>>213954554 (OP)
Just finished Saw 3. That was it? That's the original end of the franchise? Ended on such a bad note I don't think I'll watch the next ones. It was never the plan honestly, I just wanted to check them out with my parents for horror night movies. 1 was a masterpiece, it's up there with Seven and much better than Silence of the Lambs in fact. We remembered them as being tortureporn but 1 stands firmly as a thriller movie.
2 already started going harder on the painful gore but it was tolerable.
But 3.
On 3's shoulders rested the responsibility to do something more hopeful and end the "original trilogy" in a palatable way. I can safely say it's not worth watching beyond the 1st one if this is the ending point.
It starts bleak, with the inescapable traps just putting victims through mindless suffering. BUT WAIT, the protagonist is a wronged dad full of revenge, slowly progressing through games while seeing people who wronged him and caused the death of his son' trapped in the games and he has the choice to forgive them. All while Jigsaw is on his deathbed trying to watch this to the end, just to see if humans are capable of true compassion before dying, this is like Squid Games all over again.
This is a goddamn good setting. He stumbles up and down with the lesson to learn, but at least it seems like the final Jigsaw games will end with him letting some people go alive before dying and the dad learning a lesson. BUT THEN IT DOESN'T, you wasted your time watching this franchise thinking it was anything other than torture porn, once 3 ends you just witnessed dozens of senseless murders, all surviving characters from previous movies were killed off with zero glory like filler characters, Jigsaw gets killed and the protagonists die because of his dead switch.
Watch People Die, Learn Nothing and No Plot Ever Progresses : The Trilogy.
Just pretend the 1st one is the only one.
