Halloween Ends (Gordon-Green, October 14, 2022) Movie • Page 11

I was really ready to like this for whatever it was going to be and was kinda digging it in the first half, but it just fell pretty flat for me. I'm glad we have 3 completely different films with 3 completely different tones, but Kills is so damn fun and 2018 is just all around good that this was just a little dull. Maybe I missed a lot of references on first watch, but there just didn't seem to be a lot of Halloween DNA in this, even in regards to stylistic continuity from the first two. I didn't hate it on the whole, but felt like it was barely a Halloween movie.

Edit: and I knew about the whole Corey thing going in and liked the idea on paper.

 

At some moments when he was riding around on his motorcycle I felt like I was watching a shitty Michael Mann or Nicolas Winding Refn ripoff. Just so far from Halloween.

 

I just can’t believe someone pitched that the way to end the Halloween trilogy was to have a nobody be the main character and later be a copycat Michael Myers and the studio said yes to it. Literally wtf were they thinking?

I also don’t understand why they set Michael up to be this ‘beyond human’ in 2018 and Kills only for Corey to bully him in the sewer and take his mask. What did they do? Write this in a matter of days without any rewrites?

 

I honestly thought Michael was just a projection in Corey's head and that at the end the real Michael would come to show him how it's done, but nope it was just Michael living in a sewer drain.

 

I just want to see someone make some fan art of either Corey riding his motorcycle with Michael riding in back or Michael in a side car. Because that’s all I pictured when they were in the same place at the same time

 

I love how Michael goes from arguably his greatest burst of violence at the end of HK to hiding in a sewer for four years for no apparent reason and getting pushed around by some young kid. The lack of excitement in this moving has me wanting to watch the first two movies tomorrow. Easily my least favorite Halloween movie except Zombies second which is one of the worst “slashers” I’ve ever seen.

 

This honestly felt more like a Ryan Murphy drama than a Halloween movie

 

I enjoyed this lol. gonna need to let it stew before I figure out how much, but I loved the swing

dude playing Corey was absolutely fantastic imo

 

You know those horrible slasher films that you just had to rent at the video store and then it ended up being a terrible rental…this is that.

Decades from now it will be the film no one really wants to watch in the boxset but they’ll talk themselves into and then regret the hour and 40 minutes they spent.

 

will it tho or was it actually good

 

Didn't really work for me. It just doesn't make sense why they chose to go this route in the last film of a trilogy. Every character was unlikeable/annoying at some point. It did deliver on the gore though so it's not the worst Halloween.

 

Corey’s dad was likable. Dude was a bro.

 

Okay I'll agree to that one haha

 

I thought JLC, Corey and Allyson were all great performances.

Also delighted at Darcy the mail girl cameo from the joe bob drive-in show ; she got to be in her own Halloween 3!

 

The Season of the Witch style credits in the beginning just pointing to this movie being some sort of departure from the first two (i guess?) does not work for me at all because this did not deliver like SotW did and it made me think they were gonna go heavy down that road (i was very excited for this in the beginning). Also why the annoyingly heavy emphasis on the radio station throughout the movie? Just to lead to the DJ being killed? Fell flat but it was great seeing Darcy, I do agree with that

 

it is not

 

well you've convinced me

 

Or am I just one of those same Michael Myers fans who bellyached after Halloween 3 came out and there was no Michael Myers to be found

 

Most of the criticisms are totally fair. The only thing I’ll say is straight up incorrect is any slander of cinematography, music, or JLC haha.

a lot of it boils down to what you wanted from a 13th Halloween movie. They could have played it safe and made a repeat of H18/Kills but that would have been boring imo.

 

I mean, I’m genuinely interested in a movie with minimal Michael that shows the long-standing effects his murders has on Haddonfield as a community. I think that’s a cool idea. But I also think that Laurie, or even Allyson, absolutely needs to be the central character of that story, not a newcomer.

 

it could have been Allyson as the main and her kind of losing it, but then we’d have RZH2.

 

my wife and I saw this in theaters last night and I just kept thinking "what is this movie?" I knew why this would be divisive going in and was pretty pumped after the first "kill", but they just did not nail the landing on this one.

About halfway through, I decided I was just going to have fun and enjoy it for what it was, but I couldn't even do that. I haven't turned my applewatch on in a movie to check the time in years, but i did it multiple times last night.

 

Looking forward to 2038 when we get Halloween 60 Years Later and they’ve rebooted again and now this is the only sequel to the first Halloween and Laurie is fighting Michael from her wheelchair after he’s tracked her down to the nursing home her kids dropped her off at because they don’t want to hear about Michael anymore.

 

Undoubtably one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.