Yeah, Halloween II ain’t bad, but it’s not worth repeat viewings if ya don’t wanna give it a second go.
Speaking of the cinematography, I love the way the camera moves and the way shots are composed, but neither film looks like Halloween at all. They look like early summer in California (it was) when it’s supposed to be fall in Illinois. The trees are all wrong. A few shots in the first one have some fake fall leaves thrown about, but not many. Carpenter helped to compose a color regrade of one of the DVD releases and it looks great. More orange in the trees and much more of a fall feel while keeping the cool blues and such. I wish that version would have been carried over to Blu-Ray.
I actually really like Halloween III. It has nothing to do with any of the others though and it is goofy. But it’s one of my Halloween season must-watch films.