I think the majority of complaints are about Michaels portrayal and lack of screen time. The ending would have felt much more epic had it not felt like a quick after thought just to get rid of Michael.This was a movie about Laurie and Cory. Michael was just a background character hanging around.
I think, much like Season of the witch, it would have been received better if it had been a stand alone film outside of the Franchise or advertised as a spin off. Unfortunately the way they did it left a lot of people feeling cheated. They advertised a Michael Myers film and just didn't deliver.
It was weird and strange. It wasn't even really a slasher. It was like a mystery/drama. I actually liked it for that. Probably cause it kinda came out of left field. I kept thinking that Cory was going to end up being crazy, and that he imagined/hallucinated Michael the whole time. I would not have liked that.
It had nothing to do with how Michael died, it was more of "what the heck was that long boring Corey storyline that lead no where" doing taking up 90% of the movie?
OP is just building and fighting straw men because she can’t defend the stupidity of the final movie in a trilogy being about a completely new, derivative wannabe.
Amen. Jason got chopped up into 23 pieces in Part IV. Then when he was no longer the killer, people got pissed off, bitched, and moaned. So then they did a total retcon, then everything after that was shit shit shit and more shit.
ETA: My comment was only about the Jason part of your post as I didn't watch this garbage so I can't comment on that particular garbage.
My favorite Jason/Friday The 13th movie happens to be Part 6. I like how it's more of an action movie and we get this big Tommy Jarvis vs. Jason thing throughout the movie. You don't really get that in the other Friday The 13th movies. It's just Jason stalking/killing random people for 90 minutes or so and ends with some Jason vs. final girl chase/showdown and they don't really have any connection with each other. Plus Tommy accidentally brings Jason back to life, so he trying to fix a problem he started. So I like that too. And that kind of ties into the whole Tommy vs. Jason thing I mentioned. I almost want to say that Part 6 is a revenge movie, but I don't really know if that's the right way to put stuff. Maybe a revenge gone wrong since when Tommy goes to make sure Jason is really alive and wants to fully get rid of the body, he ends up accidentally bringing Jason back to life and then has to fix stuff, which leads to some final showdown and Tommy facing his fears and trauma Jason caused. I kind of feeling like I'm looking too deep into the movie, especially since it's a slasher movie, but really, all this came to me almost instantly when watching the movie. I didn't really dissect the movie. I just put it on one day because I was doing a Friday The 13th marathon, and as I was watching, all these things came to me instantly. My brain/thinking process does that sometimes.
It's ok to look deeper into it. That's what movie discussions are supposed to be for.
If you look closer at Part VI and Part V and dissect them, you will see that Tommy Jarvis was supposed to be the new killer. But because people whined and cried and bitched and moaned that Jason wasn't the killer anymore (Part V was a quasi-reboot of the OG), they completely struck down that whole great setup and retconned the whole thing. So everything after Part V is illegitimate and non-canon in my book because Jason was no more and Tommy completely mentally disintegrated and dispatched the final girl and was set to continue the franchise as the new killer. There was nothing for him to dig up because Jason didn't exist anymore. He was dust. They did a total retcon in Part VI.
But what’s the point of having a completely new killer? Start a completely different franchise or a spin-off of the franchise. If The Simpsons season 52 is about a completely new family we’ve never met before, that would go down like a lead balloon and rightfully so.
But what’s the point of having a completely new killer?
You really have to ask?? You really don't know?? Part IV was the last movie. Period. But then.... wait for it.... let's make some more money off this franchise by restarting it again. Crazy huh?? So they soft rebooted it with a copycat killer. Then went through with what they set up in part 4 which was the foreshadowing of Tommy as the new Jason. But they didn't go directly into it they had a copycat killer first. But then at the end of that movie they cemented the Tommy as the new Jason character. And for what?? Again, for money making. But then when people saw that Jason wasn't it, they decided to do a full retcon instead so that they can continue their money making opportunity and find a way to insert Jason back into it since they saw that that's what most people wanted. I personally thought that they came up with a pretty good way of continuing it without having the real Jason. But they ruined it by rebooting the whole thing blah blah blah blah. Nothing after part 5 is legitimate in my book. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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No shit. Everyone knows that. The point is people go to see Halloween for MM, Friday for Jason, and Nightmare for Freddy and there’s nothing wrong with that.
No one can ever be happy. Same thing with The Dark Knight Rises and The Batman.
Everyone complained there was barely any Batman in TDKR and too much Bruce Wayne, but then we get The Batman and everyone complains WAY too much Batman and not enough Bruce Wayne.
That's part of why I just shake my head and laugh at these stupid "reshoot Halloween Ends" petitions going on.