Now that's overrated.

I finally got around to watching Saw this past Friday.

Wow.

Saw, in a word, sucks.

Could a movie have sucked any more?

Seriously, I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie with a dumber set of characters. And I've been watching horror films for 25 years.

Dumb victims are bad enough. But the cops in this movie -- particularly Sing and Tapp -- are the dumbest on-screen police officers this side of Cadet Tackleberry. There's an extended flashback scene involving those two characters that features the worst police work of all time. If I hadn't been watching it on my Tivo, I'd have thrown things at the screen. It was truly that bad.

My comment earlier this week about Dark Water being a better concept for an anthology series than feature film apply doubly here. Saw was about thirty seconds of great idea bogged down by two hours of bad writing, awful directing, and utter stupidity. I haven't seen the "original short film" from the DVD, but I have a hunch it had every good moment from the movie itself (which would, come to think of it, make it just like the trailer).

Good performances by Tobin Bell and (in the overacting vein) Cary Elwes. The rest of the cast mostly phoned it in, but frankly, with material like this, why bother putting any effort into it?

Life with the Gojirawitzes

shadesong was stretching her back after standing up.

Me (semi-lecherously): You're flexible.

shadesong: I'm bendy!

Me: You've got multiple points of articulation!

in other news

LJ comment notification still seems borked (which is better than the entire site being borked, like yesterday, but still not something one expects out of a company that sells a paid product and should be investing in things like redundant power supplies).