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Is anyone else hoping Saw VI fails?

I know there are some fans out there, Hell... a lot of fans.

But I just really am tired of Saw, tired of it being a huge staple every Halloween, just tired of the franchise in general.

It's been over to me nce part 2.

Saw was great, the sequel was terrible and it has only gotten worse to me.

I don't know if I am alone, but I really hope it does lower numbers this season... just so they maybe take a year off or something.

I'm just glad to see horror attempting to break away from the torture fests of Saw and Hostel, I just hope it sticks.

I'm just bored to tears with Saw and any film like Saw.

I didn't even go to Halloween Horror Nights this year because they had it.

I would just get pissed off every time I saw anything Saw related. Anyone else feel this way?
DarkArtist81 Wednesday 10/21/2009 at 03:37 PM | 56736
I dont think they will stop making these until they can't make a profit...which is hard because these movies are made for around 10 mil and they make anywhere from 30 mil and up. I'm not a huge fan of the saw series but I did like the first one, and I own the first 4 and watched part 5 in theaters and was bored with it, So im not going to bother with the newest one.
Dougie Wednesday 10/21/2009 at 07:00 PM | 56756
Its become a ritual for me every year (I'll be at the NY premiere tomorrow) because nce I was a kid I went to the movies on halloween or right around it. The films aren't great and SAW's premise/style of horror isn't my favourite (I'd MUCH rather prefer a slasher series) but as mediocre as they are they are still better than the gaggle of crap that is usually spewed upon the lver screen. This year wasn't bad as we had DRAG ME TO HELL and a nice sleeper with THE COLLECTOR. As it was stated already so long as SAW keeps drawing like it does? why would the studios pull the plug on it?
ny ghoul Thursday 10/22/2009 at 01:09 AM | 56786
LOL...i was just saying that the other night. "When will they let it end!" Saw is alright but I mean come on....the guy is supposed to be dead for chist sakes "but the killings are still happening" why dammit....lol I agree enough is enough move on cause it's just becoming old.

watch...next you'll find jigsaw in space (fuckin Jason X grrrr

)
kweandee Thursday 10/22/2009 at 02:08 AM | 56790
Every Halloween for the past few years I see the commercials for the new Saw, adverting it as if it is the Halloween movie to see. FUCK THAT! Halloween is Halloween, not Saw! If I want to see a movie to get me in the Halloween mood I want to watch something related to Halloween, not idiotic people in a room with puzzles.

So to mply put my answer, yes, I hope it fails (although I know it unfortunately won't. Not for a while)
DrenTheLiar Thursday 10/22/2009 at 08:45 PM | 56824
I can't see it failing but I must say i would love to see it come out evry other year or even every third year if they must continue and if they must keep going somehow bring back Dr. Gordon.
cropsy Thursday 10/22/2009 at 08:53 PM | 56826
Well I'm seeing it at midnight, so no. They aren't as good as they were but they're still fun to watch. I wouldn't be sad if they stopped making them, but I'll keep watching them until they do
chubacabra Thursday 10/22/2009 at 09:05 PM | 56829
Well I'm seeing it at midnight, so no. They aren't as good as they were but they're still fun to watch. I wouldn't be sad if they stopped making them, but I'll keep watching them until they do

im kinda in the same boat. they havent really been good nce saw 3 but i still faithfully see them because its something to do for 10 bucks.
customcritters Thursday 10/22/2009 at 10:04 PM | 56842
I've long given up on it, like Dren said... I just get tired of the studios always making it seem like Saw and Halloween go together like pumpkins and tea lights.

And EVERY ngle damn year??

Take a year break!

Make it better instead of going for full on saturation.

I haven't watched anything post 2, and I don't plan to.

I've caught bits of the others on TV, but won't devote another ngle second to them.

Nor will I spend my hard earned cash on tickets to see a new one in theaters.I'd rather go home and watch Creepshow, Halloween, or Trick R Treat again than waste my time with Saw or any of the torture porn horror out there.

DarkArtist81 Friday 10/23/2009 at 08:00 PM | 56900
Can someone explain why SAW and HOSTEL is referred to as "torture porn".....if you want torture porn I can provide a whole list of films and directors who specialize in it and most of them are German and Japanese films. SAW and HOSTEL depict scenes of torture...so did TCM THE BEGINNING and a million other horror films. I think these movies are unfairly ngled out. They are an acquired taste and are devoid of any "halloween season" feeling but they are horror films.

The new SAW is actually pretty fun. The story was engaging and the gore was amazing.

Brutal films don't seem to be most horror fans cup of blood these days but they do deserve their niche rightly so next to other sub genres such as zombie horrors; cannibal horrors and slashers.
ny ghoul Friday 10/23/2009 at 10:36 PM | 56912
Can someone explain why SAW and HOSTEL is referred to as "torture porn".....if you want torture porn I can provide a whole list of films and directors who specialize in it and most of them are German and Japanese films. SAW and HOSTEL depict scenes of torture...so did TCM THE BEGINNING and a million other horror films. I think these movies are unfairly ngled out. They are an acquired taste and are devoid of any "halloween season" feeling but they are horror films.

The new SAW is actually pretty fun. The story was engaging and the gore was amazing.

Brutal films don't seem to be most horror fans cup of blood these days but they do deserve their niche rightly so next to other sub genres such as zombie horrors; cannibal horrors and slashers.

I couldn't agree with you more!

Saw is NOT torture porn.

For a good laugh check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=torture+porn
chubacabra Friday 10/23/2009 at 10:46 PM | 56913
I know it's not really torture porn, but that's how it feels to me.

Everyone has a different thing they love about horror.

I don't really like the uber gory horror stuff, it doesn't appeal to me at all.

I don't even really like TCM all that much.

The original is clasc, but most of them just don't work for me.But it's not just that fact that bothers me about Saw.

None of it appeals to me either, the entire premise and the way the films are constructed... the traps and all that... it's just not what I enjoy about horror.

To me a good horror film is either a suspenseful horror flick, slasher, zombie movie, werewolf/vampire, horror/comedy, and sometimes the odd crazy horror flick like Feast.

So Saw and the like just don't fit in with my tastes.

Nothing against those who do enjoy them, it's just not for me.

I am tired of it though, after every ngle Halloween.... it's gotten old.
DarkArtist81 Saturday 10/24/2009 at 04:08 AM | 56933
I agree with you bro Im MUCH more a slasher guy and stuff like TCM and some of the 80's Italian shit is as crazy as I like to get. I have a lot of films like AUGUST UNDERGROUND (Toe Tag Films)

or some of the German porn gore (they literally are gore films with full penetration porno mixed in. you can just imagine the depravity) To me when I watch some of those true porn gore films I almost get the feeling that these films were degned with snuff fetishists in mind. You can make the real thing obviously so lets try and make one as detailed and realistic as posble. No thanks...I picture some sweaty creep wacking off to it in a basement somewhere. That being said I do enjoy the occaonal gore fest which movies like SAW have provided. The main issue with the SAW films was that the gore and kills were good but the acting and story-telling sucked.
ny ghoul Saturday 10/24/2009 at 03:51 PM | 56968
my thoughts on the saw franchise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpYEJx7PkWE
customcritters Sunday 10/25/2009 at 02:53 AM | 57004
Saw was great, the sequel was terrible and it has only gotten worse to me.

I'm with you Josh. I thought the first one was clever and I quite enjoyed it. The sequel seemed like nothing but a mindless cash grab to me and I haven't bothered to watch any more of them.

You can't deny they're profitable though.
lblambert Sunday 10/25/2009 at 11:59 PM | 57041
I'm with you Josh. I thought the first one was clever and I quite enjoyed it. The sequel seemed like nothing but a mindless cash grab to me and I haven't bothered to watch any more of them.

You can't deny they're profitable though.

Saw II is definitely the low point of the series.

The rest are much better, not as good as the first, but not nearly as bad as the second
chubacabra Monday 10/26/2009 at 12:24 AM | 57043
I'll third that.

The first Saw was a great horror movie with a terrific, original storyline, but the rest of them are nothing more than tired, money-making sequels.

Good news though . . . Paranormal Activity slayed Saw at the box office this weekend.

I was really hoping this would be the end of the franchise, but I've read that Saw 7 is in the works.
gummi Monday 10/26/2009 at 12:26 AM | 57044
I hear you guys... The first was awesome, very original story.. bleak ending.

Instant horror clasc.

It's the way they went about just striking while the iron was hot that bothers me, because it sets a precedent for future horror sequels of other films to be the same way.

It makes it ok to keep cranking out story after story, watering down the greatness of the original and not giving the fans anything to really go nuts over.I just really don't want other horror series to take note and start going this route.

Cheap and fast, it may equal quick and easy money... big profits.. but it cheapens the genre and will only water things down until people don't care anymore and the well dries up.
DarkArtist81 Tuesday 10/27/2009 at 01:48 AM | 57113