saw V

[frap]

Personally i think they should have the nut-house people on standby hen movies like saw and hostel let out, and when somebody says "that was awesome" they throw a burlap-sack over your head and haul you off to the crazy house.

Your watching a movie where literally all that happens is people suffer, get tourtered, dismembered, and generally just die in awful disgusting ways. I know its not real, but with todays visual effects, it might as well be. Seriously, im unsure how
1. these movies are even allowed to be produced/shown.
2. People actually watch, enjoy, and look forward to them.

If your one of those people, then whatever, thats just my opinion on it, and im stickn to it.

im going to see the movie today.

chase did you even see the movies?

 

[featherfoot07]

I think this, like many other series made now, is a desperate attempt to keep this movie "idea" alive. Five movies? Come on Hollywood, get original....

 

[Nero]

I really liked saw, liked saw II, got kind of annoyed with saw III and have since stopped watching them.

 

[Badfish]

I really liked saw, liked saw II, got kind of annoyed with saw III and have since stopped watching them.

Same here after the third it just wasn't my thing anymore

 

[Mystery Penguin]

I think this, like many other series made now, is a desperate attempt to keep this movie "idea" alive. Five movies? Come on Hollywood, get original....

Oxymorons FTW

 

[frap]

Went to see the movie..was great. There is going to be a 6th one...the plot continues on.

 

[koolaid]

omg still continuing aww man i hate those movies but i think jigsaw is a crazy cool guy

 

[BioHazardd]

I was dragged, by the female friend, to watch saw 1 and 2.
That was about enough for me.
Their not really horror movies, their worse then horror movies.
After seeing a preggo lady jump into a pit of needles (I don't remember what # that was in), and all the other weird ways stuff happens, it was just, "Whats the point again?".
It's like the producers come up with all these disgusting ways for people to die, string them together, and call it a movie.. I do believe it was #2 that every scene was filmed in the exact same room (I could be wrong, but I think thats what I heard .. low budget ftw!).

I'd rather see a horror movie, and thats saying something for me, because I hate horror movies as well. Their too predictable, and really aren't that scary imo.

/rant.

 

[CroutonsofDeath{RD}]

After seeing a preggo lady jump into a pit of needles (I don't remember what # that was in)

She wasn't pregnant, and she was pushed into the pit of needles, that was the second movie.

I think this series constitutes as horror, the ending to the first one is one of the few that actually creeped me out, but I didn't really see a sequel working. It was... OK but it seemed like a cash in, which it pretty much was. 3 seemed that way too, dunno why but I felt I had to go on. 4.... oh god was 4 horrible... I'm going to see 5 when it comes out on TV; I am pissed though that apparently 'it goes on.' It should've ended at #3 when THE MAIN VILLAIN DIES. I'm sorry, but when the bad dude dies, its THE END. Plus, the tagline for 5 was 'You won't believe how it ends.' If it ends with another set-up for a sequel, I can believe it pretty damn well, but thats false advertising because a sequel set up is NOT AN ENDING. Blargh X_x

As far as the torture being 'entertainment' I think it depends on how you look at it. Okay, I found the first film 'entertaining' but only because it seemed new at the time before a bajillion sequels, and it genuinely creeped me out. I found pleasure in the fact that I was actually bothered/scared, not found pleasure in the idea of people getting tortured. I will admit, sometimes violent fantasies do entertain me, most notably the game Postal 2, but would I want to see them in real life? No. Just seeing a person bite their finger in real life makes me nauseous, and the one time I saw someone killed I flipped. I do not find enjoyment in watching that sort of thing in real-life, and I think its sick if someone does. Even with this 'better effects,' I don't think its coming any closer to being realistic. Besides, unless its a 'true story,' movies SHOULDN'T be realistic. Realism defeats the point of fiction, and the reason we watch movies, read books, and play games is to escape realism and wander into a realm of fiction. And going back to torture in horror films, the only time I have ever found 'entertainment' in the actual torture scenes is if they are done so bad, so unrealistically that I can't help but laugh; but thats a completely different type of movie. The only movie to literally terrify me was the Japanese romance/drama/horror film Odishion, and while the entire nightmare sequence is damn creepy, its the torture sequence that scares me. I like to be scared (Well, when I first watched this movie it was to a degree I didn't like O_O, but heh, I'm still glad I found a movie that could scare me) a lot, and maybe its the fact that I can hardly ever be scared, but I found this part entertaining because it managed to scare me, not because of the torture. Not ALL people who watch Saw films are in it just to look at the torture and say 'Hey, that's cool! People are dying in AGONY!' and while unfortunately that crowd exists, the reason people watch these is its because its very likely the premise scares them. The purpose of horror is to scare people. Some people are probably scared by the Saw films, so they go to see more. The only reason I've continued through the series, is I have to have my proper ending. If it reaches Saw X though, I'll probably stop. Okay, theres my rant, I'm done ranting too. /rant

 

[Carmine]

I thought the human species has matured past the point where torture and death in horrible ways is entertaining.