Halloween Fans vs. "True" Halloween Fans vs. Casual Viewers

Across YouTube at least, there seems to be a big disconnect between the fandom. There are supposed "true" Halloween fans who say you have to love this movie, and if you don't you're not a true fan, and give you a ton of flack for it. Then there's actual "true" fans who have come out with their opinions, which have varied from awful to meh to okay to fantastic. Some of these people thankfully agree to disagree, while others attack you for not unconditionally loving this new movie.

Then there's casual viewers/critics who may or may have not even seen the first film or any of the other films, and they are praising the ever-lasting hell out of the movie, especially due to the fact the film is appealing to a wider audience. It may possibly have something to do with the whole MeToo movement critics/bloggers/websites keep associating this film with. It feels like a studio forced thing to try to market and advertise the film to a wider audience, which clearly worked. Imagine if a new Friday the 13th movie had critics raving about how the film speaks about bullying, because Jason was supposedly bullied as a kid for his appearance, which may have caused him to drown, and that bullying drives people like him to kill, especially the family of the victims like Pamela Voorhees.

This film feels like it will sooner or later have a Phantom Menace effect, where those who do not see the flaws or are saying they don't mind them will eventually come around and admit that this film is not as great as they thought or said it would be. It feels like those who won't admit to the flaws are trying to pull the same effect some Star Wars fans did when Phantom Menace came out, until that Plinkett review came out. Hell, I feel like there is enough in this Halloween film for a Plinkett review from Red Letter Media, maybe even more so when this films comes out on DVD with behind the scenes and audio commentaries. The video wouldn't talk about how its entirely bad, but how its kind of splitting up the fandom the way it is.