Saw XXVII: Will they ever do it again?

Saw XXVII: The Long Yawn. It's the year 3000, messages from a forgotten character who called himself Jigsaw (yawn) have been unearthed. People have been found after suffering unnecessarily painful and bizarre deaths (yawn). The authorities believe Jigsaw has managed to find another disciple even in this time...
You know though I came up with this sketchy plot, the always money-hungry Hollywood execs could easily come up with something similar. It´s amazing that they took this concept and stretched it out to make seven films. Make no mistake, though I don´t like gory movies I enjoyed the first installment of Saw because there were some interesting elements in it. One was this aged man who happens to harbor a dementially sadistic imagination and decides to take revenge upon those who didn´t help him with his disease or mocked him. He also wants to teach them a lesson in the process, a lesson which if learnt correctly could mean the salvation of the victims he chooses. It ´s so obvious that Jigsaw (the secret killer) is heavily inspired in Judge Arthur Cannon, character of the immortal Agatha Christie novel "And Then There Were None".  Like the Agathe Christie character Jigsaw sees nothing wrong in what he does. His "games" have a purpose and if you can play the game successfully then you have served Jigsaw´s purpose well and you youself are a new person.                                                                                                                        
Saw is not a bad movie, any of the rest of the movies of this saga is. So see the first one (in DVD and Blue-ray format) will they eand forget about the others unless you have a lot of free time and have this fascination to witness the many horrible ways a person can die or ... survive.

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