My Attempt To Like It

Long Post Warning!

I am watching all 13 Halloween films (over a week or more, but still in release order) and have found something to like about all of them, based on what they are and when they were released. Like other franchises, horror and other, you can see different influences from the time and you can see what each director / writer did to leave a stamp. Something to like about each.

The movie we should have seen:
- The town hunts Michael.
- Michael doesn't win.
- Will Patton has more to do with his revenge.
- Lindsey has more to do.
- No Corey.
- More Michael.

The movie we got:
- Corey is the star.
- Michael is not the same. Too wounded.
- Not enough Michael doing what he does.
- Corey beating Michael (to take the mask), which should not have happened.
- Corey killing in the mask (scene worked enough but it just wasn't Michael).
- Laurie is not really Laurie from the last two films, despite the additional trauma from 18 and Kills.
- Allison too blind.

Mental Gymnastics to like the movie (and I don't hate it!):
- Michael never killed the other inmates - he sees something in Corey until Corey pisses him off too much.
- We saw Michael's true finale in Kills. NO ONE can come back from the shit he took in that one!
- Michael, if he is actually human, as originally intended, will have to be as slow and hurt as he is in this, especially in order to end his story. A fully powerful Michael doesn't lose like that! It makes sense. He cannot stop killing once he starts again, but doesn't have it anymore because he couldn't possibly be the same after the damage he took.
- The town got to help after all (other than Frank), just in Kills instead of Ends.
- Passing of the torch works to a point. If Michael really is evil incarnated in a body, the body can fail but evil never does, not even tonight!
- Ending could have been better but is still satisfying (other than Frank and the sheriff being sidelined).
- Cinematography and lighting are lovely in this.
- The changes in the townsfolk do work to a point as well. People do stuff like that (spinning their own story and sometimes blaming the wrong people).
- If I think of Kills as Michael's real finale and this as more of a coda, I think it works enough.

No matter what you think of the film, and I respect all opinions on it (as they are all probably right), I do my best to like it because I love the series as a whole, despite weak entries.