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Originally posted by surfnazi
Don't be a pompous ass and state your opinion as fact man, cause thats wrong. Cinematography is not all about little things like a microphone popping into the picture(Jesus it was made in like two weeks man) but about the overall scenery and mood to each setting, and that is something that Saw did beautifully. The scenes describing how the killers previous victims had died had me biting my nails man, and yes some of the acting was mediocre but there was still some decent acting, way better than a film starring Paris fucking Hilton.
Seriously why the hell would you cast Paris Hilton in a movie? She's not an actress and couldn't act decently if someone had a gun down her throat. The only reason she was in it was because the producers wanted a big name to draw in teenagers to make money off of a piece of shit like House of Wax.
And am I the only one who noticed that the House of Wax remake was completely not a remake? It had almost nothing to do with the Vincet Price classic(still one of the scariest classics) and the only real similiarited were wax.
And just to add one more example of how I believe Saw is easily superior to House of Wax, is that Saw got into theaters in a wide release after starting off as being a really limited release that wasn't going to do much, but because of word of mouth from horror fanatics all over the internet the buzz for it overflowed and it had a wide release. House of Wax got a wide release because it has Paris Hilton in it.
Yikes
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My problem with Saw is that it seemed to try too hard to be something it wasn't. It tried too hard to be shocking. I didn't like the ending because it didn't make all that much sense to me. I think if just a little more attention had been paid to the writing, than maybe it would have been a great film. Because I personally liked the overall look and feel of the film.
I haven't seen House of Wax yet. But the original was a great film. And this is yet another so called "reimagining" rather than a remake which rips off the title but doesn't feel in the least obligated to pay proper respect to the original material. Fine, so be it. I personally never wanted to have to suffer through a film that has Paris Hilton in it (and it makes me cringe hearing her talk about it, give the girl a dictionary or a thesaurus already ).:D I haven't seen it so I can't say which is the superior film. My money would probably be on Saw though. Because at the very least they did try to do something a little special, even if they wanted it to be the next Se7en and failed.