Just finished watching the Saw Movie Series.

After watching Saw 1 - 5, I must say I was highly disappointed. The first Saw had some real promise, but then each sequel after that was just horrible. The best part of the movie for me was Jigsaw himself, but that was pretty much it. And the scary parts weren't even that scary. I laughed most of the time at the people being stuck in the traps. The only reason I decided to watch this was because all my friends have watched Saw, and was saying how scary and gross it was. All I saw was a promising first movie that failed to gather a plot, and downhill sequels that just wanted to show how many new traps and bad gore effects they could show off.
 
What do you guys think of the series?

I like the idea of Jigsaw as a character with his twisted sense of morality and wanting to teach people to appreciate what they have, but the overall story is just so... meh. They're gore-nography flicks with no actual scares or edge-of-your-seat-i-ness. That said I didn't mind the first and second Saws, the twist at the end of the second was pretty cool. The third saw was okay but nothing great and the ending was really predictable even if the opening scene purposely tries to be misleading (the way she says "I want a divorce" to the person she's talking to is not the tone anyone would use in that situation, for example). 
 
Saw 3 is what I consider to be the end of the series and haven't watched any since -- Jigsaw is dead. The end.

Kind of makes me tingle when I watch the films, takes me back to my childhood

Are they making a saw 6 ?

" Are they making a saw 6 ? "

" @TinoXtreme: Why do you hate yourself? "

I really liked the first and second Saw films. After those, they just started to get worse and worse. Damn... I was 13 when I watched the first Saw... someone should really put a bullet in that franchise.

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the 5th is almost unwatchable.  They made the worst mistake they could be trying to focus on a story nobody, and i mean nobody, cared about.
 
I like the first one a lot though.

First Saw was good. After that it was pure trash.

I've only seen SAW, I'm actually glad that I haven't watched the sequels.

I like how everyone acts like a movie critic.

I've only seen 1 and 2. Didn't much care for 1. But 2 was kinda ... fun. Well, at least less up it's own ass, and more to the point (gore). Saw 1 just came across like a SE7EN clone but far less poignant and entertaining.
 
Not sure about the rest of 'em, but I'm good on Saws.

"The only reason I decided to watch this was because all my friends have watched Saw, and was saying how scary and gross it was."

I liked the first three, after that it got a bit old and stopped giving a dam about the characters. Five was shocking in that there weren't many devices and no twist.
 
Having said that, I love the devices they think up, especially when they go off.

" @TinoXtreme: Why do you hate yourself? "

" @TinoXtreme said:

"The only reason I decided to watch this was because all my friends have watched Saw, and was saying how scary and gross it was."

And that's where you went wrong. That's a bad way to approach anything. :) "

" @TinoXtreme: Never watched saw, and probably never will. I have however seen Seven and I liked it. Also, if your lookin for decent serial killer movies I would recomend the Hannibal Series (silence of the lambs, red dragon hannibal rising...) or in TV Show format, the Dexter series. "

Actually, Saw is a great series. I think the story goes back and forth way too much, but the story isn't entirely bad either once you get it all sorted out. Although lots of people say you either love Saw, or you hate it. I personally love it (as you can tell) and am looking forward to Saw 6. If you don't like it, then no big deal, it's an easy franchise to avoid.

Hostel is better in a way....
Ok I'll go kill myself now.

I haven't watched any of them actually. The idea intrigues me and I wouldn't mind seeing them. Sure its all blood and guts but it would be a good laugh.

Never liked that gory genre... Oh well.

I stopped watching after 3

I watched the first one and it didn't really have any gore in it at all.  It wasn't scary either.  I only liked it because I kept laughing at the parts that were supposed to be scary or sad, so much bad/awkward acting haha.  Then around the end I thought hey that's pretty cool, but suddenly it just played the credits and never resolved anything, obviously because they planned to keep making more saw movies.  I heard they're trash compared to the first one, and because the first one is trash then they must be terrible.

Once is enough. This series is not an exception.

" Are they making a saw 6 ? "

the first one had the best story the other 4 were ok

i only saw the first two saw movies. i thought they were good but after that i didn't watch any of them.

The first one was awesome, it really was
The second started going into the direction of just grossing you out, but it was still good
The third just got nasty but was still barely watchable
The fourth i stopped watching after 30 minutes because it was just disgusting