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Topic	Trdl Actually Finishes a Ranking Topic: 65 User-Nominated Finishing Moves
trdl23 07/21/21 1:43:59 AM #11:	#62: Reverse Bear Trap Nominator: @TomNook (0/1 remaining) Character: Jigsaw Source Material: Saw Scores: Aesthetics: 3 Dominance: 4 Damn: 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzTc-6ggn8 The premise is cool. The device is cool. The action is cool. However, for my rankings, the sum is far less than its collective parts. The main problem with the Reverse Bear Trap "survival game" (or any of Jigsaw's survival games, really) for this topic is that they are not actually finishing moves -- or at least they aren't meant to be, no matter how sadistic they are. In order to even put someone into this kind of situation, the subject must already be at Jigsaw's mercy, his dominance over them established from the start. The device doesn't establish or even reinforce that; it's already a given. The aesthetics would be cooler if we got a clearer picture of them than Jigsaw's fuzzy TV screen, and the entire point of the scene is that Amanda survives it unscathed ~~physically, at least.~~ There isn't much else to talk about. I hate torture-porn movies but even I'll admit it's a good scene, but when the goal of your finishing move is not to finish your opponent, it's hard to call it as such. --- E come vivo? Vivo! <cite>trdl23 posted [p:956306014] in Trdl Actua... [t:79575332]...</cite> <quote>#62: Reverse Bear Trap Nominator: @TomNook (0/1 remaining) Character: Jigsaw Source Material: Saw Scores: Aesthetics: 3 Dominance: 4 Damn: 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXzTc-6ggn8 The premise is cool. The device is cool. The action is cool. However, for my rankings, the sum is far less than its collective parts. The main problem with the Reverse Bear Trap "survival game" (or any of Jigsaw's survival games, really) for this topic is that they are not actually finishing moves -- or at least they aren't meant to be, no matter how sadistic they are. In order to even put someone into this kind of situation, the subject must already be at Jigsaw's mercy, his dominance over them established from the start. The device doesn't establish or even reinforce that; it's already a given. The aesthetics would be cooler if we got a clearer picture of them than Jigsaw's fuzzy TV screen, and the entire point of the scene is that Amanda survives it unscathed physically, at least. There isn't much else to talk about. I hate torture-porn movies but even I'll admit it's a good scene, but when the goal of your finishing move is not to finish your opponent, it's hard to call it as such. --- E come vivo? Vivo!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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