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post #1 of 38
10/1/10 at 4:20am
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One last motion poster for Saw 3D.

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post #2 of 38
10/1/10 at 4:47am
I don't understand that poster. What's this film about?
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post #3 of 38
10/1/10 at 4:49am
What are any of these movies about? I don't understand the entire phenomenon.
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post #4 of 38
10/1/10 at 4:52am
From a certain standpoint, these movies are kinda interesting. I've seen them all and while they're nowhere near good, their bizarre, super-convoluted, continually retconed storyline is semi-fascinating.

But please God let this end them. I'd blow up a giant statue (of anything) to see it happen.
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post #5 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:13am
Does that statue burp fire?
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post #6 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:19am
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Originally Posted by Mr. Coombs View Post
From a certain standpoint, these movies are kinda interesting. I've seen them all and while they're nowhere near good, their bizarre, super-convoluted, continually retconed storyline is semi-fascinating.

But please God let this end them. I'd blow up a giant statue (of anything) to see it happen.
I've always thought that too. I know I have seen the first and second film and two more after that, but I have no idea which ones.

Didn't number four end in exactly the same place that the third one did, meaning both films took place at the same time?

That kind of thing is really interesting for a franchise like this, it's just that the execution is awful.
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post #7 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:21am
I just don't see the interesting stuff anywhere in this. Convoluted plotting and hamfisted morality plays aren't new or exciting, they're ten-a-penny.
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post #8 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:23am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather View Post
I just don't see the interesting stuff anywhere in this. Convoluted plotting and hamfisted morality plays aren't new or exciting, they're ten-a-penny.
Interesting in that they're not doing exactly the same thing over and over again a la Final Destination.

There is at least an attempt to be inventive. The spirit is willing and all...
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post #9 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:36am
But they are doing the same thing over and over. The traps and threadbare motivations might change, but then so do FD's kill scenes.
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post #10 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:42am
Yes, but FD's plotline is basically a rehash throughout. The Saw films at least tries to create a complex metaplot and make all the pieces fit together.
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post #11 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:43am
But it's badly done and boring and a total waste of time.
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post #12 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:46am
True. True. But I'll gives them points for at least trying.
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post #13 of 38
10/1/10 at 10:11am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Merriweather View Post
But it's badly done and boring and a total waste of time.
No arguements here. They're fucking terrible.

but...

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True. True. But I'll gives them points for at least trying.
Felix said it best.
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post #14 of 38
10/1/10 at 10:41am
Fuck that. I'll take an entertaining tongue-in-cheek gorefest like FDs 1 & 2 over the SAW franchise's terrible attempts as plotting.
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post #15 of 38
10/1/10 at 11:15am
I've only seen the first three, so don't really have a dog in the Saw race, but I think that poster is pretty kick ass. It's obviously an homage to Michael Jackson's HIStory album, which was just chock full of hits.
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post #16 of 38
10/1/10 at 11:33am
I tried to view these posters, but the images won't load

Perhaps for future MOTION POSTER articles, a screen grab could be deployed to let CHUDsters with motion-phobic browsers get an idea of what the art looks like?

Anyway, I saw the first SAW in theaters, and even though at the time I laughed and laughed at the unintentional hilarity on display in the film, I feel at least partly responsible for inflicting this giant SAW franchise on everyone. Back in highschool, it was delightful to walk around asking people if they intended to "see SAW", but now, too late, I realize that whatever satisfaction I got from my word play is ultimately outweighed by the misery the series has inflicted on our megaplexes in the intervening years
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post #17 of 38
10/1/10 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by felix View Post
Yes, but FD's plotline is basically a rehash throughout. The Saw films at least tries to create a complex metaplot and make all the pieces fit together.
I've watched the first 5 SAWs and they're carbon copies of each other, right down to the final moments. The "metaplot" is even more irritating because they're trying to fool people into thinking they're clever.
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post #18 of 38
10/1/10 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by felix View Post
Yes, but FD's plotline is basically a rehash throughout. The Saw films at least tries to create a complex metaplot and make all the pieces fit together.
you could say the same about the Saw films. Random guy get's killed in a trap in the beginning. Now, the main characters enter the games. People die horrible deaths. Twist at the end with the saw music playing over. End film.
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post #19 of 38
10/1/10 at 12:56pm
Oh, look, a SAW thread. Perfect excuse to say the winner on Scream Queens this year was fucking bullshit.
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post #20 of 38
10/1/10 at 1:03pm
I still can't get over Lindsay Felton's breas-er, Lindsay Felton not winning season one.
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post #21 of 38
10/1/10 at 1:10pm
Oh look, a monument to this franchise's stupidity. Glorious.

Can this please be the last one? I mean, how much further can this fucking thing go? Maybe if every Saw movie came down to traps unfolding in public I'd...no, that's a lie, I wouldn't fucking care about these goddamn movies if watching them shed ten pounds off of me and made my teeth ten times whiter.
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post #22 of 38
10/1/10 at 1:59pm
Reading back I am concerned that I have come across as a Saw defender. I've worked too damn hard to fit in here to let Saw ruin it!
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post #23 of 38
10/1/10 at 2:08pm
Too late Mike's Pants, you'e fucked. I suggest a name change.

As a horror fan I felt that I've watched too much absolute crap to be outright dismissive of Saw, even just for the fact that it had a few nice kills. That lasted for the first two films though. Its combination of laziness, unwarranted success and delusions of intelligence turned me off completely.
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post #24 of 38
10/1/10 at 4:20pm
Don't say that Stelios. Not you...
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post #25 of 38
10/1/10 at 6:43pm
I think that motion poster is cool. The last couple of movies have at least had interesting posters. In this day and age where we get nothing but floating heads and other crap, it's refreshing to see an eye grabbing poster like the one for Saw 3D.
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post #26 of 38
10/1/10 at 7:34pm
This movie had better end with a thirty-story Jigsaw stomping around the city.
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post #27 of 38
10/1/10 at 8:30pm
Maybe he'll fight a thirty-story Pinhead.
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post #28 of 38
10/1/10 at 9:20pm
Does anyone really believe Jigsaw will not outlast us all.
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post #29 of 38
10/1/10 at 9:27pm
Of course he will.
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post #30 of 38
10/1/10 at 10:27pm
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This movie had better end with a thirty-story Jigsaw stomping around the city.
I think the SAW franchise will have way more than thirty stories by the end of its run amirite?
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post #31 of 38
10/2/10 at 2:01am
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Originally Posted by Subotai View Post
Does anyone really believe Jigsaw will not outlast us all.
Sadly, thanks to digital media, he will. It's one of the great crimes of cinema that the cinephiles of the future will never get to see Lon Chaney's London After Midnight, but every single Saw film will be available forever.
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post #32 of 38
10/2/10 at 2:28am
So which one are we on now? Is this the sixth or the seventh Saw? I don't even remember what the last one I watched was. I actually really enjoyed the first movie but it could really do without all these sequels. That holds twice as true for Final Destination.
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post #33 of 38
10/2/10 at 2:44am
Final Destination is less deserving of flack by virtue of sheer numbers. Saw is beyond beating a dead horse at this point.
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post #34 of 38
10/2/10 at 5:02am
And besides, FD2 is better than all of the Saw movies combined. Take for example the kid dying. They have a scene where a mother watches the gruesome death of her son and they play it for laughs. That's both meaner and cooler than ten reverse bear traps, syringe pits or open heart surgeries without anesthetics. Shame the rest of the series couldn't follow it properly.
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post #35 of 38
10/2/10 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) View Post
I think that motion poster is cool. The last couple of movies have at least had interesting posters. In this day and age where we get nothing but floating heads and other crap, it's refreshing to see an eye grabbing poster like the one for Saw 3D.
The marketing campaigns for these movies really parallels when the franchise started becoming worthy of contempt. The very first movie, self-serious as it was, adevertised itself in a way that indicated everybody knew how ridiculous the whole thing was. All the controversy over the posters (which were rather cool) and the web campaign that centered on showing clips from the trap scenes and then blasting HOW FUCKED IS THAT on the screen. I haven't paid much attention, but it wasn't long before all that was abandoned and it became Jigsaw: A Saga of Repetition and Third Grade Moralizing in # Parts.
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post #36 of 38
10/2/10 at 1:24pm
Having Saw, Final Destination and Paranormal Activity as the most popular, key horror titles of the last five years is just sad. There are certainly worse, but c'mon...
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post #37 of 38
10/2/10 at 6:09pm
Truth. There's something wrong with the horror audience when these films do gonzo business, and Drag Me To Hell is all but ignored.
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post #38 of 38
10/2/10 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by Subotai View Post
Does anyone really believe Jigsaw will not outlast us all.
This is a truly terrifying thought. Biggest scare the Saw franchise could hope to give me.
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