Let's discuss SAW - as in the movie with Cary Elwes in (spoilers)

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Watched this last night, very gripping/creepy. Veers a bit towards unintentional hilarity at some of the more fraught bits at the end. Wasn't sure why they bothered with the Creepy Man In Long Cloak and Mask shit so much.

I didn't really get the ending - v. dramatic and all but why was the whiny emo dude shouting so much? Is he going to die because he got locked in the room and the key for the chains has gone? Or is it implicit that Bad Man is going to catch the doctor guy because he hobbled off on one leg fairly recently? I'd watch it again but I think I've reached my quota of abject bleakness for the month.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Thursday, 14 October 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I work with Mr Elwes cousin by marriage.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

DISCUSS IIIIIT

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Saturday, 16 October 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

some of the acting in this is very stagey. I was almost sick after coming out though but I was generally feeling ill yesterday and was in fact sick later in the evening.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Is this the ONLY thread about this movie? Wow!

I thought this movie was FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC. Whoever the guy is who played Adam, good job.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

The ending was:

A) genuinely surprising
B) so, so retarded

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Cary Elwes' American accent is getting better, and he looks good a little beefed up.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

This was the second-worst movie I saw last year (after Sky Captain). I don't know why I didn't walk out halfway.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

haha, I liked Sky Captain too!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

are you kidding me, nickalicious?! this was an enormous piece of crap! elwes' performance is probably one of the worst in the history of american cinema, the glover character is a giant cliche voltron, and the plot has holes big enough to drive a car through. i honestly don't understand how anyone could like this movie, it hated its audience.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

haha dude I have been thinking of netflixing this, and the fact that both milo and mark p hated it kind of solidifies my decision to do so!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I loved how they went in that one place and Danny big black guy Glover had a wee little pee-shooter, and his little 4'11" 70 lb. Korean sidekick got to carry the SHOTGUN.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, not to mention the ENTIRELY GRATUITOUS WIZARD ROBES.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

the fact that both milo and mark p hated it kind of solidifies my decision to do so

I hated it, too, Tom. Fuck Netflix GO RENT IT RIGHT NOW!!

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

sonned by a huckabees fan!

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

this movie must be AWESOME

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I've never been more undecided about whether or not to see a movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Kid who played Adam = SO cute.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

The thing is, this movie's a lot like The Grudge and that old Clue movie and shit like that for me, in that, though I was really enthralled watching it, I would never attempt to argue its merits with film-arguing-about type people.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Except for the guy who played Adam's performance. He was totally solid.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

solid as a rock.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

I loved it.

I loved the acting, the real sense of people undecoriously losing their shit.

I loved the way everything was framed by this ululating murk.

I loved how any scene shot outside the killing room was made to look disconnected from the reality of terror (the LOST HIGHWAY-like car chase to and from nowhere.)

The sequence with Shawnee Smith being thankful to the killer had more psych truth per square inch than the aggregate of US cinema combined.

Great film.

― iang, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I know a few people who know Leigh Whannell. This film's bene bigged up here for ages, cos of the small-budget yet suprising success angle.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

bene? Dammit, I need coffee./

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

so being Halloween season I've been revisiting a lot of flicks, including not so great ones, but I've been thinking on the Saw franchise. Obviously, any franchise that goes 8 or more films deep is going to be mostly crap, but I don't even have much affection for the original. It's *alright*, I suppose, and because Jigsaw is more of a mystery at that point, it manages to stay fresher a little while longer than the rest. I kinda liked the second one at the time cos it had some fun visuals.

but besides the fact that I hated torture porn, I think my real issue with this series is that it only would really work, to me, if the screenwriters are more detached from Jigsaw and his deeds, rather than actually presenting him as the rational actor in the series. Instead of the hypocritical, binary-thinking loony tune who says "he hates murderers" prior to creating a scenario that kills a young girl whose only crime was being related to the guy he was actually trying to punish in Saw 3.

has anybody revisited the first one recently? kinda wondering if it will look dated, since that torture porn genre screams "aughts" to me.

― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2016 01:09 (nine years ago)

however Cary Elwes hilarious performance will never not be classic. Scenery chewing at its finest.

― Neanderthal, Monday, 31 October 2016 01:09 (nine years ago)

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