Joey said:
Oh, it also means the saw mill is still totally out of place.
I've not seen any of the Saw films... But I was under the impression that the villain sets up his traps in different lairs he takes his fancy too? Maybe I'm really wrong there. And, was under the impression from screens from the films, that those places are often industrial.
So why is a saw mill totally out of place?
I still think Saw has been childishly super glued to the original concept of a log mill in Canada gone wrong, but this one part of it actually happens to fit.
OK, *puts on movie geek hat*
Jigsaw, as a character, has roots in two areas - one, the cancer root, which makes him, essentially, a psycho, and his other root, his working root, which is firmly in engineering (I think Kerry says he has a degree in engineering in the second one?). This leads him to create very industrial traps, all constructed out of heavy materials - steel (venus fly trap and reverse bear trap spring to mind here), razor glass (obviously the razor glass trap), whatever the hell sort of industrial thing those guys are attached to at the start of the fourth, even a furnace (again, obvious). None of his traps are made of... wood. Since the concept art shows an old saw mill, I'm really ruling out the chance this will have the highest technology in milling available. I mean, you just have to look at the concept art or photos like...
To see we're not talking about the big, warehouse locations Jigsaw favours (this is more favouring the last two films, I admit, but look where he himself is found in both the first and second films, old warehouses).
Also, Jigsaw's traps tend to reflect where they're set, he uses heavy industrial machinery in a heavy industrial area (warehouses) or a BED of needles in the bedroom, or a furnace in the furnace room. He uses his surroundings. The use of... wood and saws, doesn't fit with the films.
So, yeah, a lot of my gripe is how they're trying to mash a heavy, industrial film with a mining station. I'd be so much more excited if they were using a warehouse theme on the station - think, the area he's found in in the second one.
But, I could be wrong. They could suddenly decide to have him start using saws and logs. But, as actually "artistically" fitting in with the films (loose sense of the word), and character, for me, a saw mill just isn't the right way of doing it. And you can tell saws and buzz-saws are gonna play a large part in it on the poster released with the name. Which, it shouldn't do. Seems a little like they wanted to call it Saw and use saws, and then thought "****, we could pretend it's linked to the films that way".
