I posted this on my RYM account a few minutes ago, but I think I might get better discussion here.
I avoided watching saw for a long time due to uncertainty of my strength of resisting disturbing imagery and how it would affect my mind. I'm reading so many reviews of this movie and it's hard to find a single objective standpoint. It looks like a lot of people just have different ideas of what makes the movie good or bad.
I noticed the movie is occasionally filmed like a 2000's crime show, which is perfectly fitting considering how much mystery is involved in the background. And one thing I have to say, I have incredibly high standards for modern horror because of how tropy horror can be. Even The Exorcist didn't surprise me (I still gave it a five-star rating, but it played exactly like how I pictured demon possessions happening). Saw was different. It took the strongest tropes of your everyday crime show and applied it to boundaries not yet broken in horror, and with startling affect.
I have a 0-100 scale and I'm seriously considering a 100 rating. I never thought I'd say that the Carey Elwes flick Saw might be better than the freakin' Princess Bride. So I want to know if I'm missing something very important here. I don't want to put this in my top 100 movies if I missed a huge detail worth lowering the rating for.
EDIT: I'm thinking that maybe it heavily appeals to me because it's filmed like an episode for a crime series and I watched a lot of those as a kid, not to mention it's a psychological thriller with a lot of detail and intricacy. Saw is a rare horror film that actually managed to surprise me.
I avoided watching saw for a long time due to uncertainty of my strength of resisting disturbing imagery and how it would affect my mind. I'm reading so many reviews of this movie and it's hard to find a single objective standpoint. It looks like a lot of people just have different ideas of what makes the movie good or bad.
I noticed the movie is occasionally filmed like a 2000's crime show, which is perfectly fitting considering how much mystery is involved in the background. And one thing I have to say, I have incredibly high standards for modern horror because of how tropy horror can be. Even The Exorcist didn't surprise me (I still gave it a five-star rating, but it played exactly like how I pictured demon possessions happening). Saw was different. It took the strongest tropes of your everyday crime show and applied it to boundaries not yet broken in horror, and with startling affect.
I have a 0-100 scale and I'm seriously considering a 100 rating. I never thought I'd say that the Carey Elwes flick Saw might be better than the freakin' Princess Bride. So I want to know if I'm missing something very important here. I don't want to put this in my top 100 movies if I missed a huge detail worth lowering the rating for.
EDIT: I'm thinking that maybe it heavily appeals to me because it's filmed like an episode for a crime series and I watched a lot of those as a kid, not to mention it's a psychological thriller with a lot of detail and intricacy. Saw is a rare horror film that actually managed to surprise me.
Last edited by KeyserCorleone; 11-24-20 at 05:03 PM.