Favourite and least favourite Saw film

My favorite would definitely have to be the first sequel, Saw II. I can still remember the theater shock from all the great twists at the end including the character development of Amanda and her revelation as an accomplice.

I was only 14 at the time and that really blew me away.

As for least favorite, I agree about Saw VII. Easily the worst in my opinion and especially unimpressive after VI. Even more disappointing is the fact it was the finale too.

My favourite changes every day between VI, III, and I. Least favourite is 3D for sure.

I thought Saw 6 was AWESOME. That's definitely my favorite. Least favorite is Saw 3D.

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Favorite: Saw III... Yes, I'm shocked, but Saw III actually has taken the place as my favorite entry in the series. And for good reason- it's a fantastic sequel, and a darned good film that does just about everything right. It explores characters and story in a magnificent way, analyzes the flaws of the human condition and the extremes some people will go to, humanizes everyone in such a fantastic fashion and top top it off... has some wonderfully twisted sequences of suspense. And it's well-directed, boasts a wonderful score and did such a good job with its construction, that basically every film after followed its pattern and the series "archetypes" it established. For a long time, I was adamant that the first film HAD to be the best, but going back with an open mind- no, I have to say that this entry was the best in the series.

Least Favorite: Saw 3D/The Final Chapter... Oh boy. I fooled myself into thinking that it was "alright" when it first came out, but time and a more critical eye have revealed more and more of the flaws it has. Honestly, there are some elements in the film that work. But too many just don't. Especially sequences revolving around new characters like Gibson.


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The first Saw was definitely my favorite. Mostly due to how original everything was. I didn't know what to expect and it is epic because of that.

The worst is Saw 3D in my opinion. Meh. Don't even have anything to say about it.

Looking forward to this reboot but, hopefully they don't just add a bunch of new traps and call it a movie. Get a good story written.

No sequel can EVER be better than the original, anyone that thinks so is STUPID!!!!


Except maybe VHS...

and

Silence of the Lambs.

Oh and Love Honour and Obey (if that counts)

and maybe Saw ||

and a few others...

Well I will just list greatest to least.

1
3
6
2


7
4
5
The last 3 were all not good, for different reasons.

7. Just a bit too trap-happy with little story. And the traps did get to be a bit too ridiculous. And listening to the DVD commentary, they mention that traps was the main and important part -rather than any story. Which is why Bobby is the first Saw protagonist who failed to save anyone in any of the traps. As mentioned, if he saved people, you couldn't see the traps go off -which they said was the main point of the series.

4. I did like Rigg as a protagonist. But 4 was a bit of a cluster. It just seemed like there was way too much going on at such a fast pace. Sometimes it got confusing with all the jumping around.

5. Messed up in the opposite direction. It was boring as Hell. I didn't care about any of the people in the 5-man trap. And the film just didn't hold my attention. I started watching it, and by the end, I was only half-paying attention while it played in the background as I did other things.

Now the top ones I listed balance out nicely. There were good traps, but the traps didn't override the story. There did seem to be development on the characters and more focus on the flawed nature of people.

The only thing I have complaint about with Saw 6 is the bias with how damn near all the women live in the film, and it's just men who get killed. Anytime a trap had a man vs. woman, the women always lived. It was mentioned in the DVD commentary, though I forget who said one. One man asked whose idea it was to have only women live. And another replied that it was his (1st guy) because he wanted them to be kind to women on the film.

I think Gena was the only woman who died, and that was only because the Carousel only allowed for 2 saves, with 3 women. And I say this as a woman. It is just sad it many cases, women's lives tend to be seen as more valuable than men. Look at Jurassic Park. Men are killed constantly in that franchise. Then they have the first on-screen female death with Zara, and everyone is up in arms about it -how brutal and sad it was. I have seen worse. But because she's a hot woman, her dying automatically trumps everyone else's.
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Favourites - 3 and 6.
3 - I loved the raw emotion and the conflicted protagonist fighting his demons - it added more texture than simply "a really nice guy tries to save everyone he can". The build up in the narrative using the traps kept the movie tight and gave the traps some relevance.

6 - Suddenly including a political movie n the series really surprised me. It worked really well as it's own story and within the larger story and John struggling with his condition. Again, the traps felt very relevant and not at all tacked on.

Least Favourite - 2 and 3D.
2 - Everything about it screams a shelved script that was rushed to production. It didn't feel like a Saw film at all to me, and everything felt really tacked on. Having traps intended for different people but everyone freely facing them together was really interesting, but people meeting their intended traps was always a coincidence and never built into the plot. Amanda and Obi were thrown at random into their traps by the muscle guy. The box trap girl (can't remember her name) stumbles upon that room alone by chance. It missed every opportunity to have a story so felt like a complete mess. The Amanda twist was okay, but felt like the scriptwriters forcing a twist in because the first one had a twist (M Night Shyamalan complex!). But still, the team were honing the idea down and deciding what tropes from the first film they wanted to maintain (tapes, pig mask, puppet) and what bits they wanted to drop (jigsaw pieces out of skin is the main one I can think of).

3D - It felt like boring wrapping everything up storyline + a load of random traps, finishing with showing the bear trap because that's what everyone had always wanted. Baiting the fans with what they wanted in a way that pleased no one.