Why the FNAF Movie was a Mistake (and how it could have been great)

Why the FNAF Movie was a Mistake (and how it could have been great) | Video Essay

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@davidbraccini4770 11 ай бұрын

I am going to write a comment on some of your criticism to try and defend the movie and, just you know, I really appreciate that you engage with the comments and even though some fans are angry about the low critical reviews, I am always open to criticism and the Fnaf movie isn’t above criticism either. Also to give my theory on the low critic score, just like Filmento said, it is because the movie takes many horror tropes like the torture machine from Saw, the sleeping sections from A Nightmare on Elm Street, and the litteral main villain catchphrase “I always come back” from Chucky and the critcs don’t like when movies take tropes from others. I suggest watching Matpat video’s on the critic vs audience score. In regards of the Cupcake, It’s hinted that it’s Golden Freddy. The reason being that Golden Freddy in the movie is shown to be the most phantom like, so much so like teleporting to Abby’s house where he knocks out (he doesn’t kill) Aunt Jane and then escorts Abby to the pizzeria, and so it makes sense for him to posses a Cupcake when he isn’t haunting the Golden Freddy suit. Also for a split second it shown that the Cupacake is lifeless so it also hinted that inside him there isn’t a permanent user. It is also hinted by the fact that it is the Cupcake to do the final blow to Afton because Golden Freddy, as shown as the final scene where he in ghost form sees Afton dying, is the one who hates Afton the most and is the most aggressive and powerful. However I do find you theory about Garett being the Cupcake interesting. The Fort scene makes sense because the animatronics really like Abby and want to play with and they also actually want to deceive her in to a false sense of security so that later they can trap her in the Baby suit to make her a “permanent” friend because they are afraid that they won’t see her again and also it is possible that the idea was from William Afton himself that could have convinced them that they needed to “make the family larger” since for a sick sense of family he actually thinks that he is a good father. Vanessa acts all friendly with the animatronics in the fort scene because she knows that it is just an act of friendship before they could kill her and that if she immediately tries to take Abby away to safety they could get angry and attack them so it’s better to just play along while keeping a close eye and then, after they have finished playing, to warn Mike to never bring Abby back to the pizzeria. Vanessa, even though she knows that her father is a murder, still has some love for him, so much so that she can only shoot him once. Vannessa doesn’t arrest him because he loves him and thinks that since he has stopped murdering and kidnapping random kids in the woods she can keep a close eye on him and avoid other murders. Of course unfortunately the first guard is killed because he probably discovered something he wasn’t supposed to and Jeff’s gang is also killed while trespassing. Jeff’s plan actually makes sense, he wants to attack the pizzeria in a time where nobody is in there and then once inside he can smash everything, including the video camera recordings, and then set back all the broken clocks to the Mike’s shift because why would the owner assume that the clocks, in a robbery, would have been moved to fire Mike? Mike has difficulty to find babysitters in one day because he is broke and has a bad reputation, so it’s isn’t implausible that he doesn’t find one. He also cannot bring Abby back to the pizzeria because of Vanessa’s warning. In regards to Mike not telling Abby that he actually doesn’t want to give custody to Aunt Jane (because he actually doesn’t want to), he clearly wanted to make aunt Jane believe that he was going to give her the custody over Abby and if he had told Abby the truth who is going to say that a child is 100% going to keep a good acting of faking anger? I mean Aunt Jane isn’t Sherlock Holmes but there was still a possibility that she could have gotten suspicious if Abby didn’t have a normal angrily reaction. Mike is indeed overprotective but given that his trauma is that when he was a child he got distracted for a moment and then his brother got kidnapped and he also knows that there is a serial killer on the loose I do not thing that his overprotectiveness is uncalled for. To make it clear I am not denying that the movie does the trope of the break up before the climax however I do not think that it’s too contrived. Also Aunt Jane isn’t going to have a strong point against Mike with the judge if she just took care for Abby for only one night. In defense of Mike bringing Abby to the unsafe pizzeria, even though he was sleeping when he brought Abby to the pizzeria, I could be wrong but I do not remember Mike knowing that the animatronics themselves were haunted in the pizzeria, he just knew before bringing Abby that the pizzeria was a place where he had stronger dreams that could only hurt him so I do not blame him for the feeling that sleeping with Abby next to him in a broken down pizzeria is better than having her sleep alone especially with the trauma of having a missing brother because of not looking to him for a moment. To be fair the with the Freddy torture machine, it’s not like it is easily escapable, so much so that the other guard died in it and Mike barely escapes. The Animatronics aren’t there to watch because, even though they have killed people in gruesome ways when they are angry, they aren’t actually sadistic and have joy out of watching pain they are still kids in the end. The only one who does so is William Afton who instructed, for his sick sense of humor, to kill all the guards who know to much in that torture machine. Mike also escapes the animatronics by opening the door with enough pushes or is saved by Vanessa, it is not that the animatronics left him alone. When the Cupcake chews Hank’s face he didn’t do it with one bite but if you see the scene again he is actually mauling his face. Of course mauling the face, wich is unprotected by cloth and has more easily destroyable body parts like eyes and the nose, isn’t the same as chewing a protected leg and Mike also almost immediately has him off the leg so it makes sense for the leg to not have been too much damaged. The drawing scene makes sense because Abby is an intelligent kid who speaks with the ghost children through drawings and when she saw that the drawings were fake she rightfully assumed that Afton was using the same trick that somehow he also discovered by trying to calm the animatronics down with fake drawings and so she decides to show the truth. The fact that the ghost children talk through drawings was extablished in the previous scene so it’s not like they invented a solution in the moment. Even if the picture was protected by glass, wich would have also made that drawing more suspicious so in the end he should have just glassed every single drawing, Abby was so determined that she could have smashed, and even if it was protected by bullet proof glass, Abby could have just censored them by removing them or drawing on the glass itself and also Afton couldn’t have just hidden that drawing since the animatronics need that reminder too keep him safe. From one of your comment you said that Balloon boy wasn’t explained, and might I suggest that he is also isn’t required to be explained since he is mostly a non important easter egg that was put there by Scott Cawthon probably at the last minute, as hinted by an early leaked script divulgated by Entom. Also just to inform you Garett was more present in the earlier script. Willam also probably knows that Mike is Garret’s brother because before killing him he could have had a conversation with Garett about his family and Mike could have been name dropped. Also the point of Mike stopping to put all of the attention towards Garret makes sense because the movie shows that Mike is grown and doesn’t focus on the past but focuses on the future with Abby. The first guard is probably a good person and yet he is physically killed litteraly in the first scene so your point that no good guy is killed during the main plot of the movie is wrong. Anyways if you arrived here, thank you for reading and I found the video had a very good analysis of Scott Cawthown’s works! Also if you ever wanted to include this comment in a video, I’d ask you to not show my name. Thank you for the video!

@VerdanaVideos 11 ай бұрын

I’m actually very grateful that you laid out all these potential counter-arguments in one comment because that means I can respond to each point and then pin it (so that other people with these gripes will be able to see my responses directly instead of spamming the same few points over and over again) Now, before I get into anything, thank you for engaging with my video. I truly mean it. Even if you disagreed with a lot of it, I truly do appreciate any and all feedback / counter-points I get. It helps enrich the discussion I am trying to foster, after all. However, I find most of your points to be either built upon logic that was not established in the movie itself, or a misunderstanding of the point I was attempting to make. Let’s go through each point one by one. - I really don’t think it’s fair to say critics only didn’t like this film because it borrows tropes from other horror movies. If that were true, they wouldn’t have loved the most recent Saw film, which is chalk-full of tropes. The reason they gave this movie bad reviews is, quite simply, because they didn’t like it. It’s no more complicated than that. - Nowhere in the movie is it ever really implied that Golden Freddy is also the cupcake. I mean, I won’t say definitively that you’re wrong, but personally I don’t see much of a connection between them. And if you are right, I would argue it’s an unnecessarily complicated edition to the lore to have one child control two animatronics simultaneously. - I never said that the fort scene doesn’t make logical sense within the plot. I said I thought it was a stylistic mistake to include it because it tonally clashes with the scenes around it and it makes it difficult for audiences to be frightened by the animatronics after seeing them act like that. - I’m sorry, but Vanessa’s motivations just don’t make any sense based on the information we’re provided within the film. Why did she actively encourage Abby to play with the animatronics when she knew they were dangerous? Why did she chastise Mike for allowing Abby to play with them immediately after doing the exact same thing? Even if you want to argue that she loved her father, why did she actively help him kill people and cover the murders up if she’s supposed to be a good person? What made her suddenly change her mind and decide to turn against him? Her decisions seem like they are written only to serve the plot, not because they are the logical decisions she would make in her circumstances. - Jeff’s plan MIGHT have made slightly more sense if he had actually planned to set the clocks back as you theorize, but at no point in the film does he indicate that is his intention. It seems like you’re kind of doing the writer’s job for them by coming up with ways this attack could have made more sense. By going during the daytime, they also risked the possibly a good samaritan would oversee / overhear the attack and call the police, blowing the whole operation. All it would take is for one person to drive by and see them breaking in. As it is, I see no reason why they didn’t just wear masks and go at night when they KNEW he would get in trouble for failing to protect the establishment, even if he called the police on them. - Again, it seems like you’re adding things to the movie that weren’t actually there to make the plot make more sense. There was never any indication that Mike didn’t actually intend to transfer custody of Abby over to Jane. And even if you want to argue that he was merely planning on tricking her into babysitting for him, he still should have told Abby that before inviting Jane over to avoid making her feel betrayed and scared that he would actually abandon her. I don’t buy the notion that he was worried she’d “blow his cover” with bad acting around Jane. Mike is clearly not the kind of person who’d emotionally manipulate his own sister, who you yourself admit he’s extremely overprotective of and doesn’t want to see get hurt, to get what he wants. In my opinion, the best course of action would have been to just leave her home alone for a few nights while searching for a new babysitter. It certainly would have been safer than bringing her to the pizzaria, which he had already done. As for the notion that Mike is too poor to afford another babysitter, I would point to the fact that he lives in a surprisingly big house and is still able to make enough to support himself and Abby whilst paying taxes on that property. I don’t buy the idea that he wouldn’t even have, like, a spare 50 bucks lying around on any given work night. It’s not like he plans on keeping this job in the long-term anyways, so he wouldn’t have to hire a nighttime babysitter for long. - Mike didn’t know the animatronics were haunted when he brought Abby to the pizzaria, but he DID know there had been a break literally within the last 24 hours which makes it a pretty risky move to bring her along, ESPECIALLY if you just plan on sleeping the whole time, rendering you unable to even protect her. - The machine is painfully easy to escape. It literally has a button on that releases the restraints; A button that is accessible to the person strapped down in it. It also has a giant screw that can easily be pulled loose, making it even more easy to escape from. Why would they build it like this??? Furthermore, no, Mike does not manage to get away when Foxy attacks him. We do see him manage to slightly open the door, but it’s very clear that Foxy still gets to him in time. Otherwise he wouldn’t have gotten severely injured and lost consciousness. You could theoretically argue that he managed to run away, injured, after Foxy took a bite out of him, and passed out somewhere else in / near the pizzaria, but if that’s the case, then why didn’t Foxy or any of the other animatronics finish him off when he was unconscious? Alternatively, if you want to argue that he managed to run away far enough that he wasn’t even on the property anymore, then how did Vanessa find him? - Cloth is hardly going to make a difference where brute force is concerned. Pants wouldn’t make a difference if someone tried to stab you in the leg, and they wouldn’t make a difference here. If the cupcake was strong enough to kill a man merely by clamping down on his face, it should have been strong enough to at least pierce through the skin of Mike’s leg. To be fair, he is depicted as limping after this point, implying some damage was done, but the cupcake was on his ankle for a good 30 seconds. It should have done significantly more damage than that. This also begs the question: Why did the cupcake go for Mike’s leg in the first place instead of going for his face like it did with Hank? It seems like it wasn’t even trying to kill him, just like with Foxy. - This is a point I’m glad you brought up because I almost included a section on it in the video. Foreshadowing does not equal good writing. It’s true that Abby’s drawings and the dead children’s drawings are shown extensively throughout the movie, but that does’t automatically mean the twist makes sense. Like I said in the video, how did William Afton possibly figure out drawings can control spirits on his own? Why couldn’t the animatronics simply be told verbally that Afton was their killer? It’s clear they are fully intelligent and able to communicate with Mike verbally. Why did they have to be told with a drawing what happened to them? It’s all completely unexplained and feels like a convenient solution that comes out of nowhere. No amount of foreshadowing can fix this. - As I mentioned in the video, I very much so expect that the balloon boy was not merely an Easter egg, but a plot thread that will be expanded upon in sequels. And even if it is true that he was merely a non-important bonus inclusion, I find it odd how much emphasis was put into him, especially having him appear next to the taxi driver in the mid-credits scene. How did it get there? This is clearly supposed to be building somewhere. If it’s not, its inclusion is very bizarre. - My apologies but I’m not sure exactly what point you’re trying to make with the paragraph about Garret. - The guard at the beginning can hardly be classified as a character. He only gets about one minute of screen time and no lines of dialogue. When I said none of the “good guys” get killed, I meant none of the main characters. Well that was a mouthful, lmao. I think this is the longest KZbin comment I’ve ever written, so congrats for prompting it. Again, even though we plainly don’t see eye to eye on this film, I really do appreciate your engagement with this video. Discussions like this are important for keeping the world of art criticism (and good art in general) alive and well, so thank you. Update: I did a stream responding to everything - kzbin.infoPR_5EYT1eh4?si=d7iCpVJQgnJ3UNV-

@omnishambles5956 11 ай бұрын

cl I’m not reading all that

@DarkestMarlin74 11 ай бұрын

@@omnishambles5956same

@Diduilitm 11 ай бұрын

The point you made with Garret name dropping Mike's name to William when he got kidnapped is, as Verdana himself mentioned on some of his points, you doing the writer’s job for them once more. I believe that scene didn't have the intention of making the viewer think that this was the scenario (especially judging by how specific and uncontextualized it would actually feel in the movie), and even if that WAS the point, don't you think they would have given us a hint of that being the case? The kidnapping scene would've had to be necessarily changed to account for that detail. I also wanted to adress the second part of this point of yours, but I genuinely could not tell what you meant in that phrase. At what point in the movie does Mike "stop to put all atention towards Garret"? Isn't that his whole motivation for half the movie, before realizing he can't change the past? I think if you just rephrased that sentence I could get there, or maybe put a timestamp of the video itself so I can understand what you're refering to.

@davidbraccini4770 11 ай бұрын

@@Diduilitm Not saying that the movie explained well the fact that William and Garett talked, but it isn’t implausible. However I do think that to make it more explicit William could have said a remark about his conversations with Garett or even his last words where he asked for Mike’s help. Yeah I meant that he litteraly stops thinking about the past because he needs to save Abby, and that is some sort of character development because he puts his sister over his almost selfish desire to resolve the case of his brother Garett disappearance.

@cluckbucketz 11 ай бұрын

As a horror fan, I hate when people say horror isn't about the story or the characters. Movies like Hereditary and The Thing are completely character/plot driven and they're considered some of the best of the horror genre. I also hate the whole "horror movie characters are dumb" criticism, firstly, it might just be the movies I watch, but it seems way overblown. And secondly, I don't think someone being hunted by a killer who has killed several of their friends is going to be thinking 100% rationally.

@logannelson7357 4 ай бұрын

The Babadook is another psychological horror movie that is very character focused, and has a huge emphasis on the relationship between the kid and his mother. That movie can be very unsettling at times, where the fnaf movie however lacked any of that.

@Majuular 10 ай бұрын

Full disclosure - as I write this comment, I'm only 50 minutes in (and fully intend to finish the video immediately. Me and my girlfriend have been loving it). The entire section where you discuss the lore losing sight of what originally made it special in pursuit of greener pastures seems so damn accurate to me. Looking at the young FNAF fans, there is a "more is better" mentality. It reminds me of myself when I was 10. I would scribble swords all over my notebooks. Standard European swords or even Katanas stopped being cool enough, I had to start drawing keyblades, buster swords with electricity arcing over the blade, gigantic inhuman swords with spikes coming off the sides and pommels that were entire swords in and of themselves. There's a point where you no longer see the forest for the trees. The simple beauty and elegance of a claymore gives way to diminishing returns if you let this curse take hold. You said it best - there is beauty in simplicity. There's also a mystique in ambiguity that people often mistakenly believe begs for explanation. The Silent Hill games, for example, are great at suspending your disbelief with "rules" but piquing your curiosity by never pulling back the shroud and revealing them. Anyway, it's only one small component of your video. Hilarious and surprisingly thorough deep-dive my friend. Appreciate your charitable nature while being unafraid to stand by your arguments. Unless you somehow screw it all up in the last half hour of the video. Then I take it all back and stand with my angry friends from Twitter. Post-script: Okay no it was all good.

@Bentola23 10 ай бұрын

my dad is in the film industry and has worked with Chris Columbus. I remember when I heard that he would be working on the film my dad told me he knew him and I thought it was interesting. After hearing about him leaving the project I asked my dad if he knew anything about that since he knows Columbus, my dad said that Columbus said Scott was a hard person to work with and wasn't a fan of constructive feedback when it came to the story. Again I don't know to what extent this is true but it is what my dad was told.

@ExtraQuestionableContent 10 ай бұрын

Even though I have respect for Scott, this would really explain why the film went through such development hell for eight years. It's not like the film struggled to get funding or something, not at all when its had such a strong and lively fanbase through it all. It all has to do with Scott's perfectionism, and while perfectionism isn't necessarily a bad thing (coming from a perfectionist) I believe Scott has gotten too defensive over his franchise and not allowed anyone else to touch it or even help him out, like he's the only guy who can bring the franchise to life. I actually think that's true, he probably is the only guy, but he can't do everything himself, and this mindset has only gotten more prevalent over the years. I get why he's so defensive over his franchise, the thing that literally saved his life, but he needs to start allowing more feedback and criticism to bring his vision to fruition in an actual good manner instead of constantly biting off more than he can chew.

@Blue-Apple-fc9eo 9 ай бұрын

@@ExtraQuestionableContentI agreed

@Thejayone962 9 ай бұрын

source?

@Bentola23 9 ай бұрын

@@Thejayone962 my dad told me this I years ago I didn’t think of recording that conversation

@mr.monkey354 9 ай бұрын

you mean the guy listening to criticism about the movie and calling out fans that harass critics? sure bud, my goldfish is vince giligan

@fredrickbanks1966 11 ай бұрын

Anytime I saw the aunt in this movie, I only saw a typical Dhar Mann antagonist. From the writing to the acting it’s strikingly familiar

@ExtraQuestionableContent 11 ай бұрын

"Aunt TRIES To Take CUSTODY Of Child, What Happens Next Is Shocking"

@juliabp6057 10 ай бұрын

I hate that dumb and silly aunt. None of the movie characters are really likeable. I think that only William is better, but mainly because of our nostalgia, not because of his movie portrayal.

@brandoncole5533 9 ай бұрын

NO FR😭😭 THAT'S HOW I'M DESCRIBING IT NOW

@andrewblack2596 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@southerncoastproductions7587 4 ай бұрын

ur slow

@sugoianimester5789 10 ай бұрын

I really wished Scott cared more about quality over quantity regarding the FNAF books... They are rushed, many typos, poor written stories that really hurt the integrity of the franchise

@juliabp6057 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, Frights and Tales suck. Most of the stories are generic, bad and useless to the lore.

@Geidi174 9 ай бұрын

While the books are catered to children I agree, they deserve better

@sugoianimester5789 9 ай бұрын

@@Geidi174 seriously. Just because the books are catered to children (even though it has some disturbing gore and themes in it, but that's another topic) that doesn't mean the story is allowed to be of low quality.

@sunnyBunny-oq5ru 6 ай бұрын

@@sugoianimester5789exactly. Scared Stories To Tell in the Dark and Goosebumps are both geared towards children but both servers are well crafted and actually scary.

@finnguy1549 5 ай бұрын

For me the books are the best thing in fnaf, especially the tales from the pizzaplex series, the bad stories are like few rotten apples that ruin the bunch and I understand the critisism that people have towards them

@QueenAvacado 8 ай бұрын

Man, I’ve been a fan of fnaf since the first game released. I went to go see the movie and honestly I didn’t really like it. It’s not because it wasn’t scary. Well, that’s one of the reasons but the main reason I didn’t like the movie was because the writing was just awful. We know little to nothing about any of the characters, like you said, like William Afton, the man who literally started all of this, we know nothing about him. Other than he has a daughter, he killed five children, and there’s no explanation given to why he killed these children, and that he has a weird obsession with Mike’s family, but there’s no explanation for that either and also why did he kill Garrett? to someone who’s never played the games they’re going to have absolutely no clue what is going on and I understand why a lot of people hated this movie because honestly it makes no sense from a non-fan point of view. The movie was just underwhelming to say the least, and to the people who say that five nights at Freddy’s was never meant to be a horror movie. I have literally no clue what they’re talking about. The entire point of the first game was to scare you and I did a pretty damn good job at that. I don’t think fnaf is the scariest game trilogy ever made but the thing about the first four games in particular is that they all had a story to tell and had an atmosphere to them. It’s the early 90s you’re working at a rundown pizzeria with these creepy ass looking robots everything seems well until you start realizing that there’s something off about this place something horrible happened here. Robots stare at you with their blank, expressionless eyes and then slowly, they start acting more weird and following you and then eventually trying to kill you, and then come to realize that there’s dead bodies in these suits just makes it even more terrifying. The five nights at Freddy’s movie completely failed in every way to capture the atmosphere of the first game. Never once was I actually scared that. Mike was going to actually get killed or harmed never once was I actually surprised by any of the jump scares it was all just the same stupid scariest crap nonsense. They literally have a move a scene in the movie where the robots are literally building a fort with mikes sister I mean excuse me?

@nethertrain 11 ай бұрын

Ironically I think the humans are far more uncanny in this movie than the animatronics, with mike’s complete lack of a personality in the story and vanessa’s multiple motives that lead her to be one emotion and then snap to the other extreme in the same scene make them feel more like uncomfortable robots then the actual robots.

@juliabp6057 10 ай бұрын

Yeah. The exclusive human characters from the games (despite having just a little writing), like Cassidy, Michael Afton and the C.C are still better and more cohesive than the ones from the movie, lol

@andrewblack2596 6 ай бұрын

OOF

@arthurg.calixto3338 5 ай бұрын

I loved Mike in this movie. He acts like someone who's deep, deep in the depression and isolation and sleep deprivation rabbit hole would act like. I honestly related to him

@chippdbanjo 4 ай бұрын

@@arthurg.calixto3338 He's kinda like Simon from Cry of Fear before the car crash, but this time we don't actually hear his thoughts

@raelogan 11 ай бұрын

My favorite part, honestly, is how Golden Freddy pulled a "Goodbye Earl" on Aunt Jane, and absolutely NO ONE cared, like, Mike doesn't care nor does he get investigated for her death AND what went down at Freddy's, so he just gets to keep Abby even though CPS would have taken Abby into custody for a few months until they sort this out, so either Vanessa has been in a coma for a few months and someone is paying for her care there while she's gonna wake up with some brain damage, or this is literally the next week at the end of the movie and no one cares about what happened because William was the backbone of the town and they're all glad to be free now.

@gecfes 4 ай бұрын

Also like, would there be no investigation into the recently collapsed pizzeria? A POLICE OFFICER was stabbed inside and is in a coma, 2 living witnesses are personally connected to the officer and now pizzeria, 1 of which was the only member of staff, and a gang of people recently disappeared inside, including the owner who had a life as a career consultant outside of Freddy's. Would they not all be recovered within a week? All of the bodies in the suits are just inside in the back rooms, not really hidden. I don't really see a reason for Mike to keep everything secretive from the police. A murderer and his victims are in there.

@raelogan 4 ай бұрын

@@gecfes I did like the movie overall, but yeah, the logistics of the ending is really crazy when you look at it, because I 100% know Mike would have been thrown in jail if this was a realistic setting because ain't no way the PD is going to accept the explanation of "Yeah, my career councilor was the same guy who abducted and killed my brother when I was a kid, and his daughter is actually your colleague right there, and also the robots are possessed by the missing children from the 80s, and also, I know this sound crazy, but I'm mostly an innocent bystander here, I didn't do any of the damage here."

@sh1nyman483 11 ай бұрын

According to The Silver Eyes, there actually was a possibility that William Afton himself drew children's drawings to add to your joke at 22:15. In the book, the protagonist remembers that crudely made drawings already decorated the walls when Freddy's opened, meaning that one of the owners (Henry or William) had to have drawn them.

@YeetoTheYeetafic 5 ай бұрын

they're even in the office of the first fnaf game lol

@ExtraQuestionableContent 11 ай бұрын

I feel like this video literally took everything swirling around in my brain about this franchise after the movie dropped and put it into one extremely well-done feature length video. The video felt like 30 minutes to me, not an hour and a half. As a fan of this franchise since it first dropped in 2014, and who has been waiting excitedly for every installment since, I think Security Breach was my first sign that something was becoming... "off" about this franchise, and the release of the movie felt like the final nail in the coffin, and I now see this franchise for what it is; the good and the bad. Nowadays looking at this franchise kind of frustrates me because every single release has had some major flaw, and with each installment those flaws growing bigger and more convoluted. It's like watching a TV show with a great first couple of seasons as it builds an interesting and unique narrative through creative storytelling, then watching it never be able to come out of its shell and fully capitalize on that interesting premise as it drags on for 40 seasons. FNAF has felt to me like it is such a charming world with its own visual style and a perfect opportunity for emotionally scary stories, yet I feel like its never been able to properly have its own voice to tell just a good, complete story; the movie was the perfect opportunity to do that. But I feel like, since the movie came out as it did, it has shown me priorities of the franchise have changed drastically since it first began. It is no longer an actual story, it is only lore, mysteries to keep the theory side of the fanbase active. There is no longer any of that subtle, minimalist style of vague horror, now its just big robots chasing you (even THAT never actually happens in the film) because AI or something idk. It's not trying to be GOOD anymore, instead its settling for what the fanbase "wants", aka increasing mediocrity and a sole focus on more unsolvable lore. At the end of the day, it's Scott's franchise, and he can do whatever he wants, but he should know that the slow shift away from what brought me and others into the franchise in 2014 won't last forever if its no longer present. Imo he should stop trying to appeal to everyone and just make it known who the franchise is for nowadays, but instead FNAF is just trying to appeal to EVERYONE now, and by that ending up appealling to NO ONE. TLDR; good video about the funny haha bear game. Edit: Forgot to mention, but I loved your comparison of FNAF to The Shining. I always thought FNAF felt very Stephen King-like with its subtext of childhood trauma and awful events building over time to cause worse and worse events later down the line.

@fr3dm3rc0ry4 9 ай бұрын

with all due respect, speak for yourself

@ExtraQuestionableContent 9 ай бұрын

@fr3dm3rc0ry4 Alright, if I only speak for myself that's fine with me. I'm glad you could enjoy the movie

@HugoGHA 7 ай бұрын

I have to agree with you on this one. I am also a long time fan of the franchise. FNaF has been slowly drifting away from what made it so appealing back in 2014, which is basically the well crafted horror and story. Now it has become a mystery thriller franchise appealed for kids, and the movie only made it clearer.

@ravenquill6206 8 ай бұрын

Scott Cawthon: "I want that movie to be able to stand on its own as a good movie, and not ride the coattails of a different part of the franchise." *MISSON SUCCESSFULLY FAILED*

@IrtazaFNAFPro 7 ай бұрын

Well scott cawthon is planning to take criticism from the first movie in order to make second movie bigger and scarier than the first movie, and I hope this mission succeeds rather than fail

@bluebear8741 11 ай бұрын

I wish they kept the original office from fnaf 1. They wanted to add fanservice! Wouldn't the original office be good enough fan service? And they cant make the arguement that it would be too expensive to make the doors when they can just use CGI! Also they cant make the arguement of it being grounded in reality when there are ghosts possesing huge robots which may or may not happen in real life!

@Mr_big_booty 11 ай бұрын

Honestly I like the movie map more than the game map. The map in fnaf 1 is pretty lame.

@martinchik3543 8 ай бұрын

In my opinion it's what made fnaf 1 unique in the first place, the dense and mysterious atmosphere, feeling of liminality throughout the pizzeria, I actually wanted the movie to use the fnaf 1 wayout, I know some ppl may hate this idea, but come on now.. what if it did? Imagine how much would have the movie changed. Sure it wouldn't look realistic at all, but there was a time my younger self imagined that happening, how dark the movie was gonna look like, just to kinda.. disappoint me in the end idk :/

@Rynoverse 11 ай бұрын

Did not expect to go from a breaking bad video that changed my whole outlook on the series as a whole. To a fnaf video that has also changed my whole outlook on the series as a whole. Bravo Verdana!

@kingofcrap4414 11 ай бұрын

When the majority of the FNAF community freaked out like a bunch of 6 year olds about the low critic scores, that's when I knew I had made the right choice about not being a member of this fanbase anymore. (If I sound bitter, that's because I am.)

@Spider-Man_234 10 ай бұрын

I'm right there with you, man. Been a fan since the first game came out and I feel like I'm going insane.

@bencooper6880 10 ай бұрын

I think in my head I've been a part of the fanbase this whole time but after this I just withdrew because I'm tired of seeing people defend this movie or the current direction of the games and books. Actual crayon munchers. *Disgusted looking cat reaction image*

@N800-q1b 10 ай бұрын

fnaf fans are very autistic, it's a fandom tied to reddit and furries

@theelectricangel2250 10 ай бұрын

Same here. I'm not even interesed in FNAF anymore. It feels like modern FNAF and it's fanbase just ruined everything. I miss the 2014-2016 years, they were the golden times.

@N800-q1b 10 ай бұрын

@@theelectricangel2250 same, Poppy Playtime is what FNaF should be

@MontyMoleLoreMaster 11 ай бұрын

It is ironic how the EXACT same thing happened earlier in 2023 with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where Mario fanboys dogged on critics for not liking a soulless cashgrab with no substance and acted like it was a perfect 10/10 masterpiece cause it had references in it. If people constantly defend and ignore criticism to mediocre-bad films then we will get even more mediocre-bad films.

@Wizardjones69 11 ай бұрын

For those fandoms, "what make a good movie its to have 6838485858 easter eggs to the game and boom perfect movie masterpiece oscar"

@juliabp6057 10 ай бұрын

@@Wizardjones69to be honest, many people in the FNaF fandom criticized the movie. It wasn’t everyone that acted with toxicity.

@worthybutter2004 8 ай бұрын

Well, i personally think while, yeah, the Mario movie wasn't that great, it didn't need to be rated that low. But the Fnaf movie rating was definitely deserved! It didn't do the franchise justice in any way whatsoever.

@shacharlem4424 6 ай бұрын

To be honest, the only critique i have for the Mario movie is that they didn't take much risk in terms of character interactions. The Mario franchise mostly has a very simple structure: 1.mario and friends go about their day 2.bad guy ruins/interrupts their day 3. Mario (and sometimes friends) go and defeat said bad guy. 4. Everything is back to the way it was and they all lived happily ever after (at least until the same or another bad guy strikes soon enough). Mario is more about playing than story. It's simple but fun. You don't need to look for a hidden story, it's presented to you on a silver platter.

@MontyMoleLoreMaster 6 ай бұрын

@@shacharlem4424 The issue I have with the movie isn’t because it is simple, but as a fun adventure film it fails miserably due to the amount of filler and lack of locations that makes it a boring slog. The games can get away with barely having story (with some exceptions like the RPGs) due to the main focus being gameplay, but you can’t really do the same for a movie.

@lazyhammerwieldingpenguin2247 11 ай бұрын

Ironically, I think this might be the one case where an adaptation would have been better off if it was a cheap cash-in released just after the first few games.

@cooliostarstache5474 11 ай бұрын

The only reason I haven't watched this movie is because it's too bright. The games were dark, lighting wise. Tonally, the movie is the same as those wacky fan SFM animations

@Wizardjones69 11 ай бұрын

Thats why fnaf 1 is timeless and the scariest, the haunted nostalgia of some chuck cheese, when the lights turn off in the pizzaria, the animatronics turns frightning, the fnaf movie doesnt have that because its just colorful light every time

@SonGoku-hd6ro 10 ай бұрын

I don't think horror and wholesomeness are necessarily opposed. Your pitch where Mike soothes the souls of the children so they can be freed feels like a good way to combine both. I'm not very familiar with FNAF so this was a good primer into the series

@ethan6581_ 10 ай бұрын

This is the most level headed and we'll put together videos on the movie I've seen. Genuinely good arguments and analysis of the films flaws. The toxicity from Fnaf fans being unable to understand criticism has made any nuanced discussion about this film almost impossible. I did enjoy the movie at the surface level of being a Fnaf fan and there are some genuinely good things about the movie. I wouldn't say it's bad but it was extremely mediocre. The issues just hold it back, as a horror fan I left pretty disappointed.

@TheKaijuKing54 11 ай бұрын

I wasn't expecting too much when I clicked on this video, but wow! This video was so good! It was very interesting to learn more about Scott Cawthon’s past. This video helped me learn a lot more information about him that I didn't know originally. (That “bird guy” story was hilarious!) The points you made about how the FNAF movie could’ve been better from both a horror and storytelling perspective were great to listen to as well! I love the idea of a FNAF story being told in a similar way to The Shining! I‘m surprised that I didn't notice the similarities between the two before. Great job!

@GamerGuy-nd4ix 4 ай бұрын

I think your conclusion that Scott shifted the franchise away from horror due to his faith, is very accurate. Personally, I don’t think it’s wrong to create, or enjoy horror as a Christian, and I say this as a Christian myself. It’s a real shame because I think fnaf has an insane amount of potential as a psychological horror franchise, and I think the first 4 fnaf games, along with fnaf vhs videos, really demonstrates this. I honestly think Scott has such a talent at creating unsettling, disturbing, and psychological horror, but he just refuses to use it. I think sister location really marks the shift in Scott’s focus for the franchise. It completely dismantles the grounded feeling that the other games had by making the lore way too ridiculous, and convoluted. This franchise got popular because of its disturbing, and eery nature, and now some of the fans want to shame those who want that aspect of fnaf. Unfortunately, I don’t think that side of fnaf is going to come back officially, at least not to the extent of something like fnaf 1. I can still enjoy videos and fan games that capture that feeling, so I guess it’s not all bad. I just wish the franchise wasn’t so dismissive of what made it popular in the first place.

@IrtazaFNAFPro 4 ай бұрын

No verdana's conclusion is inaccurate actually. The franchise has not shifted away from horror anymore scott is now making fnaf scary again because of its 10th anniversary announcements like the dead by daylight collab and the joy of creation demo that was scary aswell but it wasn't made by Scott it was made by nikson and he had an interview with dawko for the second time and saying he wants five nights at freddy's to take the horror side and he doesn't want it to be kid friendly again and into the pit was very scary because of its jumpscares and sound effects and he's working on the sequel for the fnaf movie which will be 100x better and scarier than the first movie

@RealYetiKing Ай бұрын

1. The Dead by Daylight spinoff was a dogshit Roblox game full of micro transactions 2. Scott did not make the Joy of Creation demo, so why bring it up anyway? It’s not affiliated with the official franchise 3. The sequel isn’t out yet, so there’s no point in bringing that into this

@SammyRobinson62232 Ай бұрын

@@IrtazaFNAFPro I thought it was MegaCat studios that did Fnaf into the pit?

@juaniferritto165 11 ай бұрын

Bro is the only person alive allowed to use Sony Vegas Pro's default font. My respect.

@nicmarcelino9944 11 ай бұрын

I became a FNAF fan in the first place because I was so mindblown by the lore as it comes pieced together by the community. I really loved the characters, especially the original Afton family. Although I know that this movie is a reboot, my interest in it was immediately gone because deep inside me, I still love the concept of the original Afton family; a serious, genius but deranged father, full of mystery and darkness, a son (the player) who is investigative and heroic, and then two younger siblings who became the victim of their father's doings, now being put to rest by the player himself. The movie didn't have that kind of concept/feel in it anymore, and instead just seemingly put in a petty undercover killer who only has a daughter that's gonna help out the main character as they solve some problem.

@juliabp6057 10 ай бұрын

Yeah. The characters aren’t as interesting as the ones from the games and books. William kidnapping a random boy for absolutely no reason is very underwhelming, while in the books and games, he murdered a 3 year old little girl only to shatter Henry’s happiness. I think the death of Charlotte is the most shocking crime in the series because of this circumstances.

@thesensur6214 11 ай бұрын

A huge amount of the problems with the movie (for example, Max's weird characterization) were a product of the fact that it was originally like 3 hours long, There were apparently more scenes of the animatronics actually doing stuff, scenes were Mike would research the mystery of the place (instead of Vanessa just telling him out of nowhere), more scenes of the characters actually acting like real people (lots more Vanessa stuff that would play into her weird motivations a little more) and more scenes with Max, From what I've gathered from her Actress' comments on twitter, she is supposed to be in the same position as Mike, a good person doing things she's forced to do through circumstance, her death is not meant to be satisfying. This is not me defending the movie to be clear, These are still problems, but the time cuts are the main reason for quite a few of them.

@VerdanaVideos 11 ай бұрын

Very interesting. That means at some point in the film's development it was going to have some amount of nuance, but for whatever reason it was cut out.

@34r343 11 ай бұрын

@@VerdanaVideos 3 hours is too long for today's generation

@ExtraQuestionableContent 11 ай бұрын

@@VerdanaVideos I'm not exactly sure if the 3 hour rumor was ever actually true or not, but there was a confirmed R-rated script of the film that I think was partially released (it's basically the same film as the one we got, just with more gore and bloodiness, and also its somehow worse written). But there was also apparently a cut scene where Aunt Jane smokes a cigarette, or one where Mike mentions his mother committed suicide; all of those were cut even from the PG-13 script, despite the fact idk how they break PG-13 rules.

@Leech-3 11 ай бұрын

That 3 hour plot line leak was a lie

@harold3165 10 ай бұрын

This sounds like nonsense

@Wizardjones69 11 ай бұрын

Take care, because the fnaf fandom doesnt like critics, they hate them because they dont like the movie

@Alex-bg8fo 9 ай бұрын

fnaf fans do not like people having their own opinions, it has been always this way in this fandom 💀

@pedrosaabedra5653 8 ай бұрын

@@Alex-bg8foIf you think fnaf fans are the worst, Hazbin/helluva are far worse.

@gabe5918 7 ай бұрын

@@pedrosaabedra5653They’re pretty even in hating criticism

@pedrosaabedra5653 7 ай бұрын

@@gabe5918 I still think helluva/Hazbin are still the worser fandom, even having an opinion is bad.

@realainsmcf 11 ай бұрын

You’ve quickly become my favorite video essayist on KZbin. The humor and editing are always on point, and you’re always so well-researched and thoughtful. Great work, as always!

@34r343 11 ай бұрын

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE SHINING IS LIKE FNAF, also this is the fnaf movie video I have been waiting for. Edit: I wanna see a full rewritten version of the movie like have mike just be a guy down on his luck and has to get the job at freddy's, I feel like having a bunch of people all in the building at once would be less scary because of how small the pizzeria is, the reason I feel like having a family in the shinning worked because of the size and scope of the place while freddy's is small with the only biggest room Is the dining room. But I think you can make it work.

@ExtraQuestionableContent 10 ай бұрын

I had an idea for a trilogy rewrite with that premise alongside some psychological horror and making each installment kind of an anthology type of thing with different protagonists and at different time periods tying back to the roots of the franchise but idk if I'll end up writing it

@34r343 10 ай бұрын

@@ExtraQuestionableContent nah that's how actually thought they were gonna do the movies lol

@stalemuffin_1 11 ай бұрын

The way I see it, this movie is a good piece of fnaf media but not a good movie. Having watched it with people unfamiliar with the series they had a lot of questions at the end. The staff had stated that it was made with the fans in mind. As a fnaf fan I loved this movie, but as somebody who also loves movies it was weirdly paced and written. It had a lot of unresolved side plots and in all didn’t feel scary enough to be a horror movie.

@samgomez9942 11 ай бұрын

Nice to see you breakdown whats wrong with the movie and critique a lot of the games while still showing a lot of respect for Scott. Also just a really well made video, I'm glad the quality of the breaking bad video that made me sub to you wasn't a one time thing

@leego-ace8082 11 ай бұрын

I love your style of video essay, the comedy matched with in depth takes is just so entertaining, my fav video was the moment Walter becomes Heisenberg because its one of the few video's that use clickbait in such a smart way, looking forward to ur next vids

@fidemomos 10 ай бұрын

The interlude talking about the ratings and sht is actually pretty impressive like a really analysis of how 4 some reason audience started enjoying mediocre films all of the sudden

@GraySheep1717 2 ай бұрын

Yeah that shit was great 😭

@DjMisphet23HWC 11 ай бұрын

Great vid, you hit the nail on the head, i must agree with all you said. As much as a fan i am of fnaf my opinion is the movie was super friendly with plot holes everywhere. One thing about the games that was nerve wrecking for me was the ominous sounds. Even as friendly as Security Breach is the ominous background noises are threatening. This video needs to be watched and studied by Scott and Emma, we need part 2 of movie to be great!

@heroicgangster9981 5 ай бұрын

I feel like the movie could've been WAYYYYY MORE DRAMATIC! If Scott likes doing wholesome stories, I feel like Scott could learn a thing from Kingdom Hearts (he's already got the convoluted villain that always comes back through fantasy sci-fi jargon part down!). Instead of making a non-horrific horror movie. Explore a movie about the characters potentially LOSINGGGG what they have lived with all their lives, explore the tragic lives of the kids and several characters that have been wrecked upon by William Afton, and ultimately bring this serial killer down into heck. The horror IS THE TRAGEDY and VIOLENT SUFFERING these children have experienced. And are still tormented inside over. The story REALLY could've been at least powerful. Instead of it trying to be a movie for the average audience of adults who bring their kids to watch a somewhat scary movie.

@cultofmegamind1826 11 ай бұрын

Great video, appreciate learning how Scott writes along with the actual story. Though I disagree with the claim in 1:20:40, although the issue with a suck a dark premise is that it limits your options and is at risk of being tone deaf due to the conflicting premise and narrative. However this doesn’t make it a bad vehicle, it just makes it a high risk high reward one. Just like how a bottle of water is more valuable in a desert, hopeful/happy scenes become a lot more meaningful in comparison to the dark brutality around them. A lot of stories takes advantage of this, one of favorite examples is Rezero with how it uses brutal those low points and failures are to lift up in comparison those positive moments to have for more impact.

@SammyRobinson62232 10 ай бұрын

I kinda wish the fnaf movie was actually just an adult version of gravity falls. Basically have it be a tv series where it starts off focusing with Abby and Mike sibling relationship as they tried to stay as a family. Than slowly introduce the missing children plot line as they’ll have connecting themes and plot line. Like idk make Garret one of the animatronics. Like why tf they didn’t do it in the movie. It’s would’ve made such an emotion sub plot if it was written right. Anyway great video and I 1000 agree with your points. Keep up the amazing work and can’t wait for more 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Also the Walten Files is just fnaf but if it was written better. (Fnaf both the movie and games)

@ENCHANTMEN_ 11 ай бұрын

I kinda disagree that you can't make a FNAF movie "wholesome" while still being horror. Even if the movie contains awful things, it can have positive messages and a happy ending.

@nevergame_ 10 ай бұрын

been a follower of the games since 2014 but this movie was a huge let-down, i know im probably not the audience for this movie anymore because scott loves making everything as kid friendly as possible but man its so boring watched it once, matpat was cool and the scene where the foxy kid steps into the shadow to then emerge as the animatronic was fantastic, never gonna watch it again tho

@KaitoGillscale 5 ай бұрын

I can accept that the fans overhyped a mediocre movie. I can accept that rotten tomato could (allegedly) have inflated their fan score. I can accept that the FNAF movie just isn’t that good. But calling the Living Tombstone song used in the credits being awful? SIR HOW DARE YOU! THAT WAS ART!

@Somerandomnobodyonyoutube 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I consider myself a fnaf hater but even I have the living tombstone downloaded on my phone

@elsienova4269 3 ай бұрын

TLT is a great artist, he has made some amazing songs over the years that deserve their place in the internet hall of fame. His fnaf songs.....are some of the worst things he has ever done by far and some of the worst music in that type of genre online. TLT only did those songs purely for views and they are the equivalent of the lowest of budget advertisements on TV.

@kwayneboy1524 Ай бұрын

@@elsienova4269Yikes I don't like these games and this was harsh even by standards.

@theidiotics2629 11 ай бұрын

I was just looking up "fnaf movie could've been better" thank you so much! I totally agree with your take!

@hernandez1931 11 ай бұрын

The fnaf movie would've been good if it had Markiplier tbh

@youtubdude 11 ай бұрын

mark was not able to be in the fnaf movie because the filming of his movie

@renaigh 11 ай бұрын

I hope Iron Lung is good.

@hernandez1931 11 ай бұрын

@@renaigh if iron lung is bad my perception of the world will be destroyed

@TheRealHeroKnight 11 ай бұрын

1 guy would change nothing

@rad1165 11 ай бұрын

I heard Scott say that Markiplier would be in the second movie to so..

@shanzabatool3773 9 ай бұрын

Verdana, 1:28:24 fnaf isn't headed down this path its being more creative with its upcoming releases like the into the pit game and the fnaf movie 2 these things will be way better than you can ever imagine. So you're wrong the franchise is not headed down this path its heading up for being successful again to give fnaf fans memories of what made it successful

@wn950 4 ай бұрын

He said maybe and honestly he’s still probably right the only thing that might convince me is if the second movie is a large improvement over the first

@InternetFanatic 11 ай бұрын

This video was extremely fantástico and I do agree with some of your points like how too clean and sometimes childish the franchise became I felt like one of the main issues with FNAF was that it was too dedicated to pleasing the fanbase and that included the movie to an extent as a part of me wished this movie did try to appeal to more than just the fans I felt like the concepts in the movie were okay but in execution it was as bad as seeing a lawyer get shot by a Mexican I felt like the film was too straightforward with getting from plotpoint to plotpoint, the best example I could think of is box forting scene Also the thing about FNAF catering to younger audiences and becoming childlike being because Scott didn't even want to run a horror franchise int he first place because he's extremely Christian and yet he just does blew my mind and honestly the pieces like FNAF World and him not liking SL MA version because it made him sick, even if it was a troll were right there 47:32 Do you think it would've been better if it just cut to an Atari styled image of the Puppet laughing at you Anyways thanks Mr.Walt becomes Heisenberg debunker man

@Sexgamer45 11 ай бұрын

“fantastico” remove that right now

@InternetFanatic 11 ай бұрын

@@Sexgamer45 ah You’re no fun

@Sexgamer45 11 ай бұрын

@@InternetFanatic Fun is for losers

@nathanalves3284 11 ай бұрын

honestly I feel like Scott only took advantage of the theories to make the game's story because if he didn't really want to make a violent or scary game he wouldn't have made a story about a child killer stuffing the bodies of the children he killed into animatronics and literally leaving them to rot there, not to mention the whole thing about the children's souls being trapped in the animatronics without being able to rest, all of this seems very violent and scary to me

@shacharlem4424 6 ай бұрын

1:23:09 kind of reminds me of Luke Pearson and kohei horikoshi (creators of Hilda and My hero academia respectively) in which that they are also kind of strongly associated with their creations. Other than his (Maybe) first and only adult graphic novel "everything we miss and some storyboarding work, his most recognizable work is that adventureous cyan girl named Hilda. And she only got more popular when she came to Netflix. And even though the graphic novel series finished, it will have a prequel. He can't escape easily from his little money making daughter. Kohei horikoshi meanwhile was also struggling after his second series barrage ended after only two volumes. And when he made my hero academia, the money and fame started to roll. And the story took longer to finish.

@matiasbosques3002 11 ай бұрын

I did not expect this one, lol. Excited to watch!

@renaigh 11 ай бұрын

Five Nights At Frings Written By Vince Bravo.

@Spider-Man_234 10 ай бұрын

sinco noches con los pollos hermanos

@LTDRAKE 11 ай бұрын

This is a really good video. I like the FNAF movie but recognize that it's not a very good movie, and I'm kind of going insane that people are saying that it's "perfect." When in my opinion it's the definition of "mid." It has good elements, it has some really bad elements, and overall it results in a movie I would give a 5/10. It saddens me because two franchises I love both had mid movies in 2023, being Transformers and FNAF, when both franchises have proven that they can tell amazing stories; either in comics and TV, and video games respectively.

@TheGuyWhoseesall-ii9uj 4 ай бұрын

I don't know if you will see this but i don't think Scott will take any risks. He wants the series to be for kids now because he knows people will just buy the product no matter how bad it is. I genuinely believe he has forgotten what made FNAF scary

@IrtazaFNAFPro 4 ай бұрын

Well scott is now taking the horror side of fnaf because of the collaboration with dead by daylight and taking criticism for critics to make the second movie better than the first one

@TheGuyWhoseesall-ii9uj 4 ай бұрын

Yeah. The DBD collab is gonna be amazing

@kwayneboy1524 Ай бұрын

FNAF was never scary if the boy wants to mark his content to a more pg 13 age range let him.

@TheGuyWhoseesall-ii9uj Ай бұрын

Thats your opinion buddy

@kwayneboy1524 Ай бұрын

@@TheGuyWhoseesall-ii9uj the main scare was a jumpscare and nothing more don't lie too me or yourself

@flippy2 6 ай бұрын

54:00 i rally like when you mentions mike defending the office from the robots and they start going in the vents, this is how i think they would work Freddy, is in the hallway, mike having to stall him, referencing his AI tech and his pinprick pupils covring the cameras. Bonnie woudl be doing the fnaf 1 scream while violently banging on his door, and mike having to use the taser to stun him (fnaf 5 controlled shock) bonnie wouldnt give up and keeping mike from focusing on the vents. Chica would roam the bathrooms and kitchen making loud noises making mike jumpy at times, making bonnie get chances to break in. The cupcake is in the arcade turning on the machines, and going in the vent. giving mike no choice but to block the vent. Foxy would be in pirate cove doing his poses, then runs down the halls and hes not humming. Hes gnarling in a very human like way. his eyepatch is open becuase we dont see it in the movie. and he woudl keep doing that until 6am Golden freddy is highly unlikely but he could be in the office and blocking freddys hallway camera.

@boomboom6410 11 ай бұрын

I've been a massive FNAF fan for as long as I can remember and I was so insanely hyped for this movie! However, even with that background I can 100% say this film was flawed. It's a fantastic tribute to the fans but fails as a stand alone movie. I was really hoping it would be a great film on it's own so here's to hoping they do better with the sequel.

@klipsfilmsmelbourne 11 ай бұрын

Scott cawthon was animator when he made short animated films and animate characters in games he could have animated his own movie but he couldn’t able to model realistic humans and some of physics would hard to animate

@elliotsturtplus340 5 ай бұрын

1:14:55 this certainly might explain why he voiced William Afton in UCN Also, the reason for why the five nights at Freddy’s movie story is different from the game story, and not a replica or accurate adaptation of some kind of the game story it’s because well, it’s a thing he’s done. I mean, I kind of expected it, mostly due to the fact that the silver eyes was a different story, and that goes the same with the FAZbears fright books, and that evidently been the same with the tales of the pizzaPlex.

@jaspinflame670 11 ай бұрын

to be fair it's not like the first game was devoid of humor either especially with a lot of the phone guy lines

@dumbly-stupid 11 ай бұрын

It even has poop humor

@Spider-Man_234 10 ай бұрын

that was more gallows humor, whereas this movie feels like a disney channel original at times

@SammyRobinson62232 10 ай бұрын

Great video and I agree with your overall essay. Ever since it was announced by Blumhouse studio I was very excited since I really wanted to see Fnaf written greatly and I felt like a movie will be a great opportunity for it. But after seeing it on Halloween night of 2023, I was so disappointed since the plot and characters weren’t fleshed out at all. The tone of inconsistent and so on. I also hate the defense of “oh it’s a thriller so that’s why it’s not scary”. Well if that’s the case why does it has so many plot hole and isn’t flesh out at all. “Oh it’s made for the fans”. If you’re making a product where it’s only made for fans and not for the general audience. Than I’m sorry that’s a very flawed product. Edit; Also your video makes me wanna do a rewrite myself. But I can’t at the moment due to making other projects right now

@andymulai2765 11 ай бұрын

Thankyou for calling out the fake gaslighting so called “fans” who’ve bin making me insane since this mid fest released.. none of them are saying the same thing yet I’m the one who “just didn’t get it” despite being obsessed with the franchise since it began. This film used none of the core game mechanics, very little good/essential parts of the lore, twisted the possession logic to the point it makes no sense even in a universe like fnaf, advertised as scary when it’s the exact opposite, described as “for the fans” despite feeling the need to re establish everything in a new terrible way for new comers, turned down the gore yet apologists will have you believe “kids being brutally killed and stuffed into animatronic suits isn’t gory” ect ect these people arnt fans they’re immature psychotic brats who’ll persistently gatekeep and gaslight anyone who has disagreements with the franchise and they are the ones who give the community a bad rep. Do not try and culture people like me about fnaf when objective flaws are exposed just accept or agree to disagree but stop pretending that this film was worth it, nearly an entire decade of hype gone in the bin..

@rifty9322 9 ай бұрын

I think the word "opinion" should be present imao

@twistanturnu529 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant essay, I do wish this film had been just a bit better thought through. As a fan my goblin brain loved it,as a film viewer it was underwhelming. Thoughts on some of your points: The drawing didn't control the animatronics, I think it's still nebulous how Afton controls them unless we're presuming it's through mechanical controls (like springtrap having to follow sounds of kids against his will). Abby's drawing is just her communicating Afton killed them as they don't know (callback, teacher says kids use drawing to express themselves). Vanessa being like 'yay forts' then 'I will shoot you' I can kiiinda buy she was playing along for a false sense of security, then guilt over seeing Abby injured kicks in. But her character still makes no sense pfft. Time travel Ballpit IS from the books. The amount of dead kids is more than likely just the MCI 5, Crying Child, Elizabeth, and Charlie. All other are theory-based and honestly not too convincing

@topkarat 11 ай бұрын

I used to say to myself, “I wish I had something to do while I wait for my girlfriend to wake up.” Question no more, for this video is here.

@VermillionRed 11 ай бұрын

Good video but in my opinion: To an average audience member, Garrets plotline i feel wouldnt be unresolved, he was kidnapped and killed by William, it can be assumed he was just killed with no fanfare even if its revealed later something else happened. You arent supposed to see Max as a bad person, there are deleted scenes where she is ultra supportive and nice to Abby and she stays over at Mikes house because her brother is a bad person. And final point: The story of this movie is more based on the books (especifically the Silver Eyes trilogy). Half of the third act is lifted off of that trilogy, so differences with the game also come from there. Also minor funny thing: canonically Aunt Jane doesnt die, she straight up was just knocked out by golden freddy

@VerdanaVideos 11 ай бұрын

But even if you wanted to argue this, the movie still has other plot lines are left clearly unresolved. What was the significance of the balloon boy, for example? What was Vanessa’s motivation to help her father? And as for your second point, I had no idea Max originally had more screen time in this film. From what I’ve heard since posting this video, Max was going to be a more likable character at one point, but they cut pretty much all of that out of the movie for whatever reason leaving her as little more than a generic antagonist. A very bizarre decision imo. And thank god Jane is still alive. Best character.

@VermillionRed 11 ай бұрын

@@VerdanaVideos Well Balloon Boy was probably just a gag based on how the fandom always treated him like he was the devil himself. For the longest time everyone hated him. As for Vanessa, it's vaguely implied in the film and you have to look for it but she most likely witnessed the Murders when she was a child and has been forced to help with most if not all of william's murders since then because of trauma, abuse and manipulation by him.

@salt_factory7566 11 ай бұрын

@@VermillionRed "For the longest time everyone hated him" implies that we've stopped.

@Mysteryz-li2pw 11 ай бұрын

@@VerdanaVideosballoon boy isn’t supposed to mean anything except be a teaser for the second film and also be a funny reoccurring joke in the film

@dumbly-stupid 11 ай бұрын

@@VerdanaVideos balloon boy was a joke and Vanessa helping William was pretty clear he manipulated her and used her love for him against her

@erikdeleon9932 11 ай бұрын

This was an awesome essay. The editing was great, I liked a lot of the points you made and you were really funny!!

@mikeym32_ 10 ай бұрын

Great video. I've been a fan of FNaF since October of 2014 and talk with my friends all the time about how FNaF has changed over the years, and the movie has been by far the most significant talking point among those conversations. I feel that the slight tonal shifts FNaF World and Sister Location made to FNaF as a franchise back in 2016 adjusted the entire trajectory of its future, and recent releases like Security Breach and the books are the result of years of going too far in that new direction, straying further and further over time from the more grounded and subtle paranormal horror story that the classic games had established. I love the FNaF Movie for finally revisiting the core concepts of the classic games in a new way, but the silly and sci-fi filter of the modern era that now defines the series had turned the film into an awkward Frankenstein's monster of FNaF iterations so wildly different that they hardly resemble each other, creating an imitation so unsure of its own identity that it's no wonder it came out the way it did. I have nothing but respect for Scott Cawthon, and hope that he'll make some form of faithful reboot happen with this sentiment that FNaF should return to its roots being so prevalent in feedback these days. I believe missed potential is the epitome of modern FNaF and am still crossing my fingers that it won't be that way forever.

@juliabp6057 9 ай бұрын

Don’t talk bad about SL and FFPS. They are good games with horror and a good story (i think they are the best FNAF games in terms of lore, in my opinion), despite having the hot topic sci-fi elements. Henry’s audios (both in insanity ending and the completion ending) are peak. And I just love the Novel Trilogy, and these games were the ones who put many elements from the Novels inside the games.

@mikeym32_ 9 ай бұрын

@@juliabp6057 I didn't talk bad about any of those things. I still enjoy SL and the novel trilogy despite them beginning the sci-fi/comedy shift, and FFPS is one of my favorite FNaF releases ever.

@duffman18 10 ай бұрын

Please don't worry about regular uploads. Longer, quality uploads are better. Take as much time as you need, don't burn yourself out. People tend to prefer longer, less frequent videos on KZbin these days, those are the ones that get the most views and attention. I dunno if it's because the algorithm changed or what, but your long videos are fantastic, so you just have to keep making them and you'll get the views eventually. Either way you deserve more subscribers.

@salt_factory7566 11 ай бұрын

Am I the only one who thinks Scott saw Jerma's "Five Naps at Freddy's" video and thought "This is how we'll make the film"

@ExtraQuestionableContent 11 ай бұрын

Holy shit you're completely right, Jerma deserves writing credits

@salt_factory7566 11 ай бұрын

@@ExtraQuestionableContent it's also worth noting that William Afton in the silver eyes graphic novels is drawn to look like Jerma.

@tourtle1497 11 ай бұрын

At 19:54, all those answers are AI generated by fandom, and are notoriously extremely wrong.

@Sovralover 11 ай бұрын

I can’t believe someone finally mentioned Mario Muffet in a video. This video is great by the way. I love the points you made on the franchise and everything surrounding it.

@CanvasChara 9 ай бұрын

And they even missed several opportunities for a metal pipe sound effect! HORRID! SIMPLY DISGUSTING! FOUL!!!!

@EMan-jj1ef 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for making this video, I pretty much agree with you on everything and I have felt this way since the movie first came out. I’ve been part of the fnaf community since 2014, but have been seriously falling out of favor with it as time goes on. When this film came out, it felt like I was being gaslit to feel like I was wrong or like I was “not a fan” for thinking that the film was bad. I really want to seriously leave the fan base, but it’s been a part of my life for so long. It really hurt to see people claim that this film was successful as an adaptation if not as a standalone movie, but when I look at it, I see a fundamental misunderstanding of the franchise (probably the clearest misunderstanding of the franchise since it was a direct misinterpretation of the first game) and I thought that people who were “fans” would also be able to see that as well, but I guess people don’t like the series for what it was meant to be be anymore, only having a superficial liking of it, and I should just accept that and move on with my time.

@its_Aurelia_ 6 ай бұрын

Bro thank you everyone’s been raving about spring trap and Matthew Lillard and I literally hated his character so much 😭 like he was not scary or intimidating at all

@A7CHITECT 11 ай бұрын

Excellent analysis, and yeah I definitely agree that Scott should take a break from FNAF or at least slow down on it. Great video, can't wait to see your Doctor Who 60th Anniversary video!

@TheMartyredextras Ай бұрын

Ok, so I like elements of your pitch but I think I like the initial set-up of the actual movie better. I think we could use that as a baseline and improve from there. I think giving Mike some characterization before the start of the pizza parlor portion wouldn't hurt as long as we do it quickly. My biggest problem with the actual film is that it wastes a lot of time and only has the stuff we wanted to see for a few scenes, but when it does do that, it does it pretty well. So we keep the stuff about Mike and his sister and his dead brother and his evil aunt, but we condense it down to a few short scenes at the start, the bare minimum we need to motivate our characters. From that point onward, I agree it would be more effective if we never see anything outside the pizza place again. We spend more time focused on the horror of the animatronics and Mike slowly unravelling the mystery from within the pizza place itself while actively focusing on mimicking the gameplay by having Mike Barricade himself inside. We can maybe have an actual break-in occur similarly to the one in the actual movie but actually during his shift to make more sense and give us some more fodder to be killed (This version is 100% R-rated btw) That part of the original movie, as you pointed out, was the only part where we got to see the animatronics actually be scary and do what they were supposed to do. Maybe this is even what happens that distracts the animatronics during the blackout scene so that we get to see the iconic face in the darkness without it killing Mike. Mike uses this opening to sneak away and find the final piece of the mystery, the hidden room where the children were killed. Since we left his backstory in like the original, this can actually answer the question of what happened to his brother and be a neat bit of payoff. Maybe his brother even shows up as one of the animatronics to protect him from the others instead of the break-in distraction doing it. I would make it foxy because not only is he more of a loner/outcast compared to the others but he's also the fast one, so him charging down the hall to come to Mike's rescue would be a nice twist on that iconic moment. Or make it golden Freddy because of the famous "It's me" line. Finally, like you described, I like the idea that he frees the children by doing something personal to them. and for the crying child who was left outside, here's a really cool idea. If what they want is to be invited in, save that one for last and have the way that Mike saves them be a leap of faith where he actually opens the door to let the killer animatronic inside. Finally, since Afton is a pretty iconic character, rather than removing him entirely, I would have there be an 11th hour twist that he is still trapped in the golden suit as an undead version of himself like in the games and he has been locked in that secret room this whole time, so after his victim's have been freed, he gets his iconic "I always come back" line and we get the iconic ending shot of the pizzeria being burned down with him in it.

@stormhought 11 ай бұрын

Another 1 Hour+ banger from my boi Verdana

@PercyTheWolf 11 ай бұрын

Great Video, Hope to see a lot more content this year!

@Dragonceratops 11 ай бұрын

i agree with basically everything you say in this video. i really respect your takes here, especially considering the outcry on twitter lol there is something i would change about your fnaf movie pitch though. in my opinion, i think the movie would really benefit from having scenes where the pizzeria is open and flourishing. it could create some nice contrast and emphasise mike's paranoia; maybe you could have a scene of him trying to convince kids to stay away from the animatronics and no one believes him. it would also create some ambiguity for the audience and benefit the helpless and isolated tone of the movie, as if no one is helping you and you might just be fucking crazy lmao solid video though, for sure

@TheSheepDoom 9 ай бұрын

35:11 im gonna be totally honest with you, and i dont know if it is a guilty taste of mine, but here's de hot take... I enjoy watching so much more Willy's Wonderland than the Five Nights At Freddy's movies. And I've loved the franchise for many years, but giving me a movie where it seems like the main characters are the humans its so stupid. In almost every good horror film, or horror material in general, the villian is in a way or another the main character, and in this movie they try so hard to make you empathize with the characters and i dont know... The only part of the movie that actually seemed FNaF style, was the part when the goons break on the pizzeria. And the PG-13 was bullshit, not to mention it. Also fans will call people edgy for wanting it to be R-Rated, or more gory, but thats such a stupid thing to say, becusse the original script of the movie MADE BY SCOTT HIMSELF was far more gory than the movie itself. Just for an example, The fat guy who has killed by Bonnie was supposed to be pierced through with the guitar, the Foxy one sliced in half, and the cupcake guy had a scene where it was showed the aftermath of the bite, leaving his gace destroyed. Now going onto Willys, i really enjoyed it far more because it isnt as prententious as the FNaF movie, its a movie when you just have to turn off your brain and see how A GUY SURVIVES THE NIGHT AGAISNT ANIMATRONICS. FNAF REFERENCE?!?! and also, its funny how they did that concept far more better than de FNaF movie itself. Like, mike spends five nights... But sleeping. And going on With Willy's, it may have goofy efects, or wanna be gory moments, but they are so much great in my opinion... I mean, who wouldn't like to see Nicolas Cage beat the fuck out of an animatronic weasel with a bag full of cans and a chair leg? Or hin playing pinball between hus breaks? I mean, its such a goofy movie that has its scary moments...

@skotovstudio 4 ай бұрын

SUCH A GOOD FUCKING VIDEO, 46K VIEWS?! LIFE IS UNFAIR.

@strawberry_boicake 11 ай бұрын

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@stamuu 11 ай бұрын

The kid playing golden freddy's ghost would be great for young homelander

@gumisharks5127 6 ай бұрын

Jesus christ that blurred part of the furry porn bit did not do a great job of actually fully covering up the action. Shocking that youtube let you keep that in STILL

@GNF54 6 ай бұрын

the what

@gumisharks5127 6 ай бұрын

@@GNF54 51:56

@shacharlem4424 5 ай бұрын

I hope the bendy movie can surpass the FNAF movie critically and financially. For those who don't know, bendy is a horror game series and media franchise created by TheMeatly and Mike Desjardins. Set in retro times, the series is focused on Joey Drew Studios, a fictional animation studio run by Joey Drew, which was responsible for numerous popular characters such as Bendy and his friends. The plot revolves around the Ink Machine, a mysterious machine created by Drew and the Gent Corporation in order to create living cartoons, which were created from the souls of Drew's employees, and is responsible for a time loop day world called the Cycle. Each game has different protagonist trying to survive and free themselves from the horrors in the ink realm and against ink monsters such as The Ink Demon. Compared to fnaf (mainly every game but security breach and especially FNAF world), The Bendy games are set at the fictional studio of Joey Drew Studios, where the player navigates through a first-person perspective and have limited physical actions such as running and jumping. Players are required to complete certain objectives to proceed, which consist of solving certain puzzles by collecting certain objects and of combating enemies that appear through the games by using certain weapons, such as axe, pipe, gun, etc. this gives bendy a massive adaptation advantage since the the characters we play as already scripted stories of what to do and in what order. There is also the fact that, speaking of the characters, there are hardly any fill in characters (who are just a name with a body we don't see) as Henry (the protagonist of the first game) while at the time unmodeled until dark revival, has a backstory and a personality. So did Boris the wolf's ink incarnation and Audrey drew. There's also the fact that while bendy might still have some mysteries behind it, it is much more straight forward than fnaf is and many of its secrets just need a bit of exploring and do not need a genius to figure them out. So Here is what I think I know what it needs to do: 1. stick to the intended genre 2. Not care about the age rating 3. Adapt stuff only from the game they're specifically adapting and take as little as possible from future installments but if done, make it have some sense. A few things that I think should be noted is that while it's fine to put some jokes there, they should be used in a way that fits the characters personalities. I don't think it'll be a good idea to repeat the fortBuilding scene in the five nights at Freddy's film. Now, it doesn't have to adapt everything at 100%. I do think the film will need a better opening than the one in the game (like making the letter more apologetic and see how Henry got it in the first place) , and make the ink demon more menacing than in the game (like an animalistic Jason Voorhees/Michael Myers or at best, like gordy from NOPE and Oswald's rabbit from oswald down the Rabbit hole). Maybe those are my tastes, but I think that the film should be as least practical as possible to better express the cycle's nature. Films like the upcoming harold and the purple crayon, IF, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, the new king Kong films, ghost hunters on icey trails, Ghostbusters afterlife, Ghostbusters frozen empire, 2016 Ghostbusters, Jurassic world, Sonic the hedgehog live action films, 2017 woody woodpecker and woody woodpecker goes to camp are what I'd go for in terms of how the less natural characters are shown (specifically characters like the Boris clones, the projectionist and lost ones would be made with motion capture, angels and Sammy are at least partly motion captured and monsters like the ink demon, giant bendy hand, searchers and butcher gang members are fully animated only the Bertram carousel is practical) . I also think the film should have a song to trademark it with, much like how it was with the FNAF film when it used the 1987 song: "talking in your sleep". In this case, the song should be "smile darn ya smile" for the following reasons: 1.it's a 1931 song. 2. its lyrics are positivity themed which would be interesting to listen to in the despair themed world of the cycle (and could have a dark humor scene showing a character having a breakdown while this song plays in the background or play in the background in the moment twisted Alice tortures a piper which would be a nice reference to soldier boy's PTSD in which he was subjected to torturous expirementations while the Russian song "Побег" which means "escape"). 3. it kinda associates well with bendy because bendy has an iconic grin. 4. the song was needledroped in "who framed Roger Rabbit", a live action/animated hybrid movie. I also have an idea for who some of the cast and crew should be: Themeatly as supervisor, screenwriter and Wally franks Mike desjardins as supervisor and thomas Connor/tom Bookpast as screenwriter and jack fain/voice of swollen Jack Ralph Bakshi as director Melanie Martinez as composer Patrick Dempsey as henry stein J.K. Simmons as Joey Drew Sean crisden as the voice of the ink demon Danny devito as norman polk Charles Aitken as sammy Lawrence Celeste Notley-smith as Susie Campbell Angelina Jolie as twisted Alice John Meissner as the voice of piper Mat Brunet as the voice of fisher Gary McClenaghan as the voice of striker Seán McLoughlin as shawn flynn Lani minella as lacie benton Joe j. Thomas as bertrum piedmont DAGames as grant cohen Chris Pratt as a lost one Pedro Pascal as a lost one Jack Quaid as a lost one Josh hutcherson as a lost one Nicolas cage as a lost one Ray William Johnson as a lost one Brandon Rogers as a lost one Michael james kovach as a lost one Thomas james Kenny as a lost one Tara Lynn strong as a lost one Grey Delisle as a lost one Rob Paulsen as a lost one Eric bauza as a lost one Selena Gomez as a lost one Jessica decicco as a lost one Daisy Reagan as Alison Angel Dane Boedigheiner as the voice of cartoon bendy the demon Garry chalk as the voice of cartoon Boris the wolf Lauren Synger as the voice of cartoon alice Angel Nat Faxon as the voice of cartoon charley Christopher mcullogh as the voice of cartoon barney Michelle Ruff as the voice of cartoon edgar Owen Dennis as producer (and other possible roles) Matt Braly as producer (and other possible roles) Dana Terrence as producer (and other possible roles) Cooper Smith Goodwin as producer (and other possible roles) Robert james rallison as a bendy cartoon animator Jaiden dittfach as a bendy cartoon animator Max gilardi as a bendy cartoon animator Rebecca parham as a bendy cartoon animator Adam ortiz JR. as a bendy cartoon animator Vivianne medrando as a bendy cartoon animator Alex Clark as a bendy cartoon animator Ilyssa Levy as a bendy cartoon animator Alex Hirsch as bendy cartoon animator Shannon Gurr as bendy cartoon animator Daisy Haggard as Linda I think the film itself should start with an in universe documentary film detailing the work life in Joey Drew studios akin to iron horse Cinema's the lost news reel video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYbbqp1vnNd7a7Msi=DNUaCS0aAaPlHbl5 (During Which, the film glitches at times between joey treating them good and Joey treating them horribly). After that sequence, it's a cut to the title screen and after that, the first act starts with a scene of Henry doodling to himself when Linda tries to tell him dinner is ready, with him apologizing that he was so busy with drawing even though he said he will not do so anymore so he could spend more time with her. I also wanted to have a scene that shows how Henry "got" his letter from joey (while also spending time with his wife and maybe kids if he has some). I also think that if it's going to be a film series, here are what I think would be perfect for adaptation: Movie one: adapting chapter 1 and 2 Movie two: adapting chapter 3 and the beginning of 4 Movie three: adapting chapter 4 Movie four: adapting chapter 5

@FutFreak 11 ай бұрын

Hey! Great work man! You're a brilliant and extremely underrated KZbinr. Just noticed that there's a clear signal that is telling you what kind of videos to make, that get views. You are extremely good at structuring your thoughts and making videos that debunk common/popular opinions, while presenting them in an entertaining way. Hate off! Helps you even more when you make videos about shows with great fandom. But you can continue following this strategy of debunking popular beliefs/notions and I am 1000% sure you'll consistently grow while getting a lot more views on average. Now, this is just from the perspective of someone who has binge watched 4 of your videos today. So, I'm not sure if there's any personal reasons why you don't do this all the time (lack of time, interest or motivation), but if on the off chance you haven't given this idea too much thought... I might go as far as to suggest you should look into it. Regardless, great job. Just rooting for you and wish you loads of success!

@theclownlyimp Ай бұрын

You should check out The Insightful Llama's rewrite of the film. They rewrote the movie basically from the ground up, expanding on character relationships and tying the plot together more effectively.

@Shaso-xv3tw 11 ай бұрын

I can’t help but feel that the main problem with the movie was that it was a children’s movie meant to be entertaining to small ones rather than being made as the high brow horror series it always had the potential to be and was at first

@Jeff-qk7jj 11 ай бұрын

OMG, you're one of my favourite KZbinrs and I'm obsessed with FNAF at the moment (that sounds really sad - I know), this has got to be fate lol. ETA: And gotten round to watching the movie yet (I'll watch the video anyway), but no matter how bad it may or may not be, *at least it's not written by Chris Chibnall* 😂

@bobipbob2898 10 ай бұрын

I just started to watch your videos yesterday and now I can´t stop. Such an underrrated channel!

@mcsizzle9411 11 ай бұрын

Having the Jim Henson company make the animatronics so that they look cute in the horror movie is so depressing when you think about Henson's horror works. Ironically, it kind of reflects the ending to the *Little Shop of Horrors*, when Henson's original ending was deemed "too scary and depressing" by his higher up. . . In his horror movie. . .

@Thejayone962 11 ай бұрын

they are animatronics made for a family pizzeria why would you want them not to look cute

@Wizardjones69 11 ай бұрын

@@Thejayone962the problem is that in any scene they are scary just like the first game, with lighting and darker ilumination, with a atmosphere that gives goosepumbs every time, *the fnaf movie doesnt have this feeling*

@timewarpdrive77 9 ай бұрын

Jim sterling's only purposes 1. accidently help create fnaf 2. call VR privlage goggles 3. and to be an all around wierd jackass

@SampsoniteJr 11 ай бұрын

I thought balloon boy in the movie was just a joke and not set up for future movies. He’s not plot relevant and his presence never hints at anything. He just shows up with a jumpscare a few times. The post-credits scene isn’t even an even a post-credits scene. It abruptly interrupts the credits at the beginning for a brief moment in a comedic way.

@mctanuki 10 ай бұрын

okay i love your analysis but i hate your pitch, so here's mine because it's the internet and you get engagement from my fnafiction. the film should take the antiwork vibes of the original game and play it up, as a Joe Versus the Volcano type dark workplace satire, but of course this is the surface-level film. it's an open, operating pizzeria and arcade with animatronics that do shows every day. the movie shows eleven short films, an anthology. i am not overly concerned with which bits of Lore are most Cinematic, so honestly take your pick, i'll be staying generic. 1. Night One - The new security guard Mike Schmidt sits down and listens to the training tapes for his Kafkaesque job which by night's end he learns is the corralling of murderbots. He barely survives, and gets a crisp paper check for his troubles. 2. A jumpscare-esque blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene in the style of a Kinescope film or something, just a couple frames of jumpy images, depicting one of the many minigames, but in this format. 3. Night Two - Mike shows back up, and the tapes begin to give him reasons he should remain, financial, pointing out how hard it is to get another job, how hard it is to find another guard on such short notice. It seems more coercion than instruction at this point. The monsters try a new trick or two, but he survives, and this time with much less anxiety about the whole affair. Another check awaits him. He will return. 4. Another minigame rendered as a short film, this one in the style of 1900s-era film, almost as if the ghosts are learning to communicate via the medium of film one short at a time. This one lasts longer, has a higher framerate, better film grain, etc. 5. Night Three - Mike shows up for hump day, and the recording drones on in the background, mostly indistinct except for a few vague insults that seem oddly specific to Mike and snippets of shouted rants, words like "Remnant" and "Sister Location" are mentioned, just for the lulz. Mike has the job down to a routine already, going through the night mechanically, avoiding death like a master-level player of the game, hitting every button just as the animatronic is about to kill him, but not even noticing, eating a sandwich, reading a novel, so on. At the end of the night, he gets a check, which he pockets, like he doesn't even care about it or the things it represents anymore. But he'll be back Thursday. 6. Another one of the minigames, this one has rudimentary sound, like The Jazz Singer or another early Talkie. Everyone is dressed in 1920s-era movie costumes, and pancake makeup, and the whole nine yards. It's almost like an AI training itself iteratively on each generation of filmmaking. The short is longer than the other two as well. 7. Night Four - Mike shows up, and he jams a paperclip into the device that plays the tapes so they don't even play tonight (he has not, it turns out, been playing them by choice). Everything goes basically like Night Three for the first half, but then one of the robots doesn't show up for its scheduled jumpscare. At first Mike doesn't even notice, because he's so checked out. But the next time, it stops him in his tracks. He doesn't even close the door. He looks down the hall, like Poe in The Raven, all scared of the darkness and shit. He closes the door. The cams show everyone in their places. They're not moving. Only problem is, stuff definitely IS being moved. Chairs, potted plants, signs on posts, so on. Mike never sees who it is. As he picks up his check, which every other time we only saw in closeup so as to obfuscate where he was getting them, we now see he is taking it from the hand ofof a guy wearing a springlock suit. He opens the restaurant every morning. His voice is the tape voice. 8. Minigame, now in Technicolor(tm)! This one is about equal in length to the segments with Mike. 9. Night Five - I'm not gonna bury the lede, William Afton and the haunted robots try to kill Mike. Think the Dan Aykroyd classic Nothing But Trouble for just, crazy murder antics with disturbing visuals that somehow aren't rated NC-17. At the end of the night, Mike kills William, and takes his final check from out of his bloody hand. SYMBOLISM!! 10. This one takes place in the 80s, and the movie looks like 1980s filmstock, straight-up Spielberg and whatnot, 4:3 ratio, Pan-and-Scan transfer to VHS. It's the Bite of 87, let's say. Only, it doesn't go the way it's supposed to. The kids all gang up and beat Afton until he's broken, purple, and lifeless, then feed his corpse to Freddy. Then the tape rewinds to the start of the beating, and it happens again. You get the idea. Credits. 11. POST-CREDITS CGI JUMPSCARE!!!

@doggamer3649 Ай бұрын

Night one is never hard in the game, you can sit in the office and fall asleep, no reason to come even close to death

@revanne5012 11 ай бұрын

34:38 while audience scores can be weirdly high meaning there may be manipulation, saying that theres not a problem with critic scores is just pretty wrong considering that this September there was a reveal that a PR firm did pay critics to rate films certain ways

@VerdanaVideos 11 ай бұрын

I meant with regards to this film specifically. I am aware Rotten Tomatoes has been known to fiddle with critic scores from time to time as well, which IMO makes it even more easy to believe that they’d manipulate audience scores too

@heroicgangster9981 5 ай бұрын

The only person I would trust to doing Five Nights at Freddy's entirely without Scott would be Tetsuya Nomura.

@DarkestMarlin74 11 ай бұрын

31:57 that last frame 😂

@njez7563 5 ай бұрын

1:14:42 damn didn't know Scott was the real life homelander lol

@andyblanton6570 5 ай бұрын

FNaF Nights at Freddy's does not function as a coherent linear movie for real people. It needs to be more abstract.

@kwayneboy1524 Ай бұрын

That sounds horrible.

@AaronJ2055 6 ай бұрын

17:31 He was able to escape eo easily because the guard at the beginning loosened the bolt. The villains are just too lazy to tighten a bolt apparently

@themarxologist 6 ай бұрын

I am a fnaf fan who is deeply invested in fnaf lore. And I just have to say that I didn't like the movie that much. The animatronics were fire. But it felt like the movie was too targeted towards the younger fans. Which could've been great... if it wasn't for the fact that fnaf should absolutely not be targeted towards children. I personally felt like the movie was dumbed down and a lot of plot point were weak. The characters were a little underwritten (especially abby and william). All of the philosophy of the fnaf games' lore was killed off. Vanessa is a completely useless character and how did no one question how a nightguard ended his shift with a fataly wounded police officer and a dead woman who he had very good motivation to kill her. Idk. It felt underwritten and dumbed down for younger audiences... to make more money ofc. And though I loved how the animatronics look and are used sometimes. But a lot of times they look cartoonish and it reminds me of those sfm animations from like 2015.. not a fnaf. I wish they would've utalized the horror of the sould of children literally being stuck in an animatronic suit for like thirty years. Children being MURDERED. The writing was cliché. The ghosts were cringe. Aunt Jen was cringe. Honestly reminded me of Dhar Mann. The only highlight character was Matpat and the lawyer. The cupcake was WAAAAAYY too cartoonish. While fnaf is horrific and goofy it needs to be in the way that made fnaf.... fnaf. Scott's sarcasm is the humour that made fnaf, fnaf. Honestly I was very disappointed. I liked a few things. Disliked a lot. It honestly feels like a very high budget youtube video. I feel like the biggest problem here is that it was targeted towards children and made by fkn blumhouse smh. Also the fkn plot?? The ghosts like abby so much that they want to make her into an animatronic?? wtf.. it's like the kidz bop version of fnaf. One thing that I loved about FNaF lore is the way the story has always been told. Far away from the front. It's kind of like telling a story about the leaders of the uk, germany, france etc. from the perspective of a soldier on the western front. And while this would be an unconvensional way of storytelling on a blockbuster. I don't think it's a good reason to make the movie mid. Maybe it would've been remembered as a masterpiece too early for its time. But now it's just a mid blumhouse movie. Yes, I am salty that this is what we got after like eight years. Idk. Maybe I just wanted a movie that was as good as the lore that would stand the test of time. This movie will fade

@IrtazaFNAFPro 6 ай бұрын

Well atleast there is a sequel already confirmed to release December 5th 2025 and it will be 100x better than the first movie

@aiiv7839 11 ай бұрын

Hmm, you have some good points regarding the movie and the franchise. While I do believe the franchise is fine as is, I will agree that it's okay to take some rsisk, especially with a franchise that explores topics like kids getting murdered. I do believe, however, that the movie was made from love. Maybe a little too much? Eh, I don't know, but that's just me. Interesting video!

@ROZALIYA111 11 ай бұрын

Just watched the entire video. Seriously this video is worth millions of views I love how you even made your own movie script idea I feel like even non fnaf fans who watch this video will be able to understand everything perfectly

@mylam658 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for treating this movie like a normal human being

@mybuffysummers 9 ай бұрын

The reason cop girl is so upset about Abby being there is because she doesn’t want her creep father to stuff the little girl into Chika’s cupcake

@Nanachi0000 11 ай бұрын

Gotta ask why the animatronics sound like 7433 battle robot shitters, they sound like huge scifi mechs, why, they never sounded like that in the og stuff.

@dappermaverick 6 ай бұрын

i never thought the movie was terrible, but this video perfectly encapsulates why i just dont feel the same spark with FNAF as i did when i was 10 years old.

@kwayneboy1524 Ай бұрын

Yeah here's a hint as to why you're not 10 anymore like what did you expect?

@dappermaverick Ай бұрын

@kwayneboy1524 an actually decent movie that at least makes sense