Tubbo as a character trying his best to be a good leader and stick to his morals and do what’s best for his team and his friends, only for who he’s leading to not listen to him, not respect him and his leadership, then push the weight of the blame onto him and call him a traitor. Hmmm where have I seen this before
Luca Guadagnino, who has spent twenty years broadening the frontiers of Italian cinema by taking it beyond the national borders, has been honored today at Giornate Degli Autori 2023 with the SIAE Andrea Purgatori Lifetime Achievement Award, a tribute to his accomplishments as a writer and director.
Things I liked about the FNAF movie (spoilers under the cut)
The movie did really well with creating its own universe even if I'm slightly disappointed in the way it handled some of the lore. The only thing I really didn't like is Michael Afton/Mike Schmidt not being the same person.
The Schmidts have my utter heart. Mike and Abby carried that entire movie for me.
The violence and horror elements were not overplayed in the slightest. I think treating the fnaf movie like a horror comedy is the best thing they could have done.
The cameos and references blended pretty seamlessly.
I went to the movie for Lillard and stayed for Josh Hutcherson. He was just that good at the part.
Mike Schmidt is literally. Just some dude. Having the worst time of his life. And Josh played that beautifully. Like everything about Mike just screams "regular guy with drenched cat energy" and I love that.
The animatronics having a play date with Abby and having moments of being very sweet and dangerous af.
Abby is so clearly autistic, and they handled that pretty well, IMHO. Mike is, too, probably just another part of the spectrum.
Despite having very little actual screen time, Matthew Lillard did amazing with William Afton.
The animatronics looked INCREDIBLE.
Despite being a new character in lore, Vanessa was actually handled okay for the movie. I was nervous when I heard they were bringing her in, but she was all right.
From some recent movies I watched, plan on doing more el oh el
ATM - Funny as hell, contains the best scene I've ever seen in a horror movie, COLD 11/10
Cry Wolf - Tricked me into thinking it was a slasher and it wasnt, more of a mystery, main character was randomly British?? 4/10
House of Purgatory - Also tricked me into thinking it was a slasher, great idea not very good execution, the pseudo-killer was very silly though best part of the movie loved his dress up moments 7/10
Shredder - Very fun and silly, I love when the slashers are just some guyTM so they get knocked around, literally hilarious, very gratious sex scene -1 point, 9/10
I guess the set photos with the actors actually like performing in them are just making me reason that season 5 is coming like...season 4 is old news. That already happened and there's more. It isn't some great show that got tragically cancelled and now I'm tasked with giving myself closure, it isn't some shitty queerbait with a terrible ending that I have to fix in my mind, it's just incomplete and it's going to be completed.
It's not done. And also, seeing those photos, it's starting to get into the image because it's been two years now of like "they look so young" in application to season 4. My brain is adjusting and starting to make little comments like "remember when Mike had long hair".
And it's all reworking because I just automatically envisioned everything in their same hair and costumes even though I knew they wouldn't be in those because what would I change it to? But now I have options and logic and it all makes sense and it's coming and season 4 is behind us and they were only 14. Remember when they were only 14? When they didn't know yet how it would all end up when they were older? How much deeper they'd fall in love? God, feels like just yesterday. But no. Time has passed. Mike cut his hair. Will turned invisible, apparently /s, El grew her hair back out. They're all different and they're all older and season 4 already happened.
And it's like I've been rewatching it and looping it in my brain. Because in an artistic way, these characters have souls that have been trapped in this loop of whatever their most recent content is every time I rewatch it. And they aren't resolved yet. But they like...came out of hibernation. And they're filming now and I saw Mike making facial expressions and now the last thing Mike did isn't stand on that hill. Which makes it all the past. And it's all already happened and they aren't stuck anymore. We don't know where they are but they aren't here
I just- I wasn't ready for an updated way to envision them and it's weird. I was still telling myself "[image of Mike] but like pretend he's older".