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Snake5555555555 11/10/18 12:53:21 PM #317:	15. Saw (film) (25.5 points) Nominated by: GANON1025 (1/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1QgOMQ-ls" data-time=" Importance: 10 Fear: 8 Snake: 7.5 The original Saw was a landmark film in many ways. It gave us the now bonafide horror icon Jigsaw and his puppet Billy, the memetic phrase "I want to play a game", put James Wan on the map, and established a benchmark for a new wave of horror that became known as "torture porn", used both affectionately and to criticize the genre (and really just a more extreme version of the splatter film). Despite the moniker though, the original Saw is simple and laid-back compared to the sequels and copycats that would follow. The film plays more like a psychological mystery, with a flashback spider-web structure that would make Tarantino green with envy. Most of the film takes place in a bathroom, with two men, Adam Stanheight and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, each chained by the feet on opposite sides, with a deceased man in between them. The structure here feels more like a "game" than some of Jigsaw's future endeavors, as it's set up practically like a point-and-click 90s adventure game with a very deliberate and even obtainable win state for one of the men, and I like that each of their objectives are lop-sided, as Adam's goal is to merely escape while Gordon's is to kill Adam. It raises the stakes considerably and makes things tense as hell. There's also a background story involving two detectives and an orderly at Gordon's hospital, and they eventually intersect with the main plot in a satisfying way. I still remember to this day being absolutely shocked by the ending, as it's actually really hard to see coming in my opinion. Taken away from its series, Saw is a great stand-alone film where the craziest it ever gets is the "reverse bear trap" on Amanda Young. No Saw sequel would ever get as tense as this in my opinion, preferring red-shirt characters and elaborate traps to a compelling storyline, and that's a crying shame. I can certainly see the appeal in those as decent slashers, but it's the straight-forwardness of this original film that I think really stuck a perfect balance between gore and a little dash of smartness. --- If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will! http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://i.imgtc.com/3qwvxhc.jpg <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:912162674] in Snake Rank... [t:77057251]...</cite> <quote>15. Saw (film) (25.5 points) Nominated by: GANON1025 (1/5 remaining) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-1QgOMQ-ls" data-time=" Importance: 10 Fear: 8 Snake: 7.5 The original Saw was a landmark film in many ways. It gave us the now bonafide horror icon Jigsaw and his puppet Billy, the memetic phrase "I want to play a game", put James Wan on the map, and established a benchmark for a new wave of horror that became known as "torture porn", used both affectionately and to criticize the genre (and really just a more extreme version of the splatter film). Despite the moniker though, the original Saw is simple and laid-back compared to the sequels and copycats that would follow. The film plays more like a psychological mystery, with a flashback spider-web structure that would make Tarantino green with envy. Most of the film takes place in a bathroom, with two men, Adam Stanheight and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, each chained by the feet on opposite sides, with a deceased man in between them. The structure here feels more like a "game" than some of Jigsaw's future endeavors, as it's set up practically like a point-and-click 90s adventure game with a very deliberate and even obtainable win state for one of the men, and I like that each of their objectives are lop-sided, as Adam's goal is to merely escape while Gordon's is to kill Adam. It raises the stakes considerably and makes things tense as hell. There's also a background story involving two detectives and an orderly at Gordon's hospital, and they eventually intersect with the main plot in a satisfying way. I still remember to this day being absolutely shocked by the ending, as it's actually really hard to see coming in my opinion. Taken away from its series, Saw is a great stand-alone film where the craziest it ever gets is the "reverse bear trap" on Amanda Young. No Saw sequel would ever get as tense as this in my opinion, preferring red-shirt characters and elaborate traps to a compelling storyline, and that's a crying shame. I can certainly see the appeal in those as decent slashers, but it's the straight-forwardness of this original film that I think really stuck a perfect balance between gore and a little dash of smartness. --- If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will! http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://i.imgtc.com/3qwvxhc.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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