I just rented Saw and wasn’t all that impressed. Seemed like the same old stupid mistakes people make in every horror movie. A couple reviews I saw, including IMDB posters made the movie sound great.
Did I miss something? Am I totally out of touch with good horror movies? I loved House of 1000 corpses. Saw just didn’t do that much for me.
I thought *Saw *sucked hard.
I saw it this weekend for the first time.
Actually, I wasn’t expecting much because I heard it was pretty bad. I was suprised and liked it. Not a great movie but good. I also expected it to be much gorier then I expected. One of the more disturbing parts was that
The Guy holding the Dr. Family hostage
looked a lot like Rob Schiender(Derpa Derp).
Creative, disturbing traps, and it kept my interest. The ending also suprised me, though I do wonder if any actually did guess it.
Some the stuff was stupid(the posion cigerrette bluff was painful to watch, since anyone should see through that), but for the most part it didn’t bother me.
I call bullshit on this.
Ick. I expected it to be much gorier then it was.
Sorry.
I’m just kidding you. 
I liked it. It’s the only horror movie I can think of in recent memory where the ending actually surprized me.
Meh. The psychopath creating all these ridiculously elaborate puzzles is a tedious cliché. Unfortunately, CSI seems to be using it more and more, turning every other episode into “Grissom vs. The Evil Genius Determined to Best Grissom.”
Of course, it bugged me when it didn’t occur to either manto try sawing through the pipes, rather than the chains or their own anklesorthe kidnapper was in the cell the whole time, not moving at all? Preposterous, and plays into the cliché, portraying the psychopath as having near-superhuman willpower or focus or whatnot
Plus the ridiculously convenient cloak and muffled voice masking the killer at all times, even when he had no reason to conceal himself.
And how did he hold his breath for 6+ hours?
I enjoyed it as an elaborate gore-fest.
If you can really put your brain on “idle” you can enjoy the plot, but it crumbles into nothing if you try to make sense of it.
Apparently they were originally going to saw through the pipes at one point, but the director figured it would be stupid if they couldn’t saw through their chains. The cloak I can see because he does give his victems an out, so he sure as hell wouldn’t want to be identified if they survive.
Though it did occur to me that Phone Booth is somewhat similar, except the sniper was toturing the guy physcologically rather then actually making him walk on broken glass.
I was referring specifically to the guy tied to the chair with the drills pointed at his temples. Killer walks in, all cloaked and mysterious, announces that the chair-drill is an experiment, that the victim’s death will be the only contribution he’s ever made, etc. The killer has no way of knowing two cops are hiding in the room, and he expects the victim to soon be dead anyway (I don’t see any indication of an “out”), so the cloak and concealed voice are just contrivances for the audience.
And there was a similar scene in Fight Club, where Tyler orders a man at gunpoint to go to veterinary school. Cheers, as well, when the pilot of a small plane fakes his death to freak out Sam and Diane who try to figure out how to land. Since I despise bullies, I’ve never understood the appeal of a character who allegedly improves the lives of his victims by putting them in fear of it. Rather than some noble quest to improve the lives of others, it looks more like a masturbatory fantasy of power.
In this case it’s a cross between the two. The Phone Booth Sniper was doing it as a form of “Divine Justice”. You confess your sins, swear to be a better person or you die. Fight club and Saw were what you said. A sick, twisted guy who tortures people while claiming it makes them better appreciate life(as opposed to traumatizing them).
I’ll put most everything in spoiler boxes to save anyone from ruining the movie.
A killer is holding you and your daughter hostage. You manage to get the gun. You don’t then tell him to stay still. You start pulling the trigger till you run out of ammo and the guy looks like bloody Swiss cheese
Not breathing for 6 hours. First thing my wife said when the guy got up was, “He didn’t breath for 6 hours??”. Really lame
During the car chase scene, I kept thinking the whole time, "This is designed so people in film school will have to watch this and write papers about the great camera work used to build suspense.
We got the killer and a person trapped between two drills, let’s hide and play peek a boo!!! Wtf was that idiotic mockery of police work? Again, you see the guy and blast him. When finding bad guys hideout, you bring the SWAT team and possibly Marines. You don’t grab your partner and enter a dark building with just the two of you.
It really boils down to stupid people making stupid mistakes.