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Post by machsabre on Jul 31, 2018 22:07:08 GMT -5
This... This does not excite me in the slightest.
It's fucking VENOM! How can I feel this fucking lukewarm to him? How crappy of a job are they doing there to make me not give a crap about a Venom movie? 20 years ago, we would have been shitting our pants in joy over this. Now we're just shitting our pants with incontinence.
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Jul 31, 2018 22:14:44 GMT -5
Post by Greatshot on Jul 31, 2018 22:14:44 GMT -5
This... This does not excite me in the slightest. It's fucking VENOM! How can I feel this fucking lukewarm to him? How crappy of a job are they doing there to make me not give a crap about a Venom movie? Yep. One of the coolest villians in comicbookdom and the best I can muster up is an "eeeeeh. May Netflix/watch on HBO"
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Aug 5, 2018 21:24:19 GMT -5
Post by Optimal Megatron on Aug 5, 2018 21:24:19 GMT -5
It's weird, but the latest trailers have kinda made me interested. Not a hard "must see" like most movies, but I dig the symbiote back and forth with Eddie, so it might be decent, even if Riot is basically a carbon copy of Venom here.
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Oct 8, 2018 21:33:06 GMT -5
Post by Optimal Megatron on Oct 8, 2018 21:33:06 GMT -5
So, one of our roommates went to see this with his wife (who's not a comics fan in the least) and both of them came back saying it was actually really good.
So we went to see it today and it was actually really good.
So, biggest change from the original comics is that Venom is actually the name of the symbiote, rather than an adopted alias, and he's a full character. It's sort of a violent anti-hero buddy cop film except the buddies are both sharing the same body. Tom Hardy is actually really good as Eddie Brock, and definitely sells someone who's hit rock bottom because of his own screwups and eventually becomes sort of a hero just because he's gone so far down he's got nothing to lose.
In fact, the symbiotes being characters is a big separation from comics in that Drake and Riot are working at sort of the same purpose, they do have the typical "two villains arguing over what to do next" aspect, while Eddie and Venom are similarly independent but work well together.
I don't think it's a massive hit out the park that's going to get rave reviews. The 33% critic rating vs. 89% audience rating tells you that. But I gotta say, it's a LOT better than I expected, and a fun ride.
Also, the post-credits teaser presents us with Woody Harrelson as a much more serenely creepy Cletus Kassady rather than the giggling psychopath from previous iterations. I'd watch that sequel.
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Oct 8, 2018 23:05:02 GMT -5
Post by Greatshot on Oct 8, 2018 23:05:02 GMT -5
The general reviews im hearing is Hardy is brilliant and the rest of the movie is kinda just okayish. But hearing about Harrelson as Carnage sequel is enough to make me watch the first one, honestly, just to vote with my wallet to see that.
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Oct 9, 2018 20:49:53 GMT -5
Post by SporkBot on Oct 9, 2018 20:49:53 GMT -5
That wig, though. It just looked bad on him. MAYBE because I'm used to seeing the guy's head shaved...but I think it's more that he looked like he was auditioning for Little Orphan Annie.
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Oct 10, 2018 18:18:51 GMT -5
Post by Gojitron on Oct 10, 2018 18:18:51 GMT -5
Yeah, the wig was bad.
It opened at $80 million which places it in Sony's top 10 openings ever, and the top 10 of 2018 (so far) beating Ant-Man & the Wasp, so a sequel is a safe bet.
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Oct 11, 2018 0:10:30 GMT -5
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Post by Valo Sweet 666 on Oct 11, 2018 0:10:30 GMT -5
Well I sure enjoyed it
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