I'm going to tell you something about Saw V, and no, I haven't even seen it yet. But I predict that it will be complacent and arrogant, riding off the success of the previous movies without offering much of anything new.
I make this very rash judgment based on the new trailer, which Lionsgate debuted at Comic Con and is posted below. Pretty much the entire trailer is a joke that makes you think the movie will be about Jesus, then pulling the rug out from under you and saying "Just kidding! It's another Saw movie, and we know you'll see it because you've seen all the other ones! Just trust us on this one, OK??" There is a little shot of a guy with his head in a box, trying to make his way out, but this is just a teaser, plain and simple.
I have nothing against teaser trailers as a rule, but it annoys me how this one just announces that Saw owns Halloween, and therefore you will run out to see it. It's as if they're announcing outright that they haven't really come up with any new ideas, now that they've realized their target audience doesn't care. I'm not remotely within that audience, so maybe I'm a bad judge, but something about this whole thing just seems unforgivably lazy.
