Be Excellent To Each Other

Why do BBC always stick their imports on so fucking late?

Tru dat.

Being human was good too, and that had a mix of monsters. Due back on soon isn't it?

For the record, I never recommended TB to the badger botherer, Doccy G did
I might be guilty of recommending it to Doccy G though...


However, I can understand Craster's dislike in so much as far as I can tell he didn't not like TB, he just didn't like Anna Paquin. Fortunately the whole series and the second seem to be more of an ensemble piece where no character gets to dominate too much, so if Sookie (AP's character) gets on your tits then it's not that much of a turn off. Personally, I only found her mildly irritating but she was more than compensated for by the plethora of other interesting characters.

I'll say Hi5 to your punnery Rev as everybody else seems to be being dense Or they haven't seen it...

I'm turning up tomorrow with 200 yards of gaffer tape, a hard backed chair and a personal DVD player.

OH MY GOD.

As you may know, when you watch a scary film with you significant other, she tends to get scared very easily and need to cuddle in to enable her to get through the film.
Well. Jen came home tonight and told me were watching Saw (which I have avoided since release as I am rubbish with scary films. She has been told by a few people at poooooooooleeeeeess [/clay] college that the story is excellent and she has also been de-sensitised a bit to horrible images because of all the videos and photos she has seen during her training.
We started watching the film and immediatly I was totally bloody petrified because of the horrible face. I have a very big phobia of masks and as a result don't ever go out on Halloween and when I throw a halloween party the rule is no masks so this baddy really really scared me. I actually could see why the story was good and it really wasn't what I expected but I was hiding behind the duvet so much (which I insisted on bringing through before we put the film on) that whenever I suspected the baddy might be on the screen I only saw the very top left corrner. She has decided we are going to watch the rest in the series though so I will have to learn to deal with it. Unbelievabvly she even fell asleep near the end and I didnt notice so i was cowering in corner of the couch myself
I ezxpcetd it to be soemthing like Hostel which bloddy Ooster made us watch one night at my flat in Glasgow just after I started seeing Jen. i ended up hiding in the kitched for the wholle film because it dfreaked me out too much.
I started correcitn all my mistakes byt im drunk and it is taking ages and it is taking like 50 minues to write a post so I'm just going to give up and you'll just have to read my mistakes alright? I hjad to edit my other piost in the other thead about 7 times because every time i submitted it again i niotvec even more mistakes which showed the bad speling.
So the point is Saw was better than expected but I think I need a braver girlfriend to look after me and a filme with less makes

We really are worlds apart, aren't we?

Both Hostel & Saw were shite.

Did we not end up watching Hostel because Dougie gied us it & said it was great? Turns out it wasn't. It's just very unpleasant.

SO there are people called Wullie and Dougie in Scotland It's as if I knew an Enoch and Ali.

I can't remember why we were watching it, I just remember that about 5 minutes in I relocated to the kitchen and started cooking, only popping my head round the door every now and then to check if it was watchable yet, getting freaked out and disappearing back into the kitchen.
Saw was actually quite good. The story was quite interesting and it wasn't the sort of gratutious violence blood and death that I thought it would be. It was very scary but I think that was mainly because of that horrible clown face-it freaked me right out. The whole gruesome aspect I was expecting wasn't really there in the first film. Or at least it was there but it wasn't shown so I could watch those parts ok. Jen has warned me though that they do get a bit more gory as the series goes on because her po-po friends showed her some clips so I will see how I cope as we watch more.
Saw 2 tonight so I'm sure I'll tweet about it at some point, that is what I did last night when it was at bits I really couldn't watch due to the baddy being on screen.

Heh, me & Mr Susan went to see the 4th(?) Saw at the pictures when I still had my UGC card. I ended up getting fed up, putting on my headphones & having a kip. That was my introduction to the Saw films & I haven't felt the need to watch any of the others.

Meh. The 'torture porn' fad of modern horror films still hasn't passed. Still, it's at least less boring than the "sellotape the annoying croaky girl out of The Grudge/Ring who stops being creepy after 30 seconds into your ropey horror film" one, and keeps more physical special effects people in work.

I think they have a continuing story so I expect I will watch them just to see what happens.


Ah, that's the phrase I was looking for, 'torture porn'. I think because I exoected Saw to be such a terribly example of this that I was surprised by what I saw and actually was able to enjoy it.

Hostel was definitely shit. It was just an excuse to show hot naked women and lots of gore, but without any kind of decent script behind.

The Saw movies are like Family Guy, but instead of jokes it's an excuse to show the wonderful ideas for the tortures. My favorites are the pit of needles and the rotten pig grinder. What movies were they on? i have no idea.

The first Saw movie was superb, I thought. The rest, not so much.

I only saw them all recently and I'm supposed to be seeing the 6th one soon. I enjoyed them all, but they've pretty much merged into one and I have no idea who's doing what, but I'm just looking forward to some elaborate deaths.

Hostel, to put it politely, was a fucking abomination. I haven't seen the second one (surprisingly).

On the torture porn/horror-ey genre, is Severance any good?

I didn't mind Hostel but the second one was just torture porn at the cost of everything else. Very poor.

As for Saw, they've merged into one big half baked gore fest. 73%

I suspected as much from watching the first, so didn't bother making any effort to see the next lot.

Good film, that, but why do people insist on making sequels for things all the damn time?

Yes. You know it's a comedy though, right?

Oh, is it? Excellent. That's an improvement to my mind.

A 'black comedy' though. I'm still not convinced I know what that means.

Like Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.

L-LOL, Bravo!

Saw was awesome. Saw 2 was obviously adapted from another script to become a sequel. Saw 3 was bobbins. I didn't bother with the other 8

"See Saw"
Marjorie Door - Hotdog

As in having a cynical sense of humour, I would think. Dark, the opposite of light humour.

It's perfectly entertaining I think, but I would think torture porn is not what it is about. In a lot of regards it reminded me a lot of Dog Soldiers.

Yeah, I'd probably agree with that.

Woof around the edges?

[faints]

You didn't let me finish. It reminds me of Dog Soldiers the first time you watch it. The second time through it's more reminiscent of Hello Kitty Island Adventure, and the third time it's like a Books on Tape version of Bleak House.

Speaking of laughable horror films, I'm picking up Resident Evil Extinction on the away home to watch while lying in bed sniffling and being poorly.

It can't be any worse than Apocolypse.

No it's the same. It helps having totty as the lead, keeps it totally watchable.

Oh good. Because Apocolypse was "watchable rubbish" which is a perennial favourite genre of mine.

The trailers make RE3 look pleasingly Fallout 2-ish in its post-apocolyptic-ness. Not by being isometric, mind.

Ha Ha hahaha ha haha ha haa haa ha. Still, it's watchable.

Well, I'm getting that and Outpost, plus whatever else catches my eye as film three in Asda Home's three for a tenner offer.

I want to watch Outpost.

I can stick it in the post to you when I'm done, if you like.

Particularly annoying when waiting to buy a complete DVD boxed set.

That would be splendid.

Extinction is rather better than Apocalypse, but not as good as No Subtitle.

Though I watched a hooky internet copy, and was (I'm sure this will surprise the forum) really rather tanked, so it's hard to be sure.

No wonder you only watch films once then.

Watchable rubbish is great. Pity the Resident Evil films are jaw-grindingly unwatchable, though. I'd rather watch someone play one of the games, frankly.

You can keep saying that, SA, but it won't make it true. Don't blame your brain deficiencies on the RE series.

I agree.

What baffles me about the Saw sequels is that the obvious road to take was the "no plot, more gore" but instead they've gone down "more gore and MOAR POWAR TO THE PLOT ENGINES CAPTAIN". Now they have some sort of enormous elaborate intertwining plot structure, where half of Saw III takes place before Saw I and half of Saw IV takes place during WWII and half of Saw XVII takes place in a galaxy far, far away and Everyman Blokeface dies in Saw II but in Saw III he is revealed he was really the villain and he's not dead but actually he is dead and this is a flashback but in Saw IV it turns out he was undercover but in Saw V there's a double-double cross and he's really still alive after all and it was all a bad dream. And no-one cares.

Cube did death classily.

SPOILERS FFS!

I'm glad that the films aren't just about the gore though, although they're getting increasingly more difficult to follow, plot-wise. It would help if I had a half-decent memory and could remember what happened in what film and who died and survived. Mind you, it would've also helped in the last film if the two main characters didn't look bloody similar - as Saw films are pretty dark, I ended up looking for the bandaged-up throat to work out who was who.