FNAF and Fifty Shades of Grey are basically parallel movies, like person with no storytelling experience ends up in charge of wildly valuable franchise & the fanbase is so obsessed the filmmakers are forced to adhere to terrible story decisions the creator casually made years ago
Like the kids who consumed it were SO into the idea there was really deep lore and there clearly hadn't been but the creator added lore and said yes to everything and none of it makes sense and it also totally undermines why it's scary
@JennyENicholson FNAF is so disappointing. It should have been a fun film with lots of jump scares. Alas, it just isn’t.
@JennyENicholson I mean, at least with 50 shades she'd directed two shorts and one feature prior.
@JennyENicholson I feel like FNAF suffers from “too many cooks in the kitchen” syndrome. Where the concept was great & creepy in its own right, incorporating fan theories and wants is what eventually made the quality go downhill HARD. Malfunctioning machines are horrifying, no need for ghosts.
@JennyENicholson I decided to watch Matt Pat's timeline video and it was utterly baffling how a pretty straight forward haunted Chuck e cheese horror game morphed into this whole elaborate story.
@JennyENicholson At first I thought you meant they have the same plot.
@JennyENicholson Rumors are that the movie is based on an ancient AO3 fanfic called Trapped with Josh Hutcherson at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza by lordblumhouse4773447
@JennyENicholson I liked the direction FNAF went in. I think sprawling convoluted lore is fun even if it doesn’t make total sense (like kingdom hearts). After a few games it started leaning into self-parody with a lot of genuinely good humor, I think kids just don’t understand that aspect of it
@JennyENicholson The first fnaf game is so steeped in incredible tension and intrigue and terror and mystery and horror and then every game after just strips it down bit by bit