Crap is Crap is Crap

Rating: 1/10 (29 October 2006)

Maybe it's just me, but the horror genre has no real artistic merit. The only horror films that matter are Rosemary's Baby, Rosemary's Baby, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Psycho, The Exorcist, Halloween, and even Evil Dead (not the other two, it became a parody of itself like the other long winded franchises). Otherwise than that, how could anyone feel confident about the American cinema today after seeing garbage like this? I certainly can't, as Saw III (just like its predecessors, possibly the two worst films ever made) takes the title as worst film of 2006.
The reason why the Saw franchise is considered great by the fans that believe in it because there is essentially no difficult content: there's blood, guts, and gore right in your face, plastic dialogue, screaming, yelling, and predictable plot twists explained at the end of the movie instead of having the viewer feel free to interpret things on his or her own. This is the sad status of mainstream Hollywood today: the executives notice a trend and exploit it. The horror genre was never good to begin with from its inception unlike the comedy genre, which was very intelligent in the beginning, but now we get films such as Employee of the Month with that jackass Dane Cook. An interesting film genre was exploited by the studios many years ago. Sure, they were in it for the money, but one little movie caused an uproar. It was called Citizen Kane, and it was a major player (not the only one) that kicked off the film noir genre. While film noir was not the most uplifting of genres, it had different narratives, was cleverly written (see no further than the Maltese Falcon or Sunset Blvd), and effectively reflected the mood of the times. So, I suppose the pointlessly bloody gorefest flicks with possessed children and stupid puppets in videos serves as expressionism of people's frustrations over America's status in the world? No, absolutely not. What 14 year old kid is going to think about this stuff when seeing Saw III? The only thing I was thinking about was how much money I wasted over seeing this crap. I could have seen a relatively unknown picture (with a lot of critical buzz) such as Brick or good mainstream fare (The Departed, even though it has the pretty faces of DiCaprio and Damon present).
The sad thing is that Saw III will be so much of a rousing box office success this weekend that studio execs will be pressuring for a forth one, but real film fans know full well that 2 sequels to the original were definitely unnecessary.
The only things that uplifted my spirits after seeing Saw III was that I will not have to see it again because it was so bad, Borat comes out next week, and that I went home and watched a real work of cinematic art entitled 'The 400 Blows' by Francois Truffaut. If you think Jigsaw teaches a valuable lesson to ungrateful people by torturing them, Francois Truffaut teaches a lesson 10000000000 times more worth the value: you don't want to be a punk kid wandering the streets of France without parents who don't love you.
See that instead or any foreign film for that matter instead of Saw III.