Why are they making Michael so brutal?

Lol yeah they chose to ignore the sequels and erase them cause they was inferior, but then they constantly have references to those those sequels and remind people those sequels exist.

Yeah thats another thing, we see like 30 kills in that trailer, including Allyson's boyfriend getting killed. I don't know why they always gotta show everything in trailers these days, less is more people.

I disagree. Part of what made the first one so brilliant was....we knew very little about MM. He seemed more like a demon possessed than a man with a troubled background. He was literally....The Boogeyman of our childhoods. That being who lurked under our beds or in the shadows. In fact, in the credits he was known only as "The Shape".

The more they gave him a backstory, the less scary he became. The more often we saw him, the less scary he was.
Everything that was so brilliant about the original film...got lost pretty quickly in the sequels.

This is spot on. I use the Jaws franchise as a cautionary tale all the time. The brilliance of the original (Jaws and Halloween)....and just how much the subsequent sequels dilute the first film.

Just like with Halloween......Jaws was subtle and the scares were intelligent, not gratuitous. We rarely saw the shark. What scared us was knowing it was nearby....being aware of its presence. They used it sparingly, and to great effect. The best thing that ever happened to that film...was the mechanical shark ("Bruce") breaking down so often they had to limit how often it was actually used in scenes....(and therefore had to be creative in editing about how to indicate the shark was in the area......fin, yellow barrels....music/score....etc). It was true serendipity. Yet....the producers didn't LEARN from it. With each subsequent sequel, we got more shark...more blood....more attacks...more gore and more deaths.

Likewise with Halloween. Part of the brilliance of the first film was....we rarely saw MM, and we knew very little about him. He lurked in the shadows. He was quite literally....The Boogeyman of our childhoods. There were very few actual kills...and almost no blood at all. The acting and the story were what made it so chilling. We didn't need to be spoon-fed with actual gory kill scenes. The brilliance was in things like....Loomis:

"I met him, 15 years ago; I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this... six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and... the blackest eyes - the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil."

Absolutely brilliant.
The trailer for this new sequel indicates they've learned NOTHING from what made the original so great. We should RARELY see MM. Instead...this appears to be a gore-fest. No better than any of the numerous Friday the 13th or Freddy sequels. The first Halloween rose above the category of horror film. It was a masterpiece. The sequels.....are ruining that. SMH...

We understand. You do not it seems. We want to see more of MM and his back story. By the way, the original Rocky had the least action scenes in them. Give me Rocky 3, 4 or 5 any day over 1 and 2.

Of course Carpenter just cares about the money at this point, he doesn't give a $hit, he invented some shitty excuse (taking a beer ffs) for writing the siblings plot in Halloween 2 just to promote the new films so fans would think that now it was cool not having that connection and bashing the classic because the original writer changed his mind but still having, guess what, yeah an old and over the top unrealistic Laurie Strode being the target for Michael again... Now we have the same shitty plot story about Michael targeting Laurie and her offspring but making less sense because now they're not even related! they have to come up with dumb ideas to reunite them (Dr. Sartain) .

"Politely kill" ha ha classic

He killed people less violently in the original, like 1 stab and he was done, or 1 throat slit, he wasn't mutilating people tearing faces off, squashing heads like a pumpkin and sawing people. They're making him over the top gory and violent in these new movies for some reason.