{"id":7873,"date":"2021-12-17T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2021-12-17T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T21:03:01","slug":"jigsaw-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7873","title":{"rendered":"Jigsaw (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I just got extremely lucky[3].<\/p>\n

See, in doing my research for Jigsaw<\/a>, a movie that I didn’t even know existed until like a year ago, I came to realize that I never[1] saw Saw: The Final Chapter aka Saw 3D not aka Saw VII[2] like it should have been. But now I’ve already seen number eight! Which is where the lucky comes in, because this one is set ten years after the original several movies, all of which spanned a relatively short series of months, and thus the Jigsaw killer has been dead for like ten years, and this plot is something completely new. ….or is it?? More appropriately, …or is he [dead]??<\/p>\n

Which is where I run into my main complaint about what was otherwise a pretty straightforward entry in the franchise. One of the best things about the movies, aside from inspiring me to coin “rube goreberg device”, is that Jigsaw has a code. And the code is, if you follow the rules, you get to live. Which meant that when following the rules seemed only moderately tangential to living in this particularly movie, I had to spend most of it trying to figure out if it was a crappy Saw movie or if something else was going on.<\/p>\n

Normally, it would be a spoiler to indicate whether I will continue to seek out additional movies in the franchise, but, well, it’s me<\/em>. So at least I’ve got “no spoilers” going for me, which is nice.<\/p>\n

[1] here we go again
\n[2] In retrospect, I sort of knew this one existed. I just forgot to watch… it… oh hell, no, I did<\/em> see it<\/a>. That’s embarrassing.
\n[3] No, it turns out I’m less lucky and more forgetful. Blame me, not the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got extremely lucky[3]. See, in doing my research for Jigsaw, a movie that I didn’t even know existed until like a year ago, I came to realize that I never[1] saw Saw: The Final Chapter aka Saw 3D not aka Saw VII[2] like it should have been. But now I’ve already seen number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,1344],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror","tag-peacock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}