So yeah, this is how I spend my Valentine's Day: watching shitty movies in a shitty series because I bought the Blu-Ray set for a steal and the completionist inside me says, "You've already watched four of them, you can't stop now!"

Apparently the makers of this series can't stop either. They can't stop rehashing old shit and intertwining it with forced perspectives. They can't stop giving us bland, totally blank slate characters that we know won't be around very long regardless. They can't stop with the annoying, totally useless flash-cut editing during the first couple of traps. They can't stop with the ridiculous, totally unsupported and illogical pandering to some kind of absurd "justice system." They can't stop casting…

So this one starts with the end of 3, just like 4 does, and that’s because 4 is happening at the same time as 3 and the beginning of 4 is actually after the rest of the movie. We get more flashbacks and some more little pieces of the puzzle (get it?), getting to know more about Jigsaw and how Hoffman’s been helping him this whole time. That’s what’s great about these movies is how, even though he dies in the third film, we just keep learning more about Jigsaw. It’s great! I love these movies.

I think I like the actual game in this one better than 4. The traps and kills are mostly better in 4 (But the…

Saw V is still a heavily flawed movie. However, after the last two it is a seemingly breath of fresh air. Going back to the basics in terms of people being trapped, and having a more engaging story line with this cops. The cat and mouse between Luke from Gilmore Girls and Agent Hoffman is a lot of fun. 

Rebecca and I have been trying to look for deeper meaning in these films and maybe there isn’t any but Saw II seems to lean pretty heavily on the idea that patience is key and so we started looking to see if any other movies push other virtues. 3 and 4 don’t seem to but maybe I just need to think…