dogboy said:
I'd like to see FD 6 find it's revenge on the writers, directors and producers of these kinds of circuitous never ending repetitive slasher type movies. The first ones are usually good because someone survives and the viewer thinks, well, that's that. Then they have the sequel just to kill off the survivor of the first movie, and the nonsense continues. Sorry to be a downer, but new, fresh ideas are usually what I'm looking for.
I really like Horror movies, but I don't really want to see a FD6, even if it was to get revenge on the writers. Everyone has their own opinion on them, but for me, the first one was good... then the rest went down hill after that. Seemed like they were simply trying to get more creative with the deaths, and make them more gory... no real story... no real characters that I truly cared for. I need that in a movie. Give me a story & give me characters that I care for.
I'm not a fan of the whole gore porn stuff. Human Centipede... shudders... and they made a second... way worse... The Saw movies are like that in a way, but they are more sophisticated about it. Yes, they are pretty gory, but the story of it all makes those more watchable. It's not about the gore in those... well, I guess for some people it is...
They don't always kill off the survivor in the sequel. But yes, the new and fresh is where it's at. I really enjoyed movies like Trick 'r treat, Insidious, Cabin in the Woods, & Sinister in the last few years, because I hadn't seen anything like them.
AEsahaettr said:
I would say that these are different situations. Saw made a very big deal of intricate plots that tied back into seeds sown (explicitly or not) in previous movies.
Yes, this exactly. It wasn't always about the gore. The plots is why I watched. When I first sat down to watch the movies, I hated them. But then when I was able to watch them all at once, I found them more enjoyable, since it was easier to put the timeline of everything together at once.
Not to contradict this, but I think you're misunderstanding why I saw the Final Destination movies....Storytelling was not part of why I saw that movie. A desire to see someone get sucked into the guts of an escalator without going to jail was.
LOL, yeah I understand a lot of people will watch for those reasons. I'm just not much into gore porn. I like horror, but to me horror doesn't always mean gore. Yeah, I'll watch a movie if it's got it in there. But for me, I need more than just gore and wild death scenes to keep my attention. I need a story that I get sucked into. That's what happened for me with SAW. Tried watching, and hated it. Then I realized the plot, and it was stretched out over several movies, and I was draw back to it. I'd dismissed the Saw films at first, because I didn't see the whole story.