Do you consider the films in the Saw Saga to be genuinely good films?

I've only seen parts of the first and second Saw films. They seemed to lack substance and to be nothing more than an excuse to display gruesome and graphic violence. Does anyone like these films and consider them to be genuinely good films? I'm currently watching Saw VI on Netflix, just for the hell of it.

Good for horror films. I thought the first four were decent.

They are bad, just bad, bad bad, bad in a bad way, so bad they make other things that are bad look good...

OK mayby I'm exaggerating a little but I do find them to be bad movies.

"Saga"? Really? That's what we're calling it? I think that the Friday the 13th epic poem was far more layeredxaos

I guess I could call it a series, but I normally use that term for television shows.

they went downhill after the debut movie.

I kind of like the story and twists, although most of the twists rely on the fact that "he is so smart he knows who will do what and how".

The first movie has a few interesting questions about how much pain a person is willing to put themselves through by made to pay for their habits. Saw 2 and Saw 3D are truly awful movies though. They either repeat the same questions or don't bother to ask them at all. Without the moral dilemmas it just becomes a slasher movie and not even a good one. From beginning to end its a really nasty, sick series. And its concerning that people actually get enjoyment out of watching this torture stuff. I rated Saw 3D as the worst of the 91 films I watched last year - it was just outright offensive and gratuitous.

The best way for me to put it, they are not bad. I'm very open to horrors although they don't capture the true horror feel, they give something else.

On a side note I noticed whenever I watched SAW in the cinemas there were a lot of girls in the audiance. You tell me why.

I love the "saw" series, even though I found IV and V to be a bit weak. I think they were all very entertaining films. They dont seem like "horror" movies to me. I kinda consider them action/thriller movies.

I like them. The first Saw is the best one imo.

I rated Saw 3D as the worst of the 91 films I watched last year - it was just outright offensive and gratuitous.

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You don't like exploding heads?

Sometimes, they're so bad, they seem like satires.

of course not.

I had to watch Saw 1-3 for a university assignment.

I only watched the first one. It gave me cancer.

I've only seen parts of the first and second Saw films. They seemed to lack substance and to be nothing more than an excuse to display gruesome and graphic violence. Does anyone like these films and consider them to be genuinely good films? I'm currently watching Saw VI on Netflix, just for the hell of it.

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You are basing an opinion off of that???

On topic:
I thought the first was good...the others not so much

I like em, still need to see the new one

The first was a really really good horror movie...The 2nd one went the "let's be a total gore fest" route and I didn't really care for it as much. The 3rd was decent. I haven't seen 4-6...Nor do I care to, reallyspazzx625

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]The first was a really really good horror movie...The 2nd one went the "let's be a total gore fest" route and I didn't really care for it as much. The 3rd was decent. I haven't seen 4-6...Nor do I care to, reallyaaronmullan

I thought they were pretty good.

Saw II was the worst imo, but the rest were good.

the first one was pretty good, all things considered, but the rest of them are quite bad.

"Saga"? Really? That's what we're calling it? I think that the Friday the 13th epic poem was far more layeredxaos

Torture Porn is a very boring sub-genre of horror. I have yet to see one succeed in the genre's goal; to make the audience identify with the torturer as opposed to the victim.Rhazakna

[QUOTE="xaos"]"Saga"? Really? That's what we're calling it? I think that the Friday the 13th epic poem was far more layeredsuper_mario_128

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="xaos"]"Saga"? Really? That's what we're calling it? I think that the Friday the 13th epic poem was far more layeredxaos

the saw movies are not a saga, not even close

The first was a really really good horror movie...The 2nd one went the "let's be a total gore fest" route and I didn't really care for it as much. The 3rd was decent. I haven't seen 4-6...Nor do I care to, reallyspazzx625

Basically this, but maybe take away one of the reallys concerning the first.

Still I quite enjoyed the first at the time.

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]The first was a really really good horror movie...The 2nd one went the "let's be a total gore fest" route and I didn't really care for it as much. The 3rd was decent. I haven't seen 4-6...Nor do I care to, reallyNiff_T

Basically this, but maybe take away one of the reallys concerning the first.

Still I quite enjoyed the first at the time.

The first Saw was pretty good, but the rest are awful. It should have ended after the first. Now the series has become a parody of itself. I hope Saw 3D is the last, because it was probably the worst in the series.

The first one was cool because it had surprises. The others, even though I stopped at the third, became bland.

I didn't like those movies what so ever.

First one was good, but then the wheels just fell off and the movie execs just used a rope to drag it to the finish line with the 80000 sequels.

The first was good. Not groundbreaking or anything but it was good. The rest were okay I guess.

They're pretty silly films.

The first one was OK, entertaining enough. Didn't like the rest.