I like how he flipped it and made it his own
Yeah but he made it terrible in the process. I'm all for a filmmaker taking something and doing their own thing, which is exactly what he should've did, but that doesn't mean his own thing worked. The idea of making Michael a sympathetic character just doesn't work or at least it didn't for that movie and he spent so much time developing michael that he didn't develop the other characters at all, you know, the ones who were going to be killed. Which is ironic because I remember a clip of him on a halloween retrospective where he dissed the rest of the series saying that it's okay to have a faceless killer but they started filling the movies with faceless victims too so you didn't care when they got slaughtered
