SAW II
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lifted
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Yeah, I wanted to see it tonight, but kinda got screwed over since my car is in th shop and had to pay for repairs. :sad: The first one was awesome...one of my fav's actually. The second one just looks completely bad ass...looks like there is a muscle-head in this one too. 
I will try to see it tomorrow somehow after work. Let us know if it was good, but just don't tell us what it was about.
I will try to see it tomorrow somehow after work. Let us know if it was good, but just don't tell us what it was about.
CDB
Registered User
I saw it, liked it. Though, I have to say I didn't like it as much as the first one. The first one was a lot more fun in my opinion. I love horror movies, and when you get used to them and immersed in them you get good at picking them apart. This one still has a good sense of fun, like the direct Last House on the Left reference. That was cute, a nice giggle. A couple things though.
Too many characters in this one. The first was cooler because it stuck with a horror movie axiom, a drama axiom actually, by concentrating on a very small number of people in an extreme situation. Kind of along the lines of Night of the Living Dead. With too many characters it's easy to lose connection and involvment with them.
The end was too easy to call, but that might just be me because I've spoiled my mind with this **** since before I can remember.
There really was no where to go with this as a series. Once the motive of the killer becomes obvious in the first one it just becomes an excuse for a franchise unless you can add something new. Kind of like the Hellraiser movies. The second one was a decent followup because it expanded the mythology of the original story. The ones after that were basically ****. With Saw, how many people can you honestly teach a lesson to before it gets boring?
Good things about it: more intense and graphic. A reasonably interesting situation for a group of people to be in. Some pretty brutal scenes. Good cinematogrophy, great look to the movie. Dina Meyers, who I've wanted to **** since Starship Troopers. Some hotties in extremis. Decent acting on the part of most of the cast.
Basically it held together and was definitely a better sequel than most. A good movie in it's own right. Worth seeing in the theater. I've got a little more faith in sequels now, the last one I saw was Ring II. That was a god awful piece of ****.
Too many characters in this one. The first was cooler because it stuck with a horror movie axiom, a drama axiom actually, by concentrating on a very small number of people in an extreme situation. Kind of along the lines of Night of the Living Dead. With too many characters it's easy to lose connection and involvment with them.
The end was too easy to call, but that might just be me because I've spoiled my mind with this **** since before I can remember.
There really was no where to go with this as a series. Once the motive of the killer becomes obvious in the first one it just becomes an excuse for a franchise unless you can add something new. Kind of like the Hellraiser movies. The second one was a decent followup because it expanded the mythology of the original story. The ones after that were basically ****. With Saw, how many people can you honestly teach a lesson to before it gets boring?
Good things about it: more intense and graphic. A reasonably interesting situation for a group of people to be in. Some pretty brutal scenes. Good cinematogrophy, great look to the movie. Dina Meyers, who I've wanted to **** since Starship Troopers. Some hotties in extremis. Decent acting on the part of most of the cast.
Basically it held together and was definitely a better sequel than most. A good movie in it's own right. Worth seeing in the theater. I've got a little more faith in sequels now, the last one I saw was Ring II. That was a god awful piece of ****.
CDB
Registered User
punta said:I do have to agree with you there, there were to many characters involved. Still worth it.
Yeah, it's worth a view in the theaters. I'm just an overall big fan of small character groupings is all. Big fan of end of the world novels and movies, where damn near everyone dies and there's no one left but a few people trying to survive. The situation appeals to me.
SOWarrior
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I thought it was a great movie, almost as good as the first one. The old guy gives this speech about 3/4 of the way through the movie about living life to its' fullest when people know when they are going to die and all this other good stuff. That was my favorite part...
And one good thing, they have this guy with huge arms as a character, and they just said he was a "drug" dealer, instead of saying he was a "steroid" dealer, which is quite surprising the way media is always knockin on AAS usage these days. Overall, I'd give it an A.
And one good thing, they have this guy with huge arms as a character, and they just said he was a "drug" dealer, instead of saying he was a "steroid" dealer, which is quite surprising the way media is always knockin on AAS usage these days. Overall, I'd give it an A.