Saw

[Andy]

I've never seen any of the movies, but they appear to be ridiculously popular.  I can't even make it through the synopsis of the first one.  Are they any good or are they as disgusting as they appear?

[todd]

They're horrible. It's Se7en for jocks.

[jamesp]

Yeah, they're awful and each one gets worse (The first one was C-/D+ material.. the rest are F- territory). I'm surprised they are still drawing $30 million opening weekend. I see that Saw VI is in production for October 2009. Six movies since 2004, a movie a year. How much longer can this go on?

[emdasher]

I thought the tag line for Saw V, "You Won't Believe How It Ends," was indicating that there would be no more sequels. I was wrong.

I hate when horror movies have so many awful sequels that somehow it makes the original film a "classic," when actually the original film was never very good in the first place.

[emdasher]

I hate when horror movies have so many awful sequels that somehow it makes the original film a "classic," when actually the original film was never very good in the first place.

This probably goes for all movies.

[Beth]

 I've only seen the first one. I've seen worse?


The ending of the first Saw was so bad that the entire theater was laughing hysterically. I have fond memories of that moment, which is perhaps why I tolerated that movie. I saw the second one on a whim and really wish I hadn't.

So yes. They're as bad as they seem.

[<<<<<]

My tolerance for gore has gone waaaay down as I've gotten older.  Unless it's a zombie movie.  For some reason, zombies still make everything feel better.

[daveB from Oakland]

I ain't never saw Saw, and I don't want to. I've heard the term "torture porn" applied to the Saw series. Or maybe it was Hostel. Or maybe it was both of them. In any case ... I don't want nothin' to do with it.

Recently I was in one of the San Francisco underground trolley stations where they had blanket advertising for this thing, which I thought was a movie:



But it turns out it's not a movie, it's a videogame. Some kind of scenario about a post-apocalyptic battle against severe arthritis. Or something.

Anyway, it's a bummer to have an image like this thrown at you when you're just trying to slog your way through the morning commute.

Here's a picture I took of a Saw V poster in SF, along with some Angel/Devil W posters.



I like the unintelligible graffiti

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Anyway, it's a bummer to have an image like this thrown at you when you're just trying to slog your way through the morning commute.

Seems indicative to me that we, as a society, don't even take violence seriously as being real anymore.

[Sarah]

But it turns out it's not a movie, it's a videogame. Some kind of scenario about a post-apocalyptic battle against severe arthritis.

It's great!  One of the early challenges involves a quest to find anti-inflammatories in bottles that don't have childproof caps.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

My tolerance for gore has gone waaaay down as I've gotten older.  Unless it's a zombie movie.  For some reason, zombies still make everything feel better.

same here.  i thought Grindhouse was trash.  but zombies, there like a comforting blanket of fresh brains. 

[Beth]

What was it about the Grindhouse zombies that failed to lure you in, BVT?
I thought Grindhouse was fun-- and trash. I mean it was supposed to be trash in a way. I like it mostly for the experience  of a cheesy double feature--and the trailers.  Particularly Rob Zombie's "Zombie Women of The SS" trailer. And I liked Planet Terror much better than Death Proof, because of the zombies mostly. Zombie Zombie Zombie.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

they were slimy, nasty, pussy creeps...not zombies.  it was unfortunate, Beth, because i was looking forward to posthumous flesh eating.  

and youre right, Planet Terror was much better than Death Proof.  people die in car accidents all the time, sadly.  the last thing i need to see frame-by-frame is how a human body comes apart in a horrendous car wreck.  bleghck, sick.

[tenspeed]

they were slimy, nasty, pussy creeps...not zombies.  it was unfortunate, Beth, because i was looking forward to posthumous flesh eating.  

I have to agree.  It's all about the puss.  Check out the puss in Dead Alive, around the :50 to :58 mark.  It's a much kinder, gentler puss than Grindhouse.

http://www.youtube.com/v/S6HVFfvuZvM&hl=en&fs=1

[Martin]

slimy, nasty, pussy

Good grief.