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F in Spelling: The Funniest Test Paper Blunders

Richard Benson

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We all know that the written word is full of traps for the unwary, and this goes double for those in...

Prepper's Home Defense: Security Strategies to Protect Your Family by Any Means Necessary

Jim Cobb

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DETER . DELAY. DEFEND! Does your disaster preparation plan include security measures? When...

Myth Defense 2 DF

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Popular "tower defense" game is back! Light Forces repulsed the attack of Dark Forces and passed to...

Where Creatures Hide

PJ Sheperd

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Deep in the mountains, where birds fly free A prison that traps creatures, including me In an orb...

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) in Movies

May 22, 2021

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'Spiral: from the book of Saw' is the ninth Saw film and, for once I can say it's not more of the same.
Spiral is a Saw film, it has the traps and the police but it's an all new cast, the only time we see any of the original cast is in a photo of the original 'Jigsaw'. The traps also don't play the same roll, most of the previous Saw films had the 'game's' play the main part of the film and the police investigations were set to fill in the gaps. Spiral is the reverse, a new Jigsaw killer is targeting police and the main plot is the police trying to stop him, concentrating on the relationships in the department and using the franchise's use of flashbacks to add to the story. We only see the traps for a few moments, there is still gore but not at the same level. Instead we have a number of jump scared as 'the pig' grabs his victims .
Spiral seems to be thinking that the time of 'torture poem's is over, yes there are people who still want to watch it but noted many. This is why it's the Saw franchise that is still going, other films in the genre, such as 'Hostel' relied on gore but didn't have much else to offer but saw had more story as well.
When I say all the cast is new that includes the puppet, instead of the little guy on a tricycle we have a pig man, we have lots of pig references, proving bus to the fact that the victims are all police.
Although it is a Saw film, Spiral is a good jump jump on point for new views as it doesn't rely on the originals to much and sets up for a possible new franchise.

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Karica Truebenbach (156 KP) rated Unbreakable (2000) in Movies

Sep 29, 2018 (Updated Oct 4, 2018)

Unbreakable (2000)

2000 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

7.6

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Samuel L. (0 more)

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So a guy in a wheelchair who breaks a bone if someone breathes on him too hard decides to go around setting epic disaster-sized booby traps and murdering people simply so he can find someone who consistently survives said traps unscathed because that person must be a superhero? Because he decided one day that he must be a supervillain? And the hero's costume is a yellow rain slicker because his kryptonite is water? Look, I'll watch Samuel L do darn near anything, but the entire premise of this movie stretched the bounds of reality. I know that Shyamalan loves twists and turns, but this one went straight off a cliff. Who got Glass to all these places? His elderly mother? What possessed him to go, "I must be evil because why else would I have the uber version of brittle bone disease?" Perhaps if this had been released as a graphic novel-type movie ( a la Sin City), I would have been more accepting of the plot, but it wasn't and I wasn't. Hopefully the third movie will be better...