Post by Isodore on Jul 27, 2007 22:47:43 GMT -5
Gegh..guess this is what I get for waiting...I get to post a thread for the sucky one XD
Yes..yes..I did just say that Saw 2 sucked.
..I know there are fans here, so kindly shut up while I rant XD
All the same..was it fun with the blood? Yeah. Another twisted maze of some rather evil traps? Yup. Did the scene with the pit of hypodermic needles make me twitch for a long time? Sure.
But did that save this movie?
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Not really..no..
You see, with Saw I, we had a new thing: the difficult trap intro, and the entire idea that the central focus was in a manky old bathroom somewhere...with a mysterious body, a crpytic message, and a man given an agenda from a foe unseen.
It was new. It was gory. It was freakin' brilliant.
We lost that with Saw II.
You see, by this point..the traps were nothing new. We'd seen the same "isolated guy gets pwned before the big plot kicks off" thing before. This time, there was more of it. A lot more. Okay, a bit too much. I understand the idea of diabolical traps and whatnot, but the lineup of a an SSC annoyed me.
SSC?
Standard Slasher Cast. My own term XD
The musclehead. The black guy. The guy who dies first..just to scare everyone else. The scrawny guy. The tough girl. The panicky girl. The obviously wimpy guy whose never entertained the thought of sex in his life.
Note that one of the two girls will either have big boobs or wear an outfit that showcases a lot of cleavage.
Oh hell..or both.
Yeah..go on..drool for a bit.
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ANYway...as you can see..we've got your usual cast for a slasher film here. But wait? What about the two arguing men caught in a tangle of lies and scandal? Whatever happened to that stroke of genius that made Saw what it was?
Oh yeah..that's right..people wanted more traps XD
Unfortunately, this movie really lost something when it brought in as many people as it did. Jigsaw was brilliant as usual, but then we got the usual procession of deaths. After maybe the first one, you'd think that they would've figured "Let's all find a blunt object and smash our way to the antidotes rather than mutilate ourselves one by one". Granted, it was all life or death, but everyone either went into hysterics or "Yo, we gettin' outtaz heah, foo!" chest thumping. Oh, and it all ended with the usual "you got pwned" twist (see Jason coming out of the water, Freddy busting through the door, Sadako crawling out of the TV, the puzzle box showing up again, etc for references).
So was it worth the time watching it? Yeah.
Was it as good as the first? Hell no.
Thankfully, we can all look to Saw III for bringing back a centered-around-a-few-people conflict theme as opposed to "Let's kill another SSC with virgins and boobs!"