cayman shen
Master Member
I'm a big horror movie fan, but somehow I'd missed the SAW sequels. I thought the first one was a MOAR XTREME1!!!1!!!! ripoff of Se7en, but watchable, if you can get past the heavy color filtering and spastic editing that mark it as a millennial horror flick. This year, as part of my annual October horror movie marathon, I decided to catch up by seeing the sequels.
Ugh. Hyperactive camerawork and editing, cheesy videogame/reality show challenges, soap opera flashbacks, that damn green filter over everything that wasn't blue filtered, and the RELENTLESS PREACHINESS. If I had to sit through one more "you wasted your life" sermon I was going to start doing heroin just to spite the writers.
Fortunately I've seen some great flicks this marathon, including Hostel (how had I never seen that?!), the Babadook, and the original Black Christmas, which was OUTSTANDING. Hell, I liked Scream Blacula Scream better than SAW, and 75% of that movie was people dancing. I may rent It Follows tomorrow to cleanse my palate of this SAW tripe.
Ugh. Hyperactive camerawork and editing, cheesy videogame/reality show challenges, soap opera flashbacks, that damn green filter over everything that wasn't blue filtered, and the RELENTLESS PREACHINESS. If I had to sit through one more "you wasted your life" sermon I was going to start doing heroin just to spite the writers.
Fortunately I've seen some great flicks this marathon, including Hostel (how had I never seen that?!), the Babadook, and the original Black Christmas, which was OUTSTANDING. Hell, I liked Scream Blacula Scream better than SAW, and 75% of that movie was people dancing. I may rent It Follows tomorrow to cleanse my palate of this SAW tripe.