I figure Sony was a little surprised how VENOM racked up a very, very respectable box office score. Happy-surprised, to be sure – and they’re not taking any chances, here. VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE looks about what I expected. Which is to say: gonzo, Venom and Eddie squabbling at each other for comic relief, and Woody Harrelson chewing up the scenery, then spitting it out in bloody fragments.
Can’t wait to see it.
Astoundingly, this may still be a fun movie summer. I mean, starting Sunday the two week clock starts on full immunization for me.
Am I gonna see VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE? Yeah, sure. The first VENOM was fun, if not exactly high cinema. And that’s fine with me. I’ve spent far too much time over the last year and a half being stuck with myself. Time to go just… do and see things. Things I didn’t make.
Although it might be Eye-Rolling News / Bad News for some of you:
I dunno. Maybe? Tom Holland might just be there to do a cameo or an end-scene teaser. I mostly want to mention one thing, though: contra GeekTyrant, I don’t particularly think that Sony cares overmuch if having their Spider-Man show up in their movie confuses people who watch the MCU. I mean, seriously: it’s not going to make anybody not go to see future Spider-Man films, future Venom films, or future MCU films.
Personally, I love superhero flicks, but I consider the level of half-assed continuity that we have now in the various shared universes to be above what we might have reasonably expected.
In the process of saying things that we already knew would happen (Tom Hardy is going to make another Venom movie*; Sony wouldn’t mind a Venom / Spider-Man crossover, if only they can figure out how to do it), producer Amy Pascal said this:
Continue reading Yeah, but who would you pick for the live-action Miles Morales?Fans of Miles Morales will also be happy to learn that the character’s inclusion in this animated universe does not necessarily mean we can’t ever get a live-action version of him, too. “No, I don’t think you should exclude [Miles from a live-action movie],” Pascal said. “I think you should assume there is nothing to exclude.”
They maybe don’t really want to admit it too loudly, but Honest Trailers liked Venom.
Short version:
Look, I'm not saying that Venom deserves an Academy Award, but it wasn't BAD.
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) October 9, 2018
Didn’t expect that. Venom is turning out to be one of those flicks that the critics hate and the movie-going public maybe doesn’t; I say ‘maybe’ because Solo had a decent opening weekend* and then proceeded to go belly-up. But if Venom has any legs, Sony is going to keep going with the Spider-Verse stuff. At least, until Disney buys them, which probably will happen in 2025 or so**. Continue reading Venom brings in an $80/$205 million opening weekend.
No, I don’t know why, either. Venom does not look promising. The critics are largely horrified by it. I have been, at best, open yet skeptical about its likelihood of not sucking. And yet I am thinking about seeing it anyway.
Am I really that desperate to get out of the house this Friday? Well, possibly. Although there is that new bookstore opening up at the mall…
Okaayyy… “The upcoming Spider-Man spinoff Venom has landed a PG-13 rating, according to the MPAA. …Director Ruben Fleischer was eager to push the limits of what he could do with the comic book property, and it seems that this new rating means he was able to do so.” Is the male teenager demographic really that important to this movie’s success?
:pause:
Right. Strike that. The question looked stupid even when I typed it out. Still, this is a movie about a barely-anti-hero that goes around and, at various points in the comics, eats bad people. Certainly the trailers imply that. But at the same time, they kind of also suggest that nobody really gets eaten. It is, as they say, a puzzler.
