Five Nights at Freddy’s

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[00:00:18] This episode is brought to you by the Footcandal Film Society. For a schedule of upcoming screenings and membership information, I'm going to hear those comments from you. Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that. So the film we'll be discussing in foot candle films today is the film five nights at Freddy's. It is a horror mystery thriller based on a video game. I'm sure we will talk about here in just one. Not two. So maybe let's see if we can spend five minutes talking about five nights at Freddy's in our main review. Fair enough. All right, this is Mike.

[00:03:01] I was just going to see if that job

[00:03:02] that you offered was still available.

[00:03:04] Yes.

[00:03:05] The security guard.

[00:03:06] I will take anything.

[00:04:06] restaurant and fall off demonic animatronics. So I was a little confused that this film came out.

[00:04:11] Alan, I don't imagine you really had confusion with that because I don't think you'd seen Willy's Wonderland. But what was your experience with the cinematic masterpiece that is Five Nights

[00:04:17] at Freddy's? Well, just the fact that you cinematic masterpiece already tells me,

[00:04:23] I know you use that facetiously because I want to hear what you're saying but we are on the same page with that this is a film that I felt like was yearning for more and.

[00:05:47] From moments like you in early in the film I thought okay there they're doing something a little more interesting there's It gets a little tedious and a little over done. But you know, we get to this, we get to this old restaurant, this old amusement area, whatever it is, Freddy's. And it is a slow build for things to happen. I don't think it quite meets the

[00:08:04] on two. There's only a certain number of limited characters in this film. So when you're trying to figure out who a certain character is, it doesn't take a rocket

[00:08:07] scientist to figure out, well, there's only these people to choose from it. So I guess

[00:08:12] it's going to be maybe this person. Overall, I just felt like this kind was a mess.

[00:08:19] It tried to do so many different things. It was maddening to me. So yeah. I can't believe I'm going to come to the defense of this film. Wow. Okay. Now, let me say, okay, don't, I don't like this film.

[00:09:40] I don't think it was good, but I do admire it a little,

[00:09:44] not that I think, the very thing I admire it for

[00:09:46] is the thing that the opening five or ten minutes and I was like, oh, oh, okay, he has had a brother that was abducted and that scarred him. Now both of his parents are gone and he's taking care of his younger sister.

[00:11:02] Like, I'm like, whoa, okay.

[00:11:05] Automatically, you are doing something that Willy's Wonderland, the's the pet of mustache, she's not twirling it. But I thought that was good, but then that actual relationship got a little confusing because you could tell the little girl, his sister, Abby, she didn't like Aunt Jane, he didn't like Ed Jane, but then at some point in the film, and then you see the Aunt Jane is actively trying to get Abby taken away from him,

[00:12:22] which I was like, do what? And then at one point he invites the Aunt Jane over to his ambitious, but at least he got to stick the landing on some angle of what you're trying to pull and this one didn't pull it on any. So you're right, it was the tone flip between, is this a tongue and cheek kind of a little more campy, pseudo horror film that it tried to play in a few moments and a few scenes? I mean, there's the scene you mentioned Mary Stuart Masterson and

[00:14:45] know what seeing this movie is from because you're right. 20 minutes later, they revere this character in a completely different way. I mean, not completely different, but she's

[00:14:50] much more of a antagonist and a more family drama that you would expect and a little more

[00:14:56] realism to it. And it's just, yeah, it was all over the place.

[00:15:00] And, well, and correct me if I'm wrong, Alan, one of the role of the security guard. You are watching the monitors. The monitors seem to be a big thing. I'm assuming the monitors are in the game as well, like you're watching monitors, and then you're going to different rooms and you're encountering these animatronic creatures. So I mean, it sets up everything in the film to have those moments, but I mean, just none of it with the story because of the inconsistency of tone and all that. And then it also has plays up a mystery, as I mentioned earlier, where you're starting to figure out that there's something else about these animatronic robots. Again, the police woman Vanessa doing her cryptic dialogue all the way through trying

[00:17:43] to just lead you down a path where I just don't seen it and don't but one would bother. But the mere fact that Elizabeth Laille's police officer, that doesn't work, that she's a police officer, if you're going to give credence to how the film ends, because it doesn't seem like she has justification to get to the building and get inside that's that's a shame because. She seems like a good actress and i want to see her another things because i mean i think she performed what she was supposed to be performing very well. It's just the role itself was just so poorly written but again i think several of the roles were probably written.

[00:21:24] the something he does. Oh, that's right. And then it's like seven times. Okay, got it. Yeah, go away too many times. But it takes him back to this the day his brother got abducted. And it's

[00:21:29] like they're trying to do kind of a memento or like, inception type thing where he's trying to

[00:21:36] change the events. And it's like, okay, that's interesting. But you're just not, they don't,

[00:21:44] they kind of drop it off. And that just be good. I'm talking about another film that's not five nights at Freddy's, then you're at the right place. Okay, here we go. Sure. All right, so Chris, here's my questions. Yes. So, my understanding from this film is that the animatronic robots were actually the

[00:23:01] abducted children, their bodies on the inside of these animatronic robots, correct? robots that is chest is open. And if you go in and got near it, the police woman in her ever omniscient experience and knowledge with this film warns Mike that, hey, if you touch it, it kind of clamps in and kind of springs into place to like almost like hold somebody inside is what it looks

[00:24:21] like. And then we're told later in Yes, question number two is if question number one is correct. Yes, then what is up with Mike's brother and doing things that they normally wouldn't do. And you're like, okay, like, no. Yeah, so it just

[00:27:00] doesn't. It just, it took on too much. It falls apart. But yeah, you know, she has a father. It was her father who did this. I'm like, oh, well, obviously her father was the guy we met at the beginning of the movie who set up this job because he's the only other character we've met in this movie. That could do this. Right. And I like Matthew Willard. And when I saw him there in the beginning and I was like, huh, and then he was just gone.

[00:28:24] I was like, well, that's interesting.

[00:28:25] Well, and in the moment she said that I was like, Oh, yeah.

[00:28:28] Okay.

[00:28:28] Here he comes. No, it's disappointed. Not disappointed. I didn't have any expectations going in, but just didn't pull off anything. It didn't pull off anything I really liked or thought worked well. So it was a shame. Yeah, I wonder if they'll bother trying to do a sequel of this because it made money.

[00:29:42] Are they just going to say, no, we lucked out. Welcome back to Footcandal Films here on the mesh.tv. Chris and I had our discussion

[00:31:01] or me maybe slanting on rant a little bit.

[00:31:04] Sorry, I don't like to be negative on film stress.

[00:31:08] I really don't, but you know, So, do a little bit of background. Back in 2011, Director Rupert Wyatt brought us Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It was kind of a rebooting of that whole franchise. James Franco was in it. And I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Then 2014, Matt Reeves, they kicked Rupert Wyatt out as director and they brought in

[00:32:23] Matt Reeves. things. Memories. Not memories. No things. I see everything. Okay, film that was made with Charleston, Heston, Planet of the Apes. It's called Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, but I feel like it's in the same timeframe as Planet of the Apes because it shows the planets completely taken over. Humans are totally treated like zoo animals. So like it's not bringing us anything new, but that's just the trailer.

[00:35:01] So is it just doing that to play off nostalgia

[00:35:03] or you're still, it's like, I don't know.

[00:35:06] I find it curious and I'm not going to dismiss it because I did like all three of the other ones. I mean, the original, no, I did like all three of these most recent trilogy. Yeah. I think some of the CGI work and motion capture work is pretty amazing throughout all three of the films. It looks but as we know from films like Avatar the Way of Water, a film can look great, but it's still got to have a good story for me, even especially if it's going to run two hours. You can't just look great for two hours. You got to get me something bored,

[00:37:40] otherwise I'll get bored or give you something good,

[00:37:43] otherwise I'll get bored.

[00:37:44] So yeah, I'm curious.

[00:37:46] I'm curious as well.

[00:37:47] What was the release other people that were pretty decent big names in it. Anyway, I just loved it. I loved the theme song, I used to play it, I just thought it was a fun show. So, Color Me Surprised yesterday, when I'm just doing my little,

[00:39:00] taking a break from my work day

[00:39:01] and just doing a little browsing

[00:39:03] to see what all is on the movie news side.

[00:39:04] And it's like, oh, hey, there's a new trailer

[00:39:06] for a film called The Fall Guy. I can't believe really no, I don't remember that I don't think any I don't think any cast was attached at the top Okay, well, let's just go and tell you We have What's his name Ken from Barbie Ryan Gosling Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt starring in this film Okay, all in its own cheek and you really let and if they really don't line Gosling just have fun with the role, I think this is going to be good. This is going to be fun. You're going to have a good time with this. So it would have been nice to have it scaled back a little bit. But for what it's worth, look, if I hear the reviews when this thing come out and it's a really bad movie, then at least I have the trailer and I'll watch the trailer and I'll enjoy the trailer.

[00:44:04] I cannot remember our interns letting us do it. Aaron Taylor Johnson or?

[00:44:06] Aaron Taylor Johnson.

[00:44:07] Yeah, I thought that was him because Aaron Taylor

[00:44:09] Johnson was also in David, the director's last film,

[00:44:13] which was Bullet Train.

[00:44:16] Okay, right, right, right.

[00:44:18] Now we gotta verify this, I'm sorry.

[00:44:21] Sorry to all the listeners, but we have to look us up

[00:44:22] and we have to know.

[00:44:25] Because actually that would be real funny

[00:44:26] if it was Ryan Gosling playing a dual set, so that's kind of the premise here as well. I don't remember the Lee Major's version ever having a romance with a director of one of the films. That's a new twist on it. But um, yeah, no, I'm like, I'm excited. I hope they do they get us excited, and then it's a crapshoot, whether we walk away impressed or disappointed and deflated. So we will see how these two end up, but those are ones we've got coming up in the early half of next year. So all right, Chris, well, that is what we've got for today. So we gave our review of Five Nights at Freddy's,

[00:47:01] which we were both negative on.

[00:47:03] I was more on the negative scale than Chris, accepting submissions for the 2024 Flipkandow Film Festival, which will be all the way in September 20th to 20th of 2024. So that's a long way off. But if you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, we're now accepting submissions over on Film Freeway for the festival. So if you want to try to see if you can get your film in, then go and submit it for us.