Halloween: Resurrection (2002) is better than this. I watched both back to back last night.

I'm getting curious about this Halloween Ends, maybe I'll check it out.

Definitely. He went from Super Jason Voorhies in Kills to some random old man getting punked by a school shooter-type.

Yeah Corey wrestling Michael down to the ground and taking his mask and leaving him laying there like a sack of shit in my mind is way worse than Busta Rhymes kung fu-ing him, least Busta looks somewhat believably capable of kicking Michael's ass, and it wasn't as disrespectful as what Corey did in Ends by taking his mask.

It definitely gets far too much hate. It's quite a standard, and most importantly fun, slasher film. Quite inoffensive all things considered.

I guess I forgot to mention in my OP that another issue some have is Lauries death.

It seems this film gets shit upon for the following things;
- Michael getting punked by a rapper.
- A few comedic scenes.
- Retconning the H20 ending.
- Killing off Laurie early in the film, quite anti-climatic to be fair.
- Being 'modern' and 'hip' (at the time anyway).

I did find it interesting seeing the cinemascores of the Halloween films. Resurrection has the highest in the franchise that has been polled;
- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998): B-
- Halloween: Resurrection (2002): B+
- Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007): B-
- Halloween (2018): B
- Halloween Kills (2021): B-
- Halloween Ends (2022): C+

It seems the early cinema goers liked it quite a bit back in 2002.

LIES. This is worse, way worse. Resurrection at least knows how to utilize Michael and has something going for it, even if it could have been better. This was just a mess of what it wanted to be versus what it mislead itself to be in marketing. Introducing a whole new character at the last minute when closing out a story, just goes to show they ran out of ideas and this could have been its own thing. The characters we wanted to explore get sidelined and the whole romantic arc between Corey and Allyson was just forced and made no sense she would fall for someone this quickly to then want to run off with him. Had this been Cameron, then the story might have been slightly better and tolerable. Laurie just had no business being involved at this point and the trilogy made it all about her and her nonsense.

Michael being so weak made no sense when Halloween Kills made it a big deal of how strong he was. The movie wants you to think oh he's weak because he hasn't killed in a while. However the same movie also states he was still killing and dragging victims into the sewers during the four years so how is he so weak from not killing. ERROR. And he is not meant to really kill outside of Halloween time and that didn't render him weak before, so why is that now an issue even if he wasn't killing during all this time. He went forty years without killing and got out jumping into it swiftly with his strength so why does four years of it even make him weak.

GET A GRIP. NOEMOJI

Halloween ends is a complete abomination and a waste of time. Awful! In hindsight, Resurrection is much more watchable. Not a good film, but better than this crap. Don't get me wrong though, Resurrection deserved all the hate it originally got at the time. It's just that in comparison to Halloween Ends, it ain't that bad