The Dark Knight - [spoilers ahead, ye be warned]

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Saw (and it wouldn't even have played out like that in Saw. They would have been rigged to the other boats, and if directions weren't followed everyone would have died).

I never claimed it was exactly out of Saw, it just reminded me of what I know of the genre, which is an ever increasingly complex series of dilemmas along the lines of, "You can either save this friend or yourself, but if you get out of that, you can either save one friend or the other, and you may think you're saving yourself this way but really that's just setting yourself up for this even more diabolical scenario."

Perhaps I have the wrong impression of Saw (or Hostel or whatever other similar movies I've seen trailers for), so really we should all just forget I made that comparrison as it was based on an incorrect assupmtion anyway.

All I meant to say was that the succession of "ticking clock episodes" as mousepod termed them eventually wore thin and left me wanting the movie to just get on with itself and make its point (which it eventually did and I liked).