i have school tomorrow and no time to look through the last posts, so ill make this short and sweet.
a) what series isnt a money making scheme? People need to realize that everything is about money. Everything.
b) I hate when people say things such as "they have the nerve to call themselves horror fans". (I've never seen cannibal holocaust or the other movie, so what im about to say is circumstacial)(does that word fit here?) : I think that anyone who says that saw is bad and cannibal holocaust is good isnt a real horror fan. they can't be because I am better tan them, thus I can dub what is and isn't horror fan material
c) The twists in saw arepretty good. (i like it bc, to some extent, the things in the movie are possible, like i said to some extent.) Movies like this,(i think) are better than killer and zombie movies bc they are believable, and even if they arent possible, they are delivered as such. So ya, i'm off to bed, math test tomorrow....shit...i didnt study, wish me luck
Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
Maybe I shoulda wrote "certain" fans not all fans to avoid confusion. Anywhoo...my point still stands. As I said before I know some of you KMCers like the Saw flicks and is perfectly fine. I'm not criticizing you guys directly. I've known you regular horror forum posters for awhile and I seen your posts in this forum before. Most of you do have a good appreciation for the classics and it's great you acknowledge those classic films.However, there still that group which really consider the Saw films to be as "true horror" I know this because I happen to know someone very well who thinks that Evil Dead is not as good as Saw. Which I find utterly absurd. Most of his claims are these:
"The Saw films are AWESOME because it has very good special effects. The music is very tense...the movie revolves around the idea of human survival...blah, blah,blah...."
When I hear such comments I nearly laugh. As far as I know ALL horror films are about human survival. Oh wow! what a great case to make for Saw. Then when they ask me which films I consider to be true horror. I mention films like the original TCM or my personal favorite Hellraiser. They laugh and see me as some kind of stupid dumbass. Their typical response:
"I DON'T THINK THAT GUY WITH THE CHAINSAW AND THE GUY WITH NAILS IN HIS FACE IS SCARY...LOLOLOLZLZOLZ"
Different tastes for different people..I'd guess.
Yeah, those fans annoy me. As far as the 21st century goes, we have High Tension, 28 Days Later, and Saw, for the most part. But in the entire span of horror, Saw isn't in the top 500.
I'm glad you cleared that up and that you don't think of me as a wannabe horror fan because I happen to enjoy this series.
And I really enjoy the music in the movies, particularly the song they put at the end of each of them. The effects are nice too, nothing extraordinary, but nice.
Originally posted by BackFire
"BUT SOME OLD MAN WHO CAN BARELY WALK AND SOME SKINNY EX DRUG ADDICT CHICK IS TERRIFYING!!"Me- "Jigsaw is a poor man's Jon Doe".
Them - "Who's that? Is that a character in Hostel?"
Yyyyeah. Just echoing the sentiment that horror movie franchises are, and always have been, pretty generic an derivative because it WORKS. The original had a prettyfresh premise, and the second evolved the whole scheme and threw some curveballs. IF there is anything past 3, THAT'S when you'll see the exact same thing over and over a la NOES, Halloween, F13, etc.
Originally posted by Wolfie
I'm a fan of the Saw movies. I find them enjoyable. They're nowhere near the "hall of fame" of horror but they're better than the rest of the crap that is coming out.
^ Says it all. 👆
Saw was a classic, it was awesome, good psych. thriller. Saw 2 was ok, some of the acting and writing was a let down, but the twists made up for it. Havent seen 3 yet, but the trailer looks more promising than Saw 2.