There’s a big difference between what makes for a good video game and what makes for a good movie, and too many of the people behind video-game movies fail to account for that difference. That’s a big reason why most movies based on video games — even the wildly successful ones — aren’t very good.

Sitting in the movie theater watching a preview screening of “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” I heard people around me cheering for what were clearly references to elements from the mega-popular video games. But just showing fans something that they recognize isn’t the same as telling an effective, engrossing story.

I’m not a gamer, so my only criterion for assessing “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is whether or not it’s a good movie, and that’s an easy question to answer: It is not. Even viewers who h

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