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I like the idea that they wanted to mix up the franchise. But, if you're going to mix up a franchise and you don't want to alienate its viewers don't say "okay, you can have Michael Myers or you can have an ass sundae made with a low fat ass substitute that we synthesized in a lab so that it would taste only slightly worse than ass and have half the fat content. C'mon people, try our low fat ass substitute!" While the other Halloween movies often leave the taste of rancid ass in your mouth, at least it's actually the taste of rancid ass and stale creativity, instead of an anemic substitute for it. If it weren't a Halloween movie, people would be to this day asking "what's the name of that terrible, meandering, lameass movie with the masks that make people's head explode for no good reason?" And we'd be telling them "the Gate." If they wanted to make a set of Halloween films not directly connected to Michael Myers, why not make movies in which Doctor Loomis solves other macabre crimes and make the franchise "Donald Pleasence Adventures"? That way, following the death of Donald Pleasence, people wouldn't have continued to make paper-thin and stupid entries about Jamie Lee Curtis' slide into mental illness. The more I think about Halloween 3, the less I like it and the more I dig the original. And Halloween 5. Halloween 5 was pretty sweet.
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