Make Your Choice pt. 1

“You’re probably wondering where you are. I’ll tell you where you might be. You might be in the room you die in.“

-John Kramer (Saw 3)

If you haven’t seen all of the Saw movies and are planning on it you may not want to continue reading this since I am planning on going on discussing the Saw movies in great detail. That being said, if you have no interest in watching the greatest series of horror movies in the history of ever I guess that’s your own decision and I can’t change it for you, but buckle up for a lot of spoilers.

The greatest horror movie series ever begins in, what is my opinion, the most terrible way possible. In fact, I am surprised that the original Saw movie even got a sequel. It’s not the worst movie in the series, but I was not a fan. Saw was essentially about Jigsaw (John Kramer) and why he began killing, and a Game played by two terrible guys in a really disgusting bathroom. The majority of the movie was focused on these two guys (who were chained in opposite corners of the bathroom so they could not move very far) screaming at each other about how they want to get out. Overall it would have been pretty boring had they not added some scenes where the police discuss other random traps Jigsaw used on people. However, there were a few aspects of the movie that I did really like. For example, they introduced Amanda Franklin, the only known person to survive one of Jigsaw’s traps, at this time. We will discuss her more in part two. Saw also included an explanation of how the two screaming guys could have escaped the bathroom by recapping everything you hear through the movie. This is something I really liked because it emphasized the fact that Jigsaw did design the traps so people could escape. Jigsaw’s whole purpose in designing the traps is to teach those he believes do not value their lives, and I liked how they showed that in the first movie. I felt they did a good job introducing him and his purpose.

Saw 2 sits about in the middle of my scale when it comes to the Saw movies. It is neither terrible nor fantastic, but I do think it was better than the original Saw. Overall Saw 2 was interesting for a couple of reasons since the Game that was played not only tested the people inside, but the detective who was attempting to find them. Jigsaw placed a bunch of people who had been wrongly imprisoned by a detective into a house reinforced by steel, along with that detective’s son, and gassed them with a toxin that would kill them in two hours if they could not find an antidote. Another person of note to be in the house was Amanda Franklin, the only known person at that time to have survived a Jigsaw trap. My least favorite thing about this movie was that it was slightly predictable. The detective’s son had done nothing to show he does not value his life, so him being in the trap made no sense. Jigsaw would not want to test him, so I felt like the fact the boy survived was predictable. Overall the rest of the movie was okay, the only really notable thing that happened was Amanda being revealed to be Jigsaw’s apprentice, which explained a lot about Jigsaw’s plans that hadn’t made sense before.

To be continued…

“Most people are so ungrateful to be alive, but not you, not any more…”

– John Kramer (Saw 1)