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Dec 10, 2015 2:23:57 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 10, 2015 2:23:57 GMT -5
I remember we had a Saw discussion here sometime ago. The series is one that gets a lot of hate but it seems in recent years the hate has somewhat mellowed. I've been a big fan since almost the beginning. The series is often written off as being mindless gore which IMO is unfair as the first couple aren't like that at all and are much more psychological than gruesome. I have fond memories catching a new sequel every Halloween from 2005-2010 and sometimes miss the feeling.
You can rank them in your order of preference if you'd like, for me:
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Dec 10, 2015 2:59:23 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 2:59:23 GMT -5
2 1 6 3 4 5 7
I still love going back to the series myself and looking at it from the perspective of knowing the entire arc and mindlessly piecing together all the left out pieces of the story between the the time skips and what not and really grow in appreciation that they were to craft such a story with so many layers and twists over 7 movies.
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Post by Professor Chaos on Dec 10, 2015 3:28:13 GMT -5
It was a really well intertwinded series of films. Very well written and great continuity. Haven't seen them all in a while to rank them.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Dec 10, 2015 7:06:06 GMT -5
I really liked the series. Haven't watched them for a while but remember really enjoying most of them. Underrated series.
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 8:25:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 8:25:06 GMT -5
The only thing I really remember, besides how awesome Tobin Bell is, was that the acting toward the end was...........OOF. Not good.
Not that they're bad actors, but the directing was not up to snuff. Earlier performances were handled a lot better -- that, or Tobin Bell was just so damn good it distracted you from any sloppiness.
Seriously, Tobin Bell. The overwhelming highlight of the entire film series.
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 8:53:04 GMT -5
Post by corradosoprano on Dec 10, 2015 8:53:04 GMT -5
The first is the best for me.
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 19:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 10, 2015 19:21:20 GMT -5
1 6 2 3 4 5 7
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 20:01:09 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 10, 2015 20:01:09 GMT -5
The only thing I really remember, besides how awesome Tobin Bell is, was that the acting toward the end was...........OOF. Not good. Not that they're bad actors, but the directing was not up to snuff. Earlier performances were handled a lot better -- that, or Tobin Bell was just so damn good it distracted you from any sloppiness. Seriously, Tobin Bell. The overwhelming highlight of the entire film series. What amazes me is he's been acting for years prior to Saw and it was only then he finally got recognition.
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Dec 10, 2015 20:15:58 GMT -5
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Post by Professor Chaos on Dec 10, 2015 20:15:58 GMT -5
I loved how Betsy Russell appeared again thanks to this franchise. Her in the movie Private School was one of my fondest memories of my youth.
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Dec 10, 2015 20:34:08 GMT -5
Post by riseofsetian1981 on Dec 10, 2015 20:34:08 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've actually watched all of them. Plan on doing it at some point in the future. I have to say the best ones for me personally were Saw 1-3 as they told a great story and could've ended there temporarily in order for the franchise to craft another amazing story. They really, really dropped the ball on Detective Matthews and Agent Strahm as they were two of the strongest and best characters of the story in my opinion. Especially Agent Strahm. He was the badass FBI agent you wanted to see end the games and when he died the way he did in Saw V, I think it kind of killed the series a little bit in my opinion.
Saw 6 was a great one and Saw 7 was eh the only good part of Saw 7 was the ending and Cary Elwes was awesome.
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 23:18:31 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 10, 2015 23:18:31 GMT -5
7 wasn't the best series finale for sure.
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Saw
Dec 10, 2015 23:25:30 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2015 23:25:30 GMT -5
7 was dissapointing because they dragged out what everyone knew by the opening of Saw 2 and they had set up IMO an even better ending but then skwandered it by killing off said person.
Hell if anything I can say for this series and it all ties into how it ended and that is there were multiple ideas all tossed out that would have been infinetly more intriguiging but by killing certain characters and not giving us closure on certain ones and going with the long drawn out most obvious ending they went out on a MEH instead of the WTF please gimme another movie in the series that they could have.
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Saw
Dec 11, 2015 8:06:11 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 11, 2015 8:06:11 GMT -5
Thing with 7 is it felt rushed and played up to every negative stereotype associated with the series.
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Dec 11, 2015 19:05:48 GMT -5
Post by Capt Lunatic on Dec 11, 2015 19:05:48 GMT -5
7 should have been called "Neck Stabber: The Movie"
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Saw
Dec 11, 2015 19:40:00 GMT -5
Post by xCompackx on Dec 11, 2015 19:40:00 GMT -5
Thing with 7 is it felt rushed and played up to every negative stereotype associated with the series. That always felt intentional to me. The director didn't want to make the movie, and probably nobody at Lionsgate/Twisted Pictures cared since it was billed as "the final chapter". It's been a few years since I've watched the Saw series but from what I remember, you can just pretend that VI is the final movie and not miss anything. Plus, you can ignore Jill's death which was stupid to begin with.
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Saw
Dec 12, 2015 2:44:51 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 12, 2015 2:44:51 GMT -5
I remember. The director signed on to do Paranormal Activity 2 and got roped into doing Saw VII.
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Saw
Dec 12, 2015 3:02:05 GMT -5
Post by Mozenrath on Dec 12, 2015 3:02:05 GMT -5
I thought the first two were alright, albeit not my thing, and quit after that. Two had a major issue for me, though. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The whole point is he kidnaps and tests people he feels should earn their right to live. Ignoring how moronic it is in the first one that he's hiding in plain sight as a "corpse" that somehow goes a huge amount of time without moving in the slightest. He needed to be there to do this because....?
Ignoring that, even, he breaks his own rules. What did the kid in 2 do to deserve to be part of the game? Jigsaw has his hot helper lady to try to protect him, sure, but that doesn't change that he could have simply punished the cop, instead, since they already expect us to believe a dying man and this lady moved all of these people, themselves. he's an underwhelming villain in large part due to this.
Self-righteous sorts of villains don't work well if they can violate their own sense of morality at-will and just do whatever they want. Maybe that's explained in a later film, but that doesn't make the second one a stronger film for its exclusion. It's like if Se7en hit the brakes mid-film and John Doe shot a toddler for no reason, breaking the theme.
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Saw
Dec 12, 2015 3:13:34 GMT -5
Post by ShaolinHandLock on Dec 12, 2015 3:13:34 GMT -5
I liked them all, and I really enjoyed the series as a whole. Not sure where I'd rank them though.
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Dec 12, 2015 3:54:07 GMT -5
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Post by LuchaBella on Dec 12, 2015 3:54:07 GMT -5
I liked the series, I never understood all the hate.
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Saw
Dec 12, 2015 4:40:24 GMT -5
Post by Living Shadow on Dec 12, 2015 4:40:24 GMT -5
People probably just got tired of so many sequels after a while and started hating the series as a result.
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