Do you like this movie: Saw

Remember that torture porn craze? Good times. Or bad times, if you hate the genre. I consider it bad times.

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Saw was a good film.

But it's where my interest in the franchise began and ended.

Yes.

I never seed it.

I like one and two. Three sucked and I don't think I saw any after that.

Nah. Rewatched it a while ago and honestly found it cringe as fuck.

I've never seen it, but I voted no because movies like saw about people getting gruesomely tortured is at the bottom of movies I'd want to watch. I dislike the entire concept of it and movies like it.

Been watching the Saw movies this week as a marathon with my wife. We watched Saw 1 - 5 so far.

1 really is the best one and they just go downhill after. 4 onward are just horrible

I liked it.

Honestly the newest one I liked a lot too

Generally, I really enjoy or totally love all the movies in the main franchise except for Saw 3D (7th movie). My favorites are probably II and X, though.

Really good movie.

the later ones in the series go full like gore-no torture porn style, and that's fun in its own way, but its so much harder to recommend, because you need to sort of have a specific idea going in to like the later Saw movies. Even by the second one its starting to lean into this kind of thing.

The first one is literally just a really good thriller movie. Probably because they didn't have the budget to be as over the top as they later were.

Never saw Saw, even more sad is I never got to see Saw on a seesaw, while holding a saw by the sea.

I liked it, but always thought the twist was a little too unbelievable which kind of ruined it for me

It was okay for what it tried to do. The same can be said for the second film. However, it is 3 when it started to rely more on blood and guts more than story.

Never sat and watched it or any of the others. I've seen parts, read what the story is, etc. - it just has no appeal for me, similar to Hostel and others.

day bump

Mid AF

I thought the first Saw was bad/funny. Who didn't laugh when Cary Elwes lost his shit? They took a great actor and made him look like a silly goose.

Yes

I I love the whole franchise honestly and it was always a tradition to go see them in October.

At least V/H/S has brought back that tradition somewhat

Nope. I despise the very idea of serial killers and bitterly resent society's obsession with them.

One of the few horror movies to actually scare me. What sets it apart, for me, is that those things could actually be done to a person. You don't even need a particular skillset to make many of them happen.

It's aight

No.

PMarth2002 posted...

I've never seen it, but I voted no because movies like saw about people getting gruesomely tortured is at the bottom of movies I'd want to watch. I dislike the entire concept of it and movies like it.

The first one isn't really gory. In fact, it might do a discretion cut for any actual gore in the entire movie. It's way more of a thriller than just gory torture porn.

Yes

The premise was interesting, but I really don't like slasher type flicks. Suspense or paranormal type horror are ok, but stuff where most of the cast is only there to be systematically gutted or dismembered in some way is a turnoff.

The OG saw is one of the best horror movies ever imo

Sure, it plays well enough stand-alone.

Of course. It's ending gives me chills every time.

Love it, it's a modern horror classic.

Unfortunately it quickly turned into meaningless gorn.

Pretty good, seeing the breakdown of the characters over the course of the movie is fascinating.

Though I thought the fight scenes were pretty silly

I watched the first two again because of this topic and enjoyed them as much as I remember (well, as much as these movies can be enjoyed upon re-watching).

I've unfortunately decided to just to roll with it and go through with the whole franchise as I have far too much downtime and not enough energy/attention span for worthwhile endeavors.

I'll report back after each movie.

Three still sucks btw.

TheLiarParadox posted...

I've unfortunately decided to just to roll with it and go through with the whole franchise

Reminder: There's 10 of them.

son of a gun a movie I finally recognize and can actually vote on and I missed the poll

tl;dr I do like the Saw movies. I like all of them except for the one with Chris Rock.

pegusus123456 posted...

The first one isn't really gory. In fact, it might do a discretion cut for any actual gore in the entire movie. It's way more of a thriller than just gory torture porn.

That doesn't make it a movie I have any desire to watch. Maybe it bumps it up from the literal bottom of the list of movie concepts by a step or two.

I also didn't have any interest in the Saw movies for a long time, I couldn't wrap my head around the concept of a movie whose premise was just torture and gore.

But, there's actually a lot more depth to it than that as it explored different dimensions of ethics and psychology. The torture aspect is actually not that prominent, and most of the movies feel like a slightly more mature and much better written version of a Criminal Minds episode tbh.

Cynrascal posted...

Reminder: There's 10 of them.

I usually do 31 horror movies in 31 days for October/Halloween, anyway, and I'm already in it, so might as well go all in.

I think I'm going to make a separate topic so I can be as spoilery as I want.