blitzen on October 31, 2008, 03:52:46 am
17. Let's play a game. You are now enrolled in university. You get a meager entrance scholarship, enough to make a difference but definetly not enough to be able to count on it to pay your way. You can't get less than an" A" average, otherwise you can't keep the scholarship. If you don't keep this scholarship, you can't go to university, and will have to attend some kind of trade school after working menial labour for a couple years. You'll need a full time job to be able to pay for room, board, and transportation, tuition, and supplies. You need 20 credits for your degree... in women's studies, heh.

I never liked the Saw series. We watched the first Saw in film class in first year. Danny Glover :(
Title: Saw V
Post by: Mongoloid on October 31, 2008, 05:08:54 am
Quote from: Coxswain on October 31, 2008, 12:43:52 am
Because the only way they can "frighten" people is by making it horribly gruesome. But the movies aren't even scarcely scary anymore they're just gross as fuck.

This is not true. Saw are not scary movies IMO, but it's clearly not the gore that keep bringing people to the theatres. I mean I'm sure there are bunches of dumb rotc kids or something that get kicks out of that, but the appeal of the Saw movies are the plot twists and setups. Maybe this is why it's not horror though? The fifth movie didn't really deliver in that aspect, which is why I didn't like it, but for the most part the rest of the series has stayed true, despite the original writer only being involved for the first 2 or 3.

But they are what they are, big corporate byproducts. You have to give credit to them for making movies with that quality in less than a year each though.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on October 31, 2008, 09:00:15 am
after the second one the twists got weaker and it was just BLOD imo

Title: Saw V
Post by: Yeaster on October 31, 2008, 02:29:38 pm
To be honest, in Saw IV, I really could not tell Strahm or Hoffman apart at all, aside from one of them being slightly larger than the other, so the twist definitely shocked me by default. I agree that Saw II had the best twist, but Saw III's ending still wasn't bad. Saw IV was weak though, and Saw V didn't really have a twist...however...

Title: Saw V
Post by: Parker on November 01, 2008, 02:51:12 am
they both looked like stallone, didn't they? i was so confused.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Kaworu on November 01, 2008, 09:44:17 pm
the kinda people who watch saw movies for plot are like the kinda people who watch DBZ for plot.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Mongoloid on November 02, 2008, 07:58:38 am
LOL that's totally unfounded BS.


I agree, Yeaster, the good guys have either died in every movie, or they are used to kill the other good guys.
I do think it's kind of ridiculous that Jigsaw pretty much decided "hey let's test everybody in the clinic," and then when he started getting attention, he's like "the entire police department needs to be tested too."
Title: Saw V
Post by: Yeaster on November 02, 2008, 04:47:21 pm
Jigsaw needs to own his bullshit. He's a killer. Strahm, Rigg, Perez and Kerry (though that was Amanda's doing) were not bad people or people who "didn't appreciate life," but he killed them anyway.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Mongoloid on November 03, 2008, 01:54:58 am
Same goes for Tapp and Sing from Saw 1, who are the only cops that were killed that weren't actually being tested.

My friends joke about Riggs though, he was tested because he cared TOO MUCH.
Title: Saw V
Post by: Farren on November 03, 2008, 03:24:45 am
for anyone looking to see a good scary movie check out "the strangers"

they don't do anything innovative, but that movie managed to freak me the hell out for a fairly generic "slasher" flick (if thats what you wanna call it).