I liked the trailer when I first watched it on my computer but then I watched it at home on my TV screen and I could really see why people were criticizing the CGI; it does look really bad in spots. I think Venom looks okay but the scenes where the symbiotes aren't just crawling around and attaching themselves to things look really bad (particularly the scene with that guy in the lab and the one where Venom's head is talking to Hardy). Also, WTF is that scene in the MRI room where Hardy looks like he's being possessed by Ghost Venom? Can someone explain that to me, because I've never seen the Eddie/Venom transition look like that.
I could overlook all that though if the rest of it looked good, but... well...
I'm a huge Tom Hardy fan. I like him in damn near everything he does. But his acting here just feels... off. The Elmer Fudd comparison with his voice is spot-on. I get what he's trying to do but I just feel like he's missing the mark. It doesn't help that some of the dialogue they're giving him is awful ("I found something really bad." "That guy you work for is an evil person!" "You should be verrrrrry afraid!").
Of course, Eddie's bad dialogue pales in comparison to some of Venom's bad dialogue. I don't mind the "so many snacks" line or "We can do whatever WE want" but... that "turd" line. Like, seriously? It's bad enough that they wrote it, but who at Sony was stupid enough to put it in a trailer? It's like that Tom Cruise Mummy Scream... you put a line like that in your trailer, you're just ASKING for people to turn it into a meme. The Double Toasted guys and Mr. Sunday Movies had a field day with that line.
Anyway, I still gave the trailer a 6 because I'm sure I'll go see it unless the reviews all say is straight-up garbage. Venom (regardless of the turd line) certainly seems closer to his comic book counterpart than Topher Venom did, so there's that. And the symbiote fight will hopefully look cool.