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Anyone else thinks this is the best of all the "Saw" movies?


As decent to OK to just about average as a few of them were after this, I personally consider this "Saw" (2004), the first original one, not counting its director's previous Short film Saw from 2003 prior to this, to be the best one in the overall series?

And a solid 7 out of 10 I ultimately DO give it, which means I think its pretty good. Yeah, absolutely none of them INCLUDING this one are "perfect" but as far as these things go, its worth a look anyway.

It did become after part 3 or so mostly rather convoluted and repetitive and the series lost its edge and quality afterwards, settling down mostly for needlessly complicated, but still rather brainless, forms of torture and splatter, at least the first one had some originality to it as well.

In any case, solid good first one and a few decent ones and others mostly being middle of the road average at best, and do we agree this first "Saw" movie is the best one? Cheers.

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The general consensus is that Saw (2004) is the best. But I chalk that up to the 'original is always the best' doctrine so many accept without question.

Saw II & Saw III do everything the first did and more.

They're more expansive and bigger productions (Saw II had around 4x the budget of the first, with the third having nearly 10x the budget). They're gorier with better traps/tests, better acted (sorry Leigh Whannell), expand upon the mythos of the franchise and give Tobin Bell more screentime as Jigsaw/John Kramer.

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I couldn't have said it better myself!

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I don't care for the sequels but you make a good point.

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Um...I think the first 2 were good. I didn't at all like Part 3 with the doctor in the surgery room with Jigsaw. It started getting lame by then.

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I agree. Saskia had an interesting point. I don't prescribe to it personally. I didn't care for how clean the sequels after 2 got. It started to look like a cw production.

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