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Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Venom told an unbearable amount of jokes, most of which fell flat for me, personally. It wouldn't have killed the writers to let him shut the fuck up for a scene or two so Eddie interacting with someone else could do without his juvenile commentary, but alas, people come for Venom, not Eddie Brock. Anne flirting with Venom to rejoin with Eddie was awful; these two have mutual beef and fair criticisms of the other, but the only means of convincing Venom to save Eddie's life was, evidently, Ann gassing him up for ten seconds instead of, you know, caring more about Eddie than how Eddie made him feel. Not my kind of resolution but this film felt more like a comedy than an anti-hero action flick, so I guess the theme stayed true.
Cletus and Shriek were good, sort of, although the means of their defeats were hilariously poor. The resolution between Eddie and Cletus was underwhelming; I was hoping for a little more than a "Sorry", maybe Eddie growing a little bit from the experience after Cletus physically and verbally tore him a new one for neglecting the parts of his story that showed the people around him turned him into the man he was. At minimum wanting to be a better journalist because, wow, how do you neglect to add that his family abused him to the point murder seemed like justice. Disappointing that it was all a setup for Venom to tell him he sucks and eat his head. They could've done a lot more with that moment between the two. Even Cletus taking a moment to lament his wife getting killed and his inability to save her from himself would have been amazing.
Anne's husband is cool and helps demonstrate how insane all this shit he's witnessing is from an outsider's perspective, while everyone else has normalized it. He's probably my favorite supporting character just by being the only normal person in this film really, and he came in clutch helping Venom out despite the animosity Venom had for him. Great character.
Eddie is a fugitive on the run, his face probably all over televisions statewide, and there could've been a The Dark Knight moment where we see him fleeing choppers, police cars, etc. I do wish we saw him on the run to end the film rather than timeskip him to some island elsewhere, free and at peace. I also really wanted them to work out their differences in another way. Venom holding the lives of thousands of innocent people over Eddie's head to force him to bend the knee while Venom accepted very little blame himself for how things transpired between them was wild, to say the least. They turned the likeable comedic relief with all the wacky one-liners into a piece of shit pretty fast on that one, not gonna lie.
Tom Holland in the ending... meh.
Average flick. All criticism aside, I'll be checking out the third and praying that they tone down Venom's annoying commentary.
Venom told an unbearable amount of jokes, most of which fell flat for me, personally. It wouldn't have killed the writers to let him shut the fuck up for a scene or two so Eddie interacting with someone else could do without his juvenile commentary, but alas, people come for Venom, not Eddie Brock. Anne flirting with Venom to rejoin with Eddie was awful; these two have mutual beef and fair criticisms of the other, but the only means of convincing Venom to save Eddie's life was, evidently, Ann gassing him up for ten seconds instead of, you know, caring more about Eddie than how Eddie made him feel. Not my kind of resolution but this film felt more like a comedy than an anti-hero action flick, so I guess the theme stayed true.
Cletus and Shriek were good, sort of, although the means of their defeats were hilariously poor. The resolution between Eddie and Cletus was underwhelming; I was hoping for a little more than a "Sorry", maybe Eddie growing a little bit from the experience after Cletus physically and verbally tore him a new one for neglecting the parts of his story that showed the people around him turned him into the man he was. At minimum wanting to be a better journalist because, wow, how do you neglect to add that his family abused him to the point murder seemed like justice. Disappointing that it was all a setup for Venom to tell him he sucks and eat his head. They could've done a lot more with that moment between the two. Even Cletus taking a moment to lament his wife getting killed and his inability to save her from himself would have been amazing.
Anne's husband is cool and helps demonstrate how insane all this shit he's witnessing is from an outsider's perspective, while everyone else has normalized it. He's probably my favorite supporting character just by being the only normal person in this film really, and he came in clutch helping Venom out despite the animosity Venom had for him. Great character.
Eddie is a fugitive on the run, his face probably all over televisions statewide, and there could've been a The Dark Knight moment where we see him fleeing choppers, police cars, etc. I do wish we saw him on the run to end the film rather than timeskip him to some island elsewhere, free and at peace. I also really wanted them to work out their differences in another way. Venom holding the lives of thousands of innocent people over Eddie's head to force him to bend the knee while Venom accepted very little blame himself for how things transpired between them was wild, to say the least. They turned the likeable comedic relief with all the wacky one-liners into a piece of shit pretty fast on that one, not gonna lie.
Tom Holland in the ending... meh.
Average flick. All criticism aside, I'll be checking out the third and praying that they tone down Venom's annoying commentary.
