Venom The Eddie Brock/Venom You Prefer

This is similar to asking who would win in a fight between Brock Lesnar and your wheelchair-bound great grandmother.

 

I'm going with the bromantic comedy reinvention.
Sony must've loved how Raimi flipped black suit/Venom on its head that they figured a reboot would have to take it to a whole notha' level.
and yeah it was also just damn fun in general seeing the powers on display

 

I went with the "Turd in the Wind" option, though I suppose if I had to choose one or the other, I'd go with Topher. Why? Well, Venom made me lose respect for Tom Hardy, who I otherwise view as a top tier talent. As for Topher, I never had any respect for his abilities in the first place so his role as Eddie Brock didn't really change my opinion.

 

In Tom's defense, there were 40 minutes cut out of the movie that he mentioned when asked in an interview about his favorite scenes.

 

What Spider-Man 3 did better was it's more faithful to the source material and it's closer to the version of Eddie Brock I enjoy most. Pure villain. Just smug and slimy, a disgraced reporter that wants to kill Spider-Man. Topher physically isn't as masculine or as big as Eddie Brock from the comics but the character itself was written okay and Topher's performance was fine. Venom himself was the bigger problem. Wasn't very imposing and lacked displaying any interaction and relationship Eddie and Venom have. Atleast he wore the spider logo and actually had Spider-Man abilities. That's a plus.

Hardy's Eddie Brock was lame, but what that movie did better was display the symbiote and Eddie's interactions with eachother, even if most of it was for lame comedy. Venom though was big and imposing, had a nice long tongue and referred to himself as "we".

Both are turds in the wind and we are yet to see a good representation of Venom on film, but I'd give the edge to Spider-Man 3's Eddie Brock/Venom.