Saw - The Movie — Page 2

I'll go with you. I don't want to go alone, either!

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It's a deal. But instead of going back to your place you can come to mine and help me unpack.

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Can I come too?

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Just bumping this as a friend in LA just emailed me to tell me she thought Saw was a pile of SH*TE. Anyone else care to tell her how wrong she is?

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No offence, Addy, but are you still here?

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The critics, if imdb.com are any indication, tend to agree with your friend.

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Horror movies aren't always slammed- just often. And that's because they're often formulaic, and I imagine nothing's more annoying to someone who watches craploads of movies every year than formula. Or, you know, yet another attempt to shock with sadism and nastiness.

Updated On: 10/31/04 at 11:04 AM

Yet another bump for this. Did NOBODY see this movie?

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I "Saw" it this weekend, and I found it more unpleasant than scary...eh, okay, I guess...terrific premise, at least, which they didn't follow through on. It took itself a little too seriously and the best horror movies I've seen have all had a sense of icky fun. And that acting! Ouch! Poor,poor Danny Glover! Went home and watched SUSPIRIA again on the 25th anniversary DVD...now THAT'S a horror movie!

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SUSPIRIA, being an Italian horror flick, needs some patience. It's frequently silly and illogical, perhaps even incomprehensible, and the dialogue sounds like it was--well, badly translated from Italian...but the scary bits are great, and the score is sooo weird (bouzoukis, chants, howls, and metallic percussion), and all those incredible sets drenched in primary colors. Dario Argento has said that he thought SNOW WHITE is one of the scariest films ever made, and on the DVD, he talks about how he used the then-done-with Technicolor to get the crazy color effects, like the colors in SNOW WHITE. It has a definite fairy tale feel, with the almost entirely female cast, and Jessica Harper was cast because Argento thought she would make a great Snow White (she would). Another interesting bit: he initially conceived the script as the cast being all children--little girls 9 or 10 years old. Good Lord!!

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OK so here is my SAW review. Went last night, ohhhh halloween ohhhhh, whatever. All I can say is, Biggest Letdown Of THE YEAR, movie wise. I fully admit that I wasted my money on Alien Vs. Predator and Exorcist The Begining, but I didn't expect those to be that good and they weren't. I am a frequent visitor to Ain't It Cool News. And for almost a year now they have been promoting this thing as The Next Big Name in Horror Movies. Well it's not folks. Now I admit I am not easy to scare, the only movie that has truly terrified me and does to this day is the original Exorcist. Silence of the Lambs didn't scare me persay but kept me gripped and Buffalo Bob was just horrific. The realism in Silence I think is what got me. Also the new Texas Chainsaw gave me the creeps as I was driving home because while at school I rented a house that was Huge and old and only had 2 of us living in a 2 story 6 bedroom house, that and I had to drive through the woods to get to it. Anyways....... With all this in mind and hearing the reviews that SAW was just as good if not better than Silence and Se7en (another amazing movie). I was more than pumped to see it.
The film itself was written poorly. The very contrived plot setup lines like "How did you get here?" "What do you remember?" "What do you do?" were false and delivered falsly. Now at first I thought maybe the acting was poor in a comment on how poor the script was and the actors were just trying to get this contrived piece of crap across. The I decided it was true for 90% of the cast but not Cary Elwes. There is a reason Elwes has not gotten any bigger than he is today. He is awful. His lines that were supposed to be fueled by anger were so laughable that the entire theatre was laughing anytime he tried to threaten anyone. Also he has let himself go and I'll be damned if his weight didn't get in his way.
That brings me to another problem, The Script was just plain bad. Laughs in all the wrong places and a set up so contrived I didn't believe who they were trying to get across as the killer for one moment. (but I'll stop there before I give anything away.)
I guess thats it, if anyone wants more info just post and I'll respond. The movie doesn't really get good untill the last 20 minutes and that is it's saving grace. The last 20 minutes was the only reason I didn't seek getting my money back and the reason I semi enjoyed this movie. But overall, giant dissapointment.

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It seems like every year there is a BIG horror movie that everybody buzzes is going to revive the genre...remember all the squawking last year over CABIN FEVER? Now, SAW wasn't as crappy as that flick but...

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Urgh, I've heard of that. Have fun.