As this is a Awesome Moments page, all spoilers will be unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
First and foremost, the fact that they built actual animatronics for this movie. Who wasn't happy about that?
Second, they built an entire pizzeria inside an abandoned building. In a world where CGI can do the heavy lifting for this movie, and clever camera tricks can hide where the set ends, they went all in on making Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place as real as possible for the movie, and it is glorious.
Of all the animatronics, special mention goes to Foxy. For more intricate scenes, actors in life-like suits were used, but Foxy didn't have one due to his endoskeleton being highly visible especially in his legs. Rather than making a suit that was inaccurate to his game proportions, Foxy remained an animatronic in every shot he's in. Even if using a suit would be a lot easier.
On a more in-universe note, Mike going up against the animatronics to rescue Abby. When Freddy and Bonnie are both on stage, he can only disable one with his taser. So what does he do? Pour water on the stage and shock them using that! After that he shoots Chica in the eye with it, and then disables the Cupcake with a shock baton!
His fight with Springtrap is pretty awesome too, even though he gets curb-stomped.
On that note, let's give one to Springtrap. William Afton gives Mike a pretty brutal fight, especially when the springlocks in the suit were supposed to be pretty twitchy. The suit shows itself to be durable enough to take a bullet, and seems insulated enough to not be affected by Mike's taser.
A villainous example with Jane’s thugs when they break in Freddy Fazbear’s. Jeff figures out very quickly that Chica’s cupcake is animate and he’s able to block the vent to prevent it from getting him in the security guard’s office.
William Afton may be a terrible person, but his entrance as Springtrap, aka Spring Bonnie, during the climax is truly something. The menacing score as he stomps into view as the iconic man behind the slaughter is awesome in a terrifying sort of way.
Vanessa deserves her kudos, too. She's spent her life manipulated and abused by her father to a point that she'll still help him out of fear (let's be honest, William may be the one hiding the bodies, but there's no way Vanessa didn't find the ones in Parts & Service). Yet despite this, she does actually stand up to him, to the point of shooting him. And even when she gets strangled and stabbed for her betrayal, she survives and will hopefully continue to be awesome in potential sequels.
Abby can't be left out. Despite being unable to fight, her determination and wit ensure not only her survival, but victory against the ones who try chasing her.
She may not have fought any of the animatronics or Springtrap, but she evades Foxy long enough for Vanessa to find her.
The kicker would have to be turning the tide on William Afton. She's become close to the animatronics and the spirits inside of them; it turns out that the picture of Spring Bonnie holding hands with the kids is what keeps the kids under Afton's control. When Mike instructs her to tell them the truth, she does so the way kids do, through pictures: Spring Bonnie surrounded by the kids' corpses. She gives Afton a Death Glare and tells him, with not a trace of fear in her voice, "They can see you now. They know what you did." It's telling that Afton has an Oh, Crap! in response. That's right, William Afton was intimidated and defeated by his favorite prey: a little kid.
Sparky the Dog, a FAN CHARACTER, appearing in the official movie as an actual suit, even if not seen on first glance, is nothing short of stunning.
Admit it, you cheered when you saw that Golden Freddy killedAunt Jane to get to Abby.
William needs a second one. Unlike his portrayals in the games or the books, when the springlocks trip and he starts to bleed out inside the suit, he fights through the pain to taunt the animatronics by saying his catchphrase, and even forces the suit's mask back on himself right after. And if the ending scene is any indication, he's not quite dead yet...
William's death was already gruesome in the games, but it's even more gruesome in the film. Instead of the springlocks all malfunctioning at once and eviscerating his whole body, here they malfunction one by one. The metal parts slowly unlock one after another, repeatedly stabbing and tearing into Afton, on top of him slowly bleeding to death in solitude. Knowing how he just stabbed his own daughter, the moment was satisfying indeed.
Of all people, we need to give one to Mike's predecessor as security guard. While he doesn't escape the torture chair, he does loosen a screw in the restraints enough that Mike could when he ends up in it later. Congratulations, Nameless Security Guard (novelization revealed his name as Bob). For a cold-open character, you played an important part in the climax of the film.
He needs a second one too. As terrified as he was in the cold open, when he wakes up in the torture chair and sees the buzzsaws coming at him, he's still able to think to pull out the screws of the restraints like he did for the vent cover, instead of just trying to force his way out. As Mike proves later in the film, it would have worked, too!
Of course, who couldn't mention the fact that the Living Tombstone's iconic fan-song would be used for the end credits? Sure, people predicted that it would appear but for the fact that a freaking fan-song of all things is put in the credits! It could also have you reflect on the good times when FNAF was just a game series made by one person.
