• “I don’t kill anyone, they can all choose to live, so if they die that’s on them”
  • “Please ignore that many of them try with every ounce of strength they have to escape but it turns out their bodies are physically incapable of enduring the damage it requires them to sustain”
  • “Also ignore that the only reason they’re in the traps is because I kidnaped them and put them there”
  • “Also also ignore that some of my traps are explicitly designed so that not all participants can survive”
  • “Also also also ignore that some traps have victims whose survival is entirely out of their own hands and determined by the decisions of others in the trap”
  • “Anyway, don’t feel bad for them, they definitely deserve their horrendous suffering because [insert ridiculously petty reason here]”
  • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    Saw is ass. I’m pretty sure the creators admitted they’re just cheaply farted out torture porn made for easy money

    Capitalism is ass I’m pretty sure the creators admitted it’s just cheaply farted out torture porn made for easy money

    My god, it fits

        • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          If you haven’t seen it, I’d definitely recommend it. Unfortunately one of the big twists of the movie is kinda spoiled if you’ve seen any of the other SAW movies, but if you have shitty memory from actor’s face’s it’ll still work.

          The first movie is a lot more minimal, there are really only a couple of gore scenes, and that’s what makes them so gut wrenching. I feel like all the SAW directors after James Wan didn’t understand what made the first movie’s use of gore so effective, just saw how good the gore scenes were and said “MORE”

          Edit: Will also add, originally SAW premiered at Sundance Film Festival. Now I’m not going to pretend that everything that premiers at Sundance is high art, but I think it draws a clear distinction of it not being Hollywood slop. SAW is a passion project that got gutted and exploited by a greedy Hollywood because of how wildly successful the first one was,

          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            One of the best plot twists of all time and it doesn’t do the Fight Club “Actually the protagonist was crazy the whole time!!!” knockoff shit everyone was doing in the 2000s.

            But man did it go downhill fast. They reuse footage from previous films to make flashback sequences to fill out the movies because there’s no plot. And of course they try to outdo the twist of the original with more twists, so it just falls flat. There’s like 25 minutes of actual story, 35 minutes of flashbacks, and then 30 minutes of gross-ass torture porn.