Poll of the Day > I just got back from the fnaf movie and it was bad (spoiler free review)

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It was bad

I weirdly wanna say it had TOO much plot, since not only did it ruin the suspense and the secrets of the series but it dumbed it down so far that it doesn't even make sense any more.

The acting was terrible. I can forgive child actors for not being good, but the only person I believed was even human was Mike! Vanessa only spoke in trailer-ese.

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However, Fazbear pizzeria and the animatronics themselves looked fantastic. They definitely brought that 0/10 up to the 2/10 it deserves. And the music seemed like it was all from youtube (Living Tombstone and such).

I weirdly think I, with zero movie experience, coulda directed a much better movie using the same plot.

Classic fnaf-hater topic, was able to predict your whole post based on half the first sentence.

Have fun in the retirement home.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Classic fnaf-hater topic, was able to predict your whole post based on half the first sentence.

Have fun in the retirement home.

but I like fnaf, I felt the movie was a betrayal

Lokarin posted...

but I like fnaf, I felt the movie was a betrayal

You betrayed Freddy long before he turned his malicious gaze your way. You lied to yourself and this topic is a clear confession.

news of the century

movies based off good games are rarely good, why would one based on a bad game do any better

Nade_Duck posted...

news of the century

movies based off good games are rarely good, why would one based on a bad game do any better

because the books are good and it coulda served as a vehicle to sell toys

The main review I heard was basically something along the lines of "This was a movie clearly made for kids, and it's fine as that. And most of the backlash is all the neckbeard adults pissed that it wasn't made for them."

I have no idea if that's true, though. I've never liked FNAF (or overacting YouTubers making videos reacting to it) and I didn't watch the movie. So it could be a brilliant masterpiece for all I know.

All the "kids" who liked FNAF are either in their late teens or adults now. Kids just play Roblox and Fortnite now.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

"This was a movie clearly made for kids, and it's fine as that.

no, Earnest Scared Stupid had more believable acting

https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1719829513218224477

Have you played Scott's The Desolate Hope, TC?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/298180/The_Desolate_Hope/

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The main review I heard was basically something along the lines of "This was a movie clearly made for kids, and it's fine as that. And most of the backlash is all the neckbeard adults pissed that it wasn't made for them."

I have no idea if that's true, though. I've never liked FNAF (or overacting YouTubers making videos reacting to it) and I didn't watch the movie. So it could be a brilliant masterpiece for all I know.

But... but... the children love the gore.

This coming from someone with zero interest in fnaf, clearly the only reason kids liked fnaf was because it was scary.

Also the fnaf fad is like 9 years old at this point? Those kids have grown up, something IPs always fail on accounting for

Also the fnaf IP is actually really creative take on horror and as always the horror genre lets everyone down

manhookcardoor posted...

Have you played Scott's The Desolate Hope, TC?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/298180/The_Desolate_Hope/

no, but I saw a let's play of that recently and you can really see the charm

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The main review I heard was basically something along the lines of "This was a movie clearly made for kids, and it's fine as that. And most of the backlash is all the neckbeard adults pissed that it wasn't made for them."

I have no idea if that's true, though. I've never liked FNAF (or overacting YouTubers making videos reacting to it) and I didn't watch the movie. So it could be a brilliant masterpiece for all I know.

Children deserve better though.

Lokarin posted...

no, but I saw a let's play of that recently and you can really see the charm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jen2QGNiNxs

I gotta say, the puppets look legitimately good

Metalsonic66 posted...

I gotta say, the puppets look legitimately good

yes, i rather enjoyed them and they even acted good.

Lokarin posted...

but it dumbed it down so far that it doesn't even make sense any more.

Did it ever make any sense?

Yellow posted...

Also the fnaf IP is actually really creative take on horror and as always the horror genre lets everyone down

*eyeroll*

I wouldn't call the IP creative, for starters. It just mashed together tired horror tropes.

Zareth posted...

All the "kids" who liked FNAF are either in their late teens or adults now. Kids just play Roblox and Fortnite now.

Ehh, the two aren't mutually exclusive.

My friend's 6-year old wants to see it. His 10-year old and 12-year old already have. All three kids play Roblox, and the oldest started playing Fortnite recently. The younger two also play Minecraft (which is another "the fad was over years ago" game).

The trick is, even if younger kids aren't playing FNAF, they're still watching people on YouTube play it (same with Minecraft). The "fads" are never as obsolete as people think they are if they're not still part of the fad themselves.



Lokarin posted...

no, Earnest Scared Stupid had more believable acting

Hey now, that was a cinematic masterpiece.



shadowsword87 posted...

Children deserve better though.

No they don't. Children are feral little shits. They deserve absolutely nothing.



Count_Drachma posted...

I wouldn't call the IP creative, for starters. It just mashed together tired horror tropes.

Ehh, it was a relatively creative concept, presented as a jump-scare simulator. And it perfectly encapsulated a specific zeitgeist (which is why we're still talking about it now). It wasn't the first YouTube-bait horror game, but it perfectly capitalized on that style more than nearly any other game.

It's easy to be reductive and say stuff like "Oh, cute-childhood-thing-reimagined-as-nightmarish isn't original!" (see also American McGee), but the specific implementation was relatively unique at the time (plenty of people have pointed out how creepy Chuck E. Cheese/Showbiz pizza style animatronics could be, but FNAF was one of the first to actually do something significant with the idea).

But even beyond that, pure originality is rarely a mark of quality anyway. Most of the best works in any medium are derivative as fuck, because they're distilling elements from various other works and combining them in ways that make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Almost everything is built on the shoulders of something else.

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --- Albert Einstein

Animatronics were always creepy!