Movie Thread

[Guest]

Jigsaw is the only Saw movie I've seen (Laura Vandervoort omg) but the crazy amount of shit they went through to bring Tobin Bell back is almost admirable. There's that Black Saw movie with Chris Rock coming, but whatever.

[Rushy]

Jigsaw is the only Saw movie I've seen

congrats, you literally saw the shittiest one
EDIT: that should be its title. Saw: The Shittiest One

[da PAC Nigguh]

All of the Saw films after the first are identical.

[Rushy]

All of the Saw films after the first are identical.

Saw II also stands out a bit, cause Tobin Bell is still alive.
But yeah, the rest of them(until The Shittiest One) are the same police procedural film over and over again. It's quite impressively monotone.

[Tony Schiavone]

After Saw III, you can just fast forward until you get to the deathtrap scenes. The plot isn't even remotely interesting or relevant at that point.

[Cuckara]

Yeah. Saw I is the only film in the franchise that could be called a legitimately well-made thriller/horror film. As for the rest of the series, II is just above average, III is memorable solely because that's the one where Jigsaw dies, IV and V are both utterly forgettable, the only memorable aspect of VI is that it is has laughably hamfisted social commentary about insurance companies, and 3D sticks out because it's the one where the producers said "fuck it" and decided to go full schlock. I haven't seen Jigsaw, but I'm sure it sucks.

[Rushy]

I haven't seen Jigsaw, but I'm sure it sucks.

Jigsaw is very reminiscent of Texas Chainsaw 3D. New characters nobody gives a shit about, a glossy look that doesn't fit the franchise in the slightest(lmao at Billy the Puppet's LED eyes, the flatscreen TVs and the tapes on USB drives) and a lazy retcon that doesn't work in the slightest.

Tobin pretty much just appears in one scene and his trap is kinda cool, but the rest of the movie is complete garbage.

The movie ends with the new rando apprentice(say what you will about the other sequels, but at least Costas Mandylor has a screen presence) replacing the "Game Over!" with a cringeworthy "I speak for the dead".

It was baaad.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

But yeah, the rest of them(until The Shittiest One) are the same police procedural film over and over again. It's quite impressively monotone.

It's almost like the premise wasn't meant to go on for that long.
This also reminds me how all Final Destination movies are effectively the same one with different death scenes, since they keep having different groups of characters narrowly avoid a different catastrophe, only to make the exact same discoveries at roughly the same time in the movie.

I'm surprised Linkara hasn't covered it yet

Maybe he covered the comic adaptations (which no doubt exist) for his Longbox of the Damned, but I'm not going to do any research here.

[Rushy]

Maybe he covered the comic adaptations (which no doubt exist) for his Longbox of the Damned, but I'm not going to do any research here.

I checked - he did a vlog for the latest film and as I predicted, he's seen all of them. Guy absorbs long-running franchises almost as much as I do

[Guest]

Sheryl Crow's theme song is one of the best. So he's a faggot for being wrong about that.

He gives a good mention of Quantum of Solace, which reminded me that it's one of the best movies in the series despite what all the limp-wristed dandies have said. The title song is the second worst in the series (after that fucking Billie Eyelash abortion), and some of the editing during the foot and boat chases is really bad, but it's a tight little revenge movie with two hot babes (Gemma Arterton, Olga Kurylenko), a sweet fight scene, and the only good score from David Arnold. It's a nice conclusion to the Vesper/Bond Begins stuff, and sets up Quantum as this super badass organization he's going to be tangling with.

Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time To Die (fuck that lazy title) are so full of goddamn continuity that it makes me sick. This era of super canon where Bond has to have ties to everyone he meets and everything has to be dark and super serious makes me sick.