Why Halloween Ends Is Still So Polarizing Among Fans

Because Halloween will always have an embarrassing group of fans who just want to see the same movie over and over again. Their elders pissed and moaned about Halloween III. In both cases, they're too reactionary to accept a new idea in an old franchise.

I thought Ends was one of the best movies in the franchise, way better than the brainless Halloween Kills for sure.

It's polarizing because it's an abomination and most people rightfully hate it. The only people I see defending it and liking it keep talking about how it's different or more interesting than the other entries.

They could reboot this franchise and make it a romcom and these same contrarians would praise it as new ground for the franchise. It's very, very easy to take a franchise and 'do something different'. Any idiot could do it but most people have the common sense to not completely disregard the franchise's fans expectations.

The funny thing is some of the same people who are praising this for doing something different are probably the same idiots who cry when a character is race or gender swapped. If the next James Bond is a black woman and a lesbian that would be something new for the franchsie but the fan meltdown would be biblical.

Also Halloween Ends isn't even unique or inspired. It's a bastardized revisioning of Christine (1983) forced into the Halloween franchise.

The IQ of the movie was to high for your average slasher fan.

Its not a Halloween movie, but I did find it rather interesting now that I finally saw it on blu-ray. But once Michael Myers finally showed up, it turned quite stupid.

Because it's supposed to be the concluding chapter in a TRILOGY and it isn't. I emphasize the word TRILOGY because it seems that most modern directors today don't understand that trilogies are supposed to fit together.

Is the final chapter of a trilogy supposed to introduce a new main character? Not in any I've ever seen. And if I was Andi Matichak, I would still be livid that they robbed me of the opportunity to explore the Allyson character in the aftermath of the devastation that happens in "Kills". "Halloween 2018" is built around Laurie, her trauma, and her relationship with her family. "Halloween Kills" is built around Michael going ape shit, and the evil inside him. Halloween Ends should've been about Allyson, losing her mother, wanting revenge, dealing with her grandmother, and possibly about the town of Haddonfield turning on them, and trying to run them out of town.

Instead, David Gordon Green decided to make up a new movie about a babysitter who makes a horrible mistake and is bullied by the town. They push him to become a killer and he strikes back at them. This is the movie he wanted to make, not the conclusion of the story he started in 2018. To be fair, I wouldn't actually mind seeing this movie as its own entity, not part of the Halloween franchise. However, he decided to go ahead and make that film, and try to force the other elements from the trilogy into it. Including a tacked on five minute, "Final showdown", between Laurie and Michael that is supposed to show that this is actually part of the trilogy, and here's the ending you wanted... Give me a break. The entire marketing campaign of this film was built around that last five minutes, and it was tacked on, and felt tacked on.