Saw V

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I think Saw is far beyond a killing movie now. With Saw V this becomes more clear to me. If you are a true saw fan, you will appreciate this movie and how it linked everything together.

i totally agree!

Also agree with the advertising sucking so much....but i do think when they said about "you wont believe how it ends" they wernt talking about the film they where just talkin about the scene with the guy with his head in the box...cause i for one didnt think it was gona end that way lol

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Did you ever think that the point of V was to fill the story in, and perhaps there was no way of making it thrilling like they did with the 1st two (if you get what I mean)

Nothing they filled in was really "needed". Yes, it was nice seeing some of the old characters and how far back Hoffman went, but that was a small part of the film. The main thing for the film was Strahm being framed, which was dull and boring.

I think Saw is far beyond a killing movie now. With Saw V this becomes more clear to me. If you are a true saw fan, you will appreciate this movie and how it linked everything together.

Don't question how much of a true Saw fan I am. I flew all the way to NYC for a Saw concert two years ago, I own a Saw III poster made with Tobin Bell's blood, I own t-shirts, I own the original release DVD and all of the extra releases (director's cut, unrated cut, etc.). But I didn't like this film. Does that really make me any less of a true Saw fan? Seriously.

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It doesn't..

Everyone has their feelings for the film. I was thinking to myself when I was watching V; Why Strahm? The film eventually grew interesting to me. I wasn't so much telling myself "this is boring" maybe because it's the first SAW film I saw in theaters and I wanted to get my money's worth :laugh:

I do agree w. you that Strahm was unnecessary. Maybe his attempt @ hunting down Hoffman opens up more portals for future releases.. who knows.

But I tell you something I did like the intro glowing text it reminded me of a Harry Potter film w/ atrocious violence :laugh:

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Hurmoth touched on this but now theres some more info plus a site!

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Surrey theme park Thorpe Park has revealed its new attraction will be 'Saw - The Ride', based on the super-gruesome gorebuster movie franchise of the same name.

The family-friendly frolic-enclave has run 'Fright Nights' with various scary goings-on since 2002, but the new ride seems a rather more ambitious and full-bodied attempt to incur the wrath of Responsible Parents, who are quite alright with traumatising their own children but will raise hell if anyone else tries it. The cinematic rollercoaster won't creak into action until spring 2009, but with Hallowe'en just around the corner and Saw V in cinemas on 24 October, the PR machine is rattling forth now.

Thorpe Park has worked with Lionsgate film studio on the ride, which it naturally claims will be the scariest in the world ever, like spare-pants scary. ?Anybody who has sat through a Saw film scared and terrified beyond belief will have some idea of what?s in store for them at Thorpe Park," giggled creative director Candy Holland. ?Saw ? The Ride is going to be shocking and intense, both physically and psychologically, and is sure to give you nightmares.?

Saw, a kind of Kwik Save Se7en, was released in 2004 and spawned an immensely successful franchise (the sixth instalment is on its way). Along with Eli Roth's ######-flashing-and-hamstring-slashing upsetter Hostel, it's generally considered to be one of the dubious trailblazers of the 'torture porn' horror sub-genre. However, the self-consciously shocked-and-appalled term is often somewhat inaccurate, as at no point in such movies does a swarthy moustachioed man offer to fix an impossibly-breasted woman's washing machine before putting her in it on boil wash.

The Thorpe Park terror begins with this extravagant Flash site from which the unwary are likely to run shrieking "MY EYES". A good start. The ride will feature "a 100ft vertical lift, a 100? drop ["from a height of 100ft, making it the steepest freefall drop in the world"], three inversions, and a terrifying indoor section which accounts for 30 per cent of total ride time".

The latter promises to make for a "spine-chilling queueing experience", which is surely better than the usual eye-rolling queueing experience, unless it happens to incorporate actual rolling eyes. That would be sick.

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Hurmoth remember you posted this in May:

SAW V Has 3 Endings for DVD?!

Then the rumors startedflying about some different filmed endings. "We actually shot threedifferent endings, they each say different things, and set up the storyfor SAW VI in different ways," Hackl tells Bloody-Disgustingexclusively. "Two of them are similar and one is very different!" Bergtells us all endings will be included on the DVD release.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/saw-...deogame-details

So I wonder what ending we seen --- the "very different" ending? LOL

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Well, I watched it today.

I would like to say it is the best yet, but I don't really know. I sort of lost the plot of the long story surrounding all the films throughout the last incarnation of the original.

One thing that has always attracted me to the Saw films is their uniqueness from the start. They are great crime thrillers with some gruesome themes involved. Throughout the movie I was hungrily eating a cheesecake when something flashed up that was simply, off putting. However, my strong stomach prevailed and I finished my cake. So, Saw 5 - certainly good. The main game (that starts with the five keys in the boxes) was very well planned I thought. It would have been good to see some alternate solutions rather than the guys killing themselves at each game. It reminded me of the Saw film with the house - that oven still creeps me out!

Unfortunately though, what has put all the Saw films in a whirl is how each film is interconnected, but there was one, I forget if it is the third or the fourth where I completly missed how they were all supposed to work together. So it looked like the second, third and fourth films all ran at the same time, one big large game, but then the fourth film couldn't have run because they had to cut open Jigsaw to get the tape for that, but He was well and alive in the second, so yes, it got a little confusing.

However, as a single film, it was simple to follow, good to understand. I came away left feeling like I did after Saw 1 - a great film! But at the moment, that is how I will treat others, where the films are single, they do not really connect to anything else too much.

Well worth it if you like the Saw series.

Well done to the producers.

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