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In the first 3 movies thanks to the clever use of shadows, angles, almost monochromatic image and overall adherence to the mentality of "less is more" Billy looks genuinely scary. But ever since Saw IV he looked like exactly what he is - a doll seated in front of a camera, kind of goofy but not very menacing looking which is a shame

Who would you like to be cast as Man?

-By ‘early’, I’m counting as ‘sometime in the first half’.

-The death itself can be fantastic, but still counts for this if there’s a noticeable drop in quality/enjoyability afterwards.

-John Kramer (Saw)

Honestly, this one is more impressive than anything else. In a 10-film saga, you really kill off the big bad in 3? Impressive, and fascinating at times, but still definitely didn’t help the quality.

Shown best by Kramer-focused Saw X being arguably the best in the series since 2. (I know 6 has shooters, I’m one of them, but ssshh)

-Sammy Lawrence (Bendy and the Ink Machine).

The twisted cult leader became a fan favourite so immediately that it’s hard to believe he was killed in the same Chapter he was introduced. 2 out of 5, as well. And ever since then the developers have been scrambling to subtly (and not so subtly) hint at his return, in the later chapters of BATIM, in The Dark Revival, and for a third time, in The Cage. None of which have been satisfying so far. Maybe third time lucky?…

-Kilgrave (Jessica Jones).

Right now I’d say people have… mixed opinions on Season 2 and 3, but virtually everyone agrees that they pale in comparison to S1. And a huge reason for that is Kilgrave being the main threat. From both a writing standpoint and an acting one, Tenant brings an energy to the show that no other antagonist comes even close to.

Not even himself, no, hallucinations don’t count.

Speaking of which…

-Moriarty (BBC Sherlock)

Kilgrave and Moriarty especially are why I mentioned that the deaths themselves can be great. The Reichenbach Fall is a brilliant finale to Sherlock… but not a mid-show finale, and what comes after proves it. Magnussen feels like reheated Moriarty leftovers, and the less said about Eurus the better.

So, there was something that bugged me about the final fight at the end of Revolutions: why doesn't ALL of the Smiths just instantly obliterate Neo ? There's like a gazillion of them, so why they don't just pile on top of him ? He had trouble with ~100 of them in Reloaded so now he doesn't even stand a chance. Why is Smith going easy on him all of a sudden ? But then I realized- no, he doesn't. Because Neo can't handle even one - their fight consists of a sequence of escalating stalemates which ends with him in a crater, covered in mud and soaked in rainy water. He just cant defeat Smith in a fist fight since at that point in the story, Smith completed his journey to becoming Anti-One symbolised by his newfound ability to fly, .He also has the sight now thanks to assimilating The Oracle - he knows he's gonna win this, he literally saw it, he says as much and fighting Neo 1v1 is just him flexing his muscles, savouring his predetermined victory (which funnily enough makes him more human than he would be willing to admit).

If we're talking about reasons outside the movie itself- Neo fighting an ocean of Smiths would be a visual mess, hardly enjoyable to watch (and probably impossible to visualize with the technology available at the time). Even at the end of Burly Brawl it was kind of hard to follow what was going on, now imagine that but times a million. So IMHO the filmmakers made the right call to have Neo fight only one Smith but make it super cool and bombastic visually

So imagine this: you wake up in a room. You don't know where you're, you don't remember how you got there. You've been stripped down to your underwear. You have a weird metallic contraption full of nasty looking spikes around your neck. There's also a weird feeling in your right eye. Suddenly, a TV in front of you turns on and extremely creepy looking ventrilloquist doll explains to you that you have a minute to gouge out your own eye to get a key to the contraption otherwise you die. Horrified, you scream for help. Nobody answers. Nobody can hear you. Nobody even knows where you are. Nobody is coming. NOBODY is going to save you. For a moment you consider doing it but you just don't have it in you. You desperately continue screaming for help. When the last minute of your life runs out contraption closes on your head and you fall to the ground dead while a puddle of your blood on the floor grows bigger ...

There's just something so horrifyingly real about this scene - while watching other horror movies I can usually put that distance between us, for instance, I highly doubt that a man is gonna come to kill me in my dreams. Or that a space alien gonna burst out of my chest. Or that a killer robot from the future will come to hunt me down. But a crazy man drugging and kidnapping me to put me in a situation that in his twisted mind is a test to determine how worthy I am to go on living ? Yep, I can very much imagine THAT

So in Saw V we learn Hoffman's tragic backstory: his sister was brutally murdered by her boyfriend which started him on his path to the dark side. The impression I got was that BEFORE that tragic incident Hoffman was a "good guy", upstanding cop and loving brother and it's Jigsaw who molded him into the monster we all know and love.

Fastforward to Saw 3D and the flashback with Gibson shows Hoffman shooting an unarmed man in the back which paints him as a sleeper psycho long before he even met John Kramer