love to think that the reason why hoffman didn't get invited to mexico is because he'd be useless. john's getting bloodboarded while amanda's having a breakdown and hoffman is 30 miles away on a beach somewhere with sunglasses on, his tits out, and a comically large margarita in his hand. phone on do not disturb

Mark Hoffman uttering the phrase "'epic bad luck" is the funniest shit

something i’ve been thinking about since seeing saw x that i haven’t really seen anyone else bring up is that. the only survivor is the rich white lady. she’s taking advantage of all these people. valentina’s a sex worker, gabriela’s an addict, etc etc like. her surviving the movie (to me) kind of represented how people like her walk away almost completely unscathed even after all the harm they caused to other people. she was sort of an instigator, in the way that she was making them do the traps. it came off as kind of supportive in a way, like a “you can do it!! cut your leg off!! if you put your mind into it anything is possible!!” almost pretending to be helping them

cecilia, as a character, represents big pharma and capitalism and how they fuck over everyone. it goes after people who have no hope left, that includes the terminal cancer patients she scams AND everyone else who becomes involved with her. they do it because they need to survive, cecilia does it because she wants to get rich. and she’s not above doing anything, she WILL waterboard a child

idk i just found that really interesting, the movie takes place almost entirely in mexico and the only person to survive is cecilia, the only non-mexican person involved in the trap

imagine you’re about to be tested and you hear mister huge voluptuous tits say “epic bad luck” like i’m laughing my way through my trap

Amanda: I don't mean anything to you. John: No, you mean everything to me. Saw III (2006)

saw x is objectively hilarious because the first half of the film is just peepaw getting scammed and being extremely disoriented

and then he has to call his kids (separately of course so they don't feel like they're competing) to come do basically the jigsaw equivalent of helping grandpappy open his emails

john really called up amanda and said hey im in mexico get over here and dont forget billy

love the idea that he just got on the phone like hey amanda . can u fly down to mexico daddy got scammed on facebook ..

Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young (saw- behind the scenes)

"i call that epic bad luck" thats awesome babe... your tits are looking super heavy btw. can i hold them? perhaps even give them a tasteful squeeze?

Little sketches of my apprentice AU Gabriela… she’s wearing the mask almost 24/7 and only takes it off when she’s with Amanda

Am I the only one who found Valentina and Mateo's traps really unfair?

Because yes, they could have been faster

But they did what they had to do and had no control over how quick the bone marrow was extracted/how quickly the enzymes dissolved the brain matter

They showed the will to live - their failures were out of their hands

Just to emphasize how much of a left turn “Saw X” is for the franchise, you need to consider what “Saw” is to most people. Aside from the first movie which has been mostly re-evaluated as a decent thriller that was more focused on story than gore, the series has been criticized for being an excuse to show off people being mutilated in the worst ways possible. The series has been credited as a “pioneer” in the torture porn label, which you can’t really argue due to it being mostly true for the sequels. The series has also never been a critical darling (all the movies before X have all had negative Rotten Tomatoes scores), which I think contributed to the series’ image as low-grade torture porn.

As the story got more convoluted and frustrating, the more the series seemed to focus on killing people. For me, I started noticing this when the 4th movie featured a trap that didn’t really have a purpose in the story (the mausoleum trap with Art Blank). That trap felt more like the makers wanted to do a really brutal scene and didn’t care if it made sense.

Main characters would only last one movie. It was pretty much useless getting attached to any protagonist since they usually got axed off by the end of the movie. Because protagonists kept getting killed off, further sequels tended to focus on characters who played more minor roles. Rigg is probably the best example of this since I’m pretty sure no one was expecting this character to be a protagonist. Point I’m making here is that character development was essentially useless since protagonists were just glorified cannon fodder.

Then there’s the unfortunate existence of “Saw 3D”, which made the series look like it was just trend-chasing.

The series died for a few years. It then tried to come back with “Jigsaw” and “Spiral”, which the makers claimed to be a reinvention of the series that would renew interest in the franchise. Instead, they were both just sorta lackluster and didn’t really convince people that Saw was worth revisiting.

So, “Saw X” clearly had an uphill battle. But lo and behold, the movie gets released and ends up being:

1) A surprisingly good character piece centered around Jigsaw and Amanda. Yes, there are still death traps and gore, but the focus on story and character development is definitely felt more in this installment.

2) The only “Saw” movie with a positive Rotten Tomatoes score. In general, seeing positive critical reception about a “Saw” movie is crazy to me.

3) An actual, successful reinvention of the franchise since it’s centered around Jigsaw instead of having him be the mastermind in the background. Just by being a straightforward thriller instead of a convoluted horror-mystery is enough to distinguish this from the other 9 movies.

Kudos to “Saw”. This is why in one of my posts last night, I called it one of the greatest redemption arcs I’ve seen in horror. It’s the TENTH installment in a series that’s been critically savaged its entire lifetime, it shouldn’t have succeeded. But here we are.

dr lawrence gordon would actually prefer it if we retconned adam into life again as a collective, he told me himself

Ngl the fact that Strahm died cause he didn't trust Hoffman is pretty fucking gay from Hoffman's part like... You want Strahm to trust you??? What's next you wanna hold hands after the trap?? You wanna kiss inside the glass coffin??? Whimsy ass (affectionate)

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