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afoxdoeswrite · 6 months

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I just got out of watching the Five Nights at Freddy's movie a couple hours ago. Here's some thoughts.

They're under this cut because obviously, a lot of spoilers.

On the FNaF movie;

It’s sure a movie. It didn’t need to be FNaF.

Let me preface this with some context; I’m fond of FNaF. I wasn’t in much of the big early craze. In fact I don’t think I really got into things until like, 2017, so coming up to the end of the early games. But I’m very fond of it. I love the lore, it’s a tangled disaster and everything about it is a mess. But I like that there’s plot holes everywhere to poke into, and that there’s about six different arguments for so many different things, and generally I like it because it’s a mess.

I’m admittedly not super up to date on the books and their lore, but that’s because I don’t have the free time to buy that many books and also read them. I’ve been working on that, mostly through things like the various wikis. I’d definitely not call myself up to date on the level that the Youtube lore video makers are, but I’m comfortably aware of a decent amount of things.

So with that in mind, the movie.

Now don’t get me wrong, it’s a decent movie. It’s not great.

Which is admittedly a problem when it’s had a development time of like five years or something? But hey.

The problem comes from the fact that it’s not really horror. At least. Not Five Nights at Freddy’s horror. It seems in some ways to bill itself more as a mystery- except, it’s a FNaF movie. If you know anything about FNaF, you can probably guess the ‘plot twist’ within the first few minutes of the mystery coming up. You could honestly remove all the FNaF elements and replace it with a Chuck E. Cheese, or some other Legally Distinct Restaurant With Robots, and get the same sort of energy.

Is it creepy? Sure. They do the atmosphere for the Pizza Place great, honestly. The tension is pretty good. And sure, I’ll let it slide that it is horror in that. The tension is good, there’s a creeping sense of not knowing what’s around the corners, the sense of being hunted. It’s good.

It didn’t need to be FNaF. It really, truly didn’t.

Let me explain.

The core of FNaF, the beating heart of it, is that it’s a survival horror where you’re locked in a room. You can’t see what’s coming for the majority of the game; you click the lights on your doors to see if they’re right outside, but that only works for two of the four. For the other two- Freddy and Foxy- as well as for tracking both Bonnie and Chica around the building, you have the cameras! It’s FNaF’s big mechanic for the first three games, and even the later ones have something similar to that.

The movie doesn’t use that.

(This is admittedly also my problem with Security Breach, but that’s a talk for another time.)

If the movie had given me Mike Schmidt, stuck in his office at the restaurant, being hunted by animatronics and having to defend the room, I’d’ve been happy. Sure, maybe it’s a little hard to make that a full movie. But there’s nothing to say he couldn’t also leave the room. Mix it up, use the cameras to keep track of things, make Mike too afraid to leave that safe place at first, but then make it so it’s either run or die, and then make things more mobile. Keep the cameras somehow; they’re linked to a tablet in the games, maybe use that.

But instead the movie gives us the FNaF office setting as a background to the family drama going on outside. It’s used as a place for Mike to have a job, and a place for him to talk to the ghosts while obsessing over finding out who took his brother.

And there’s another thing. The family drama frontline is also pretty meh. It’s used to push why Mike needs a job so much, why he takes the Freddy’s job even though it’s utter crap. But it’s basically dropped half way through the movie into a sub plot, and then isn’t resolved. The aunt just disappears. It’s sort of implied that she’s killed- which opens up another host of issues but Hey-, the people the aunt was using are all killed half way through and only used for some shock horror in the final climax of the film, and those guys are where a solid amount of the horror even comes from, with their invasion of Freddy’s and the following hunt.

If they’d taken that hunt into the rest of the film, that’d be great.

Continuing back, the plot with Abby is also… a bit flat. She’s got an imaginary friend! Neat! Mike has to take her to Freddy’s for work and she makes friends with the ghosts in the robots! Also neat!

The ending is boring. It’s dramatic, it’s tense. It’s boring. And honestly, my reasons why is entirely tied up with my next point;

William. Freaking. Afton.

This is about to get a bit non-chronological with the movie plot.

Now admittedly, in the setting of the movie, his entire existence isn’t nearly as groan-inducing as it is in the games. Especially the later games.

(My opinions on Security Breach continue to appear.)

But he is criminally misused in this movie. He’s why Mike’s brother disappeared, and so was likely killed. Yeah ok that’s fair. I don’t believe that’s how Afton has ever been presented as working like that in the games, but sure. I’ll take it.

Afton is able to control the animatronics? Sure…? I mean he kinda does that at one point, if you want to take the FNaF 3 post-night games as that. The Shadow Freddy in those minigames isn’t exactly Afton’s style at all, I’ve always assumed it to be some other ghost and I think a lot of people agree with that, but hey. We can work with that.

Afton appears in the last like, ten minutes or so of the movie, he rants for a bit, and is dragged off by the bots. He gets springlocked. He’s shut in one of the back rooms, presumably to meet his FNaF 3 ending cutscene fate of being stuck back there to rot. He’s hinted at before then, but the main villain of literally the entire series isn’t used.

And then there’s the Vanessa stuff.

Ok I would first like to point out; Vanessa introduces herself as Vanessa Shelly. Could this be a fake name? Sure. Or maybe she changed her name. But that would not be necessary at all. Vanessa in the games is Vanessa A., no last name given. The fandom is happily divided on if she’s an Afton or not. It’s right up there with the Vanny/Vanessa arguments. The point stands is that the movie nicely sets up that this isn’t the same Vanessa as Vanessa the Pizzaplex Security Guard.

My friend I tell you, when I say I groaned aloud when the whole ‘he’s my father’ line came up? I groaned. My soul left my body. We had to pause watching because the others in the room were laughing so hard at my reaction that no-one could hear anything.

I am so tired of this, man. I know some of this comes from having dealt with the last decade of franchise and the endless nightmare that is FNaF 6’s nice fairly neat ending followed by Ultimate Custom Night and Help Wanted and Security Breach.

(And Ruin. But Ruin is slightly less awful for this.

Barely.

Rant for another time.)

But I am so tired of William Afton being connected to everyone. Movie team. We have three canon children for Afton already. I understand if you didn’t want to poke the game lore snake with that stick. But you also didn’t need to do this.

I will admit. Do I know how they would have done the William Afton Info Dump- sorry, Dramatic Reveal- without Vanessa The Convenient Daughter? No. Were there options? Certainly. Hell. You have the ghosts of his victims wandering around. Remove the ‘Afton is controlling them’ bit. Have the kid tell Mike who this guy is.

In the games it’s implied Afton is actually arrested for the murders, but let go due to lack of evidence. You could use that too! Have Mike find out about the murders from Vanessa, like he does, have him go home and do some research, and find out about this William Afton guy who was taken in and let go. If you want to keep your dramatic family should-be-a-B-plot, that can be when Mike starts to think that maybe it was this same guy that took Garrett; link the fact that the ghosts of the Freddy’s kids keep appearing in his dream about his brother, and there you go.

Or tie it to Abby’s drawing thing. He sees the drawing, finds out the kids told her about Garrett, puts it together that maybe this Afton guy who was accused of potentially killing the kids at Freddy’s is also linked to what happened to Garrett, and that’s why they keep showing up in his dream. Ta-da, no need for Vanessa to be Afton’s kid.

Is it a perfect change? God no. But the movie isn’t perfect either by any means, so I don’t see why that should be a complaint.

But going forward.

The ending wasn’t bad, I’ll give the movie that. It’s not. Grand. I will admit that I did not think that we needed that whole Afton Face Reveal moment that we got. It’s kind of pitiful. And the drawings thing being how they break the control is also pretty meh. Nicely foreshadowed, but meh. If you take out the Afton control thing, then you don’t need that. Or alternatively, maybe the bots are listening to Afton-in-the-Springsuit because… it’s a springsuit. It’s canon to FNaF 2 that they can’t tell a bot from a human just using a mask, so why would a suit be different? They just think it’s another bot, so they listen.

Reveal that the Spring Bonnie isn’t just another suit but is a person by just. Damaging it, or something? Vanessa shoots him in the movie, use that fact. Use the taser and have that set the springlocks off. Something that reveals that it’s a person in there.

You can also do the whole ‘remove the mask’ that the movie did. Which by the way; boring! Again! While I was watching it is genuinely took me minutes to register ‘hey. That was the job centre guy, right?’

That’s bad.

That’s also unnecessary.

Afton’s whole thing was that he was a faceless killer. He wore the suit and mask and hid who he was. He didn’t need to be linked into the job centre guy at all. This is honestly similar to my situation with the ‘Vanessa’s his kid’ thing, really. We didn’t need that. It wasn’t necessary. Afton didn’t need to be anyone important in their lives. That’s half the point of Afton. He’s a serial murderer, and most of his on-purpose crimes are people he has no relationship to other than ‘worked in the building’. There wasn’t a need to bring this silly little loop of ‘Afton was the job centre guy and he specifically got Mike hired here so he could kill him!’ into things.

But hey. It’s Five Nights At Freddy’s. It’s not like unnecessary plot loops is a new thing here.

Either way. I don't think the ending was bad. I just think, much like a lot of everything else, it was just sort of boring and a bit full of things that weren't totally necessary.

Is there more I could say? Probably. If I felt like rewatching the movie again and picking it apart minute by minute for all the Bad Things, I could do that. I don’t want to. I’ve watched it, now.

I came out of this movie with the opinion that it wasn’t bad, and I stand by that. As a movie, it was acceptable. If you don’t really care about FNaF and the lore, and just want something to kind of brainlessly watch for a bit of a spook and some gore… yeah, it pulls that off alright.

But it’s a FNaF movie. I came here for FNaF. Maybe it was for the lore, to see how they tied things together. Maybe it was just for some spooky jumpscares. Maybe it was for a tense, survive the night action with a mix of defending the room and running for his life. But I came here for Five Nights at Freddy’s, and what I got was a movie that could be reskinned with any generic animatronic pizza place company and still stand on its own.

That is not a good thing.

#five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddy's movie #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf movie review #fnaf movie spoilers #i had rather a lot of thoughts coming out of this movie #so here's a good amount of them all gathered up

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vampiresbloodx · 7 months

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Everybody knows I'm a good girl, Sheriff.

Vanessa (fnaf movie) x Reader

Word count: 1,618

Trigger warnings: spoilers for the fnaf movie, mutual pinning, sexual tension, flirting, gay shit, kind of a build up before the events of the fnaf movie happened, stab wounds, alcohol, implied yandere vanessa, slight violence mentioned, this is for the gays and myself <3

a/n: idc what anyone says I love her I love my bbygirl the fnaf movie was everything I could have asked for and my inner child was very much fulfilled.

The town you lived in was boring, there was absolutely nothing to do, except maybe a two bars, a cinema that's too expensive for you to even buy a ticket, that's about it.

Though you didn't hate it.

You, weirdly enough, prefer it from the city life.

You do miss the buzzing life the city had than what a small town did.

Everyone seems to know everyone, and you were a stranger stepped into their home.

Not that you cared about what they thought anyway.

Nobody really caught your attention, except for one person in particular.

Her name was Vanessa, she was the Sheriff of the town, and my oh my was she a sight.

You had met her on the first night of your move in, she must have known a new person was moving into the town, as she is the Sheriff, so it made sense.

You just didn't expect to meet her so soon.

There was a knock at your door, you had a box in your hands as you were moving them around your new house. It was small, but just perfect.

When you opened the door, you didn't expect to see a police officer standing in front of you.

"Hello, officer."

"Hi, I heard someone new was moving here." She gave a friendly smile, her hands were on her hips, you were glad it was a woman instead of a male officer, oddly enough, you felt safe around her. "Just wanted to stop by and welcome you to the neighborhood."

You nod.

"Thanks," you chuckled, "uh, I'm guessing you are the Sheriff?..."

"Yes, that's correct." She smiled, "you can call me Vanessa."

"Well, Sheriff. Would you like to come in for some coffee?." You offered, opening your door wider for her to be welcomed in.

She shook her head.

"Sorry, but I have to decline. I have much to do, but I'll see you around."

"You will" you smiled politely, waving her goodbye as she walked off to her car.

As Vanessa sat in her car, shutting the door behind her, she watched you closely, it's not that she didn't trust you, she just didn't trust this town, yes, she was their Sheriff, but this was her hometown, and Vanessa knew that she had to look out for you. You were just so sweet, too kind for your own good.

If anything happens to you she will never forgive herself.

–

It was early when you woke up, the sun still rising as you rubbed at your eyes, yawning and stretching. Grabbing your phone, you saw there were at least 20 missed calls and 30 texts from your ex-girlfriend that you had recently broken up with a month ago, also a reason why you moved away in the first place.

Everywhere you went she was there.

You couldn't deal with it.

No matter how much your therapist told you that time will heal, yes, maybe, sure. But you came from a broken home, to having shitty toxic relationships, friendships that didn't last long, you were always gonna end up alone.

It's like no matter where you go, bad stuff always happens.

It doesn't matter what you do.

But there was something about this town.

Especially their sheriff.

Who you couldn't deny was nice to look at.

Even though you weren't a fan of cops.

None at all.

And yet you were drawn to Vanessa.

She was unlike anyone you've ever met before.

You were curious, let's hope that curiosity doesn't get you hurt or worse killed.

Bored out of your mind, you decided to go visit a bar, grab a drink, and meet new people.

You weren't even a social person, you hated parties now as an adult, though your teen years were filled with them.

It was around 8PM when you pulled up to the local bar that seemed to be a popular one for the locals and new people like yourself, you could already felt your heart hammering against your chest, but you couldn't stay inside your house all the time.

You walked through the place and immediately smelt beer and cigarettes.

Eyes peered in your direction, men checking you out as you fought the urge to roll your eyes as you ignored them, walking to the bar.

The bartender was a male in his mid 30s, Tommy, was what he introduced when you ordered a drink.

"Don't think I've seem ya around town before" he said, handing you the class of whisky as you thanked him, "are ya new or something?."

"Sort of" you muttered, taking a sip.

"Visiting family?" He continues.

"Nope. I live alone" You said, he hummed.

Just then, the bell dinged as someone else walked through the bar, Tommy gave a nod to whoever that was but you had an idea as they took a seat next to you.

"Sheriff."

"Tommy."

They exchange their small talk, Tommy orders Vanessa her drink.

"How are you liking it here?" Vanessa then asked you, Turning her attention away from Tommy.

You shrugged.

"Better than the city. Less loud."

Vanessa smiled.

"City girl, are we?" She muses.

You weren't sure if she was teasing you but you went with it.

"Yup, though I did live in a town similar to this a long time ago."

This catches her attention.

"Long time ago? You say that like you're a hundred years old and you don't even look twenty five" She jokes.

You chuckled.

"Yeah, well, I've had my experience."

Vanessa wanted to know more, you know she did, the look in her eyes said it all.

But you liked to play with them. To see how much they wanted it.

"City folk are always coming to this place every now and then" Vanessa says, taking a sip of her beer. "Then they complain about how boring it is, there's no fun, and they leave."

"Well I like it," you said.

She smiles.

"I'm glad" She nods.

The conversation was smooth enough, though you couldn't help but catch the way Vanessa was staring at you even when she didn't think you knew. There was something in her gaze that was telling you more than what she was letting on. Whatever that may be.

It was around 11pm when you went back home.

Though it wasn't in your car, she had to drive you home.

You had gotten a little bit, well, tipsy.

And she wasn't about to let you drive home and get into an accident.

No matter how much you protested she ignored.

You wanted to tease her more, loving the way her cheeks turn red everytime you compliment her.

"Looking good, Sheriff."

"I see handcuffs in your car, didn't know you were kinky."

"Care to arrest me, Sheriff?."

God, you were driving her insane.

She wanted nothing more than to kiss you.

But she held herself.

Weeks passed, soon it turned into months, you managed to get a job, working at the bar Tommy worked at, he gave you something to do and you were grateful for it.

You had previous bartender and serving experiences, so it helped.

It also meant you got to see Vanessa a lot, your favourite part of the day was when she would come to visit.

You remember her reaction when Tommy had told her he had hired you to work here, the slight grin on his face as Vanessa eyed him suspiciously, she was pissed, and you didn't ask why, but eventually, she was happy that you were happy to work here.

It was around that time when Vanessa would visit the Bar, she always had a break around 4 and 6. How did you know that? You just did.

You already had her drink prepared and placed out for her as your heart beat excited waiting for her.

But she never came.

And you had a very bad feeling.

You had to find her.

"Hey Tommy, I'm gonna leave for a bit, sorry, I'll cover more shifts this week."

"It's all good! I've got it" he shouted as you rushed out to your car.

You didn't know where she could be, but you had a strong feeling that something bad happened, she was never this late, unless she was in trouble.

You knew that as her job as the Sheriff, trouble will come, she can't avoid it. Neither can you. But the thought of her dying, getting hurt, ending up in hospital, scared you.

You knew she just wanted to protect and help others.

Typical.

But Vanessa was different.

She was smart, beautiful and God was she sexy, but incredibly stubborn.

It was hard to convince her when she had her mind set on something.

When you saw her car, just parked outside an old looking restaurant that you read to be was freddy fazbear's pizzeria,you quickly parked, running out and you smelt a bit of fire coming from the place.

As you were out to barge into whatever was happening with no protection for yourself and the only thought you had was to find Vanessa and make sure she was okay, that was when you saw her.

But she was in a bad state.

A man you have never met before looked like he'd been through hell came outside, with a little girl walking beside him as in his arms was an unconscious Vanessa.

You shouted her name, running at her.

The man looked up, seeing your worried expression.

"What the fuck happened? Is she okay?" You yelled at him, hovering over the blonde as you saw blood on her shirt.

"She's okay, but we need to get her to a hospital ASAP."

"Why?" You hated to ask.

"She was stabbed."

#fnaf x reader #fnaf x y/n #fnaf x you #vanessa fnaf #fnaf vanessa #vanessa shelly x reader #vanessa monroe #vanessa shelly #fnaf vanessa x reader #stuff i wrote

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calstellationxoxo · 7 months

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Banning myself from Tumblr until I see the FNAF movie later tonight

Everywhere I go there's spoilers and so far I've managed to avoid them

#fnaf movie

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purpleisnotacolor · 7 months

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Sadly I was never able to implement splash text properly into my blog, but I don't want them to go to waste, so I'll post them here so that you can all see what could have been.

Most of it is references to stories and characters I love, a few memes, and a few genuine messages. I'll put explanations in parentheses next to the text, some are self-explanatory.

Purple is not a color (absent from RGB/CMY)

Orange is also not a color (absent from RGB/CMY)

Magenta is a color (a primary color in CMYK)

You think you honor your brother Genji with incense offerings? (line from Genji in Overwatch's "dragons" short)

I am not a robot >:( (voice line from Genji in the games)

ANGELA! (voice line from Genji in the games when Mercy/Angely is killed)

Salt and light (yes, a bible referecne, but also the fandom tag for Christian writing)

Where is your rider? (a lovely song by the Oh Hellos)

Hey! :D (voice line from Mono in Little Nightmares 2)

Hi! :D (voice line from Mono in Little Nightmares 2)

Hoi! :D (voice line from Mono in Little Nightmares 2)

Fun fact, I love Minecraft! (I love minecraft)

Parker just stabbed her guy with a fork... (line from Elliot Spencer in Leverage)

Glow Squid! (I will die on the hill that glow squid are good)

Birch Wood is Best Wood (it's just so gentle)

Do you love the color of the sky? (you know)

Do you know color theory? (you know)

YIPEEEEEEEEE :D (autism creature/little german boy/play fortnight und drink cola)

ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Having a good time! (song by queen, also this video)

Never gunna give you up! (song by Rick Astly)

God loves you!

OWO

OwO

UwU

UWU

And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically, or theoretically or in any other fancy way (line from a spoiler character in Puss In Boots: The Last Wish)

We are called to honor God everywhere, that includes between the 7/11 and Best-Buy (quote from me after getting into discourse on protestant architecture)

Jesus saves!

GISNEP (what the Disney logo looks like to a dyslexic)

Splash Text code by conarcoin/timedeo (it didn't work, but I wanted to give credit to the artist, it was at least a good idea)

Watch your profanity

GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREA (12 Os for the 12 notes in the song)

Hello? Hello Hello! (line from "phone guy" in FNAF 1 and 2)

Everything is awesome! (line from The Lego Movie)

Forgiveness… Can you imagine? (line from It's Quiet Uptown in Hamilton the musical)

If A then B (a reference to this post)

....aaaaand that's it!

I would have added more if I got it to work, I had them saved elsewhere too so that I could come back and modify and add to them.

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