I was actually in a theater with a hard-core Micheal Myers fan, and when Corey took Micheal's mask, the dude yelled "WHAT THE FUCK!?" at the top of his lungs, and I laughed my ass off for a couple minutes afterwards.
It didn't bother me. I actually enjoyed the movie alot. Kills is my favorite of the 3 since it has Michael in it the most. But Ends did take risks and for me they worked. The opening of Ends was great I wasn't expecting that to happen. Its cool how at the end of kills when Laurie said the more he kills the more he transcends. We seen that in Ends once Michael killed the cop.
Also, it’s kinda nuts that the burning radio tower is what triggered Alison to return to Laurie, but she didn’t put 2 and 2 together when Corey was laying there with a Mike Brand jumpsuit, his mask, and a knife. But, alright.
@@TattleDeltayeah but it doesn’t make much sense that after everything that happened in Halloween 2018 and 2021 that now Alison who in 2018 was originally the only one that somewhat believed Lori now all of a sudden she’s just not gonna believe a thing Lori says… that’s just ignorance.
Another thing that struck me about Laurie’s character that was strange was that in 2018 she was so traumatized and obsessed with Myers when he was (supposedly) locked away securely , BUT later she is content and living a normal life after Myers disappeared 4 years earlier and no trace of him when he could show up anywhere at anytime. I think reactions should’ve been switched to make more sense.
The problem is they already did that with H20. They should've saved Laurie for the last movie and moved onto someone else. Say what you will about Resurrection, but at least they had the balls to focus on people OTHER than the STRODE/LLOYD/TATE/WHATEVER family.
@@reacts6230 yeah that's definitely true even though some people hated H20's ending because it's supposedly disrespectful to Michael Myers reputation for being known as this unstoppable force of nature and evil, but on the other hand both H20 and Halloween 2018 are satisfying conclusions to the franchise for some people, but at end of the day Michael gotta be Michael because people want more. . . Oh yeah don't forget Halloween 2 ending with Dr. Loomis sacrificing himself in order to put Michael down in the hospital and well I don't know Halloween 4 some people have mixed feelings some thought it was scary and some thought it was dumb but hey it's always fun to watch and talk about the Halloween franchise
@@allpraisestothemosthigh9418 Let's hope their done with this. I thought they had it right wit Halloween 2018 and then Halloween Kills. After watching this mess of an ending, it's best now they leave this franchise to rest!
@Total Tech X RZH2 is definitely better! Yeah it swung for the fences too and took some huge risks but at least it felt like it meant something in the end! Ends just didn’t go fully through with its direction because DGG has no balls.
Maybe it’s just me, but I wish Laurie from 2018 and Laurie from Ends was switched. It makes more sense to me that she’d move on and be writing blogs of Michael after 40 years and only 1 encounter with him. After Kills, then it’s believable that she would try to be a fighter and have this trap house because Michael killed everyone (including her daughter!) and he went missing, so she’s waiting for him to show himself, then kill him. 2018 Laurie should have processed this grief and been okay with it more because it was one night and Michael was locked up. After the second massacre, and he was never found, that’s when she should have been this hunter
Crazy that you just wrote an infinitely better character arc for her than a major studio and multiple professional screenwriters could do lmao. This trilogy is a mess
It makes no sense for Laurie to start living a happy life and trying to forget after Michael came back, so she’s all scared and on a vengeance hook for 40 years while he was locked up and now that he’s free she’s happy??😂😂
I think Coreys acting in the movie was really good but I feel like he didn’t really fit the role as a villain in ends because this was marketed as a Laurie v Michael movie. He would’ve been a great killer in some other movie like Scream
Reading this comment makes me want a slasher cinematic universe, or SCU lol. If we can get Fred vs Jason, Micheal vs Ghostface doesn't sound too implausible.
Yeah the biggest case of false advertisement I have ever seen for a movie. Laurie VS Michael should have been built up for the whole movie instead of the last like 10 minutes.
@@desertpinevintagethat’s debatable just given the fact that sure they built up a decent story arc for a villain but they piss it away at the end. But the more important flaw is the fact that this finale is about Laurie and Alison vs Michael Myers, but you get some regular evil kid taking Myers mask and making Myers a side character. You gotta remember that after 44 years Halloween ends you is how this franchise ends 😂
The thing I would’ve changed about this trilogy is the order in which Laurie becomes paranoid/doomsday prepper-esque. It would’ve been better (in my opinion) if in 2018 Laurie had been like she was in ENDS, traumatized but finally ready to move on after 40 years. Finally letting go of the idea of Michael coming back. Then BOOM Michael comes back and obliterates the town, kills Karen, and THEN Laurie becomes more vengeful than ever before, considering Michael killed her own daughter. She would then be the paranoid, prepared Laurie that she was in the 2018 film. Waiting for the day Michael came back so she could get her revenge. Seems like she was less effected by her daughter’s death than the 1978 attack 😂 which makes no sense because Michael did the one thing Laurie always wanted to prevent from happening. She spent Karen’s entire life protecting her to the point that Karen resented her for it. It would’ve been so badass to see vengeful mama bear Laurie going all out against Michael in ENDS!! I also think the Corey idea would’ve worked better in KILLS, but the final film should’ve been focused on Laurie’s wrath. Just my opinions!!!! Haha still a great trilogy, I had fun!
She's paranoid in 2018 because she thinks Myers was specifically targetting her in 78. She continues to think that in 2018, thus why she's semi-hunting him. In Kills, she is finally brought to the realization that her 'Boogeyman' was never targetting her. Yeah, she was likely effected by her daughter's death, but the death occurred in the spot that Michael was ultimately heading toward. We have four years pass after her death, and a badly injured Myers who never reappears. Doesn't give her much of a reason to be paranoid after that because ultimately, the people of the town are what continues to drive his spirit, not Myers himself. You get to 'Ends', and it's meant to show you through Cory that these monsters aren't born, they are created on the judgments of the townspeople / society. Three years after the child's death, Cory is fine until the mother / his bullies continue to see him as a monster. In reality, he doesn't actually turn until the doctor / nurse. The homeless man was out of fear in self defense and the cop, he was well aware that he wasn't ready to kill intentionally, which is why he lures the cop to the sewer.
@@stolbez666legend they should’ve done away with this Cory thing all together… sure as a movie I guess it’s good but you ain’t ending a iconic franchise after 44 years with some stupid guy taking Michael Mask and essentially making him the side character of HIS FINALE.. miss me with that…
My thing about Allison and Corey in this movie is they did a time jump, they’re supposed to be the age of somebody who graduated college and now is working or whatever… but it’s like whoever wrote this movie forgot that, and made them act like teenagers and gave them teenager problems
Trauma will do that though. It stunts the growth or like if you ever go to jail and come home it stunts your mature level. So I can see why they wrote them like this. Corey with the kid thing will definitely stunt his level of maturity Bey he wouldn’t be doing normal high school things and Laurie with what happened her while she was In high school did the same. So it’s two people who both have trauma are living their out high school experiences in their early 20’s I get it cuz live gone through it the same almost aside from murder and psychos lol
Yes baby boy, yes. The dialogue in this was so much better. They didn't beat it over our heads the points they were trying to make. The social commentary was subtle. Thank goodness.
How was the town being mad at Laurie social commentary done well? All Laurie did was survive an attack 45 years ago and again 4 years ago. She's the only one who was able to trap him, and attempted to kill him. How does the town using her as a punching bag make any sense at all?
@@jennifermoriarty2188 that’s just how it is sometimes when it comes to real life unfortunately, but for the Halloween 2018 timeline story, some people think that she was so hell bent on him escaping that she was one of the main components that was responsible for Michael escaping again from the bus transfer in 2018. It’s messed up because they all have that anger that could manifest into hatred, and then finally Evil, because they could potentially want physical revenge on her. That’s the dark curse that is plaguing Haddonfield.
People are always looking for someone to blame for their pain. Michael was absent in the sewers and Laurie was walking around alive while their child/loved one was dead or maimed, so by default she got the brunt of their hatred. They couldn't take it out on Michael, so they took it out on her for not dying instead of their child.
Because all these people know is Laurie was attacked by this guy twice and the town dealt with a massacre. Nobody understands Michael. Laurie is an easy scapegoat because she’s someone they can point the finger at and say “this guy was after you and we all paid for it”. People act with emotion when they are scared and angry
I think the corey storyline would have served better as a middle entry to the trilogy, or as a standalone Halloween movie. Its valid to say its not a great way to end the trilogy. Like imagine, Michael gets out of that house at the end of 2018 and crawls into the sewers, 4 years go by and the Corey storyline kicks in where hes killing people. The town people get hysterical thinking its Michael (skip all the chasing down the wrong guy at the hospital crap). At the end he kills Corey, then Karen, then we get that scene where he massacres a shit ton of towns people. By then you know killing makes him stronger so its "oh shit, now hes like Uber Michael" and the movie stops. THEN Ends happens, and its Alyson and Laurie trying to survive and fight back. It can end with them at the junk yard and somehow tricking michael into falling on the grinder. Though it needs to end with both Laurie and Michael dying imo. Maybe laurie caught a serious wound and because a bunch of people got massacred theres no one to come for help or something. Idk. Its just a better ending if they both go. All of that said, I enjoyed it for what it for what it was. As a standalone Id give it a 7 or 8 out of 10. It just doesnt work great as the end point of a trilogy.
Dude that idea of Corey being the killer for 2nd movie is exactly what I was telling my gf. You sir are a great mind 👍. I agree with you 💯 that woulda been great
I think one of the big things that bothered me was that I was on board until Corey meets Michael and then all the sudden Corey just becomes an entirely different character without any sort of progression or struggle internally. I feel like I would have liked it more if there was some time to show this transition or even a little bit more explanation of what exactly happened. So Michael transferred his evil or did he? Was Corey always evil did he actually kill the kid on purpose and like it or did he kill the kid on accident but deep down liked it? A little bit more time spent on that would have made a whole lot of difference also it would have been cooler if Michael seeing this kid become evil rejuvenated him fully then Corey all the sudden realizes he's become everything everyone says he is and repents and sacrifices himself to save Allison or Lori from Michael. Lastly I hated the fact that most of the kills are from Cory dressed as Michael and not from Michael himself. It just took away from how awesome some of those kills were because it wasn't Michael in the end.
I'm pretty sure Michael actually has been killing occasionally during the four years between this movie and the other two. I remember some disappearances being mentioned, and when Corey gets knocked over the bridge there's a missing person's billboard next to them.
This was a missed opportunity. They could’ve given Coreys “Baby Sitter Murder” it’s own film and it could’ve been a suprise reveal that it’s in the Halloween universe. It would’ve made Corey not feel as forced and it would’ve given them a real life time jump between main series films.
I have no problem with the Corey storyline, it’s just they didn’t even commit to it. It was very pointless to build the plot around him essentially and then in the climax put it all to waste.
Michael Myers was finished after Halloween Kills. He was just a crippled handicap after that. He wasn’t going to comeback. He got beat up, had his mask taken, and then came back for his mask. That’s the whole point of the side story.
Fun fact, Halloween 2018 used the font from the original Halloween, Kills used the Halloween II font, so Ends used the Season of the Witch font because it was the third film.
Did you notice the reason Allyson came back the last time was because she saw the radio tower on fire and realized Corey was, in fact, killing people (evil), as Laurie said? Also, realizing that even if Laurie did kill Corey, it would have been in self-defense.
Man you really can dissect this and hit the nail on the head. 100% felt the same exact way start to finish. Best movie reviewer 👏👏👏 like you said in the other review, they built this up to straight back to the OG story, but then took a complete left turn. All you had to do was land the plane. I’m in the middle with it too, but with that being said it really kills the other 2 movies for me knowing this is what it leads up this
I’m at 18:42 of this video rn and so far i’ve literally agreed with pretty much everything you said. Love Laurie acting like a normal human, love her dialogue and chemistry with Officer Hawkins, and then boom right when Michael “captures” Corey, that’s where shit got weird.
If feels like DGG was like, "Lets give them what they want. Now in the sequel lets give them more of what they want, but with a note of cringe to make them a little mad but not so much to make them hate it. Now in the final, lets tell them we are going to give them everything they want, have them hyped to the rafters and then dash their expectations on the ground with Michael as nothing more than a cameo, followed by a timid bleed out, and then finally give them 1 minute of what they have longed for with the metal grinder. They will be so conflicted loving that one minute, but hating everything else. How can they possibly reconcile their emotions as they are going to feel both love and hate at the exact same time....OH BOY THIS WILL BE FUN!!!"
Originally, DGG pitched the idea of doing 2 Halloween movies and filming them back to back. I believe the studio wanted him to just make the first one and see if it was a success or not. So, there was always the idea to have more than 1 movie. Had they cut some of the fluff from both 2018 and Kills, then delivered that final confrontation but better than we got in Ends, it could have made for a VERY solid 2 movie run and be done with it. I watched it a second time today, and my god... I hate it even worse. Just knowing that I'll never get the ending to the storyline that everything was building to will never sit right with me. I also feel like there are so many plot conveniences that take place with no real build-up and it feels rushed... but somehow very boring at the same time. How something can feel rushed and still boring is beyond me, but they pulled it off with this one. And as I said in a previous comment, they did Michael Myers SO dirty in this movie. It makes Resurrection feel very respectful in comparison. I will never understand how they dropped the ball SO hard here.
Very well said 👍 I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to make a decent cohesive Halloween story? It has the be one of the easiest horror franchises to stick the landing. It’s when JLC and others start messing with ideas for their own pleasure and social commentary. So many good ideas in 18’ and Kills. Nothing fleshed out.
I’m in the minority here but I loved Corey. Most interesting new Halloween character we’ve gotten in a long time. I agree, they could’ve stuck the landing better towards the ending with him. I do enjoy his character more than I disliked. Michael will be back in a new timeline in 5-10 years. I’m happy Laurie gotten a happy ending.
@@naturistfred Agreed. A hint in the first film.. then more time in the 2nd. Could have made a good difference on how ppl are viewing and rating the film.
I just wish he wasn't so ugly, I hated having to look at his face so much. His accidental child murder at the beginning was the best part of the movie though
This 40 year timeline makes me appreciate H20 a lot more. As much as i have mixed reviews of this trilogy and each isolated film respectfully, H20 told the better Michael vs Laurie story rather than this timeline where it took 3 sequels to tell that story. Ends, as an isolated film, I agree with every point that you make Cody. I’m in the middle with u together on this one… I chuckled when I saw Michael just chilling in the corner, lol. Like he was waiting for his cue to start brawling.. 😂 Great breakdown and review Cody…
Listen, I would buy Laurie moving on from the beginning of the movie, I really would and I wish I could… But this lady spent 40 years prepping for an event everyone told her she was crazy for prepping for, so much so that it cost her her relationship with her own daughter. Then, that very thing she feared would happen came to pass and all hell broke loose, AND her daughter died right after they finally made amends. I’m just having a lot of trouble believing after all of that Laurie would just move on in 4 years.
My first impression of the Cory storyline when watching the film was after having that eye contact moment with Michael Myers in the sewer, I thought the direction they were going was finding a way to pass the torch from Michael to Cory. And the big twist at the end would've been all the kills that we had seen with Michael was really Cory (but not knowing that it was Cory) wearing the mask when Laurie unmasked him in the final confrontation.
Sad that the ending of Halloween kills, the whole Micheal getting stronger by every kill, and they just that idea out the window and we'll never find out why Micheal stand at his sister windows, and never find out why he can't die or he is the way he is!!!!!
This movie answered none of the previous 3 movies burning questions and the writers just call it ambiguity. Cory sleeping on the blood stain and MM standing in the place of his sisters murder maybe was this tiny bit of sadness they felt. Kind of like saying I’m sorry for what happened and they both felt remorse?
Bang on Cody.... you're the only youtuber I can come and watch and they say it how it is! Thank you for the review...I sit in the middle on this film, there is potential for it to become a cult classic down the years.
Mike let Corey live because he recognized the emptiness/potential for evil in his eyes. No trance involved, the encounter with this infamous killer who (in Corey's mind) let him live for no reason got Corey questioning himself and why Mike would've let him go. It's sorta touched on later when Corey briefly asks Alyson about if she escaped Michael or if Michael let her live
Holy shit, that's interesting, and I never thought of it that way... BUT!!! I gotta disagree. Corey had Michael-like abilities. The creeping, the disappearing, and most of all...he lived after getting stabbed in the fucking neck and had enough strength to fight Michael for a second!! Sorry, but that shit was a supernatural ability that Old Man Michael passed on lol.
@@kwh000 If they'd played into the supernatural thing with Mike more in this trilogy, I'd agree that it wouldn't make sense, but we've got a more human (cuz obviously Kills was slightly supernatural) Mike in these movies so him being evil personified is more akin to how one would call the Night Stalker evil personified. It's just hyperbole. Plus you have the addition of him being closer to, if not, 70 and severely weakened in Ends, so I can buy a person thinking they've found an heir/student of sorts.
And in the end I think that's why Michael killed him. Corey had reasons for choosing the people he killed & he also enjoyed. Michael never really seemed to enjoy killing even though he did admire them And he never killed in revenge except when someone else stole his mask. I think that's why he killed Corey in the end
Honestly, I love how in-depth this review is, and I think you perfectly incapsulated my thoughts on this film. I like it decently, but there was some missed opportunities that kinda brought the film down a bit for me.
@29:30 I think Michael stopped killing (which actually he didn’t for survival) because he didn’t really have a motive anymore. His goal was to go home and kill anyone in his way but they demolished his house after H kills so the way I interpreted it as he had nothing left to do in life other than just waste away until Corey came along.
Yep which was the parallel of Lauri who had spent her life preparing to fight him when he returned. After his home was demolished and Myers disappeared, outside her book she was lost as the town resented her as much as they hated Michael Myers.
Last person I expected to “pass the torch” was Michael Myers seeing him in a Batman + Robin thing was super weird and i didn’t understand it because Michael has no sympathy for anyone, let alone to teach them how to be evil 😂
I enjoyed it warts and all. I really felt the social commentary was much better in this than in Kills. The whole nature of evil debate and how evil can infect and consume you really harkens back to the original movie. I loved the parallels between Corey and Michael, how evil consumed them and how they in turn infected Haddonfield. Michael and Corey may be dead but evil, the real antagonist of the series, lives on. Perhaps this may have served better tonally as the second movie and go out with a blast with a movie like Kills tonally. The thing I did have some trouble with was how Michael went from tearing people up like roid munching demon in Kills and then is fragile and weak in this one. I would've preferred a more consistent portrayal of Michael. If you're going to keep his character grounded in reality, human and frail, they could've and should've shown that in the first two rather than having him appear almost superhuman. I suppose a lot can happen in 4 years but I don't know the suspension of disbelief just wasn't kicking in as hard as one might expect. Still, an all round enjoyable flick. Kills was easily the worst IMO but I will say this, of the 3 main continuities that branch off Halloween, this one is probably the best of the bunch IMO. and I love all the movies (EXCEPT Resurrection, ain't no way I'm ever gonna ever find any love for that!)
I wish Corey was sprinkled through all 3 movies instead of just making him the star of the last one. And honestly there was alot of really great ideas, but only enough for a 3 hour movie at most. It shouldn't have been a trilogy. Easily the best Jamie Lee Curtis performance since the original. Love that for her. 👏❤ Edit: Corey killed himself to make Allison hate Laurie. He underestimated their bond basically.
I've read how Micheal dies and its kinda lame that after surviving a burning house, a bus crash, getting shot 6 or 7 times, a mob beat down and multiple stab wounds, the thing that ultimately kills him is getting his wrist slit
Did anyone notice when Corey jumped off the radio station roof and fell down he sat up exactly like Michael does? I haven’t heard any reviewers mention that.
I really like Sean Chandlers take on it... he things the end of Ends should've been the end of Kills instead of squeazing out three sequels I personally HATED this movie...
Thank you for making the most cathartic video I've seen on this movie so far, lol. Your middle-ground approach to reviews allow for much more nuance and a more complete exploration of the movies.
I was kind of digging it for the first two acts but the third act just felt super disjointed it's like they couldn't figure it out if they wanted Michael to be the villain or the new guy another thing I didn't like is Michael is a wimp in this movie and my man lost to an elderly woman
When it comes to Corey ending his own arch, I took it as he heard Allison pull in, he made the phone call to Allison saying her grandmother was going to kill him so in a flash in the pan he put the knife in his neck to not only MAKE IT look like she killed him, which was solidified in the movie but to drive his point home, because he was never going to be able to go back to anything normal to even HAVE Allison. That’s how I took it.
He was in their home wearing Michael Myers mask and outfit... What was expected to happen? The arch was pointless. Nullifying everything that was leading up to it. You can't make it look like anything but what it is. Bad writing and decision making. The whole movie really shouldn't even be considered as a sequel. In the sense of continuity from Halloween and Halloween Kills, it makes no sense.
Just to be clear Cody, I believe the reason she called about a suicide was because she believed Corey was in the house and wanted to tip the police off but if she just called the police? It would’ve made him suspicious.
I just watched this for the second time and the atmosphere of the first scene was so good that I was still convinced in the beginning scene that Michael Myres was going to come out at Corey and the kid even though I knew exactly what would happen.
@@OrthoLou cause that's the people saying this movie was "anticlimatic", it's gonna take its time, but People will eventually understand that this was a very well explained movie and a very natural finale
@@ImperialAlex I kind of agree.. I really like the film, and I think it FEELS like a pretty natural progression...but I KNOW it was not the original plan.
I love how the dad was at the bar to tell Lindsey about Corey eyes just shooting pool by himself waiting for Laurie to show up to bar. What a coincidence? Lol
and he said he saw his eyes the day before so he apparently went and told Lindsey right away. thank god for that otherwise the convenient plot wouldnt be convenient.
I love your in depth reviews. I didn’t hate Ends but it definitely went in a direction I wasn’t expecting. I think the time jump works and helped Laurie evolve a little. I just think 4 years was too long and caused Michael to be too weak.
It makes no sense. The old man told Corey that Michael brought people down in the sewer to kill. If he had been killing people already and it truly does power him as the film suggests, why was he in such bad shape?
But he spent 40 years in Smith Grove and when he escaped he was a beast so don't understand the more he kills the more he transcends which he didn't until he got off the bus but he still was strong like the shape suppose to be they did myers dirty in ends
people keep saying this was because the wounds in Kills were just too much for him. how did he last 4 years then? and if its because he killed people every once in a while, then he wouldve kept doing that to regain full strength. i like how he was confined to the sewer but was able to wander out and drag Corey in there too despite being so weak and dying.
It’s almost like they convinced themselves that it made sense without really flushing the idea out. What do you guys think would have been the best way to explain Michael’s 4 year absence? 🤔 I think humanising him caused them some logic problems.. I’m sure beast mode Michael will come back in 5-10 years time with hopefully the same look and a fresh storyline
The people in the town act like Michael Myers has been killing this entire time on and off over the past 40 years in which he escapes and they keep finding him going to his childhood home. But the writers forget it seems that they have retconned all of those other movies so Michael only killed his sister in 1963 then escaped in 1978 and killed 4 people in a killing spree. He gets locked up in a sanitarium for 40 years and escapes when a bus tips over and continues his killing spree. It is not like they actively or heard about several failed attempts to kill him. It is like they have seen the movies we have seen or lived through events that have since been retconned and never happened.... its a bit confusing.
DUDE! THANK YOU. you said what I’ve been thinking and no one else is talking about. This dude left off in kills, slaying 20 plus people? He was sure as hell juiced up when he Killed Karen. Where’s all that power gone? And the whole “not looking out but looking within” story line they built up in kills was left behind. It’s like they wrote this on the fly. Or gathered around and said let’s piss em all off.
My genuine assumption on how this direction came about (might sound like more of a benefit of the doubt, for the filmmakers): The pushback date for production and release, along with the backlash for Kills, made them want to go in a different direction, so...they sincerely wanted to make something that would not be for everyone, but would surely have a cult following (and they gave us SEVERAL clues to that, which are pointed out in this video). Honestly? Theyve succeeded already; a lot of people hate it, but there's a great deal who love it, all for the same reasons.
They had no idea what they wanted to do. Also the "looking out of Judith's window on Haddonfield" thing got promptly dropped and never mentioned again. Because they had no idea what to do with it. I have a strong sense they were making it up as they went.
Another idea possibly is that Corey is going to be the next Michael Myers character because he didn't actually definitively get his by destroyed like Michael Myers did and we don't know what became of his body. However, this is blumhouses final film so I doubt whoever gets the rights will actually set up a continuation.
Hated this movie like why would they do this in a finale also Michael working with someone else is so out of character and makes zero sense for him he’s supposed to be pure evil and instead he’s working with Corey. The final fight doesn’t even feel like a win or earned win due to the fact that Michael was at his weakest that didn’t add up to me.
You have to remember, Laurie had 4 years to realize the toll her trauma and protection of it went to Karen. She realized it late, but nonetheless, it took her daughter to die to realize she needs to take her life in a new direction. She chose 40 years of mental captivity. She realized it. She realized she could choose happiness too. She had to get better for allysons sake. I loved the 1978 innocent Laurie we see in a glimpse here.
But the story didn't earn it. The time jump to set that up offscreen after the end of 2 was pretty jarring. Subverting expectations and lazy writing don't have to go hand in hand.
You have to remeber that you are making excuses and that this movie has a 20 million budget with decenr actors but with a 5.1/10 rating and going down... let that sink it.
@@crow_g1639 Lol of course it's sitting at 5.1, there's tons of people review bombing it with 1 out of 10 scores. It doesn't matter whether you liked the direction or not, the movie is very well shot, well acted, well edited, has a good soundtrack and has isolated good kill scenes, 1 out of 10 is not warranted. I can see 4 out of 10, 3 out of 10 (even though I liked the movie, I understand why some people don't), the review bombing is unwarranted
Can't say I liked the movie, but I'll never forget the theater experience. Friend to the right loving the movie, and me and my friend to the left just completely shitting and ragging that last hour of the film because of how goofy we thought it was.
A lot of reviewers do these full recap/breakdown videos going through the plot and a lot of them get lost along the way and it becomes very muddled and all over the place but this was really nicely and clearly done.
She said she went to therapy. That can work wonders for helping get over trauma. She wasn't fully over it, but 4 years of therapy? That can change a life around, trust me.
Corey had the potential for evil? Seemed like him killing the kid was an accident… if we heard Corey shout “THIS IS SPARTA” right before the boy made impact; well then you’d have an argument.
I just feel like I'm on an island with my opinion on almost every single movie these days. Everyone seems to either absolutely love or completely despise almost all movies that are coming out nowadays and I'm almost always somewhere in the middle. Nice to know I'm not alone in that
I think the whole bit in the sewer definitely points to Michael “regenerating” a bit from killing the cop. I think that’s what Corey meant when he said show me how to do it. If you notice when Corey kills the doctor he takes the bandage off of his hand which seems to be healing somewhat.
that was dumb too, how does Corey possess Michaels supernatural abilities. and why just Corey? Corey was innocent in what he was blamed for. Michael on the other hand really was a psycho little boy who killed his family.
Regarding the eye locking; I think Michael recognized the evil within Corey and that’s why he let him live. Laurie said Evil doesn’t die it just takes a new shape. Corey to me was an example of what can happen to a person that leads them to consumed by Evil and become Micheal.
@@moniquek5097 I think people didn’t pay enough attention to what Laurie was saying when writing her memoirs she pretty much spelled it out for us. I was also confused until I heard her closing lines and it clicked. The Evil was always there in Corey it just took him to be pushed to the brink to finally snap.
I'm one of the few who enjoyed this film. I'm a Halloween fanatic, the original is my favorite film of all time, but I've been bored of the Laurie/Michael story for a while. I think it ended perfectly in 2018 and was unnecessarily dragged out to sell tickets. The 2018 film was originally intended to set up Allyson as the new main character, but they realized the impact JLC had on the box office and derailed all of that. With Ends, I was much more interested in Corey's character and his whole arc. It was fascinating to me, and I was eager to see where they were going to take it. But they cut it short to force a confrontation between Laurie and Michael in the final few minutes, to justify the title, in much the same way an exorcism was tacked onto the end of The Exorcist III so they could call it 'The Exorcist.' I honestly wish Laurie and Michael weren't in this film at all, and that it was solely Corey's and Allyson's film. It would've been rad af if they'd set up a new set of Halloween films, with Corey acting as the new "Michael" and Allyson the new "Laurie."
As a huge Halloween fan , I'm in the middle i didn't love it , but also didn't hate it . I was thinking the same thing that you mentioned about the movie and there was some good stuff but I felt that final fight was weak and lacking the epic battle we were hoping for.
Admit it, it sucked. Michael can’t fight a teenager and lives in a sewer?? Among the hundred other cringe, unimaginative, weak sh!t in this abomination.
I recreate this movie 3-6 times a day in the toilet, if you get what I’m saying. They were really into something with the first two, then they gave us a Halloween 3 / 5 crossover with the no Myers / killing power with someone else. I absolutely loved the Easter eggs like the grocery store BOC. The Thing, but I mean seriously was the plot of this a think tank thing? Derailed.
*SPOILERS SPOILERS* - - - I hated the movie until the end, because I'm a sucker for a happy ending. But after seeing him get stabbed 57 times and shot 58 times and all that shit he survived in Halloween Kills, it felt like he went out like a bitch in this one
My two day journey with this movie is an accelerated version of my two year journey with Rob Zombie's H2. I saw it initially on Peacock and hated it, but something compelled me to go back later that day and watch it again. Now I felt it had some very good ideas worth exploring, so I went to the local cinema and watched it a third time. And now, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! It has it's issues, but just like Rob Zombie's effort, when seen as it's own independent thing it's great. I honestly believe that this movie will be discussed and debated for years to come, and ultimately will go down as a cult classic. Great review Cody, by the way.
No matter what happens this will be a movie I'm interested in seeing peoples thoughts on because it does so many different things that nobody expected and that's better than a boring mess
Also, dude, I totally agree with you about the third act. My girlfriend and I were loving this movie (and my GF hates horror), but the part where her granddaughter left after being pissed only to return a few minutes later to rescue Laurie felt like very lazy writing at best. Anyways, I love the genuine love that you bring to all of your videos. You are awesome man. Keep it up! Thanks for not being one of those people that just likes to complain about modern movies being “woke” or whatever lazy term people on a certain side of the aisle like to throw around. Love your genuine passion my fiend!!
I’ve been saying the same thing on the treatment of Michael. Weak Michael makes no sense if killing does rejuvenate him given Kills ends with him single handedly kills the entire mob…oh and can now teleport? The hobo also says (as do all the missing notices placed throughout the town) that he’s still killing over the last four years, just clearly at a slower rate.
All the deaths in Halloween Kills healed him from all the injuries he got in 2018. Shot in the face, stabbed a crap ton of times, thrown down a flight of stairs and trapped in a burning building. In Ends there're a couple of moments where they show missing persons posters, implying that Michael has been hiding out killing people over the 4 years he was missing. Then he possesses or connects with Corey and gets stronger with every murder Corey commits. Maybe when Corey killed himself it wounded Michael too, who knows.
First video I’ve seen of yours.. I agreed with so much you said, and loved the way you broke the movie down. These are the types of spoiler reviews I want, it’s as if I’m having a conversation with someone who’s seen the movie - it’s so in depth!! Subscribed :)
Unpopular opinion but I actually kind of like that Michael struggles in this movie. He's supposed to be a little bit more grounded in this trilogy and he IS a 65 year old man who has sustained some serious trauma and has spent the last four years chilling in a sewer. But at the same time I think it highlights just how much damn perseverance Michael has. He may be on his last legs but damnit he's still a cold blooded killer who will utterly fucked you up even if it's gonna take his breath and make him hurt like hell. I think it's very in character for him to push through that pain to fuck shit up.
Naaaa wack !! This is Supposed to be HALLOWEEN ENDS !! WHERE IS MICHAEL!!!?? WHY WAS HE IN THE WINDOW? WHAT WAS HIS CHILDHOOD HOME CONNECTION?? WHAT BIG PART DID THE RADIO TOWER PLAY!!? WHY INTRODUCED A NEW CHARACTER!?? WHERE IS THE MICHAEL THAT STABBED MICHAEL'S HAND IN THE FIRST TRAILER!?? THIS MOVIE SUCKED GORDON GOT LOST AND SO DID WE !!
I respect your opinion but I think based on what we have seen from 60yr old Michael in the last two films it doesn't make sense. I mean he got shot multiple times and got right up and took out a whole mob. Now he makes some wimpy kid look like Kurt Angle as he wrestles Michael to the ground and takes his mask. I think it would have been cool to see Michael a little bit weaker than in the past, but they turned him into a straight up bitch. Big difference between Michael being beaten down and emasculated by a kid who gets bullied by the high school marching band.
I think the beginning with the pumpkins was a metaphor on how a jackolatern is an evil pumpkin but in the end of the day any pumpkin can be a jackolatern like how anyone could be evil type shit
I've been a halloween fan ever since I saw 78's television premiere when I was 5... (actually my first ever memory) I'm so devestated about ENDS. I've been sitting here with my arms folded,shaking my head for over 3 hours ever since I got home from the theatre... i hate gordan alan green and blumhouse for doing this. The 8 minutes at the end,not counting the wholesome part at the VERY end was the best part. . But that's it. I'm so fkn devastated. This was supposed to be epic fireworks...but ended up being sparklers that took forever to light. >:(
I honestly have to idea how an old school Halloween fan could like this.. this was a horrible idea and was completely disrespectful towards the Micheal Myers character. They went way off the rails
There were very odd moments in the film where i was sure Korey was hallucinating things, like the scene with the dead kids mother in the bar, the scenes with Michael and the scene with Laurie in the tilting chair.
All of that was real, especially the Michael & Laurie encounters. Pretty sure Corey even calls back to saying, "If I can't have her," to Laurie right before he stabs himself later
Yes I thought it would end with Michael never actually being in the sewers but just his hallucinations of his battle with himself and the darkness taking over. They should of had him fake his own stabbing and after Michael really shows up and Laurie ends him a missing cory allowing a younger boogeyman for future Halloween films since in this timeline Michael would eventually die of old age and than have the new boogeyman obsessed and focused on Allyson going forward.
This movie should’ve left Michael Myers on a high note, they built him up in Halloween kills, then kept none of that momentum in this movie, they made him a loser who can’t walk or fight, then he died after getting to do nothing for his last laugh of a movie
It's interesting looking at just how many turns they made when making this trilogy. If the rumors about the 2018 film's original ending are true, or at least the ones I heard at the time, that I would've really liked as an ending to Michael Myers. The main detail I remember hearing, although it seems to be the one lacking the most evidence for validity, heck maybe it's been debunked, was that after the big third act knife fight Michael wanders into the woods, slumps down against a tree as the sun comes up marking the end of Halloween night, and they hold on that shot as all we hear is him breathing until he stops, now dead. I would've really liked that as the idea of his breathing stopping, to me at least, would be the definitive illustration of his death, more so in a way than any clear physical injury through how it mirrors the ending of the original. I also like the idea that no-one sees him die or truly knows that he's dead, so even though he really is gone, Haddonfield would probably be haunted by the idea of him returning for years. All of that could be completely wrong, but that's my head canon for this new trilogy. The original Halloween is my favorite horror film of all time, but with that I really don't care for the idea of there being any sequels to it given how that original film ends, so I'm indifferent to most of them and fine with whatever they try to do. The original H2 is the only one I'd say I actively watch besides the original. 2018 to me was a decent enough crowd pleaser that made Michael scary again, but I wish it leaned less into the more standard slasher tropes and focused more on Laurie's psychosis and her relationship with her family, Kills I just skipped. All that said, this film somewhat interests me for the premise. I like the concept that this unlucky guy basically becomes the vessel for the town's insecurities and trauma, but as you said, they should've leaned into the idea that he's mentally unstable and in need of help rather than a slasher villain, like maybe after a lot of buildup he kills one person and is immediately riddled with guilt and spirals, maybe tries to kill himself and Allison stops him. To be honest I'd like a whole film explicitly about that whilst seeing the Strodes deal with their trauma, a film basically about a post-Michael Myers world, then by the end Michael is found, but he's a shell of what he once was, practically already dead and there isn't a grand final battle, it's more like he's put out of his misery. That'd probably be a film most people wouldn't like, it sure as hell wouldn't be trying to be a crowd-pleasing slasher, but I like that premise of a more 'realistic' ending, with the 2018 film being the true final fight between Laurie and Michael.
Jesus, an hour? That’s about how long we went without seeing Myers in Halloween ends.
😂😂😂😂😂 he had best cameo all time !
What do you any from a crippled old man lol
Great comment lmao
@@AliFrankTheTank "special guest appearance by Michael Myers"
He there about 10 minutes
“Apparently she’s sleeping with him to get the promotion. Which is an interesting story decision for a film produced by Miramax.” Took me OUT
“tOoK mE oUt”
I was actually in a theater with a hard-core Micheal Myers fan, and when Corey took Micheal's mask, the dude yelled "WHAT THE FUCK!?" at the top of his lungs, and I laughed my ass off for a couple minutes afterwards.
@@trollingboy9729 Oh-ho, you BET he did!
It didn't bother me. I actually enjoyed the movie alot. Kills is my favorite of the 3 since it has Michael in it the most. But Ends did take risks and for me they worked. The opening of Ends was great I wasn't expecting that to happen. Its cool how at the end of kills when Laurie said the more he kills the more he transcends. We seen that in Ends once Michael killed the cop.
My nephew was probly that guy. My nephew was so mad , he walked out.
Haha 😂 yeah a lot of unintentional laughing in my theater. Couple of walk outs. My kids and I hated it but we stayed and watched it.
@@ronitaburke9544 that’s always so silly to me. Grown men getting so mad at a movie that they walk out.
Also, it’s kinda nuts that the burning radio tower is what triggered Alison to return to Laurie, but she didn’t put 2 and 2 together when Corey was laying there with a Mike Brand jumpsuit, his mask, and a knife. But, alright.
Whenever you're in trauma and distress, you don't notice much. You notice what you're fixated on, and nothing else.
Plus Lori Strode didn’t say anything she didn’t say your insane bf was dressed like Michael Myers and tried to kill me! I hate when movies do that
@@TattleDeltayeah but it doesn’t make much sense that after everything that happened in Halloween 2018 and 2021 that now Alison who in 2018 was originally the only one that somewhat believed Lori now all of a sudden she’s just not gonna believe a thing Lori says… that’s just ignorance.
Another thing that struck me about Laurie’s character that was strange was that in 2018 she was so traumatized and obsessed with Myers when he was (supposedly) locked away securely , BUT later she is content and living a normal life after Myers disappeared 4 years earlier and no trace of him when he could show up anywhere at anytime. I think reactions should’ve been switched to make more sense.
Legit. I was really struggling watching Laurie bake pies
You forgot to mention after she killed her daughter!!!!!
They had no idea wtf they were doing man
@Shawn Cook sounds like you are making excuses to me😉
The problem is they already did that with H20. They should've saved Laurie for the last movie and moved onto someone else. Say what you will about Resurrection, but at least they had the balls to focus on people OTHER than the STRODE/LLOYD/TATE/WHATEVER family.
Halloween 2018 Ending felt more like a finale than Halloween Ends
Both H20 and H40 had a better finale than this.
@@reacts6230 yeah that's definitely true even though some people hated H20's ending because it's supposedly disrespectful to Michael Myers reputation for being known as this unstoppable force of nature and evil, but on the other hand both H20 and Halloween 2018 are satisfying conclusions to the franchise for some people, but at end of the day Michael gotta be Michael because people want more. . . Oh yeah don't forget Halloween 2 ending with Dr. Loomis sacrificing himself in order to put Michael down in the hospital and well I don't know Halloween 4 some people have mixed feelings some thought it was scary and some thought it was dumb but hey it's always fun to watch and talk about the Halloween franchise
@@reacts6230 Can't wait for H60
@@allpraisestothemosthigh9418 Let's hope their done with this. I thought they had it right wit Halloween 2018 and then Halloween Kills. After watching this mess of an ending, it's best now they leave this franchise to rest!
@@FireyPheonix841 Yep
When Corey and Michael had that little scuffle I just started laughing my ass off. Corey was like “mom says it’s my turn to put on the mask!”
@Total Tech X RZH2 is definitely better! Yeah it swung for the fences too and took some huge risks but at least it felt like it meant something in the end! Ends just didn’t go fully through with its direction because DGG has no balls.
Goddamn right..sum batman n Robin shit fr..
They definitely wrassled over it 🤣
I HATE THAT SCENE .
@Total Tech X i
Maybe it’s just me, but I wish Laurie from 2018 and Laurie from Ends was switched. It makes more sense to me that she’d move on and be writing blogs of Michael after 40 years and only 1 encounter with him. After Kills, then it’s believable that she would try to be a fighter and have this trap house because Michael killed everyone (including her daughter!) and he went missing, so she’s waiting for him to show himself, then kill him. 2018 Laurie should have processed this grief and been okay with it more because it was one night and Michael was locked up. After the second massacre, and he was never found, that’s when she should have been this hunter
Completely agree
I agree!!!
Fully agree. A back to front character arc if ever there was one.
Never thought of that but completely agree 👍
Crazy that you just wrote an infinitely better character arc for her than a major studio and multiple professional screenwriters could do lmao. This trilogy is a mess
I just feel that Michael deserved a better ending than what he got
Same!
Michael and James Jude Courtney were done dirty.
I think if this was our middle movie and not the last people will be talking different about this movie
Same. I gave 0 fucks about the relationship between Allison and Corey. We don't need this pointless "love story" in a Halloween movie
@@EnchantedReader89espically rushed in one movie in a trilogy
It makes no sense for Laurie to start living a happy life and trying to forget after Michael came back, so she’s all scared and on a vengeance hook for 40 years while he was locked up and now that he’s free she’s happy??😂😂
And he killed her daughter.
I think Coreys acting in the movie was really good but I feel like he didn’t really fit the role as a villain in ends because this was marketed as a Laurie v Michael movie. He would’ve been a great killer in some other movie like Scream
Reading this comment makes me want a slasher cinematic universe, or SCU lol. If we can get Fred vs Jason, Micheal vs Ghostface doesn't sound too implausible.
I thought he fit it great because he was portrayed as being bullied and he fit that role really well. I felt bad for him.
Right he didn’t fit we did not need his story because how he died was dumb
Yeah the biggest case of false advertisement I have ever seen for a movie. Laurie VS Michael should have been built up for the whole movie instead of the last like 10 minutes.
@@desertpinevintagethat’s debatable just given the fact that sure they built up a decent story arc for a villain but they piss it away at the end. But the more important flaw is the fact that this finale is about Laurie and Alison vs Michael Myers, but you get some regular evil kid taking Myers mask and making Myers a side character. You gotta remember that after 44 years Halloween ends you is how this franchise ends 😂
The thing I would’ve changed about this trilogy is the order in which Laurie becomes paranoid/doomsday prepper-esque. It would’ve been better (in my opinion) if in 2018 Laurie had been like she was in ENDS, traumatized but finally ready to move on after 40 years. Finally letting go of the idea of Michael coming back. Then BOOM Michael comes back and obliterates the town, kills Karen, and THEN Laurie becomes more vengeful than ever before, considering Michael killed her own daughter. She would then be the paranoid, prepared Laurie that she was in the 2018 film. Waiting for the day Michael came back so she could get her revenge. Seems like she was less effected by her daughter’s death than the 1978 attack 😂 which makes no sense because Michael did the one thing Laurie always wanted to prevent from happening. She spent Karen’s entire life protecting her to the point that Karen resented her for it. It would’ve been so badass to see vengeful mama bear Laurie going all out against Michael in ENDS!! I also think the Corey idea would’ve worked better in KILLS, but the final film should’ve been focused on Laurie’s wrath. Just my opinions!!!! Haha still a great trilogy, I had fun!
She's paranoid in 2018 because she thinks Myers was specifically targetting her in 78. She continues to think that in 2018, thus why she's semi-hunting him. In Kills, she is finally brought to the realization that her 'Boogeyman' was never targetting her. Yeah, she was likely effected by her daughter's death, but the death occurred in the spot that Michael was ultimately heading toward. We have four years pass after her death, and a badly injured Myers who never reappears. Doesn't give her much of a reason to be paranoid after that because ultimately, the people of the town are what continues to drive his spirit, not Myers himself. You get to 'Ends', and it's meant to show you through Cory that these monsters aren't born, they are created on the judgments of the townspeople / society. Three years after the child's death, Cory is fine until the mother / his bullies continue to see him as a monster. In reality, he doesn't actually turn until the doctor / nurse. The homeless man was out of fear in self defense and the cop, he was well aware that he wasn't ready to kill intentionally, which is why he lures the cop to the sewer.
@@stolbez666legend they should’ve done away with this Cory thing all together… sure as a movie I guess it’s good but you ain’t ending a iconic franchise after 44 years with some stupid guy taking Michael Mask and essentially making him the side character of HIS FINALE.. miss me with that…
My thing about Allison and Corey in this movie is they did a time jump, they’re supposed to be the age of somebody who graduated college and now is working or whatever… but it’s like whoever wrote this movie forgot that, and made them act like teenagers and gave them teenager problems
Trauma will do that though. It stunts the growth or like if you ever go to jail and come home it stunts your mature level. So I can see why they wrote them like this. Corey with the kid thing will definitely stunt his level of maturity Bey he wouldn’t be doing normal high school things and Laurie with what happened her while she was In high school did the same. So it’s two people who both have trauma are living their out high school experiences in their early 20’s I get it cuz live gone through it the same almost aside from murder and psychos lol
You are one of the BEST analytical reviewers I’ve seen, I can’t really explain it, you just do everything right! Love all your takes on this
Yes baby boy, yes. The dialogue in this was so much better. They didn't beat it over our heads the points they were trying to make.
The social commentary was subtle. Thank goodness.
How was the town being mad at Laurie social commentary done well? All Laurie did was survive an attack 45 years ago and again 4 years ago. She's the only one who was able to trap him, and attempted to kill him. How does the town using her as a punching bag make any sense at all?
Sadly that is how society really does work
Hiw people in real life act..don't have to have a just reason to be treated like shit
@@jennifermoriarty2188 that’s just how it is sometimes when it comes to real life unfortunately, but for the Halloween 2018 timeline story, some people think that she was so hell bent on him escaping that she was one of the main components that was responsible for Michael escaping again from the bus transfer in 2018.
It’s messed up because they all have that anger that could manifest into hatred, and then finally Evil, because they could potentially want physical revenge on her.
That’s the dark curse that is plaguing Haddonfield.
People are always looking for someone to blame for their pain. Michael was absent in the sewers and Laurie was walking around alive while their child/loved one was dead or maimed, so by default she got the brunt of their hatred. They couldn't take it out on Michael, so they took it out on her for not dying instead of their child.
Because all these people know is Laurie was attacked by this guy twice and the town dealt with a massacre. Nobody understands Michael. Laurie is an easy scapegoat because she’s someone they can point the finger at and say “this guy was after you and we all paid for it”. People act with emotion when they are scared and angry
I think the corey storyline would have served better as a middle entry to the trilogy, or as a standalone Halloween movie. Its valid to say its not a great way to end the trilogy. Like imagine, Michael gets out of that house at the end of 2018 and crawls into the sewers, 4 years go by and the Corey storyline kicks in where hes killing people. The town people get hysterical thinking its Michael (skip all the chasing down the wrong guy at the hospital crap). At the end he kills Corey, then Karen, then we get that scene where he massacres a shit ton of towns people. By then you know killing makes him stronger so its "oh shit, now hes like Uber Michael" and the movie stops. THEN Ends happens, and its Alyson and Laurie trying to survive and fight back. It can end with them at the junk yard and somehow tricking michael into falling on the grinder. Though it needs to end with both Laurie and Michael dying imo. Maybe laurie caught a serious wound and because a bunch of people got massacred theres no one to come for help or something. Idk. Its just a better ending if they both go.
All of that said, I enjoyed it for what it for what it was. As a standalone Id give it a 7 or 8 out of 10. It just doesnt work great as the end point of a trilogy.
Michael Myers was ended in Halloween Kills. He was just a crippled old handicap after that.
@@Programm4r what does that have to do with anything i said?
@Collin don't forget when he picks the nurse up with one arm and pins her to a wall with a knife in Ends
@Collin Adrenaline is a hell of a drug my dude. You'd be amazed at the superhuman things the body can do in life or death situations.
Dude that idea of Corey being the killer for 2nd movie is exactly what I was telling my gf. You sir are a great mind 👍. I agree with you 💯 that woulda been great
In what world do high schoolers bully a 21 year old?
I was thinking that same thing…
I think one of the big things that bothered me was that I was on board until Corey meets Michael and then all the sudden Corey just becomes an entirely different character without any sort of progression or struggle internally. I feel like I would have liked it more if there was some time to show this transition or even a little bit more explanation of what exactly happened. So Michael transferred his evil or did he? Was Corey always evil did he actually kill the kid on purpose and like it or did he kill the kid on accident but deep down liked it? A little bit more time spent on that would have made a whole lot of difference also it would have been cooler if Michael seeing this kid become evil rejuvenated him fully then Corey all the sudden realizes he's become everything everyone says he is and repents and sacrifices himself to save Allison or Lori from Michael. Lastly I hated the fact that most of the kills are from Cory dressed as Michael and not from Michael himself. It just took away from how awesome some of those kills were because it wasn't Michael in the end.
I'm pretty sure Michael actually has been killing occasionally during the four years between this movie and the other two. I remember some disappearances being mentioned, and when Corey gets knocked over the bridge there's a missing person's billboard next to them.
Yes I saw that too
This was a missed opportunity. They could’ve given Coreys “Baby Sitter Murder” it’s own film and it could’ve been a suprise reveal that it’s in the Halloween universe. It would’ve made Corey not feel as forced and it would’ve given them a real life time jump between main series films.
I have no problem with the Corey storyline, it’s just they didn’t even commit to it. It was very pointless to build the plot around him essentially and then in the climax put it all to waste.
Michael Myers was finished after Halloween Kills. He was just a crippled handicap after that. He wasn’t going to comeback. He got beat up, had his mask taken, and then came back for his mask. That’s the whole point of the side story.
@@Programm4r and that’s the problem!
@@shanecordova6970 okay .. but it wasn’t like the side story was irrelevant. I thought the movie was okay.
Fun fact, Halloween 2018 used the font from the original Halloween, Kills used the Halloween II font, so Ends used the Season of the Witch font because it was the third film.
Ugh! Season of the witch 🤮
Did you notice the reason Allyson came back the last time was because she saw the radio tower on fire and realized Corey was, in fact, killing people (evil), as Laurie said? Also, realizing that even if Laurie did kill Corey, it would have been in self-defense.
20 mins in and this is easily one of my favorite Cody leach vids. Love how everything is articulated in this one and how into detail you go.
Somewhere Busta Rhymes is saying “I guess my Halloween movie wasn’t so bad now, huh?”
😂😂😂😂😂
Man you really can dissect this and hit the nail on the head. 100% felt the same exact way start to finish. Best movie reviewer 👏👏👏 like you said in the other review, they built this up to straight back to the OG story, but then took a complete left turn. All you had to do was land the plane. I’m in the middle with it too, but with that being said it really kills the other 2 movies for me knowing this is what it leads up this
The only guy I watch for movie reviews, honestly, great cadence, speaks very well & is hilarious especially his “Halloween Resurrection” (Review)
I’m so glad you gave it a legit chance and actually give the movie credit for what it does correct. Love you man.
I’m at 18:42 of this video rn and so far i’ve literally agreed with pretty much everything you said. Love Laurie acting like a normal human, love her dialogue and chemistry with Officer Hawkins, and then boom right when Michael “captures” Corey, that’s where shit got weird.
If feels like DGG was like, "Lets give them what they want. Now in the sequel lets give them more of what they want, but with a note of cringe to make them a little mad but not so much to make them hate it. Now in the final, lets tell them we are going to give them everything they want, have them hyped to the rafters and then dash their expectations on the ground with Michael as nothing more than a cameo, followed by a timid bleed out, and then finally give them 1 minute of what they have longed for with the metal grinder. They will be so conflicted loving that one minute, but hating everything else. How can they possibly reconcile their emotions as they are going to feel both love and hate at the exact same time....OH BOY THIS WILL BE FUN!!!"
Originally, DGG pitched the idea of doing 2 Halloween movies and filming them back to back. I believe the studio wanted him to just make the first one and see if it was a success or not. So, there was always the idea to have more than 1 movie. Had they cut some of the fluff from both 2018 and Kills, then delivered that final confrontation but better than we got in Ends, it could have made for a VERY solid 2 movie run and be done with it. I watched it a second time today, and my god... I hate it even worse. Just knowing that I'll never get the ending to the storyline that everything was building to will never sit right with me. I also feel like there are so many plot conveniences that take place with no real build-up and it feels rushed... but somehow very boring at the same time. How something can feel rushed and still boring is beyond me, but they pulled it off with this one. And as I said in a previous comment, they did Michael Myers SO dirty in this movie. It makes Resurrection feel very respectful in comparison. I will never understand how they dropped the ball SO hard here.
Very well said 👍 I don’t know why it’s so hard for them to make a decent cohesive Halloween story? It has the be one of the easiest horror franchises to stick the landing. It’s when JLC and others start messing with ideas for their own pleasure and social commentary. So many good ideas in 18’ and Kills. Nothing fleshed out.
Rushed and yet painfully boring is the most accurate review I’ve seen yet
I feel like DGG planned for Michael to be permanently dead by the end of one and have Corey as the second films villain.
@@Skelerax Halloween Cooooorrrrreyyyy made me snort so loud I woke my baby lol
@Shawn Cook multiple long posts saying the exact same thing. We get it, you gave yourself the mantle of the films apologist
I’m in the minority here but I loved Corey. Most interesting new Halloween character we’ve gotten in a long time. I agree, they could’ve stuck the landing better towards the ending with him. I do enjoy his character more than I disliked.
Michael will be back in a new timeline in 5-10 years. I’m happy Laurie gotten a happy ending.
Corey should have been introduced earlier. I wouldn't have mind it but his death made his entire story arc pointless.
@@naturistfred Agreed. A hint in the first film.. then more time in the 2nd. Could have made a good difference on how ppl are viewing and rating the film.
I dont think you are in the minority…this was a cool character in the wrong movie
I just wish he wasn't so ugly, I hated having to look at his face so much. His accidental child murder at the beginning was the best part of the movie though
I feel the same way
This 40 year timeline makes me appreciate H20 a lot more. As much as i have mixed reviews of this trilogy and each isolated film respectfully, H20 told the better Michael vs Laurie story rather than this timeline where it took 3 sequels to tell that story.
Ends, as an isolated film, I agree with every point that you make Cody. I’m in the middle with u together on this one…
I chuckled when I saw Michael just chilling in the corner, lol. Like he was waiting for his cue to start brawling.. 😂
Great breakdown and review Cody…
DAMN RIGHT! H20 is a kick ass movie!
Listen, I would buy Laurie moving on from the beginning of the movie, I really would and I wish I could… But this lady spent 40 years prepping for an event everyone told her she was crazy for prepping for, so much so that it cost her her relationship with her own daughter. Then, that very thing she feared would happen came to pass and all hell broke loose, AND her daughter died right after they finally made amends. I’m just having a lot of trouble believing after all of that Laurie would just move on in 4 years.
My first impression of the Cory storyline when watching the film was after having that eye contact moment with Michael Myers in the sewer, I thought the direction they were going was finding a way to pass the torch from Michael to Cory. And the big twist at the end would've been all the kills that we had seen with Michael was really Cory (but not knowing that it was Cory) wearing the mask when Laurie unmasked him in the final confrontation.
I would have hate that
@@trollingboy9729 I don’t lmao
@@trollingboy9729 Same.
That’s what I thought was going to happen before release date . That should of happened
That’s what my sister was saying. Like the end of My Bloody Valentine
I’m so disappointed!!!!! What were they thinking???? Not surprised it’s getting bad reviews!!
people that like this piece of shit movie are so delusional
Chill
@@superlonetv.2082 no
Care to elaborate a bit?
Sad that the ending of Halloween kills, the whole Micheal getting stronger by every kill, and they just that idea out the window and we'll never find out why Micheal stand at his sister windows, and never find out why he can't die or he is the way he is!!!!!
This movie answered none of the previous 3 movies burning questions and the writers just call it ambiguity. Cory sleeping on the blood stain and MM standing in the place of his sisters murder maybe was this tiny bit of sadness they felt. Kind of like saying I’m sorry for what happened and they both felt remorse?
@@greygoose6715 the dweller on the threshold. They could be trying to make amends there, but we know they're just thriving on the evil from it.
This man had an hour long review out before I even knew the movie had released. Respect.
Bang on Cody.... you're the only youtuber I can come and watch and they say it how it is! Thank you for the review...I sit in the middle on this film, there is potential for it to become a cult classic down the years.
Mike let Corey live because he recognized the emptiness/potential for evil in his eyes. No trance involved, the encounter with this infamous killer who (in Corey's mind) let him live for no reason got Corey questioning himself and why Mike would've let him go. It's sorta touched on later when Corey briefly asks Alyson about if she escaped Michael or if Michael let her live
yeah but if michael is evil in human form why would he gaf about corey lmao
Holy shit, that's interesting, and I never thought of it that way...
BUT!!! I gotta disagree. Corey had Michael-like abilities. The creeping, the disappearing, and most of all...he lived after getting stabbed in the fucking neck and had enough strength to fight Michael for a second!!
Sorry, but that shit was a supernatural ability that Old Man Michael passed on lol.
@@kwh000 If they'd played into the supernatural thing with Mike more in this trilogy, I'd agree that it wouldn't make sense, but we've got a more human (cuz obviously Kills was slightly supernatural) Mike in these movies so him being evil personified is more akin to how one would call the Night Stalker evil personified. It's just hyperbole.
Plus you have the addition of him being closer to, if not, 70 and severely weakened in Ends, so I can buy a person thinking they've found an heir/student of sorts.
@@OrthoLou Look lol you've got a point 🤣
And in the end I think that's why Michael killed him. Corey had reasons for choosing the people he killed & he also enjoyed.
Michael never really seemed to enjoy killing even though he did admire them
And he never killed in revenge except when someone else stole his mask.
I think that's why he killed Corey in the end
Honestly, I love how in-depth this review is, and I think you perfectly incapsulated my thoughts on this film. I like it decently, but there was some missed opportunities that kinda brought the film down a bit for me.
@29:30 I think Michael stopped killing (which actually he didn’t for survival) because he didn’t really have a motive anymore. His goal was to go home and kill anyone in his way but they demolished his house after H kills so the way I interpreted it as he had nothing left to do in life other than just waste away until Corey came along.
Yep which was the parallel of Lauri who had spent her life preparing to fight him when he returned. After his home was demolished and Myers disappeared, outside her book she was lost as the town resented her as much as they hated Michael Myers.
That woman would never survived having the light stuck in her neck , that was hilarious.
You would be surprised on how much people survive neck stabs it's just not common
Last person I expected to “pass the torch” was Michael Myers seeing him in a Batman + Robin thing was super weird and i didn’t understand it because Michael has no sympathy for anyone, let alone to teach them how to be evil 😂
It wasn’t sympathy. Michael sensed the same darkness in him so he let him live
Did you see nick castles cameo in the bar with the nod to the original? “See anything you like?” I loved that!
I enjoyed it warts and all. I really felt the social commentary was much better in this than in Kills. The whole nature of evil debate and how evil can infect and consume you really harkens back to the original movie. I loved the parallels between Corey and Michael, how evil consumed them and how they in turn infected Haddonfield. Michael and Corey may be dead but evil, the real antagonist of the series, lives on.
Perhaps this may have served better tonally as the second movie and go out with a blast with a movie like Kills tonally. The thing I did have some trouble with was how Michael went from tearing people up like roid munching demon in Kills and then is fragile and weak in this one. I would've preferred a more consistent portrayal of Michael. If you're going to keep his character grounded in reality, human and frail, they could've and should've shown that in the first two rather than having him appear almost superhuman.
I suppose a lot can happen in 4 years but I don't know the suspension of disbelief just wasn't kicking in as hard as one might expect. Still, an all round enjoyable flick. Kills was easily the worst IMO but I will say this, of the 3 main continuities that branch off Halloween, this one is probably the best of the bunch IMO. and I love all the movies (EXCEPT Resurrection, ain't no way I'm ever gonna ever find any love for that!)
Can you answer why the audience should care about Corey?
I wish Corey was sprinkled through all 3 movies instead of just making him the star of the last one. And honestly there was alot of really great ideas, but only enough for a 3 hour movie at most. It shouldn't have been a trilogy.
Easily the best Jamie Lee Curtis performance since the original. Love that for her. 👏❤
Edit: Corey killed himself to make Allison hate Laurie. He underestimated their bond basically.
The boyfriend that was killed n Halloween Kills would of been better fit 2 have Corey backstory
I love the rocking chair scene Laurie did
I've read how Micheal dies and its kinda lame that after surviving a burning house, a bus crash, getting shot 6 or 7 times, a mob beat down and multiple stab wounds, the thing that ultimately kills him is getting his wrist slit
The first death was one of the most unintentionally hilarious things I’ve ever seen. Had to pause it for a while until the room stopped laughing.
I love that this is an hour long. You’re an entertaining dude so I can’t wait to watch this in full
Same here. Watching now.
Did anyone notice when Corey jumped off the radio station roof and fell down he sat up exactly like Michael does? I haven’t heard any reviewers mention that.
@@trollingboy9729 LOL amazing!
Me neither. My brother and I noticed right away lol.
Did not catch that ...cool
I really like Sean Chandlers take on it... he things the end of Ends should've been the end of Kills instead of squeazing out three sequels I personally HATED this movie...
Thank you for making the most cathartic video I've seen on this movie so far, lol. Your middle-ground approach to reviews allow for much more nuance and a more complete exploration of the movies.
“Jizz in my pants moment” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love your reviews man
I was kind of digging it for the first two acts but the third act just felt super disjointed it's like they couldn't figure it out if they wanted Michael to be the villain or the new guy another thing I didn't like is Michael is a wimp in this movie and my man lost to an elderly woman
Super disjointed is right; like a comment with no punctuation.
Also, Your man is 5 years older than the elderly woman
@@secularbelt I'm dyslexic and Michael was still able to fight grown men in the previous movie's
@Secularbelt, Michael slaughtered 9 firefighters half his age in Kills
When it comes to Corey ending his own arch, I took it as he heard Allison pull in, he made the phone call to Allison saying her grandmother was going to kill him so in a flash in the pan he put the knife in his neck to not only MAKE IT look like she killed him, which was solidified in the movie but to drive his point home, because he was never going to be able to go back to anything normal to even HAVE Allison. That’s how I took it.
He was in their home wearing Michael Myers mask and outfit... What was expected to happen? The arch was pointless. Nullifying everything that was leading up to it. You can't make it look like anything but what it is. Bad writing and decision making. The whole movie really shouldn't even be considered as a sequel. In the sense of continuity from Halloween and Halloween Kills, it makes no sense.
THIS.
It's blatantly obvious.
When you gotta make up stuff to make the movie make sense, it has failed terribly.
The reason Micheal wasn't the same after kills was that cause they demolished his house and and felt lost I think
Good take
Oh I love your take on the opening pumpkin transformations. Very good.
Just to be clear Cody, I believe the reason she called about a suicide was because she believed Corey was in the house and wanted to tip the police off but if she just called the police? It would’ve made him suspicious.
I just watched this for the second time and the atmosphere of the first scene was so good that I was still convinced in the beginning scene that Michael Myres was going to come out at Corey and the kid even though I knew exactly what would happen.
On my second viewing...the theater applauded at the end? As if it were like a Marvel movie, or Rocky or something?
So that was interesting lol.
@@OrthoLou cause that's the people saying this movie was "anticlimatic", it's gonna take its time, but People will eventually understand that this was a very well explained movie and a very natural finale
@@ImperialAlex I kind of agree..
I really like the film, and I think it FEELS like a pretty natural progression...but I KNOW it was not the original plan.
@@OrthoLou well, that's very true actually... I really hope that Green gets to make a remake of the movie as a director's cut :'o
@@ImperialAlex Maybe in the Blu-ray?
I love how the dad was at the bar to tell Lindsey about Corey eyes just shooting pool by himself waiting for Laurie to show up to bar. What a coincidence? Lol
and he said he saw his eyes the day before so he apparently went and told Lindsey right away. thank god for that otherwise the convenient plot wouldnt be convenient.
@@markmac2206 No. the death card is totally a good thing. It’s like hitting the lotto. Best out of the deck you could ever want to draw lol
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I love your in depth reviews. I didn’t hate Ends but it definitely went in a direction I wasn’t expecting. I think the time jump works and helped Laurie evolve a little. I just think 4 years was too long and caused Michael to be too weak.
It makes no sense. The old man told Corey that Michael brought people down in the sewer to kill. If he had been killing people already and it truly does power him as the film suggests, why was he in such bad shape?
But he spent 40 years in Smith Grove and when he escaped he was a beast so don't understand the more he kills the more he transcends which he didn't until he got off the bus but he still was strong like the shape suppose to be they did myers dirty in ends
@@peterock42 He spent 4 years without massacring people actively with a bunch of untreated wounds in a sewer. The dude was not going to be healthy.
people keep saying this was because the wounds in Kills were just too much for him. how did he last 4 years then? and if its because he killed people every once in a while, then he wouldve kept doing that to regain full strength. i like how he was confined to the sewer but was able to wander out and drag Corey in there too despite being so weak and dying.
It’s almost like they convinced themselves that it made sense without really flushing the idea out.
What do you guys think would have been the best way to explain Michael’s 4 year absence? 🤔
I think humanising him caused them some logic problems..
I’m sure beast mode Michael will come back in 5-10 years time with hopefully the same look and a fresh storyline
The people in the town act like Michael Myers has been killing this entire time on and off over the past 40 years in which he escapes and they keep finding him going to his childhood home. But the writers forget it seems that they have retconned all of those other movies so Michael only killed his sister in 1963 then escaped in 1978 and killed 4 people in a killing spree. He gets locked up in a sanitarium for 40 years and escapes when a bus tips over and continues his killing spree. It is not like they actively or heard about several failed attempts to kill him. It is like they have seen the movies we have seen or lived through events that have since been retconned and never happened.... its a bit confusing.
DUDE! THANK YOU. you said what I’ve been thinking and no one else is talking about. This dude left off in kills, slaying 20 plus people? He was sure as hell juiced up when he Killed Karen. Where’s all that power gone?
And the whole “not looking out but looking within” story line they built up in kills was left behind.
It’s like they wrote this on the fly. Or gathered around and said let’s piss em all off.
My genuine assumption on how this direction came about (might sound like more of a benefit of the doubt, for the filmmakers):
The pushback date for production and release, along with the backlash for Kills, made them want to go in a different direction, so...they sincerely wanted to make something that would not be for everyone, but would surely have a cult following (and they gave us SEVERAL clues to that, which are pointed out in this video).
Honestly? Theyve succeeded already; a lot of people hate it, but there's a great deal who love it, all for the same reasons.
They had no idea what they wanted to do.
Also the "looking out of Judith's window on Haddonfield" thing got promptly dropped and never mentioned again.
Because they had no idea what to do with it. I have a strong sense they were making it up as they went.
Another idea possibly is that Corey is going to be the next Michael Myers character because he didn't actually definitively get his by destroyed like Michael Myers did and we don't know what became of his body. However, this is blumhouses final film so I doubt whoever gets the rights will actually set up a continuation.
The way Jeremy's dad talked about Corey reminded me of Loomis talking to Bracket about Michael in '78
This is the best in depth breakdown of Halloween Ends I’ve listened to yet.
Hated this movie like why would they do this in a finale also Michael working with someone else is so out of character and makes zero sense for him he’s supposed to be pure evil and instead he’s working with Corey. The final fight doesn’t even feel like a win or earned win due to the fact that Michael was at his weakest that didn’t add up to me.
You have to remember, Laurie had 4 years to realize the toll her trauma and protection of it went to Karen. She realized it late, but nonetheless, it took her daughter to die to realize she needs to take her life in a new direction.
She chose 40 years of mental captivity.
She realized it.
She realized she could choose happiness too.
She had to get better for allysons sake.
I loved the 1978 innocent Laurie we see in a glimpse here.
But the story didn't earn it. The time jump to set that up offscreen after the end of 2 was pretty jarring. Subverting expectations and lazy writing don't have to go hand in hand.
@@danweber6972 that’s your opinion kid
You have to remeber that you are making excuses and that this movie has a 20 million budget with decenr actors but with a 5.1/10 rating and going down... let that sink it.
@@crow_g1639 Lol of course it's sitting at 5.1, there's tons of people review bombing it with 1 out of 10 scores. It doesn't matter whether you liked the direction or not, the movie is very well shot, well acted, well edited, has a good soundtrack and has isolated good kill scenes, 1 out of 10 is not warranted. I can see 4 out of 10, 3 out of 10 (even though I liked the movie, I understand why some people don't), the review bombing is unwarranted
@@amadeusk525 the writing & storytelling is dog shit tho.
34:52-34:54 the way you say “ you got something I want” 😂 I’m crying
Can't say I liked the movie, but I'll never forget the theater experience. Friend to the right loving the movie, and me and my friend to the left just completely shitting and ragging that last hour of the film because of how goofy we thought it was.
Very goofy lol it felt like a clutter of a mess
I have been patiently waiting this video to pop up in my feed, I watched it last night and have my thoughts for sure but can't wait for yours
Laurie got help over the 4 years and not to mentioned she realized Myers wasn't after her, so her getting help is what Karen would've wanted
Was waiting for the Corey character to present a kitchen knife to Myers, and Myers to throw it away over his shoulder and walk off depressed.
A lot of reviewers do these full recap/breakdown videos going through the plot and a lot of them get lost along the way and it becomes very muddled and all over the place but this was really nicely and clearly done.
It’s weird that everyone is complaining about the eye possession thing and not michaels mastery of the force
She said she went to therapy. That can work wonders for helping get over trauma. She wasn't fully over it, but 4 years of therapy? That can change a life around, trust me.
Corey had the potential for evil? Seemed like him killing the kid was an accident… if we heard Corey shout “THIS IS SPARTA” right before the boy made impact; well then you’d have an argument.
I just feel like I'm on an island with my opinion on almost every single movie these days. Everyone seems to either absolutely love or completely despise almost all movies that are coming out nowadays and I'm almost always somewhere in the middle. Nice to know I'm not alone in that
I think the whole bit in the sewer definitely points to Michael “regenerating” a bit from killing the cop. I think that’s what Corey meant when he said show me how to do it. If you notice when Corey kills the doctor he takes the bandage off of his hand which seems to be healing somewhat.
that was dumb too, how does Corey possess Michaels supernatural abilities. and why just Corey? Corey was innocent in what he was blamed for.
Michael on the other hand really was a psycho little boy who killed his family.
@@raldux9153 totally agree. If they were going that route showing that he had powers they could have linked it a bit more clearly.
Regarding the eye locking; I think Michael recognized the evil within Corey and that’s why he let him live. Laurie said Evil doesn’t die it just takes a new shape. Corey to me was an example of what can happen to a person that leads them to consumed by Evil and become Micheal.
I didn’t even think of that, but it definitely makes sense 🤔I was wondering why he didn’t kill him lol
@@moniquek5097 I think people didn’t pay enough attention to what Laurie was saying when writing her memoirs she pretty much spelled it out for us. I was also confused until I heard her closing lines and it clicked. The Evil was always there in Corey it just took him to be pushed to the brink to finally snap.
You nailed it ...
I felt some erotic undertones between Michael and Corey 😅
I'm one of the few who enjoyed this film. I'm a Halloween fanatic, the original is my favorite film of all time, but I've been bored of the Laurie/Michael story for a while. I think it ended perfectly in 2018 and was unnecessarily dragged out to sell tickets. The 2018 film was originally intended to set up Allyson as the new main character, but they realized the impact JLC had on the box office and derailed all of that. With Ends, I was much more interested in Corey's character and his whole arc. It was fascinating to me, and I was eager to see where they were going to take it. But they cut it short to force a confrontation between Laurie and Michael in the final few minutes, to justify the title, in much the same way an exorcism was tacked onto the end of The Exorcist III so they could call it 'The Exorcist.' I honestly wish Laurie and Michael weren't in this film at all, and that it was solely Corey's and Allyson's film. It would've been rad af if they'd set up a new set of Halloween films, with Corey acting as the new "Michael" and Allyson the new "Laurie."
As a huge Halloween fan , I'm in the middle i didn't love it , but also didn't hate it . I was thinking the same thing that you mentioned about the movie and there was some good stuff but I felt that final fight was weak and lacking the epic battle we were hoping for.
H20 felt more tense
The final fight was SHORT...but filmed and choreographed extremely well. I was on the edge of my seat and so was my theater.
Admit it, it sucked. Michael can’t fight a teenager and lives in a sewer?? Among the hundred other cringe, unimaginative, weak sh!t in this abomination.
I recreate this movie 3-6 times a day in the toilet, if you get what I’m saying. They were really into something with the first two, then they gave us a Halloween 3 / 5 crossover with the no Myers / killing power with someone else. I absolutely loved the Easter eggs like the grocery store BOC. The Thing, but I mean seriously was the plot of this a think tank thing? Derailed.
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I hated the movie until the end, because I'm a sucker for a happy ending. But after seeing him get stabbed 57 times and shot 58 times and all that shit he survived in Halloween Kills, it felt like he went out like a bitch in this one
My two day journey with this movie is an accelerated version of my two year journey with Rob Zombie's H2. I saw it initially on Peacock and hated it, but something compelled me to go back later that day and watch it again. Now I felt it had some very good ideas worth exploring, so I went to the local cinema and watched it a third time. And now, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
It has it's issues, but just like Rob Zombie's effort, when seen as it's own independent thing it's great.
I honestly believe that this movie will be discussed and debated for years to come, and ultimately will go down as a cult classic. Great review Cody, by the way.
No matter what happens this will be a movie I'm interested in seeing peoples thoughts on because it does so many different things that nobody expected and that's better than a boring mess
The movie was a boring and pointless mess though. It makes zero sense as a sequel let alone a finale for a trilogy
it was a boring mess
It was a boring mess regardless of doing things nobody expected. Just because it was unexpected doesn’t mean it’s good lol
Watched it this afternoon and I am going to watch it again.
You have the best breakdowns of any movie.
Also, dude, I totally agree with you about the third act. My girlfriend and I were loving this movie (and my GF hates horror), but the part where her granddaughter left after being pissed only to return a few minutes later to rescue Laurie felt like very lazy writing at best. Anyways, I love the genuine love that you bring to all of your videos. You are awesome man. Keep it up! Thanks for not being one of those people that just likes to complain about modern movies being “woke” or whatever lazy term people on a certain side of the aisle like to throw around. Love your genuine passion my fiend!!
I’ve been saying the same thing on the treatment of Michael. Weak Michael makes no sense if killing does rejuvenate him given Kills ends with him single handedly kills the entire mob…oh and can now teleport? The hobo also says (as do all the missing notices placed throughout the town) that he’s still killing over the last four years, just clearly at a slower rate.
All the deaths in Halloween Kills healed him from all the injuries he got in 2018. Shot in the face, stabbed a crap ton of times, thrown down a flight of stairs and trapped in a burning building. In Ends there're a couple of moments where they show missing persons posters, implying that Michael has been hiding out killing people over the 4 years he was missing. Then he possesses or connects with Corey and gets stronger with every murder Corey commits. Maybe when Corey killed himself it wounded Michael too, who knows.
First video I’ve seen of yours.. I agreed with so much you said, and loved the way you broke the movie down. These are the types of spoiler reviews I want, it’s as if I’m having a conversation with someone who’s seen the movie - it’s so in depth!! Subscribed :)
Corey looks like Cameron. She feels like loving Cory and helping him heal will give her closure where she ultimately couldn’t save Cameron.
I think they should of saved the backstory 4 Cameron. Then make him the new villain n a series
Nah...trauma bond of sorts
@@secularbelt on the surface sure. Look a little deeper.
Unpopular opinion but I actually kind of like that Michael struggles in this movie. He's supposed to be a little bit more grounded in this trilogy and he IS a 65 year old man who has sustained some serious trauma and has spent the last four years chilling in a sewer. But at the same time I think it highlights just how much damn perseverance Michael has. He may be on his last legs but damnit he's still a cold blooded killer who will utterly fucked you up even if it's gonna take his breath and make him hurt like hell. I think it's very in character for him to push through that pain to fuck shit up.
Naaaa wack !! This is Supposed to be HALLOWEEN ENDS !! WHERE IS MICHAEL!!!?? WHY WAS HE IN THE WINDOW? WHAT WAS HIS CHILDHOOD HOME CONNECTION?? WHAT BIG PART DID THE RADIO TOWER PLAY!!? WHY INTRODUCED A NEW CHARACTER!?? WHERE IS THE MICHAEL THAT STABBED MICHAEL'S HAND IN THE FIRST TRAILER!?? THIS MOVIE SUCKED GORDON GOT LOST AND SO DID WE !!
I respect your opinion but I think based on what we have seen from 60yr old Michael in the last two films it doesn't make sense. I mean he got shot multiple times and got right up and took out a whole mob. Now he makes some wimpy kid look like Kurt Angle as he wrestles Michael to the ground and takes his mask.
I think it would have been cool to see Michael a little bit weaker than in the past, but they turned him into a straight up bitch. Big difference between Michael being beaten down and emasculated by a kid who gets bullied by the high school marching band.
This was a great watch, dude!
Thanks so much. I greatly appreciate it. Big fan of your channel!
I think the beginning with the pumpkins was a metaphor on how a jackolatern is an evil pumpkin but in the end of the day any pumpkin can be a jackolatern like how anyone could be evil type shit
I've been a halloween fan ever since I saw 78's television premiere when I was 5... (actually my first ever memory) I'm so devestated about ENDS. I've been sitting here with my arms folded,shaking my head for over 3 hours ever since I got home from the theatre... i hate gordan alan green and blumhouse for doing this. The 8 minutes at the end,not counting the wholesome part at the VERY end was the best part. . But that's it. I'm so fkn devastated. This was supposed to be epic fireworks...but ended up being sparklers that took forever to light. >:(
I honestly have to idea how an old school Halloween fan could like this.. this was a horrible idea and was completely disrespectful towards the Micheal Myers character. They went way off the rails
There were very odd moments in the film where i was sure Korey was hallucinating things, like the scene with the dead kids mother in the bar, the scenes with Michael and the scene with Laurie in the tilting chair.
All of that was real, especially the Michael & Laurie encounters. Pretty sure Corey even calls back to saying, "If I can't have her," to Laurie right before he stabs himself later
@@famousthaneus9810 Yes, I know. They just seemed like it was heading in that direction.
That was not a great choice for a place for him to run into the mother, it's like, why is this lady here she's 50
Yes I thought it would end with Michael never actually being in the sewers but just his hallucinations of his battle with himself and the darkness taking over. They should of had him fake his own stabbing and after Michael really shows up and Laurie ends him a missing cory allowing a younger boogeyman for future Halloween films since in this timeline Michael would eventually die of old age and than have the new boogeyman obsessed and focused on Allyson going forward.
This movie should’ve left Michael Myers on a high note, they built him up in Halloween kills, then kept none of that momentum in this movie, they made him a loser who can’t walk or fight, then he died after getting to do nothing for his last laugh of a movie
It's interesting looking at just how many turns they made when making this trilogy. If the rumors about the 2018 film's original ending are true, or at least the ones I heard at the time, that I would've really liked as an ending to Michael Myers.
The main detail I remember hearing, although it seems to be the one lacking the most evidence for validity, heck maybe it's been debunked, was that after the big third act knife fight Michael wanders into the woods, slumps down against a tree as the sun comes up marking the end of Halloween night, and they hold on that shot as all we hear is him breathing until he stops, now dead. I would've really liked that as the idea of his breathing stopping, to me at least, would be the definitive illustration of his death, more so in a way than any clear physical injury through how it mirrors the ending of the original. I also like the idea that no-one sees him die or truly knows that he's dead, so even though he really is gone, Haddonfield would probably be haunted by the idea of him returning for years. All of that could be completely wrong, but that's my head canon for this new trilogy.
The original Halloween is my favorite horror film of all time, but with that I really don't care for the idea of there being any sequels to it given how that original film ends, so I'm indifferent to most of them and fine with whatever they try to do. The original H2 is the only one I'd say I actively watch besides the original. 2018 to me was a decent enough crowd pleaser that made Michael scary again, but I wish it leaned less into the more standard slasher tropes and focused more on Laurie's psychosis and her relationship with her family, Kills I just skipped.
All that said, this film somewhat interests me for the premise. I like the concept that this unlucky guy basically becomes the vessel for the town's insecurities and trauma, but as you said, they should've leaned into the idea that he's mentally unstable and in need of help rather than a slasher villain, like maybe after a lot of buildup he kills one person and is immediately riddled with guilt and spirals, maybe tries to kill himself and Allison stops him. To be honest I'd like a whole film explicitly about that whilst seeing the Strodes deal with their trauma, a film basically about a post-Michael Myers world, then by the end Michael is found, but he's a shell of what he once was, practically already dead and there isn't a grand final battle, it's more like he's put out of his misery. That'd probably be a film most people wouldn't like, it sure as hell wouldn't be trying to be a crowd-pleasing slasher, but I like that premise of a more 'realistic' ending, with the 2018 film being the true final fight between Laurie and Michael.