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...fifth “Saw?? movie debuted a few weeks ago to $30.5 million in box office receipts, which earned it the number two spot in the country behind “High School Musical 3.” (No pasty-faced moralizing psychopath stands a chance against golden-boy Zac Efron and his thousand-watt tan.) That’s five “Saw?? movies in five years, each (after the first) debuting in the $30 million dollar range with the number one or number two slot at the box office...
...disturbing trend? Maybe. Is our appetite for the “torture porn” that the “Saw?? franchise provides so insatiable? Do we, the dispossessed and bitter, really crave our yearly pound of flesh from the power-wielding pretty people? Is that what we’re after...
...what we crave—and “Saw?? provides—is justice: quick, painful, and cheap...
...story of the first “Saw?? (the root of the phenomenon) proceeds thusly: Two guys are locked in a bathroom. First they have to figure out why, and then they have to figure out how to escape. Meanwhile, a group of detectives are out looking for a sadistic freak they call Jigsaw because of the puzzle pieces he leaves at all of his crime scenes. Rather than kill anyone, Jigsaw devises elaborate ways for people to kill themselves, and in the process we learn to value life. So it’s a positive message: Love...
...Each movie takes only three weeks to shoot, and costs under $11 million—the “Saw?? that started it all was made on a mere $1.2 million. To put that in perspective, “HSM3” cost $17 million, which is still not a whole lot, and the film that came in just behind “Saw V” at the box office, the Mark Wahlberg action vehicle “Max Payne,” cost $35 million, so far has a total domestic gross of only $38.6 million...