So who besides me is going?

Have a football game to scout on Friday so I can't go until Saturday ... but go, I will.

By far this is my favorite series of movies because every one has been so good so far. Hopefully #5 is not a disappointment but I don't see how it can be.

will there be blood in it?

A bit

pretty sure im going after work tomorrow!

I'll probably wuss out and just watch it when it comes out on DVD like I have with the past ones.

I'll be there......I'm not expecting it to be great...but hopefully not too bad. Love the series....it'll be interesting to see how they can stretch the story out....

heh...see saw

.... with a new movie every Halloween for the rest of our lives.

I'm going to be there opening night, you can count on that. A friend of mine from the Horror.com forums, who's a review and got to see an advanced screening, said it was the best saw since Saw 2 ( the best, IMO). I can't wait.

I see what you did there

OH NO YOU DIDNT!

I must disagree with Saw 2 being the best. That one was my least favorite -- but they have all been good IMO.

Going to see the 12:30pm showing with my boss who gave me a half day if I'd go with him. We are friends outside of work anyway so it's not weird like that. Leaving in 15 mins!!

I agree...Saw 2 was the worst. The original was by far the best.....3 was good..4 was even better.....hopefully 5 is better.

No way Saw 2 is the worst.. it was so hard care.. the way that first guy got killed was so brutal. Ya'll smokin' sherm.

So did you see it?
See what?
Saw
Did I see Saw?
I thought I saw you seeing Saw
I didn't say so
You did so say you'd see Saw
So, I didn't say I saw Saw
Say what?
I didn't say so
You didn't say you'd see Saw? So...
What did you say?
I didn't see Saw
So?

Saw 2 was by far the grossest... I actually felt nautious by the end of it.

The head trap scene was just plain sick.. or the chick with the hands in the glass box... or the when she falls in the pit of needles.... sick sick minds. Yet I own all 4 dvds.

That is true, it was brutal...if you are more into that than the plot..than that's cool, but I didn't think the story was as good as others. I don't think it was a bad movie, just not as good as the others.






Alright, now I am going to talk about Saw V now that I have seen it. I will try not to spoil anything, but if you don't want to take any chances at all, don't read any further..








































Very underwhelming. Some sick scenes, but the story just seemed too straightforward for me. I am very disappointed in this film, I think it was by far the worst one. I was expecting to see the doctor from the first movie, who is unaccounted for I believe, but still no word on what happened to him and just not that much of interest, other than the cool traps. Overall, a decent movie on its own.....but just not good at all in terms of living up to what I expect from the series. I'll see Saw VI next year, but I think this might be the beginning of the end for the Saw movie series.

I saw this tonight as well, I disagree with koop's assessment entirely...

(There are spoiler tags for a reason, Koop. There are there, on the left side of your screen, as you make a post. People have to scroll past what you write, you know, the thread just doesn't end on the first part of your post. )

Actually, I didn't see Saw V tonight, and I've only seen the first one. I have no idea how the first guy dies in saw two, nor how brutal the movie is. I'd rather set my money on fire then spend it to see saw 5. I am now going to ramble incoheriently on for a while to make this spoiler seem alot longer than it actually is. himimnahma aiemnfaijhfem afhfeamfh hnamofjam hjfjfkd hemfamimfe hehfmooure m hot cock mmmmahmfahfme amomamoemaofmoefamofmef fjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjjfjfjfjffjjffjjfjfjfjfjffjfjfjfjfjjffjfjfjfjjf
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I saw it this afternoon.


Since showing events in chronological order isn't a big concern for these movies, I kept waiting for them to re-show the scene that started and ended Saw IV so that we would know when that took place relative to the events of the movie. The assumption we should make is obviously that this entire movie is this "test" for Hoffman that Jigsaw told him about on that tape from the his stomach, but I just didn't get the sense that he really was all that tested during this movie. What was this "test" exactly? Was it just learning to play the game properly and not just kill people, even though Hoffman was never a cold-blooded killer to begin with? That seems kind of stupid. Part of me thinks that maybe the events of Saw V still happened before he listens to that tape from Jigsaw's stomach and that Saw VI will uncover the real test for Hoffman. Did anyone who saw the movie understand something that I just missed?

I never knew about the spoilers. Sue me.

Yup....Saw VI definitely needs to start tying things together a bit more.....there was just no twist in this movie. Hoffman did it, we see that he worked with Jigsaw all along, Strahm knows, Hoffman frames Strahm. The end. Pretty lame. The trap scenes delivered as always..but I want more than that.


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I would be surprised if the doctor ends up making another appearance. Given how ghostly white he was after cutting off his foot, I think we are just supposed to assume he died trying to get out. I agree though that it's annoying they never went back to him or showed his body or anything though.

Also agree that it was too straightforward a movie by Saw standards, but still a good movie if I didn't have the higher expectations the previous movies have given me. Even the final test/trap which is typically supposed to be this 'AHA' moment in the series wasn't hard to figure out. Once Strahm started punching and forcing Hoffman into the box, I was thinking "Get in the damn box you idiot, it's going to protect you" from what I thought was going to be those nail bomb things, but I guess crushing Strahm to death was more epic.

It's nice to know that at least one other person didn't "get it" regarding Hoffman's "test" and that it just flew over my head.

Don't quote things that need spoilers and fail to put them in spoilers, then put your own comment in spoilers.. Pick a side, either spoil the movie or don't, just don't half ass it.

I still have to see 4 before I see 5, but I thought 3 was the worst so far. Just kinda boring to me.

3 was good...it had some twists. 4 is DEFINITELY worth seeing in my opinion.

I agree, as i believe it was the 2nd best in the series. I would have to go

SAW 1
SAW 4
SAW 2
SAW 3
SAW 5

Cant wait for 6 and speaking of horror movies i cant wait for the reboot of Friday the 13th opens Feb 13th 2009.

I'm glad that you think they're stupid... I thought our movie paths had diverged in the woods. (other than Mel Gibson of course)

yeah, I saw in that other thread, where you and the saw fan had a mini flame war, and I thought it would be too funny to pretend I'd seen the movies.


As a little tip, here's a tell.. if i say " fuck ya!" about something, I'm most likely being insincere.

I'm surprised so many of you liked saw 4... my wife and I watched Saw 3 and 4 last night (we got them all) and I got to say, I felt 4 was definitely the weakest. First, the transitions between the 3 different subplots was cheesy as hell. You also never get fully involved in one of the story lines, I felt I was constantly asking questions throughout that it actually took away from movie.

After shutting off saw 4, we turned off the DVD player and wouldn't you know, the original Saw was just starting it's opening scene haha. We couldn't possibly take watching nearly 6hrs straight of saw last night, so we turned it off after 20min.

So far I like them in the exact order they were made... 1, 2, 3, 4.... we'll see about 5 this week. Looks like the majority of users also agree with me judging by IMDB ratings:

Saw: 7.7/10
Saw 2: 6.8/10
Saw 3: 6.4/10
Saw 4: 6.2/10
Saw 5: 6.2/10

I saw the 5th installment last night and it's by far the weakest of the bunch. The way it came together was just terrible, it's the 5th sequel and it was hard to tell the difference between present day and a flashback. Some flashbacks they used a 'foggy' look to it, while other flashbacks it was crystal clear as if it was present day. So if you aren't fresh up on the past 6 hours of Saw you definitely would get confused watching this one even though it wasn't that complex.

I'm finding there to be way too much filler the past couple of movies and not enough focus on the main characters. The characters we were suppose to care about (originally chained around the necks together) all died and ultimately had nothing to do with the overall movie. Sure they somehow were tied together because of some building resulting in a few deaths but it was a lame attempt at sort of recreating saw 2 imo. If you're going to do that, do it right and don't go fill us with detective crap for 20minutes before getting back to the plot. The last 2 movies have been all over the place with no real focus on the victims and more focus on who's actually behind it all.

For a 5th movie in a series it's leaps and bounds ahead of most horror movies but this series is definitely on the decline and needs a real fresh, original script to go along with it. Perhaps a prequel like batman begins would be better than small backflashes and introducing the wife anymore.

What was 'the box' that the wife got after meeting the attorney anyway? That seemed like the most pointless scene of the flick and just another plothole for another flashback in Saw VI.



2/5

They are trying to hard to make it a good drama movie. Saw isn't a crime drama like se7en, it's something that's suppose to mess with your mind and your stomach. Less focus on detective work and more on the good stuff is what's needed to revamp the series.

as much as i love the saw series, they will never recover from killing jigsaw off in the 3rd movie. that's what made saw popular, the mind behind the traps and the way he presented himself. it just seems like now they're just trying to fill movie time with other pointless stuff and trying to introduce new twists when it isn't what really made the franchise. hearing hoffman's voice on a tape recorder is weird.

he first one was so laughable, i dont understand how anyone could have kept watching them

The first one was brilliant. An original script that upped the shock value tremendously in the industry.

First one was pretty legit.

does this mean you're the kind of person who loves watching stoner high school movies like they are the most hilarious things ever produced?

I saw it tonight and was, like most, disappointed. I though it was too straightforward even after all the 'You won't believe how it ends.' I found myself thinking of crazy scenarios that could have come up, and the simple ending disappointed me to no end. I don't think this could have taken place before Jigsaw's death because of the entire thing of Strawm getting off the case/becoming so interested and his death must have taken place after Saw IV. However, the tape that Hoffman gets from Jigsaw's stomach does throw me off... it said something like I bet you feel in control but you will not walk away untested, my work will continue. Idk, but I hope the sixth goes way deeper than this did...