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May 24, 2013 1:17:35 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 24, 2013 1:17:35 GMT -5
Yeah, that really stood out in a bad way in 7, the pink blood. Looked like watered down strawberry syrup.
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May 27, 2013 19:45:39 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 27, 2013 19:45:39 GMT -5
Thought I'd share this rare special video with the Saw fans here, the animated version of the Rebirth prequel comic that was released to coincide with Saw II's release:
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Saw
May 28, 2013 22:09:58 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 28, 2013 22:09:58 GMT -5
Also forgot to ask, anyone ever done an all-day marathon of the whole series in a row with no breaktime? I've done it a couple of times before, it's a fun way to spend a day provided you have the time and patience for it.
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May 28, 2013 22:30:24 GMT -5
Post by bob on May 28, 2013 22:30:24 GMT -5
Also forgot to ask, anyone ever done an all-day marathon of the whole series in a row with no breaktime? I've done it a couple of times before, it's a fun way to spend a day provided you have the time and patience for it. I do mini-marathons with 1 through 3 every so often because those are the only ones I own. Occasionally I borrow the rest from the library and do a marathon session over 2-3 days. Each time I watch them I like them all a little more.
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May 29, 2013 1:16:18 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 1:16:18 GMT -5
Sometimes when I watch them I split them up, too. The first two one day, 3-5 the next then I end it with 6 and 7 together.
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May 29, 2013 1:31:47 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 1:31:47 GMT -5
I usually save the marathon for Halloween and for first timers to the series as I walk them through their ability to confuse themselves right into a wall or in other words the middle of the 2nd movie...I really wish I could summarize just how many times that has happened...but it is ALOT.
But when I just feel like watching I just treat it as two trilogies...and always avoid SAW 3D...gawd this movie pisses me off.
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May 29, 2013 1:46:42 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 1:46:42 GMT -5
7 wasn't the best movie but I still watch it just to wrap the set up. Still, the series deserves a much better finale. You can tell combining Saw 7 and 8 into one movie wasn't the brightest move :/
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May 29, 2013 1:54:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 1:54:30 GMT -5
With the supposed rumors of a series reboot/remake...and yes thats apparently a rumor floating around the series.
Idk what would be worse...a sequel that makes up for the crap that was 8 or potentially end the series on a worse note then it did...or start all over and potentially just ruin all the goodwill of the original.
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May 29, 2013 2:03:00 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 2:03:00 GMT -5
I've heard the reboot rumors. I'm honestly not too opposed to the idea but at the same time I think more can be done with the saga in the current canon.
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May 29, 2013 2:06:43 GMT -5
Post by Brother Nero....Wolfe on May 29, 2013 2:06:43 GMT -5
I don't agree with the torture porn putdown, but I do think that every movie after the first one upped the graphical side of the gore as opposed to it being psychological and that took a bit of what I liked the most about the first movie away. Then again, I guess the reason the first movie held back so much was that it had the lowest budget of them all. While I give credit for the series for managing to stay mostly coherent despite how long it went for, I think the writing got kind of repetitive after the first movie. I think the reason I didn't like the sequels all that much is that they had that thing most sequels have where they try to take the bits the fans liked from the first movie and turn them up a bit too high. The twists at the end began to feel a bit telegraphed in that the movie made you almost expect a twist, but still, as far as horror movies go? I can't complain about the plot. I was half asleep for the last one though(not because of the movie, it was a long day for me) and I don't remember most of it. Can someone tell me why... {Spoiler}Gordon sided with Jigsaw after surviving his trap? From what I remember the dude had a pretty good life and a family(that motivated him to get rid of his leg and all) so I don't get why he would do that. Again, I was half-asleep for the movie so there's a pretty good chance they explained and I missed it.
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Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 2:19:33 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Saw VII didn't really bother to try to explain why Gordon was siding with Jigsaw after what he'd gone through. I suppose it can be assumed that Gordon may have simply fallen for Jigsaw's words and wisdom, and thus was manipulated into helping him. He wasn't in the most stable or strong of emotional states either after what he'd went through in the first movie, making him more vulnerable.
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May 29, 2013 2:28:29 GMT -5
Post by Brother Nero....Wolfe on May 29, 2013 2:28:29 GMT -5
{Spoiler}Thanks! That's...kind of disappointing, but on the bright side him helping Jigsaw did give the series a sense of cohesiveness...wish they had a better explanation though, it's kind of a big thing and I think it could have used some moments to try to make the audience buy it. Then again I was half-asleep for it so I really shouldn't be criticizing its fine details until I watch it wide awake.
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May 29, 2013 2:30:55 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 29, 2013 2:30:55 GMT -5
I don't agree with the torture porn putdown, but I do think that every movie after the first one upped the graphical side of the gore as opposed to it being psychological and that took a bit of what I liked the most about the first movie away. Then again, I guess the reason the first movie held back so much was that it had the lowest budget of them all. While I give credit for the series for managing to stay mostly coherent despite how long it went for, I think the writing got kind of repetitive after the first movie. I think the reason I didn't like the sequels all that much is that they had that thing most sequels have where they try to take the bits the fans liked from the first movie and turn them up a bit too high. The twists at the end began to feel a bit telegraphed in that the movie made you almost expect a twist, but still, as far as horror movies go? I can't complain about the plot. I was half asleep for the last one though(not because of the movie, it was a long day for me) and I don't remember most of it. Can someone tell me why... {Spoiler}Gordon sided with Jigsaw after surviving his trap? From what I remember the dude had a pretty good life and a family(that motivated him to get rid of his leg and all) so I don't get why he would do that. Again, I was half-asleep for the movie so there's a pretty good chance they explained and I missed it. I don't really consider Gordon a full on apprentice especially since he had Amanda and Hoffman , Gordon was more or less a contingency plan and just "paying" back Jigsaw but then again when Gordon crawled outta the bathroom he wasn't very mentally stable so who knows lol.
My question is how the hell did Gordon convince those 2 guys from the opening Saw 3d trap to join him? yea they got played by a slut but really was that all it took?.
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May 29, 2013 2:40:45 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 2:40:45 GMT -5
{Spoiler}The commentary mentions the two helpers as being Brad and Ryan (the two young men in the opening trap), but I like to believe the helpers are Daniel Matthews (from the second film) and Michael Tapp (from the second game).
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May 29, 2013 8:38:17 GMT -5
Post by bob on May 29, 2013 8:38:17 GMT -5
I don't agree with the torture porn putdown, but I do think that every movie after the first one upped the graphical side of the gore as opposed to it being psychological and that took a bit of what I liked the most about the first movie away. Then again, I guess the reason the first movie held back so much was that it had the lowest budget of them all. While I give credit for the series for managing to stay mostly coherent despite how long it went for, I think the writing got kind of repetitive after the first movie. I think the reason I didn't like the sequels all that much is that they had that thing most sequels have where they try to take the bits the fans liked from the first movie and turn them up a bit too high. The twists at the end began to feel a bit telegraphed in that the movie made you almost expect a twist, but still, as far as horror movies go? I can't complain about the plot. I was half asleep for the last one though(not because of the movie, it was a long day for me) and I don't remember most of it. Can someone tell me why... {Spoiler}Gordon sided with Jigsaw after surviving his trap? From what I remember the dude had a pretty good life and a family(that motivated him to get rid of his leg and all) so I don't get why he would do that. Again, I was half-asleep for the movie so there's a pretty good chance they explained and I missed it. {Spoiler}nope and that's another one of the things that really pisses me off about the movie
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May 29, 2013 13:36:27 GMT -5
Post by riseofsetian1981 on May 29, 2013 13:36:27 GMT -5
{Spoiler}In the 7th Jigsaw does tell Gordon "I will keep no more secrets from you." My guess is maybe Jigsaw secretely made sure Gordon's wife and daughter were safe? Thus in return Gordon helped him with his methods of testing those who were ungrateful for their lives.
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May 29, 2013 17:08:20 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 29, 2013 17:08:20 GMT -5
{Spoiler}That's a possibility although it was a loose one given that Zep came close to killing both of them.
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May 30, 2013 1:50:15 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 30, 2013 1:50:15 GMT -5
You know, on a related subject to what I posted just a few posts back, {Spoiler}Do you think it's possible Daniel Matthews (from Saw II) could've ever been considered an apprentice at some point? Ever since I first watched the second film it's something I always wondered about. I know his Dad was put through a game of his own (and absolute Hell taking into account the fourth film), but he wasn't on the best of terms with his father as we saw and given his quickness to act and his willpower, perhaps Jigsaw might've seen him as a potential successor somewhere down the line?
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May 30, 2013 2:06:09 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 2:06:09 GMT -5
. I always assumed he was going to be revealed as helping Jigsaw especially when it came to Amanda who he seemed to grow relatively closer to , but then Amanda died and then the Daniel thing popped up again because so I figured okay with Jigsaw dead and Amanda dead...he is gonna pop back up now more so since we never found out what happened to his father...so when Matthews was revealed to be alive in Saw 4 I was like okay now is the time to reveal Daniel as working for Jigsaw and reveal himself to his father and lay into him for abandoning him etc....but then Matthews died and when that happened all hope for Daniels involvement died because his father was missing for 6 months...so if he were going to pop back up it should have been Saw 4...talking to hoffman , strahm etc
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May 30, 2013 4:26:09 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on May 30, 2013 4:26:09 GMT -5
{Spoiler}It was definitely disappointing that Daniel never showed again in the subsequent films, not counting the extremely brief background appearance he had in one of the Saw V flashbacks. If an eighth film gets made I hope he'll be in it.
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