Pandajuice wrote:

As an aside, I love the Saw movies, and while the sequels are admittedly weaker, I still found them entertaining and fun to watch. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really understand the reputation it's gotten as being a gore-fest as anything graphically gorey is always within context, so it works for the movie. Maybe most people (including you) haven't even bothered to watch the sequels before writing the series off, I don't know. If you want to condemn a series of movies for being pointless gore-fests, look no further than the Hostel films. Saw is a little more cerebral and fun to me than those movies.

I don't actually hear too many people condemn Saw and its progeny as pointless gore-fests. But I don't think its deniable that there is certainly a LOT of gore in them Which is not necessarily a bad thing; its just that to someone like me who doesn't stomach that very well, it doesn't matter if its in context, out of context, a shock image on a website, or an adaptation of Shakespeare--I just don't like it, and don't want to see it. I've tried, and its the absolute antithesis of fun for me. Its not the gross out factor as much as the fact that I end up empathizing with the characters too much, and then I can't get it out of my head, and my imagination runs rampant from there, and then Hawk spends three days huddled in bed at night with a Kabar in one hand and a four-battery MagLite in the other. Not literally, but you get the idea. Just the description of the crucifix trap from Saw (III? IV? iono) was quite enough to kill my appetite for a couple of hours.

Anyway, the actual point behind what I'm saying there is that when people express disgust or what have you for the Saw films, its probably not a slam on the film's merit specifically; its just a general distaste for the genre in all its forms, bad, good and great. Saw is just one of the most well known *because* of how good it is, and so its the one people think of when trying to express their opinion.

Still. Eesh. *willies*

I didn't want to start a whole new thread just for this video, for fear its already been posted (didn't find anything via search, but then, I freely admit I suck at digging out things like this.)

Anyway, its a review of what may be the crappiest of all crappy horror movies: Nick Cage's take on Wicker Man. This literally made me laugh harder than almost anything in recent memory. And yes, a large part of that has to do with the fact that the reviewer is British, and therefore has a special affinity for the original (which I also love):



It's all pretty funny, but the last half is easily the funniest, because the material he has to riff on is so brilliant.

Yep lmao. The Crowning Moment of Awful/Awesome though (for bad acting) is undoubtedly "how'd it get burned?! How'd it get burned?! HOW'DITGETBURNEDHOW'DITGETBURNEDHOW'DITGETBURNED?!?!?!?!"

Nothing, in the history of ever, will ever beat that slow walk down the stairs, staring down the old woman, and then socking her right in the jaw out of nowhere. There are no words for that. God I love that movie, in a horrible horrible way. I honestly think the reviewer is right: it's a closet comedy. Seriously.