Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree. I also hate the term "torture porn," it's a nonsense term invented by fans of J-Horror ghost story rehashes. No "porn" of any kind ever had this much story.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 11:53:26 AM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: > The only one of the Saw franchise I watched was the first, and it was a > stinker. Huge plot holes and bad writing hiding behind torture porn. Kept > me from ever watching any of the sequels. > On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I vehemently disagree with putting Saw on there. All 7 Saw films are > solid, they made good box office, and together they tell a coherent, > defined story. And we have not gotten a Saw film in several years and > despite the claims in the article, there is no serious discussion about any > new entries nor a reboot. > > Final Destination I will disagree with because when they say that it's > "become all about the bloodletting," I think they have missed the point. > The Final Destination films exist soley as a series of setpieces, and > attributing anything more to even the first one is being generous. It's a > splatter horror film stripped down to its most base generic elements; "plug > and play" is not just the order of the day, it's the entire reason for > existance. It's like watching film theory with gore squibs. > > Ice Age, hey, you can't argue with success... what is it about prehistoric > animated series having lots of entries? I'm looking at you, Land Before > Time. > > On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:45:55 AM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/173800-the-10-film-franchises-that-are-way-past-their-prime/ >> >> >> >> Hard to argue against any of these. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
