Saw

[Rumpy]

Cube ruled. Go Canadian films!

[Despair]

Original Cube was great. Hypercube though sucked. It had interesting story but execution was bad.

[Dolemite]

I've been meaning to give Cube a rent sometime.

[Despair]

Do that. My wife is not big fan of horror films, but she was captivated by what was happening in Cube, so we were watch it for a bit, than she got scared and we would turn it off. Few minutes later, she would be like, come one I want to know what is going to happen, and than later she would get scared again, and circle will repeat.

Fun stuff

[Dolemite]

12:10AM early showing tonight...I might have to take a nap when I get home from work and go see it.

[Despair]

Here is Ebert reviewing Saw. He gave it 2 stars, and mentioned usual faults of the "horror" movie with villian mastermind in it:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/.../40923005/1023

"Whenever a movie shows me obscure, partial, oblique, fragmented shots of a murderous mastermind, or gives him a mask, I ask myself -- why? Since the camera is right there in the lair, why not just show us his face? The answer of course is that he is deliberately obscured because he's being saved up for the big revelatory climax at the end.

A movie that conceals the identity of a killer is of a lower order, in general, than one that actually deals with him as a character. "

Hmm, But then again, when movie does show the villian right away, critics pick on it for spoiling the mystery and suspense of who is the culprit. I guess they cant be happy either way.

"How about just once, at the crucial moment, the killer gets squished under a ton of canned soup, and we never do find out who he was? "

Now this is an interesting idea

[Wildkat]

I read a review this morning in The Hartford Courant, think it was via the AP that did nothing but trash it. They gave it 0 stars.

So it must be pretty good.

[sethsez]

Any movie that looks THIS awesome in the previews is doomed to be a dull piece of shit that blows its load with the trailers.

I was right. Most of the cool stuff is in the trailers, and most of that is barely longer than the trailers thmselves.

The rest of the movie is equal parts REALLY horrible acting, and plot twists. There's a plot twist every five to ten minutes, and aside from the twists, there is no plot. Just about every minor bit of plot advancement is meant to be shocking or surprising, and it gets progressively lamer until the (final) "big reveal" where the plot finally loses any intelligence it might have had.

It also doesn't help when you want the killer to win just because everyone else is incredibly obnoxious.

[Eirikur]

I was right. Most of the cool stuff is in the trailers, and most of that is barely longer than the trailers thmselves.

The rest of the movie is equal parts REALLY horrible acting, and plot twists. There's a plot twist every five to ten minutes, and aside from the twists, there is no plot. Just about every minor bit of plot advancement is meant to be shocking or surprising, and it gets progressively lamer until the (final) "big reveal" where the plot finally loses any intelligence it might have had.

It also doesn't help when you want the killer to win just because everyone else is incredibly obnoxious.

Agreed. Everything is so clear and right in front of you, that it really ruins the ending. Some scenes were kind of disturbing, especially the jaw thing, but most of it is just really gimmicky camera shots that have been done before and better. The only thing that really stuck out to me is that it builds up tension in parts extremely well; it's just the "boo" fails to deliver.

Edit: also wanted to add that the "comedy relief" was extremely unnecessary and just made the bad acting stick out like a sore thumb.

[sethsez]

Edit: also wanted to add that the "comedy relief" was extremely unnecessary and just made the bad acting stick out like a sore thumb.

I actually winced at the "peanut butter orgy" line.