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Lions Gate has officially announced Saw which stars the likes of Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung and Dina Meyer. The James Wan directed horror flick, will be available to own from the 15th February next year, and should retail at around $26.98. The disc itself will carry both anamorphic widescreen and full screen presentations, along with both English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary by director James Wan and star/co-writer Leigh Whannell, a 'On The Set' featurette, Fear Factory's "Bite the Hand That Feeds" music video, a featurette on the making of that video and some trailers and TV spots.
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Lions Gate has officially announced Saw which stars the likes of Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung and Dina Meyer. The James Wan directed horror flick, will be available to own from the 15th February next year, and should retail at around $26.98. The disc itself will carry both anamorphic widescreen and full screen presentations, along with both English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 tracks. Extras will include an audio commentary by director James Wan and star/co-writer Leigh Whannell, a 'On The Set' featurette, Fear Factory's "Bite the Hand That Feeds" music video, a featurette on the making of that video and some trailers and TV spots.
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guess we will have a double dip on the Unrated one in the future? Well again, its lions gate... who knows. Cant wait to pick this one up. I enjoyed it for low budget horror. I bet they do the Uncut one just before Saw 2 comes out in Oct '05.
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Great packaging. Damn fine film to boot
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I enjoy any horror, especially low-budget horror, but I felt rather dissapointed in this. I'm glad Loins Gate delivers us some selection other than mainstream horror, but I'll pass and buy their Open Water, which I loved.
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I'm on the fence about purchasing this. The premise of the film is superb. The performances (and some of the hammy dialogue), unfortunately, were not. That packaging is pretty sweet though, and I'm always a sucker for a DTS track.
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LOVED Saw, thought Cary Elwes did a fine job. The guy's mind is broken to the point that he'd do absolutely ANYTHING to save his family, and people criticize him for overacting that point? Damn! lol
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Loved the movie as well. Will definitely pick it up or rent just to hear the commentary. Glad it enjoyed box office success too...well deserved.
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This is still playing in a couple theaters. I may try to check it out sometime.
On the cuts,actually 2 minutes it appears was cut from the film. Since the U.K version which was uncut,runs two minutes longer.
Basically the more graphic violence was cut from the film. So you get less blood flowing from a wound,less views of a limb being severed and so forth.
So it hardly appears like 'minor' cuts in my opinion. Since while not a nonstop gorefest or anything. The few gruesome moments in the film are now less explicit than they originally were.
Hell Lions Gate released the heavily censored R version of Return of the Living Dead 3 on dvd. Despite being only a 1 minute difference between the two. The cuts are many, drastic,sloppy,obvious and hurt the impact of many sequences.
So if it were only 2 seconds of footage total. Then yes,that is 'minor'. But when it amounts to more than 2 seconds. It starts to add up in length. Remember,violence and gore only last a few seconds. The more you cut out of a scene,the less impact it has in the long run.
Anyway we'll have to see for ourselvse if the cuts hurt the sequences or not. Since it appears an uncensored version is not being released anytime soon.
On the cuts,actually 2 minutes it appears was cut from the film. Since the U.K version which was uncut,runs two minutes longer.
Basically the more graphic violence was cut from the film. So you get less blood flowing from a wound,less views of a limb being severed and so forth.
So it hardly appears like 'minor' cuts in my opinion. Since while not a nonstop gorefest or anything. The few gruesome moments in the film are now less explicit than they originally were.
Hell Lions Gate released the heavily censored R version of Return of the Living Dead 3 on dvd. Despite being only a 1 minute difference between the two. The cuts are many, drastic,sloppy,obvious and hurt the impact of many sequences.
So if it were only 2 seconds of footage total. Then yes,that is 'minor'. But when it amounts to more than 2 seconds. It starts to add up in length. Remember,violence and gore only last a few seconds. The more you cut out of a scene,the less impact it has in the long run.
Anyway we'll have to see for ourselvse if the cuts hurt the sequences or not. Since it appears an uncensored version is not being released anytime soon.
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The movie was pretty decent, although not as good as I expected. But none the less, it was still a damn decent film. I'll be getting this for sure, and I don't think the artwork is too shabby either. Maybe a little too mainstream looking for a movie that was originally just a low budget horror film.
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While I would prefer the uncut poster art with the full severed limb view. I do not think this cover is 'mainstream' looking. Mainstream looking would be one or more giant heads on the 'poster'.
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I read even the UK was pre cut to get a rating over here in UK, and it looked cut in parts too, so I expect the UK and america versions to be cut in some way and an Unrated version will be bloodier than both in the future, but how long do we wait
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Pretty cool packaging. Haven't seen it, but interested now.
I guess the circular saw is merely to keep the 'saw' theme going on the disk itself, and most people will still think 'Oh, it's a saw.'
I guess the circular saw is merely to keep the 'saw' theme going on the disk itself, and most people will still think 'Oh, it's a saw.'