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Darth-gamer · October 18th, 2009, 04:26 PM

So, this is my Saw VI thread. Who is getting ready for it? I can't wait. I always love when people say the series is a bad series because "How can he still be killing people...HE IS DEAD!?SO STUPIDZZZZZ!!!!". The game is getting me ready for the movie as well. This Friday seems so long away. Thoughts or hopes for the movie?

Ivan Drago · October 18th, 2009, 05:04 PM

I gave up after #2. I hated the first one, the second one redeemed the franchise in my mind, but not enough to consider spending money on the rest (though I did buy #3 on DVD like a year after it came out because it was cheap... didn't watch it though).
It's just like other crappy horror franchises. Nobody knows when to stop while they're behind... and no one seems to give a rats ass about quality. Paranormal Activity cost 15 grand and it's a better film than all of the Saw/Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm Street/Exorcist films put together... and I didn't like Paranormal Activity. Dead Space Downfall was just a crappy animated straight to DVD prequel to the awesome game and THAT was better than those other popular horror franchises.

TD, Jr. · October 18th, 2009, 07:43 PM

I'm going to see it because well...it's a tradition that me and my friends have, and Shawnee Smith is hot, lol.

Also, this one is supposed to be gorier than the others.

Ivan Drago · October 18th, 2009, 08:22 PM

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Also, this one is supposed to be gorier than the others.

More gore does not make a better movie...

**Grave_Digger** · October 18th, 2009, 08:34 PM

I loved the first one, second one was crap, third and fourth were great, and the fifth was terrible. I'll be at the midnight release on Thursday with my friends because of tradition, I just hope it's better than Saw V.

Darth-gamer · October 18th, 2009, 10:48 PM

The thing about the Saw movies that is brutally obvious is that it is the "Cool thing" to dislike them. People tend to do that, much like it was the "cool thing" to dislike President Bush (no politics wars here please). I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinions and if you dislike the series then you dislike it. But what I can't stand is when people hate this series just because it is popular, hence my comment in the first thread.

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More gore does not make a better movie...

It certainly does not. However a common misconception is that people only see this series for the gore. Gore is not in this movie just to be there.

Crosshair? · October 19th, 2009, 03:08 PM

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and Shawnee Smith is hot, lol.

On a crackwhore scale to ten I'd say she's a 5.

Saw is fun to watch if only for the creative ways that the kills are done. The story is certainly not worth paying any attention to, and most of the movies have become painfully predictable. This will most certainly be a rental for me, and personally I can't wait for the series to die.

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Gore is not in this movie just to be there.

Lulz, yes it is. People go see these movies just to see the kills. If the kills weren't any good nobody would want to see them, even the biggest Saw fans know that. If any of these movies were PG-13 they'd flop, and flop hard.

Darth-gamer · October 19th, 2009, 03:54 PM

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Lulz, yes it is. People go see these movies just to see the kills. If the kills weren't any good nobody would want to see them, even the biggest Saw fans know that. If any of these movies were PG-13 they'd flop, and flop hard.

No, no it isn't. IT has a purpose. The brutality of the kills makes the impact that the movie is going for. Makes you think, "if I was in that situation, could I stick my hand into a rotary saw and wait for a certain amount of blood to come out?" Exactly, if they were PG-13 they couldn't tell the same brutal story.

Crosshair? · October 19th, 2009, 05:06 PM

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No, no it isn't. IT has a purpose

To sell tickets to the fans who want to see it.

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Exactly, if they were PG-13 they couldn't tell the same brutal story.

Sure they could, it would just be a lot less violent, most good horror movies don't rely on gore to tell the story...Saw clearly does.

Wej · October 19th, 2009, 05:10 PM

Saw movies have gone to far I mean three was enough. Look at the Silence of the Lambs that movie was amazing and not super gory. Saw sells gore more than fear imo.

Crosshair? · October 19th, 2009, 05:19 PM

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Saw sells gore more than fear imo.

Yes and no...they definitely draw people to the theater with gore, but what they're trying to hook you with is the "amazing" story. Which has become horribly convoluted, and downright nonsense at this point, seriously Saw V was so bad I was giggling at the parts that were meant to be serious.

I get why horror fans love the movies, I'm a huge horror buff myself, but I see the movies for what they are, violent peepshows. The Saw series will probably be around for another couple years, and I don't see it improving any in that time. None of the Saw movies will live up to horror classics such as Psycho, or the Exorcist...or even modern greats like Drag Me to Hell and 28 Days/Weeks Later.

That being said, I'm still going to end up renting and probably enjoying all the kills.

bman3k · October 19th, 2009, 06:25 PM

The guy from Gilmore Girl's soliloquies were hilarious in Saw 5.

I really enjoyed the first and second ones, but I felt they have been going downhill after, the most obvious being with Saw 5.

Darth-gamer · October 19th, 2009, 10:28 PM

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To sell tickets to the fans who want to see it.

Sure they could, it would just be a lot less violent, most good horror movies don't rely on gore to tell the story...Saw clearly does.

Jackass could have been rated PG-13 as well. But watching men hurting themselves is funnier then watching them have a marshmallow fight. Watching a brutal horror movie is more interesting than having someone get decapitated and having cotton candy pop out. Like I said, Saw has gore for more reasons than just shock value.

Crosshair? · October 20th, 2009, 03:21 PM

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Jackass could have been rated PG-13 as well. But watching men hurting themselves is funnier then watching them have a marshmallow fight. Watching a brutal horror movie is more interesting than having someone get decapitated and having cotton candy pop out. Like I said, Saw has gore for more reasons than just shock value.

PG-13 Jackass=Nitro Circus...which is more entertaining anyway. Hell, the Jackass movies probably would have done better in the box office if they were PG-13.

And yes...the gore is there just for shock value and violence, or else the writers, directors, and producers would come up with something better than just constant mind numbing violence.

Darth-gamer · October 20th, 2009, 08:39 PM

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And yes...the gore is there just for shock value and violence, or else the writers, directors, and producers would come up with something better than just constant mind numbing violence.

Well, if that is how you feel then it would make sense that you don't like the story. I do, and as such I know that gore is not just there for shock value. And if you honestly think that Jackass would have done better without what it was going for, shock value, then we have 2 totally different opinions anyway.

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