Horror Five Nights at Freddy's

[Joe Von Zombie]

There's a lot of Adults completely missing the point with this film. Name an R rated property with a book deal with Scholastic. I'll wait.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

There's a lot of Adults completely missing the point with this film. Name an R rated property with a book deal with Scholastic. I'll wait.

Yeah, I dont know why anything thinks FNAF is an M-rated series. It's not. Most of the harder stuff in the lore is mainly implied and never shown so there's no gore or anything.

FNAF is definitely gateway horror, and that's perfectly fine. We don't get a lot of that lately theatrically.

 

[DarkKnight]

Out of curiosity, I decided to read some of the Rotten Tomato Critic reviews. To no surprise, many seem out of touch of what this film is meant to be and to whom the target audience is (Here's looking at you Mario: RT Critic 59% Audience 95%). As one of my previous posts stated, "I don't care and haven't cared about critic RT scores in a very long time. Audience scoring is usually more in line with my tastes". My opinion of this has remained unchanged for years now. I do look forward to seeing what the Audience score ends up being but most importantly, I'm looking forward to watching this with my family as we have all enjoyed various aspects of the existing games and book part of the franchise.

I'm going into this knowing what this film is meant to be. Hoping for a fun ride! I'll report back after watching with my opinion on the film.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Out of curiosity, I decided to read some of the Rotten Tomato Critic reviews. To no surprise, many seem out of touch of what this film is meant to be and to whom the target audience is (Here's looking at you Mario: RT Critic 59% Audience 95%). As one of my previous posts stated, "I don't care and haven't cared about critic RT scores in a very long time. Audience scoring is usually more in line with my tastes". My opinion of this has remained unchanged for years now. I do look forward to seeing what the Audience score ends up being but most importantly, I'm looking forward to watching this with my family as we have all enjoyed various aspects of the existing games and book part of the franchise.

I'm going into this knowing what this film is meant to be. Hoping for a fun ride! I'll report back after watching with my opinion on the film.

The critic reviews were embarrassingly out of touch with Mario. I'm not asking for stuff like this to be graded on a curve but at the very least have an ounce of self awareness when reviewing this stuff. I've always found the Hype's obsession with critical reception to be very strange. They feel the need to have these IPs they like to be legitimatized by the tastemakers for whatever reason.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Considering Mario is one of the worst films I've ever seen, those critics seemed pretty damn generous to me.

The concept of a target audience, does not suddenly change one's own opinion of a film. And that's all a critic can do. Give their opinion.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

Will FNAF become the 21st Century's answer to The Shining? Only time will tell!

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Considering Mario is one of the worst films I've ever seen, those critics seemed pretty damn generous to me.

The concept of a target audience, does not suddenly change one's own opinion of a film. And that's all a critic can do. Give there opinion.

Hyperbole is hilarious, my dude.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Hyperbole is hilarious, my dude.

No, I mean it. The writing and storytelling of that movie is a different kind of atrocious. They start little "side stories" and don't even complete them. Feels written by a committee and AI. I spend a good portion of Halloween watching terrible movies and none come close to that one. Because they at least try to tell a full story in a coherent manner.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

No, I mean it. The writing and storytelling of that movie is a different kind of atrocious. They start little "side stories" and don't even complete them. Feels written by a committee and AI. I spend a good portion of Halloween watching terrible movies and none come close to that one. Because they at least try to tell a full story in a coherent manner.

Legitimate question: which side stories in particular? The plot is basic af, and it's Mario's greatest hits but that's what I expected.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Legitimate question: which side stories in particular? The plot is basic af, and it's Mario's greatest hits but that's what I expected.

I flushed that movie from my system as soon as I was done watching it. I wrote my thoughts in the thread and then let it good. But I do kind of remember thinking that DK had a backstory going on, and then nothing.

You expecting something to be trash does not make it good to others. When I order Taco Bell and know what I'm getting, doesn't suddenly make it good food.

 

[Snow Queen]

The idea critics are doing something wrong and out of touch for reviewing a movie in a way that doesn't line up with box office results is positively maddening. At that point, why even look at reviews at all? Clearly Mario, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fate of the Furious, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon are among the best cinema has to offer. Seeing the reaction across platforms to this reviewing badly has been hilarious. Comparing it to Fight Club, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's like mini Batman v Superman. Sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I flushed that movie from my system as soon as I was done watching it. I wrote my thoughts in the thread and then let it good. But I do kind of remember thinking that DK had a backstory going on, and then nothing.

You expecting something to be trash does not make it good to others. When I order Taco Bell and know what I'm getting, doesn't suddenly make it good food.

But you got full none the less. It's established that DK has daddy issues like mario and they use it for two characters to find common ground later. It's basic but the payoff is there.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The idea critics are doing something wrong and out of touch for reviewing a movie in a way that doesn't line up with box office results is positively maddening. At that point, why even look at reviews at all? Clearly Mario, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fate of the Furious, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon are among the best cinema has to offer. Seeing the reaction across platforms to this reviewing badly has been hilarious. Comparing it to Fight Club, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's like mini Batman v Superman. Sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie.

And I enjoy plenty of bad movies. Doesn't make them Casablanca.

We should not want critics to lie to us. They should tell us how they feel about a movie. If you don't match taste with them, okay. Move on. But the complaints give off a very distinct vibe of wanting validation. Especially when they start comparing a goofy little video game adaptation to Kubrick and Fincher of all people.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

But you got full none the less. It's established that DK has daddy issues like mario and they use it for two characters to find common ground later. It's basic but the payoff is there.

But that wasn't the question. Using this logic, every movie is a good movie, because it's technically doing what a movie does.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

The idea critics are doing something wrong and out of touch for reviewing a movie in a way that doesn't line up with box office results is positively maddening. At that point, why even look at reviews at all? Clearly Mario, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Fate of the Furious, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon are among the best cinema has to offer. Seeing the reaction across platforms to this reviewing badly has been hilarious. Comparing it to Fight Club, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's like mini Batman v Superman. Sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie.

That's not what anybody is saying at all. This isn't going to be a misunderstood classic but when you see critics writing pretentious paragraph after pretentious paragraph about Mario or FNAF, it becomes unintentionally funny and all I can do is laugh.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That's not what anybody is saying at all. This isn't going to be a misunderstood classic but when you see critics writing pretentious paragraph after pretentious paragraph about Mario or FNAF, it becomes unintentionally funny and all I can do is laugh.

What makes them pretentious?

Also @Snow Queen is being literal.

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

Okay, I have to ask: if Mario is one of the worst films you've ever seen, I wonder- how many movies have you seen??

Or, I don't know, maybe this is a backdoor way to turn the thread into the console wars of the 1990s and you're a massive Sega fan? I kid, of course.

 

[Snow Queen]

That's not what anybody is saying at all. This isn't going to be a misunderstood classic but when you see critics writing pretentious paragraph after pretentious paragraph about Mario or FNAF, it becomes unintentionally funny and all I can do is laugh.

It's literally their job to write paragraphs about it and they should write them as they would any other movie. The alternative is just asking for these movies not to be treated as real movies, but instead jingling keys in the faces of fans, judged for how many times you hear that music cue you remember.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

But that wasn't the question. Using this logic, every movie is a good movie, because it's technically doing what a movie does.

Not at all. I've been very unfulfilled by films because they didn't live up to what they were trying to sell. Zack Snyders superhero work comes to mind. The general Zod trailer for MOS is one of my favorite trailers ever but the films a mess.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Not at all. I've been very unfulfilled by films because they didn't live up to what they were trying to sell. Zack Snyders superhero work comes to mind. The general Zod trailer for MOS is one of my favorite trailers ever but the films a mess.

Why do you assume I was fulfilled by Taco Bell in this scenario?

That's the issue here. You're projecting your own feelings onto others and defining how they should feel about a movie. Why?

Going back to Mario for second. If someone is entertained by the simple sight of Rainbow Road or a Bullet Bill and that's all they need, why does that need to fulfill someone else?

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Why do you assume I was fulfilled by Taco Bell in this scenario?

That's the issue here. You're projecting your own feelings onto others and defining how they should feel about a movie. Why?

Going back to Mario for second. If someone is entertained by the simple sight of Rainbow Road or a Bullet Bill and that's all they need, why does that need to fulfill someone else?

I do not mean to come off that way, but my assumption is you keep going back to Taco Bell so you're getting something out of it, yeah? The question that makes all of this hilarious to me with theses types of films is "What did you honestly expect?" Most of the discourse around FNAF I've read has been its lack of gore. The games themselves aren't even M rated. They're gateway horror games for kids and teens. Again, not asking for these films to graded on a curve, but a little self awareness, less hyperbole, and an acknowledgement that they're accurate representations of their source material would go a long way with me personally.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Okay, I have to ask: if Mario is one of the worst films you've ever seen, I wonder- how many movies have you seen??

Or, I don't know, maybe this is a backdoor way to turn the thread into the console wars of the 1990s and you're a massive Sega fan? I kid, of course.

Let's see. I watch well over 100 new ones every year and have since as long as I can remember. Today I'm watch 4 including FNAF. So I want to say over 4000. Could be over 5000, but I can't remember everything I watched as a kid.

And yeah, that Mario Bros movie is one of the worst. It's worse then the holiday staple The Christmas Light.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I do not mean to come off that way, but my assumption is you keep going back to Taco Bell so you're getting something out of it, yeah? The question that makes all of this hilarious to me with theses types of films is "What did you honestly expect?" Most of the discourse around FNAF I've read has been its lack of gore. The games themselves aren't even M rated. They're gateway horror games for kids and teens. Again, not asking for these films to graded on a curve, but a little self awareness, less hyperbole, and an acknowledgement that they're accurate representations of their source material would go a long way with me personally.

I go to Taco Bell because it's cheap and helps me feel better when I blow money on more expensive fast food. That and McDonald's fries can make anything work.

When asking someone what they "expect", I think you put them in a box. People watching this movie without knowing the games, are responding to the film they're watching. Which to me is honestly better. Because there is no expectations. You're being presented with a film and reacting to it.

When someone says, "why no gore". It's probably because when watching the movie, it's weird to them there isn't gore. Because it's a movie that plays out like it should have gore. Now the company wanting to market to kids is their financial decision. But how often do financial decision rub up and hurt artistic ones? I'd say a lot.

I do have a question. Do you expect people to do "homework" to review a movie or tv show? A movie being an adaptation, doesn't mean you have to read the book or played the game. Most people who watch The Shining haven't read the book, which King thinks it's a terrible adaptation of. Yet, it's a beloved piece of cinema.

This year with the One Piece adaptation on Netflix. I haven't read it, my bro hasn't read it, my best friend hasn't read it. We all really enjoyed it. Because it was a good show.

One of my favorite book series is The Dark Tower. My brother and best friend have never read it. They didn't need me to explain the books for them to come to their own conclusion that they didn't like the movie.

A film is a film. No matter it's source material and should judged that way.

 

[DarkKnight]

The critics are indeed welcome to their opinions and score. Same with the Audience reaction and score. All I said before is that the Audience score generally aligns more accurately to my feelings and taste for films on average. Yes, I've also enjoyed many films that critics have praised along with some of the greatest in cinema and I've also enjoyed some that are critically panned. I just personally find it extremely funny how what appears to be a large percentage of critics seem to rate a film like this, Mario or other similar films as if they are expecting it to be a film to be of the same caliber as the likes of The Shawshank Redemption or Schindler's List. A film can still be good and successful and loved by the general audience without it being a cinematic masterpiece with high critic scores. Hence my own personal perspective/opinion of what I mean by some critics being out of touch with what the film is meant to be and/or what its target audience is intended to be. I completely understand there is no scoring curve or categorical rating system, I get that. But it's still very humorous to me.

I'll respect everyone's opinion of a film. Lord knows mine varies greatly with various members here when discussing various Marvel and DC films lol.

But for now... Its currently 1:52PM and I cannot wait to get home from work and enjoy a pizza and popcorn night with the family while watching FNAF. I'll be sure to update my thoughts on the film over the weekend or if I get busy, early next week.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

I go to Taco Bell because it's cheap and helps me feel better when I blow money on more expensive fast food. That and McDonald's fries can make anything work.

When asking someone what they "expect", I think you put them in a box. People watching this movie without knowing the games, are responding to the film they're watching. Which to me is honestly better. Because there is no expectations. You're being presented with a film and reacting to it.

When someone says, "why no gore". It's probably because when watching the movie, it's weird to them there isn't gore. Because it's a movie that plays out like it should have gore. Now the company wanting to market to kids is their financial decision. But how often do financial decision rub up and hurt artistic ones? I'd say a lot.

I do have a question. Do you expect people to do "homework" to review a movie or tv show? A movie being an adaptation, doesn't mean you have to read the book or played the game. Most people who watch The Shining haven't read the book, which King thinks it's a terrible adaptation of. Yet, it's a beloved piece of cinema.

This year with the One Piece adaptation on Netflix. I haven't read it, my bro hasn't read it, my best friend hasn't read it. We all really enjoyed it. Because it was a good show.

One of my favorite book series is The Dark Tower. My brother and best friend have never read it. They didn't need me to explain the books for them to come to their own conclusion that they didn't like the movie.

A film is a film. No matter it's source material and should judged that way.

That's where you and I will disagree because I'm far more interested in what people who are familiar with the material have to say about it than those who aren't. It's why I joined these forums back in the day to begin with. A gore filled adaptation of FNAF completely misses the point. Same thing with Scary Stories a few years back, people whined that movie wasn't rated R when it's adapted from literal children's books. I have very little interest in whatever pretentious ass hat from rogerebert.com has to FNAF outside of getting a good chuckle.