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Saw (2004)
10/10
Best horror movie.
8 December 2005
Warning: Spoilers
*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!* This is truly a horror movie masterpiece and exceeds all other horror movies even those from the 40s, 50s, 70s, and 80s. While every other directors were making movies with strong and yet cheap gory action full blast for two hours, Director James Wan and screenplay writer Leign Whanell was making a complex story with frightening and fascinating characters as well as a TRUE PSYCHOPATH who goes by the name of Jigsaw. Since the 40s, 50s, 70s, 80's and mid 90s ended horror movies have been a load of **** with lots of cheap magic tricks and junk like that to make it look attractive to the eye. But true horror is something intricate as well frighteningly realistic and with a very dark and twisted visual style.

Many of the ideas were very interesting and intriguing, it wasn't too scary nor too stupid or silly, instead it made many ideas come together. Jigsaw is the new horror icon. At the end where the so-called dead guy was actually Jigsaw, he made the game so sadistic twisted and evil as well as cruel having to keep Adam chained to a pipe with no key since it was drained in the pipe, this movie showed a true psycho by the name of Jigsaw.
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8/10
Pretty good.
17 October 2005
I liked this movie mainly because even if it was separate from the anime it kept with a theme and was unpredictable. The movie didn't need to be accurate to the anime. But I would have preferred it to be more gritty and dark and a hint of Gothic. The movie had similarities to Evangelion, but other than those this movie was a pretty good example of how stories, books and TV shows should be adapted to a 2 hour movie. And I'm glad they didn't edit the movie to try to make it more of a kiddie adaption. They even kept most of the violence in the TV show on FOX KIDS. Anyway this movie was quite a beautiful masterpiece of mecha action and romance mixed with angst and pain. This movie enhanced the image of Escaflowne to something more dark and violent.
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