Like I keep saying, I don't find Zombie's Michael Myers to be at all sympathetic. He's a terrifying, soulless killer and Zombie is able to portray that in a much more intense, unrelenting way than Carpenter can with his low-budget minimalism.
The problem is that Zombie
tried- and ultimately failed- to make Myers sympathetic. He tried to explore the psychology of the character- that's why, I'm presuming, we got scenes of Myers as a child in a mental asylum with Loomis. I guess some people these days prefer over-the-top, relentless gore and violence over subtle minimalism- I'll take the minimalism over repetitive, in-your-face violence any day of the week.
