This is the franchise that never ends... now a general movie thread...?

[Zerlina]

Glad I'm not the only one who's disgusted by the fact that they can sell (and people will buy) these movies.

Couldn't stand Saw - I really like Cary Elwes though. Robin Hood Men in Tights anyone?

[Grandy]

Glad I'm not the only one who's disgusted by the fact that they can sell (and people will buy) these movies.

Couldn't stand Saw - I really like Cary Elwes though. Robin Hood Men in Tights anyone?

King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!

[Obvious Sock Account]

Oddly enough, I watched Saw IV a few nights ago, so unlike most of us here, I have a firsthand account of the fact that the movie is, at the least, sub-par.  I at the very least enjoyed it on some primitive, violent level, but the constant, nagging memory that human limbs can not seamlessly be torn out of their sockets, flesh and all, by the sharp yank of a chain did interfere with that what mild amusement I got out of the movie considerably.  Hell, reminded me alot of Brain Dead, which I also saw quite recently, only Brain Dead intended to be a joke.  Saw is supposed to chill me, or so I've been informed.

The plot was about as inventive and well-executed as I expected, which, needless to say, was about on par with any sane person's expectation of a shitty horror movie, but it did carry me through regardless of being painfully stupid and circumstantial.  I didn't care for the literal "How do you get all of this into a motel?" "One piece at a time." explanation of how no one intervened on the killing at any point in the movie.  If anything, and it's probably impossible to know how ashamed I am for saying so, the movie was too short.  Or just focused too much on the clown fellow's background. (I've since forgotten his name)

I'll see it, if it happens to be on any of the movie channels, but I highly doubt it will, and I have no intention of spending money on it.  I'm anything but interested in public opinion (echoed well enough by my appearance alone) but not even I would be seen watching Saw in a cinema.

[X_marks_the_ed]

Stuff.

...and the crowd goes wild.

[Darkfox]

Wait wait wait... Saw has a PLOT!?

I kinda got lost in the bad acting, empty personalityless plot device characters, poorly executed scenes and effects, and... eh... if there is anything passable as a plot, it's sure well hidden!

Coincidentally, read my sig. =D

[Archem]

There is no SAW IV, V or VI.

Only SEEN I, II, and III.

It's like reverse-Star Wars.

[Bluhman]

Isn't star wars rather reverse to begin with anyway?

[Archem]

Surely you're not implying that Saw is straight-forward.

[MissingName]

Saw is like that bundle of yarn your cat was playing with and somehow got it tangled up in the ceiling fan.

[Darkfox]

Saw is more like a movie that was made by a guy who thinks he can write and develop characters and such then make a decent movie, and a few people buy into it because they'll buy into anything and under peer pressure their (sheep) friends do too. And only later do they realize that the guy who made it can't write and even the filming was cheap and cheesy, and that the harassment of the doctor from the first movie was purely based on a penlight...

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Yeah... a penlight.

All-in-all it is badly written, the characters can't even be called characters, they are circumstantial plot devices with no personality, the traps are too elaborate, the tools are too elaborate, the situations are unrealistic (how the dude from the first movie had a whole complex computer monitor system in the dudes own house is beyond me), the car chase scene looked like a spoof reel the way it was sped up. And the following sequels never made up for it.

What's next? Jigsaw comes back from hell to kill people in their dreams?

[fruckert]

Might I ask what movie you are talking about?
It sounds horrible.

[Obvious Sock Account]

It turns out that Saw's writer had come into the possession of a demonic entity and his only method of defeating the aforementioned evil consciousness was to personify him in a film series.  That carries with it the unfortunate consequence of the consciousness being granted physical form through the memories and superstition of the various actors.  The burden of slaying this demon at last is placed upon the original lead character's actor by the writer of the series, whom the spirit seems to have an especial penchant for harassing.

[lilsniffs3]

The first two were okay. Then it sucked.

[Obvious Sock Account]

Aren't you a bit young to have seen Saw?

[Red Giant]

I've happily missed 3 onwards.

Or in other words, I saw saw.

I saw saw two too