Film: Saw [merged]

[jpgrdnr]

If you want psychological thriller rent "The Experiment"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/

 

[*Venus*]

BIG SPOILER

Finally saw this movie last weekend.



I gave it a 3. So much was unbelievable and/or pointless but overall I enjoyed the flick. I think somebody will definitely return in the second movie.. the end really surprised me.

SPOILER:













They didn't see the "dead" guy breathing? Pshhhh

 

[Rollin_to_Oakenfold]

I gave it a three because I really enjoyed the movie, but its not really that scary to me. Its just one of those that is so extremely fucked up that, its disturbing.

 

[genaro]

best horror movies:
Shining (by kubrick)...terrifying, a completely psychological fear
Hellraiser 1 and 2 (by clive barker): somewhat psychedelic, completely unsaine
Ring (the japanese version, not the US remake) : psychological fear, very good one

and a few classics:
Texas chainsaw massacre (the original one), more funny than freaky
Freddy 1 (nightmare on elm street), somewhat freaky

and a few hilarious ones:
Braindead (also called "dead alive")...so fun
Evil dead (the trilogy)....hilarious

ENJOY !

 

[wanderlust]

just a tip for searches for terms like 'saw' - i found this thread to merge with red arrow's post by searching for 'saw*'

 

[xena]

i finally saw this movie last night, after looking forward to it for so long.

i figured i'd like this one, because i'm all about the fucked up psychological thrillers where you think about the killer and go, "what the fuck is wrong with him?!?!"

this movie did it for me. great idea... great twist at the end. i love how the end left you hanging a bit. and i LOVE it when there isn't always a completely happy ending. not the scariest movie i've seen, but it was definitely above average. i gave it 3 stars.

 

[psychetool]

I loved it, the different methods of death were ingenius. I wasn't a big fan of SE7EN (why?) and would actually have to rate this one higher. It just seemed more 'real' then SE7EN, to me at least.

The scene with the reverse beartrap was VERY COOL to say the least. It might end up in my DVD collection...

 

[kiss2remember]

The twist at the end was sooo freaky! I had to explain the ending to my husband because he just didn't get it. I liked it overall. The acting wasn't the greatest, but the story kept me going. I thought Danny Glover was the killer until the very end. Now that is one person taking their job too seriously!!

 

[alasdairm]

just watched it. i thought it was great up until about 20 minutes from the end and then it just faded away.

the scary doll thing was terrifying - as most puppets are.

alasdair

 

[psychetool]

<spoilers>The filming techniques were pretty cool and added suspense too, for instance when she has the trap on her head and is running around looking for the key it plays that intense music and speeds up the framerate along with different color filters that really brought out the suspense. All my friends seemed to enjoy it, i'm curious why nobody here is as fond of it as I am ?

 

[Tech Kinetics]

I just saw this movie and I definitely have to comment on it.

I highly recommend this movie because lately the horror genre has had too many "Happy" endings in films. 8(

A couple things I wanted to point out............ You can't really compare this with the movie Se7en. I noticed a lot of people talking about the comparison in previous posts. This is a psychological thriller!
Seven came out after the movie Copycat which was also a Psychological thriller. So thats like everyone saying that the movie Seven copied any movies that involved a mysterious killer before it came out.
Everyone has seemed to forgotten the movie called the Bone Collecter. Same idea as Seven, but because it had Angelina Jolie in it, everyone thinks its a good movie.

A unique horror movie is NOT about the actors or the director.......but it is about the storyline and the twisted endings.

You want to know why the Shining was so good??
Not because of Stanley Kubrick thats for sure!!!!! And definitely not because of Jack Nicholson.

Stephen King wrote the story just like James Wan wrote the story for Saw

 

[lostpunk5545]

^ I don't know why everyone loves the Kubrick version of The Shining - it ripped the heart out of the book and made the whole premise shit. It wasn't remotely scary with all of the psychological suspense removed from it. Jack Nicholson was so the wrong actor for that character too. The Stephen King miniseries version is much better. (Stephen King hated what Kubrick did to it, so made his own version a bit closer to the book).

Anyways I watched Saw tonight. I didn't think it was too scary, the gore was definitely not too much to handle either. But I enjoyed it overall...

Worth watching but not quite as good as all the pre-release hype made out.

 

[onetwothreefour]

i really, really enjoyed saw. which was odd, because even though i loved the premise, i was totally expecting to be let down by it - the hollywood hype and all that.

but it was damn solid. elwes isn't a bad actor, nor was the other guy (!) - which i wasn't expecting - and the suspense built up through the script came to a nice pay-off, i thought.

really, anyone who can keep a movie interesting when it's mainly just two guys in a room is doing pretty damn well. very solid.

also: lostpunk and tech kinetics, i disagree entirely (somewhat ). firstly, tech: i think an enormous part of what made the shining scary was kubrick - the foreboding symmetry in the sets and framing, the enormous, open spaced hotel, the sense of impending doom as the camera followed tracks rather than moving freely - all signs of a great director. generally, i think you're right: horror films are often about their story/script than anything else, but to a) claim, generally, that it has nothing to do with the acting or directing at all and b) say, specifically, that kubrick and nicholson have nothing to do with the shining's quality is pretty farcical. as below, i don't think kubrick's film really resembles the book _all that much_ and thus it *must* be his own creation.

now, onto lostpunk's point - i agree that kubrick's film didn't follow the original book, but i don't think that necessarily makes it invalid. kubrick's film concentrated far more on the intricacies of familial relationships and the role of patriarchy in society, which isn't exactly horror fodder. so, of course, it wasn't quite like the book and thus lost a lot of its horror elements, but i think those losses were balanced out by some of its intellectual gains. and i still love the book to bits too. (i swear we've had this debate before btw. scary deja vu ).

 

[paintmeinvisible]

Saw 2 comes out in August. Should be interesting if they don't try and overexplain the killer's motives. Hell,why does Michael Myers kill? Who cares. Halloween 1,2, and 7 were great. No motive. My tooth aches.

 

[kubenzi]

when i walked out of the theatre seeing this i loved it...so i have to give it 3 stars...

now after renting it a few months later...the second time watching it i was a bit dissapointed only for the reason of *spoiler below*











in the beginning the guy who ends up cutting his legs off says "use your shirt" to the other fellow trying to get the player.....so why didnt he take his own advice and use his shirt to answer the phone?.... instead of making himself permanently handicapped....

thats my only gripe with the movie on the second round of seeing it...and i didnt catch it the first time...so thats cool with me i guess

 

[L2R]

<spoilers>The filming techniques were pretty cool and added suspense too, for instance when she has the trap on her head and is running around looking for the key it plays that intense music and speeds up the framerate along with different color filters that really brought out the suspense. All my friends seemed to enjoy it, i'm curious why nobody here is as fond of it as I am ?

This effect is a good example why I really disliked this movie. Seeing someone running around in fast motion works for comedy (benny hill) but hardly raises any suspense. Well, not for me at least.
I'm trying to suspend my disbelief enough to empathise with this character caught in a ludicrous predicament which makes it hard enough as it is. Then it's made practically impossible when denied the feeling of time ticking past. The time moving excruciatingly slow when focused upon (which is her POV) could have made me scared and/or sold the movie for me.
It's hard to be scared by atmosphere and entertained by something that looks like a cheap cliche'd music video at the same time.

This was the last REALLY BAD movie I remember seeing, but in the light of all the positive reviews in here, I'll happily admit the possibility that I was just in a shitty mood that day. I might give it another go if it plays on cable or something.

 

[peanutbutterNpaisley]

Saw was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The acting towards the end was absolutely awful. I'd give it half a star.

 

[wanderlust]

i was expecting garbage with this fiml for a variety of reasons, one being that 99% of the u.s. 'horror' films of the last year have been anything but horror or scary.
i was surprised by saw. it was not the jump out and kill you 'scary' thrills bullshit i hate, it had an edge to it. it was a study of human nature and sinister side... but no where nearly well done as seven or silence of the lambs... but hey after such a drought i will take it.
by the end of the movie i was sitting on the edge of my seat.
unfortunetly it was not out of fear or anxiety but out of the fact that i was bored and wanted to uncontorably shake the tv to speed up to the end. overall it was an alright, better than most horror movie... but so slow. not suspensfully slow... just dragging feet bad timing slow.

This effect is a good example why I really disliked this movie. Seeing someone running around in fast motion works for comedy (benny hill) but hardly raises any suspense. Well, not for me at least.
I'm trying to suspend my disbelief enough to empathise with this character caught in a ludicrous predicament which makes it hard enough as it is. Then it's made practically impossible when denied the feeling of time ticking past. The time moving excruciatingly slow when focused upon (which is her POV) could have made me scared and/or sold the movie for me.
It's hard to be scared by atmosphere and entertained by something that looks like a cheap cliche'd music video at the same time.
.

it is mtv-esque... and i agree it is not exactly suspenseful... but it is a technique that has been used in recent history and in recent horror movies to show a particualary fucked up/perverse/depraved situation, the feeling of a racing mind, or as a horror effect to move an object/monster/killer/so on closer in a eerie, disturbingly fast way

 

[dm3]

this was a bad movie but it could have been worst. 2/5

 

[ChemicalSmiles]

I dont want to see this movie, it looks stupid