10-01-2018, 04:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2018, 05:05 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Wow I’m impressed that anyone bothered to review this here. I watched this over the weekend because I’m going to a screening on Venom soon (I don’t really care about venom - it’s more to get Patrick to write something for kfm to break up a long string of Man at Arms promos I’m queueing up). For the record, I often confused Tobey for Topher.
Greg’s review here stands the rest of time. His only error was the telanovela comment (not nearly sexy enough - needed more hardbodies in underwear to make that fall). The rest I totally agree. This film sucks. It’s Raimi so fed up with the franchise that he takes a crap all over it. It’s all about revenge and redemption, and ugly mess of a film made worse by nepotism (so many Raimis in the credits) and in the wake of villains Dafoe and Molina, it’s like a cry for help - Raimi wailing ‘let me go back to gratuitous splatterfests pul-lease!’ That being said, it’s mildly amusing to see this as a precursor to the MCU formula. Some of the trapping are there in seedling form, like the Stan Lee cameo, but no, don’t even bother.
Hope Venom is better this time.
Greg’s review here stands the rest of time. His only error was the telanovela comment (not nearly sexy enough - needed more hardbodies in underwear to make that fall). The rest I totally agree. This film sucks. It’s Raimi so fed up with the franchise that he takes a crap all over it. It’s all about revenge and redemption, and ugly mess of a film made worse by nepotism (so many Raimis in the credits) and in the wake of villains Dafoe and Molina, it’s like a cry for help - Raimi wailing ‘let me go back to gratuitous splatterfests pul-lease!’ That being said, it’s mildly amusing to see this as a precursor to the MCU formula. Some of the trapping are there in seedling form, like the Stan Lee cameo, but no, don’t even bother.
Hope Venom is better this time.
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