A worthy sequel. Perhaps 90% as good as the original (which was freekin’ great!) First scene = holy poop!
If you like horror movies, go see it.
Yow! The first movie was crap, I mean big steaming crap. I goggled at the awful dialogue and wooden delivery, the terrible editing and lousy camera work. It was a good premise, but the execution was painfully bad.
Now, if there’s a new team doing the old premise, it might be good. Is this the case?
H.
Saw was horrible, I can’t believe such a crap movie got a sequel.
Urk! I was sort of fond of the first movie (in retrospect), but couldn’t stand this one. It was just dire all round. Apart from the rubbish acting, story and film in general and without spoiling anything, the explanations that were given for all the major events and motivations in the movie were just pathetic IMO.
If it is a new team then they should turn their hands to something else… exploring the sun or something.
I like Saw less after seeing this. And I didn’t like it that much in the first place.
Saw was one of those “horror” films where actually watching the movie is a far worse torment than anything that is done to any victims during the movie.
I can’t imagine Saw 2 is any better, and I don’t aim to prove myself wrong by dropping coin on that dreck.
Well whatever the general opinion here about Saw it was destined to get a sequel.
The original cost only 1.2 million to make and made over 100 million (domestic and international)
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=saw.htm
I liked both Saw and Saw 2, so there. The more I think about it, the more fond I am of 2’s Most Elaborate Trap Ever. I’m also kind of squicked by the character of Jigsaw and his motivations, but I think that makes me like him more.
I liked the original movie a lot too, but I kept thinking of Will Farrell every time Cary Elwes was on the screen, especially when he’s screaming, so that kind of made the movie funnier than it should be.
I will not be sad at all to see this turn into a long-running horror series. Traps = entertainment.
Bears repeating.
What gives, then? I’m pretty sure you can’t get Cory Elwes and shoot a movie on actual film for that amount, much less hire anyone else. Is the director somebody famous’ brother or something?
H.
I enjoyed Saw simply for the cheerful viciousness in the goofy deathtrap setups. There should have been more of that, and less of everything else, especially less of the truly painful attempts at throwing twists in. My immersion in the piece was so not, that when Danny Glover is periodically getting his ass kicked, I kept thinking, “No way is he losing that fight, man, he beat up the Predator. He hasn’t gotten that soft.”
The best part of Saw for me lay in my guilty pleasure of seeing what the shining lights of cinema afficionados on the IMDB forums had to say about it. Saw has a glorious thread of bitching about plotholes–stock issue, you might object, but I riposte, the number one plothole, the one that made the aforementioned glory occur, was that if you received an electrical shock through your ankle it wouldn’t make your whole body flop about. Because electricity is affected by gravity, duh! Just look at lightning!
I’ll see 2 eventually when it hits dvd. Feel free to spoil it, though. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if there’s another child in alleged peril within it, that the kid isn’t harmed.
What gives, then? I’m pretty sure you can’t get Cory Elwes and shoot a movie on actual film for that amount, much less hire anyone else. Is the director somebody famous’ brother or something?
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I have no idea but I have to say that Cary Elwes could probably be gotten for a child’s birthday party. His filmography doesn’t exactly scream “high priced.” He seems mostly like a B actor.
What gives, then? I’m pretty sure you can’t get Cory Elwes and shoot a movie on actual film for that amount, much less hire anyone else. Is the director somebody famous’ brother or something?
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I have no idea but I have to say that Cary Elwes could probably be gotten for a child’s birthday party. His filmography doesn’t exactly scream “high priced.” He seems mostly like a B actor.[/quote]
I’d say he’s a solid A supporting actor. Twister, Kiss the Girls, Cradle Will Rock. There’s a lot of chaff in that filmography, but hell, look at Michael Caine’s filmography and you’ll see the same thing. Princess Bride alone should have kept him firmly in the above-million club in perpetuity.
H.
I enjoyed both movies. They’re not for everyone but I happen to like sick and twisted death devices. shrug James Bond villans wish they were this creative.
The plot twists suck tho.
What gives, then? I’m pretty sure you can’t get Cory Elwes and shoot a movie on actual film for that amount, much less hire anyone else. Is the director somebody famous’ brother or something?
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I have no idea but I have to say that Cary Elwes could probably be gotten for a child’s birthday party. His filmography doesn’t exactly scream “high priced.” He seems mostly like a B actor.[/quote]
I’d say he’s a solid A supporting actor. Twister, Kiss the Girls, Cradle Will Rock. There’s a lot of chaff in that filmography, but hell, look at Michael Caine’s filmography and you’ll see the same thing. Princess Bride alone should have kept him firmly in the above-million club in perpetuity.
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He’s a solid supporting actor but isn’t really expensive. We used him for Bard’s Tale and that game had a very small budget. He’s a very very cool guy though.
Shocker! You’re right!
Spoilers!
[color=white]Basically the stuff with the people trapped in the house is just a collection of minigames meant to further torture the main focus of the film. You see, the kid is the son of a crooked cop who trumped up charges against all the other people in the house, and while they are all searching for their antidotes, there’s also a clue as to his parentage hidden about. And crooked cop can only watch. There’s another twist after that which I go back and forth on thinking was really cool or hilariously lame.
Biggest spoiler, though, is that Jigsaw dies. But he has an heir which could either be very cool or very sad. I lean towards cool.[/color]
Er, the electricity is going to go from point A, the electrode/cuff, to ground by the least resistive path. So, if you are standing, then the electricity is going to to from ankle to foot to ground. Of course, there are lots of permutations of body positions, but ankle-foot-ground makes sense.
H.
Edit: Which isn’t to say that I don’t agree with you, it was a good concept. I just couldn’t ignore the writing/acting/directing.
I always got the feeling while watching the original Saw that I was watching a 2 hour long Marilyn Manson video, tricked out with all the bad camera work. However, since I am a pathetically obsessive horror geek, I will be going to see this.
Erik J.
I loved the ending of the first movie. After the hacksaw. Prior to that was ho-hum, but the ending just rocked.