#i wouldn't call it horror simply because that part is botched after the first half basically

[drawnecromancy]

You know what, I'm in a weird spot with that FNAF movie.

I don't think it was very good ! As a horror movie, it made me laugh because especially towards the end the mystery and atmosphere vanished to get Fazbear Franchise Points. Like. Not laugh in the way horror can make you startle-laugh, or laugh so self-soothe. In a way that is "oh god, I see what they wanted to do, and they failed, and this is so endearing, and also so funny".

But...

I enjoyed myself immensely. It had some really cool ideas, and i love love love the visuals. I'd recommend watching it, even.

I like despite how the writing feels flimsy, cardboardy at times, Mike felt real and is very consistent throughout the movie.

I like despite how that movie is trying to tell 4 different stories, not all of them horror, just weirdly breaking up narratively in ways that don't really make sense, it's trying to tell all of them with love and care for the characters.

I love how it's not a soulless cash grab adaptation, and how I can overlook the writing flaws and the one cameo and enjoy it because damn ! It's a whole movie about the giant murder robots ! Those giant murder robots I loved as a kid !

I, genuinely, think that writing wise, you could break it up in 2, maybe even 3 different movies that would all have enough substance to go for an hour and a half. Really, most of this movie's problem isn't the stories it's trying to tell. It's - pick your battles, that's too many battles, put some back.

But it was genuinely fun.

I wouldn't call it a "good movie", by my own standards, but I had 0 expectations and again I enjoyed myself immensely.

Go watch them giant robots. It's so cool. It's so cool.

#fnaf movie #hope it's fine to put in the main tag i genuinely enjoyed it #it's goofy at times #it feels nice #i wouldn't call it horror simply because that part is botched after the first half basically #it is a movie! #and a fun one at that #so yaeh #i watched it with my dad who never played the games or anything #he decided to watch it with me because it's- it's a thing he does it's 'read or watch what my kids like to be able to talk to them about it #he did it for the hunger games when i was in high school #and i think even before that he gave narnia a read when i was a baby ass kid ? #and he watched the eragon movie with me. etc. #he just does that. #anyway #he doesn't know anything about fnaf #and his conclusion was like that you can definitely watch it without knowing any of the context #and while he wasn't too keen on the way they dropped information - the infodump bits aren't super well thought out #he also said it was enjoyable! #he also several times wondered what kid would like these scary ass animatronics #and then i showed him real life chuck e cheese animatronics #and he was like oh okay. i guess it's not unbelievable then #literally for the first half of this movie that was his only gripe with it LMFAO #the first have does a nice job at horror tbh #the second half less because it's 'oh my god we have so many things to tell we're running out of TIME' #pacing is important!