Saw 1-4
So i’v been a bit of a lazy git and spent most of the afternoon watching all of the current Saw films back-to-back. It really does highlight when you do a filmathon like this, how bad some franchisees get as more and more cashing sequels are written.
In Saw’s case the first movie is nothing short of a modern day gory horror classic in my opinion and the second one is ‘ok’. The thing with the original is that it was (or at least seemed to me) fairly original. It mixes violent gory death with clever traps in a knife edge thriller setting, very much the same vibe as The Cube for me. From Saw 3 on in it just gets uninspired and the plot gets so lost and patched and by the end of the (6-8) hour spint I ended up wanting to saw my own fucking leg off.
What is even more odd is that they are making a 5th one! which will be out towards the end of this month (half the reason i watched 1-4, the other half was boredom).
I guess i’ll wait till it comes out on DVD as I cant see my self paying to go to see it at the cinema by which time my saw fest today will be a memory and it’ll make even less sense! ugh.
I just dont get why film makers feel the need to rationalise stuff and explain shit as sequels go on. In the first film you only found out who jigsaw was right at the end (but the hints were there). This added to the film’s thriller aspect and really set the scene. By the later films you find out who he is, ***spoiler*** that he’s not just fucked up because of cancer but that he had a kid that got killed yadda yadda yadda bull shit.
Now I have Starship Troopers 3 on before I goto bed, Now this I know IS going to be shit but shit in a good way with sending you to sleepness added in.
Even if Saw(s) do get a bit wank towards the end, they do carry through plenty of sweet gory painful looking moments that reminded me of the Hostel films in the use of modern special effects to create very realistic scenes that made me pull a ‘ew’ face a few times.
