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Hey Everyone! Making some progress in catching up this long weekend! Happy Memorial Day! Dog Day Afternoon still coming too!

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Tyler Foster

I love the Saw movies. They are silly and stylistically overwrought, but their reputation as "torture porn" is, I think, a little overstated even if they are quite gory. Personally, I would say you can probably stop at Saw VI, which is not only the best one, but at the time VI was released, Paranormal Activity had swept in to take the box office crown from them, causing the producers to panic and condense the ideas they had for the next two films into a slapdash "finale." Not only is the resulting film one of the worst in the series (IMO), since then they've made three further movies (every long-running horror franchise has to have at least one finale that ends up not being a finale at all) and they've all been varying degrees of okay, but it feels like they lost whatever type of magic they once had (even if that magic was ridiculous).

Tic Toc Melody

Dog Day Afternoon: fantastic reaction! Well worth the wait! Sam's face at the end was priceless, it brought me back to when I first saw it, when I was a kid, felt the same way! So, now you've seen Cuckoo's Nest and Dog Day Afternoon............who would YOU have voted for: Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino? (Jack won). Also, you've seen some three of the Best Picture nominees from that year: Cuckoo's Nest, Dog Day Afternoon and Jaws! Not a bad year for movies! Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Robert Altman's Nashville are the two you haven't seen yet. This director, Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men) followed this up with "Network" which is just as great and wild as this one....and was again nominated for Best Picture along with All The President's Men, Rocky and Taxi Driver! Dying for you to see THAT one so that you can weigh in on THAT year's Oscars! "Network" might very well be the best of the batch, I can never decide! A "murderer's row" of great movies! Anyways, THANKS, as always. This was one of the first movies I suggested back in 2021, so happy you finally saw it!!