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I'm a big fan of the four numbered games, I'm 23, and I thought the movie was really disappointing. Its construction and writing were amateurish and it was probably held back by the PG-13 rating which precluded the sorts of disturbing imagery affecting children that some of the games get away with thanks to some of the artstyles used.

You knew neither of the siblings were gonna die which also didn't help. It has too much the vibe of a family movie IMO. Like they were worried about making parents mad with this movie (and like, I get it because there probably were kids who wanted to come see this, IDK, it's a tough situation to work with).

William Afton had too little screen time and his dialogue suuuuucked. Maybe some of those lines were from the books, but it was corny as hell for him to talk about "symmetry" and shit like they just really needed him to say something that a cartoon evil mastermind says to make up for his lack of screen time and drive home his bad-ness.

Also in the lore of the numbered games, Afton didn't have an evil spiritual influence on the ghosts of the kids. He actually personally disassembled the animatronics himself at the end of everything, only to die because the aged spring locks in the rabbit suit fail with moisture, and the room he dumped the destroyed animatronics in had a leak.

It didn't need to go exactly that way because that's shown in a way unique to videogame storytelling that makes it satisfying there but maybe not so interesting as a movie. But the fact in the movie he basically just dies because he was shot LOL and the girl had to make a drawing of him being bad was super corny.

Like, Afton doesn't put on the rabbit suit to become a "Evil Robot Jeff Bridges" to beat up a protagonist. He puts it on to protect himself from the animatronics because they'll kill someone in plainclothes. I guess that's a little similar to the movie but it doesn't give him control of them and in fact he doesn't want that.

Again, not everything needs to be just like the game, but when a change is made, it should be to the benefit of the script, and I thought this script was lame.