Hooked

"You aren't playing by the rules."

Another Saw movie is due out soon. They are getting painfully redundant, but I am hooked. I will want to see it. I have to know what happens to the FBI agent who has already survived a trap.

I hate that I will want to see it. They are getting to be ridiculous gore fests...and while I can appreciate those, this isn't what these movies had started out being. These started out as elaborate traps constructed to teach a lesson...and while there are lessons to be learned, (Follow his rules, dammit.) you can't help but wonder if the writers are all just sitting around trying to one up each other with the ridiculously gory ways they are offing people in these movies.

Spoilers. Stop reading...unless you don't care....

Now, Jigsaw...he had a plan. He wanted people to appreciate what they have. Their healthy life. He lost his baby, got cancer...etc. His life was shit and he realized when he had a good life he took it for granted. Now he wishes to force others to appreciate what they have.

 

This new guy...the pudgy cop. He's got me wondering. I think he needs to be motiveless. He does what he does because his sister was murdered, but, I think to round out his character they need to remove all motives from him. He does this...because he can. Having a motive almost makes it acceptable. And if you look at Costas Mandylor, he looks like the pudgy accountant next door and without that John Wayne Gacy creepiness. He's a guy you'd sit and have coffee with. You wouldn't fathom for one moment anything bad about this guy who looks like an insurance salesman with four kids and a mortgage. SO. Giving this guy a motive to be a nut job just kills his character. Show him going home to his kids, the surgeons kid (watch the movies for that reference, kiddies) and his plain, yet loving wife and show his life to be peachy keen. And when he's caught, no confessions, no breakdowns, no crying, no mental defects. He just shrugs. "Hey. I did it and I don't think I did anything wrong." Of course that won't happen. He will be killed and it will be a happy ending right? Maybe when they make Saw 436 it will be. Until then, I will watch all 435 Saw movies...because I am hooked, dammit.