bob
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Saw
Jul 1, 2014 16:08:52 GMT -5
Post by bob on Jul 1, 2014 16:08:52 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised there isn't a 10th anniversary bluray set. It just makes so much sense and they'd be making a lot of money off of it.
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Saw
Jul 1, 2014 17:01:10 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 1, 2014 17:01:10 GMT -5
Lion's Gate is kinda lazy with some of their releases, maybe that's why? I know beginning with Saw V they really started skimping on special features for the series.
It'd be great if the same crew who did the Crystal Lake Memories and Never Sleep Again documentaries could do a similar epic-length doc on Saw, covering all seven films in detail with the casts and crews.
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Saw
Jul 2, 2014 17:51:37 GMT -5
Post by eDemento2099 on Jul 2, 2014 17:51:37 GMT -5
PLEASE retcon 7, I love all the Saw movies and will defend them to my dying breath. But 7 can rot, Even I can't defend that shit. What does 'retcon' mean?
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Post by Living Shadow on Jul 2, 2014 23:57:45 GMT -5
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Saw
Jul 3, 2014 18:10:11 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 3, 2014 18:10:11 GMT -5
I'm a little surprised there isn't a 10th anniversary bluray set. It just makes so much sense and they'd be making a lot of money off of it. I'm surprised about that too, but I'm glad in a way it's not happening for now given that this Fall will be so ridiculously expensive with everything coming out like the deluxe Halloween Blu-ray set.
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 4:13:38 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 18, 2014 4:13:38 GMT -5
I think I asked before a few pages back, but what's everyone's favorite trap in the series? The Needle Pit in 2 is probably my overall favorite, it's so nasty but at the same time brilliant.
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Professor Chaos
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 5:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by Professor Chaos on Jul 18, 2014 5:09:25 GMT -5
Recently watched 1 and 2 on Showtime for the first time and liked them. Wanted to see the rest and was bummed they weren't on Netflix or any of all the Premium Channels I have On Demand.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 7:14:22 GMT -5
The first film is a great thriller, second is an entertaining enough more gore based thriller, from then on I wasn't a fan of them stepping away from the larger thriller mystery aspects in favour of horror/gore, and then using swerve endings instead of really caring to be thrillers any more. I mean, I'm a fan of gore films, but European and Australian cinema in the 2000s did it 20 times better than Saw managed from 3 onwards.
Seriously, the first film is damned fine, second's solid/good, third and onwards fall over themselves and feel like painted on gloss horror movies, which isn't what Saw was to me.
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 7:28:23 GMT -5
Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 18, 2014 7:28:23 GMT -5
I think I asked before a few pages back, but what's everyone's favorite trap in the series? The Needle Pit in 2 is probably my overall favorite, it's so nasty but at the same time brilliant. Even though it's completely nonsensical and from the worst film in the series, I love the window trap in Saw 7. It's so perverse to just put it in public like that. It's a terrible trap really and makes no f***ing sense at all, but I just love how it was almost like a reference to it having become a f***ed up game show.
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 13:38:04 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 18, 2014 13:38:04 GMT -5
Recently watched 1 and 2 on Showtime for the first time and liked them. Wanted to see the rest and was bummed they weren't on Netflix or any of all the Premium Channels I have On Demand. If you liked the first two I'd seek out the rest for sure. The films are of varying quality but you'll want to see them all to get the full story.
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bob
Salacious Crumb
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Jul 18, 2014 14:39:30 GMT -5
Post by bob on Jul 18, 2014 14:39:30 GMT -5
I think I asked before a few pages back, but what's everyone's favorite trap in the series? The Needle Pit in 2 is probably my overall favorite, it's so nasty but at the same time brilliant. the final trap in Saw 4, visually it's stunning and brutal as hell
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Post by Living Shadow on Jul 18, 2014 19:26:40 GMT -5
That was pretty hardcore. {Spoiler}Sad to see Eric go out like that, though. Such a good character and he died so suddenly.
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 19:39:46 GMT -5
Post by Chuck Conry on Jul 18, 2014 19:39:46 GMT -5
I LOVE the original Saw and think it's one of the best horror films ever made. The only bad thing is after part 3 they all just blend together to me. Still, the series done in its time what Friday the 13th did in the 80s by pretty much having a sequel ever year. Some of the horror community seems to have turned on it recently, but I think it deserves ton of credit and praise.
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Jul 18, 2014 19:55:31 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 19:55:31 GMT -5
I love the simpler traps of the Saw series and thats why the Razor Box is my favourite.
It is a brutal trap but very escapable which made the scene very intriguiging to me because I kept thinking untill the very end just maybe she would escape.
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Saw
Jul 18, 2014 20:09:50 GMT -5
Post by Chainsaw on Jul 18, 2014 20:09:50 GMT -5
I liked the first one, thought it was very clever and visceral, although the scripting and acting left a lot to be desired. After it became a big hit,and Lionsgate announced that they were going to turn it into a yearly franchise for Halloween, I lost all interest in it, because I knew they were going to stretch the concept farther than it could bend. I love horror movies on Halloween, but doing something like that put me off the series. I will say this, Tobin Bell is awesome, and was a great choice for Jigsaw.
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Saw
Jul 19, 2014 1:19:21 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 19, 2014 1:19:21 GMT -5
I LOVE the original Saw and think it's one of the best horror films ever made. The only bad thing is after part 3 they all just blend together to me. Still, the series done in its time what Friday the 13th did in the 80s by pretty much having a sequel ever year. Some of the horror community seems to have turned on it recently, but I think it deserves ton of credit and praise. I think maybe because a lot of people have looked back on the series and with there having not been a new sequel for almost four whole years, they're starting to get more appreciation for it realizing that it was actually a solid series for the most part.
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Saw
Jul 24, 2014 4:18:03 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 24, 2014 4:18:03 GMT -5
I've posted my ranking of the series a few times in here and was thinking of posting a thread to rank them but figured we could use this one as well. How do you rank all seven of the films in your order of preference? Mine goes:
2 1 6 5 4 7 3
I think in a lot of ways the original is truly the best, but 2 is the one I find the most entertaining. Overall I enjoy the very tightly connected, intertwined storyline over the course of the films.
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bob
Salacious Crumb
The "other" Bob. FOC COURSE!
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Saw
Jul 24, 2014 10:29:59 GMT -5
Post by bob on Jul 24, 2014 10:29:59 GMT -5
1 2 3 4 6 5 7
My rankings for 5 and 6 are interchangeable depending on the time of day. I didn't like either of them that much and I figured out the twist for 6 immediately when I saw the numbers on the envelopes and how may of them Hoffman took, which took away some pleasure from watching it in the theater.
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Saw
Jul 24, 2014 16:08:14 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 24, 2014 16:08:14 GMT -5
6 was a pleasant surprise for me. It's not too far off from the first two for me in terms of quality and enjoyment. I thought it brought back a lot of the intensity and creativity from the first two that had been lacking in 3-5.
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Saw
Jul 26, 2014 0:26:17 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Jul 26, 2014 0:26:17 GMT -5
I think I mentioned this before, but I'd love to see the same crew who did the Never Sleep Again and Crystal Lake Memories documentaries to do something similar for Saw. An epic-length documentary spanning 5-6 hours on the making of each film and the recollections of all the key cast and crew members. Surprised they didn't do it for this year with the 10th anniversary of the first.
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