What are your opinions on the Halloween horror movie series?

Past and present, from the original to Rob Zombie’s remakes, what do you think of the franchise?
In my mind, or at least to my understanding, it’s always been a broken series that can’t make up it’s mind as to where it wants to go, and I always thought that was odd, even when considering the small expectations most of anyone has for the slasher genre.
Yet it makes it very interesting, and I always have fun watching the movies, the settings from the eighties and, as ridiculous as it can get, the grandiosity and freak factor of the antagonist.
Devoid of emotion, mechanical and relentless, Michael Myers is my childhood hero, and I get a kick out of seeing him sneak around, slaughter people and then meeting some inevitable slasher climax where he gets owned, only to come back later, no matter how outrageous it gets.
The series also has a heavy history…generally, everyone likes the first movie the best, as it’s the only one that one might actually take seriously, and everything is riddled with issues about signed contracts, controversy or actors meeting fame from playing in these…originating long before Friday the 13th, Halloween basically took what Psycho created and gave it the shape that, nearly 30 years after we still know the slasher genre for.
Love it or hate it, post your thoughts?