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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
So much more than torture porn. Such a horrible label. If it was just 90 minutes of nasty torture scenes, then I would not be watching them at all.
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The main premise of the films
is self inflicted torture. I would say on average, if you added up all the time there is on screen torture of some kind, be it mental or physical, it would occupy at least half of any one of the films.
I will admit the first one was good, because it was an excellent story, with a few neat twists but from there on it is basically the exact same film over and over. Dude is a bad selfish person, dude has to do something horrible and maim himself to get out of trap to prove he values life, dude usually fails, jigsaw wins, jigsaw has cancer and is a tortured misunderstood soul who is po'd some junky opened a door into his wifes belly and killed his kid.
They should have stopped at 2 or 3, and the declining box office gross for each film seems to suggest that as well.
The reason these are labelled torture porn is because the vast majority of the audience that likes these films, get off on the brutality. Otherwords what point is there to watch? The immersive story line an 11th grader could dream up?