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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2007, 12:33:38 am »
The first Saw was good, but the series went downmountain (I felt the word downhill implied too gentle a slope) faster than Wile E. Coyote on roller skates with two tons of rockets strapped to himself.

I'm curious as to how gore flicks (and to a lesser extent, video games) became so popular. There's absolutely no need to show the degree of violence and mutilation seen in Saw III.
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2007, 12:37:44 am »
The first Saw was good, but the series went downmountain (I felt the word downhill implied too gentle a slope) faster than Wile E. Coyote on roller skates with two tons of rockets strapped to himself.

I'm curious as to how gore flicks (and to a lesser extent, video games) became so popular. There's absolutely no need to show the degree of violence and mutilation seen in Saw III.

I believe that because violence is seen as bad in societies eyes people want to rebel but they're actually too pansy to do it themselves, so they they feel like big people by watching such movies.  I think I just made fun of myself because I like gore movies..
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2007, 01:04:19 am »
The first Saw was good, but the series went downmountain (I felt the word downhill implied too gentle a slope) faster than Wile E. Coyote on roller skates with two tons of rockets strapped to himself.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2007, 02:50:08 am »
I like the Saw series (especially 2) for the underlying theme: that humans' behaviour is the cause of their own destruction. I thought that came across best in Saw 2 with the cop, although it's present in all Saw movies that I've seen (I haven't seen 4).

Saw sucks.

1. It's a gore movie. They're just gross -- I considered breaking up with my girlfriend at the time for telling me I had to watch it because it was a great movie.

2. Perhaps its because I was 13 (14?) at the time, but I didn't see a moral at all.
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2007, 08:16:47 am »
I'm into gore flicks, but the saw movies aren't even passing in that category.

Sorry, but I wouldn't even begin to trust your standards in that department. :)

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2007, 09:16:41 am »
I'm into gore flicks, but the saw movies aren't even passing in that category.

Sorry, but I wouldn't even begin to trust your standards in that department. :)
Then you would be sorely mistaken! I don't mean gore flicks like these crappy new movies that happen to have lots of boring CGI gore, those are boring. Gore/horror/exploitation movies from the 70s and 80s are where it's at.
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #21 on: November 15, 2007, 10:38:23 am »
How far did my thread go off topic? Think we lost it right about here.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #22 on: November 15, 2007, 10:48:17 am »
Then you would be sorely mistaken! I don't mean gore flicks like these crappy new movies that happen to have lots of boring CGI gore, those are boring. Gore/horror/exploitation movies from the 70s and 80s are where it's at.

haha.  I still classify Saw as overly gory.  I don't like it when movies go out of their way just to gross people out.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #23 on: November 15, 2007, 11:02:43 am »
How far did my thread go off topic? Think we lost it right about here.

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The analogy I always use is, when you're talking to your friends, do you always demand that they stay on a specific topic, and complain if they start talking about something different?

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #24 on: November 15, 2007, 11:07:55 am »
The analogy I always use is, when you're talking to your friends, do you always demand that they stay on a specific topic, and complain if they start talking about something different?

Exactly!  As long as it's not heading in a nasty direction, I don't see why it matters.  If you still have a question or something, zero, just reask it.  I'm pretty sure I responded to you a page back or so.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2007, 01:45:14 pm »
The analogy I always use is, when you're talking to your friends, do you always demand that they stay on a specific topic, and complain if they start talking about something different?

Exactly!  As long as it's not heading in a nasty direction, I don't see why it matters.  If you still have a question or something, zero, just reask it.  I'm pretty sure I responded to you a page back or so.

I was trying to find a picture of what I was talking about but I somehow got a girl in a bikini. Go figure?

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&q=Neo+getting+killed&btnG=Search+Images

Buts its the part of the movie where that metalic silver ?water? Is running up his body and he says "Its cold" and then it proceeds to go into his mouth and the next scene is him waking up in his tube, in the real world.
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2007, 02:15:43 pm »
I was trying to find a picture of what I was talking about but I somehow got a girl in a bikini. Go figure?

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&q=Neo+getting+killed&btnG=Search+Images

Buts its the part of the movie where that metalic silver ?water? Is running up his body and he says "Its cold" and then it proceeds to go into his mouth and the next scene is him waking up in his tube, in the real world.
That wasn't him getting killed. If it was, it would have been a short movie without any sequels.  :-\ I think that's just the way people are taken out of the system for the first time.
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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2007, 12:26:26 pm »
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&q=Neo+mirror&btnG=Search+Images

Neo mirror, second image.  It was him freaking out.  That's all.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #28 on: November 16, 2007, 06:20:32 pm »
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&q=Neo+mirror&btnG=Search+Images

Neo mirror, second image.  It was him freaking out.  That's all.
A link to the actual image would be helpful, I automatically get directed to google.ca, where the images may or may not be in the same order.

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Re: The Matrix 1999
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2007, 07:06:57 pm »
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.