Our Vehemently Vetted Vendetta for Venom - Quick One

Sony's new Venom movie is still in opening weekend, and we got to see the early release. Sam, of Movie Night Autopsy, sits down to discuss his thoughts about the film. Today on Quick Ones.

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I'm Sam with a Quick One, brought to you by Movie Night Autopsy. Venom is the latest Tom Hardy vehicle made by Sony in some kind of association with Marvel where ... What happens is ... Shit man, I can't do this. You already know what it is. You just watched like three or four reviews for it. Maybe you watched Grace Rudolph's review and got a little triggered. No? Just me? Okay, well, but you get it.

Sony doesn't get it. Well, they do a little bit. They really do a little bit, but I'm just saying at this point it's too little too late, you know? In fact, you know what? This isn't a Quick One. I thought it was, but it's not. I'm still Sam, but I'm #JustSayin.

In a world where the Russos can pull off having 16, until the last decade, unknown heroes onscreen and you can follow all of them and you know who they all are, everyone involved feels like a fleshed-out character with drive and motive, well, this kind of shit (Venom) just doesn't cut it anymore.

Sure, the Venom voice is kind of cute, in a campy way, and some of the CG looks pretty good, a lot of it doesn't but some of it does, and Tom Hardy has good chemistry with himself, but I don't know, maybe figure out what kind of movie you want to make before you start making it. Screen test your star with their co-star, love interest, to see if they have chemistry. Spend more time on the story and the effects. Maybe push back the release date if you have to. This movie got delayed and delayed and delayed.

I think it went through three different production cycles before we finally got this. You can move it back if you have to. It's not a big deal at this point, right? This first point has been beaten to death, but this movie, it belongs in 2006. What is it doing here in 2018? That's just not how these kinds of stories are told anymore. We've found better ways to do it. Well, Marvel has found better ways to do it mostly, but for a movie with that tagline about the world having enough superheroes, literally that is what the tagline is, we've all seen the trailers, it sure does follow that predictable origin story type path.

Tonally, it feels like they made two separate movies with the same people and just mashed them all together. Eddie Brock, he is a bad journalist. The scientists in this movie, they are bad scientists. Elon Musk is a bad Elon Musk. It's clear that Sony cares enough to learn about its subject source material, like they do, they try, but they damn sure don't understand the source material, and they've proven this time and time again.

I don't want to fault them for trying. I really don't, but maybe it's time to give it a rest. Just let Marvel have it. Just take Marvel for as much as they can, count their losses and their failures and just move on. In fact, maybe go the FOX route and just sell off their movie division. I mean, I don't know enough about it but I feel like Sony has enough to fall back on. They could afford to do that.

I heard Jumanji was good. I never got around to seeing it, but I heard it was good, but maybe they should just leave the Spider-Man, Rogue's Gallery out of this train wreck. I mean, what else can I say?

For those looking for a review, parts of it really work, but not enough of it really works and it just serves to piss you off when the next part doesn't work. It's hard not to like Tom Hardy. He's a very likable actor, but he wasn't giving that much and I really want to see Marvel make the movie that the post-credit scene teases, but just let Marvel do it. They're better at it. They've proven that. Anyways, my name is Sam and I'm #JustSayin.

Reviews, Movies, Sony, Quick Ones, Marvel, #JustSayin, ArticlesSam DodsonOctober 6, 2018Venom, Venom movie, review