Syclone0044
11-04-2005, 01:22 PM
Last night I saw "Saw 2" at the theater. I saw the original "Saw" and thought it was really good for what it was - a gruesome horror film. I liked the clever traps the killer set, it was very original.
Saw 2 is definitely along the same lines as Saw, except about "10 times" more gruesome. :stare If I remember right, the worst part of Saw was when the guy finally cut his own arm off. That part is nothing compared to Saw 2. This movie is truly horrific and I even had to look away from the screen a few times, I can't remember ever doing that before in a theater. I started to wonder if anyone in the audience would walk out of the theater. A little further into the movie I started considering if anyone was going to bolt up from their seat and run out of the theater! :D I won't spoil any of the traps for you who are going to see it, but I'll summarize and say if you have seen those videos online that sometimes get passed around messageboards of some foreigner getting executed, or exploded by a car, etc. this was quite a bit more disturbing. It got to the point that I started wondering if it was a good idea to have the general public watch a movie like this and I hoped there wouldn't be any copycat crimes in the future. I hate censorship more than anyone so I have no problem with this being available but if I was on the ratings board I would have thought hard about giving it an NC-17 rating. If this movie came out 10 (or maybe even 5 years ago) there's no way it'd be in theaters. I think this movie is really merely a front for the authors to compete for having the most gruesome scenes ever - and they piece them together to form a movie, but any one scene could easily be deleted and it wouldn't affect the movie in any way. Especially the lame ass ending, I think it was tacked on after production so they could allow for a third movie in the series.
So to summarize, I thought the movie did very well in following suit of the series, more clever traps, it really delivered what it advertises, and they did a bullseye in their goal to push the envelope of violence/torture on film. Just don't see it with anyone who might not be able to handle it (my girlfriend probably looked away from the screen more than she watched it.)
Saw 2 is definitely along the same lines as Saw, except about "10 times" more gruesome. :stare If I remember right, the worst part of Saw was when the guy finally cut his own arm off. That part is nothing compared to Saw 2. This movie is truly horrific and I even had to look away from the screen a few times, I can't remember ever doing that before in a theater. I started to wonder if anyone in the audience would walk out of the theater. A little further into the movie I started considering if anyone was going to bolt up from their seat and run out of the theater! :D I won't spoil any of the traps for you who are going to see it, but I'll summarize and say if you have seen those videos online that sometimes get passed around messageboards of some foreigner getting executed, or exploded by a car, etc. this was quite a bit more disturbing. It got to the point that I started wondering if it was a good idea to have the general public watch a movie like this and I hoped there wouldn't be any copycat crimes in the future. I hate censorship more than anyone so I have no problem with this being available but if I was on the ratings board I would have thought hard about giving it an NC-17 rating. If this movie came out 10 (or maybe even 5 years ago) there's no way it'd be in theaters. I think this movie is really merely a front for the authors to compete for having the most gruesome scenes ever - and they piece them together to form a movie, but any one scene could easily be deleted and it wouldn't affect the movie in any way. Especially the lame ass ending, I think it was tacked on after production so they could allow for a third movie in the series.
So to summarize, I thought the movie did very well in following suit of the series, more clever traps, it really delivered what it advertises, and they did a bullseye in their goal to push the envelope of violence/torture on film. Just don't see it with anyone who might not be able to handle it (my girlfriend probably looked away from the screen more than she watched it.)