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The Saw Franchise 

Me: “Wanna watch all the saw movies in one day?”

Melanie: “Sure!”

(Twelve hours later)

Melanie: “That sure happened!”

Me: “That was very much an event that occurred!”

This was a good marathon to start out on. The first saw film is great. The second is shitty. The third one was even worse. The fourth one was confusing as hell, but made the third one a little better. The fifth one was also confusing, but once you figured it out it made three, four, and five like one big story, which I thought was really cool. The sixth dropped the ball. The seventh shit the bed hard, except for the last like 5 mins, where it was kind of awesome. 

This was kind of a rollar coaster ride of a franchise. The first one is legitimately great. it dealt with themes that hadn’t been explored as throughly ever before and brought a new and unique horror story to life. Three through five, if considered as one long, story is at least impressive, if not really cool. That is certainly not really something that has been done correctly by a big horror franchise before. Two is a definite weak point because it was a completed script that they changed to be the next saw movie, and it showed. I don’t know if they thought they were being sudle with the sixth, or if they really just wanted to shove the health care thing down our throats to the extent that it thoroughly ruins the movie. The seventh was so shitty. Everything was just terrible. it wasn’t even horror anymore, it’s morphed into a kind of shitty action/mystery movie where people get tortured, except for the very very end. the very very end is awesome. stop reading if you don’t want to know why. you know how at the end of every one they have a big twist where they explain everything for everyone? At the end of the seventh one, they do that for the entire series.

The quotes at the beginning generally wrap up my feelings for the the franchise. There are legitimately some good moments through out the franchise, and some good twists. But there is also a lot of really really shitty movie to sit through to get to those good moments. So in the end the series is something that I feel very strongly about, I’m just not sure whether I feel strongly negative or strongly positive. So I guess I’m strongly neutral.