I just read online that after a $41M opening, Ends dropped 80% to $8M in its 2nd weekend. Ouch.
Reminds me of this meme, people aren’t so stupid
It’s a shame. It’s an excellent movie. Film audiences have been losing scope and attention span consistently for years and all the reasons people are finding to hate this movie are mostly pretty impulsive, thoughtless and laughable. Will likely emulate what happened with H3 in due time.
People didn’t like H3 because it didn’t have Michael in it and it was a totally different story. These last 2 movies are complete garbage and somehow its the audiance fault? When 80% of your audiance is walking out it is not an excellent movie?
Go see Terrifier 2. When the makers of Halloween Ends said “Fans will hate this movie” that was a bad sign. I was excited to see a different take in the Halloween franchise but, sadly, the presentation of the new story was just too much too late. It’s a shit movie. It really is.
I agree with this.
A good film will stand the test of time.
Although I feel Halloween Ends won’t be as overlooked as H3 was. (Which is sad, I say that because Myers has nothing to do with H3)
Both are great movies; I’d love to see a reboot of H3.
It seems to me most of the people who hate the movie are die-hard Michael Myers fans. It’s weird to me when people look up to Myers as if he’s this superhero. “He’s gotta be invincible, strong! He’s gotta do all the killing! Let’s cheer him on and count every one of his kills!” He’s supposed to be a VILLIAN, a horror movie villain, and the only thing he needs to be is scary, and in Halloween Ends, he was scary. Just not in the way Michael Myers stans wanted him to be. They feel betrayed because they couldn’t see their superhero, Michael Myers, basking in all his nostalgic glory. So automatically, they’re blinded by this distaste, and everything good the movie has to offer goes right over their heads. The people who liked Ends and will continue to like it in the future over worthless sequels will preserve the movie.
The movie already doubled the amount of money that was put into it. I’m sure it’ll do just fine in the future in terms of profit. If anything, it’s the divisive reviews turning people away. Plus, it’s on Peacock - and then there’s also the factor that this is literally the third movie in a trilogy that’s been released in a short period of time. Fatigue is a real thing.
I think my thing is, holy moly, can we just forget the past and what’s already been made? Just enjoy a good, original horror movie, for crying out loud. I watch a lot of the genre (thanks to Shudder), and so much of it is garbage. Ends is a great movie!
Another ironic thing I’ll mention, the hate for this movie will keep it alive. Nobody talks about Halloween 4 anymore unless I’m on Michael-Myers . net lol. (Or some random Halloween fan’s Youtube channel) Guaranteed, people will be talking about this movie for years to come because while you have a lot of vocal people who hated it, there’s an equal amount of people who liked it, so there’ll certainly be a lot of discussion.
5/10 imdb 39% rotten tomatoes 47% meteoritic
barbarian, pearl, x, even scream faired significantly better in audience and critical scoring, yet audiences are losing scope and attention span? what a massive generalization supported by zero empirical data. people know good film when they see it, sure there are outliers but how on earth would the aforementioned movies crush Ends in critical and audience scoring if what is being said above held any water? thanks for the anecdote though
“People?” Meaning in general? If you really think that is the case you aren’t paying much attention.
Your question is not really relevant to my point. In this case they feel alienated because the main character was portrayed in a way they didn’t like. That doesn’t have anything to do with any other movies. Again, when people are nitpicking and trying to dictate what is “logical” in a movie about a supernatural killer, the irony is lost on them and some intellect is missing.
I’ve provided plenty of examples to backup my criticism of peoples’ lack of thought were it pertains to this movie. You’re actually the one generalizing.
You simply declaring they are garbage doesn’t make it true. You need some reasons. The killer not being in the movie as long as you would have liked certainly doesn’t make the movie garbage.
Besides, this franchise is LOADED with movies that are ACTUAL garbage.
The average person doesnt have the scope of fair judgment of quality of a film and this movie and its most common complaints is a clear example of that. Virtually every complaint that I have heard consistently be levied against the movie is incredibly obtuse.
Funny reading people slating others for not having the same opinion about a movie. Take single opinions away and look at the whole picture. The reviews for this movie was mostly bad from papers, youtube influensers, forum members etc, so it droping 80% the next week was not surprising.
It’s an okay movie. Just about run of the mill for a Halloween film. It isn’t as great AA Joe Grizzly makes it out time and not nearly as bad as mist if the reviews. Bottom hakf, but upper bottom half, of the series.
Why are we unable to accept that other people see things differently here? All opinions are welcome here and shouldn’t be subjected to belittling. And why are we diving so deep? It’s not that serious. It’s horror movies.
The level of one’s lack of self-awareness here is astounding 
Keeps showing his ignorance and resentment of others’ opinions. I can’t wait until this board is free of this. (Not referring to either one of these two guys) This individual has a history of doing this here
I’ve seen mixed reviews from papers, and a lot of YouTube influencers actually liked the film. (Are we talking about random Halloween fans? Or film critics?)
I mean heck, even Stephen King went on Twitter and said he enjoyed it. The widespread “dislike” isn’t as widespread as some of you guys make it out to be. There’s no majority disliking the movie. Maybe a majority of diehard Myers fans lol.
As for the poor scores on movie rating sites, if half the people are giving it one star, and the other half are giving it five, that’s going to affect it’s overall score. It’s just divisive. Critically speaking, it would have done better if Michael and Laurie never would have randomly fought at the end, they should’ve just taken the Corey story all the way as the focus - that seems to be the legit argument most critics had. But many critics still gave the movie credit for at least trying something new. (Even though they didn’t stick with it to the end.) I will say however, as a Halloween fan myself, I’m glad we got that final showdown lol, as I very much enjoyed it and thought it was epic.
Terrifier 2 was great. I didnt like the superhero thing though
At least the ones ive read was a bunch of 2/6 and 3/6 which is not great. I assume those youtube reviews who popped up days before the release was from die hard fans. Pretty much all i saw was horrible reviews, bar one. Maybe it got a little better reviews from others after the release.
I didn’t like Ends. I also don’t care for DC, Marvel, Superhero movies. That doesnt mean what I think is the end all be all of what the movie is. Different strokes for different folks. I don’t understand how anyone could enjoy Ends, and a lot of people may not understand why I didn’t like it. I truly dont understand the bickering over it. Its like when any sports team loses and the opposing team ribs fans as if all of them were the ones playing the game.
I’m looking very forward to this one!
Dude what blew my mind is the female lead is 42 and plays a high school chick.
