Venom The Official Rate & Review Venom Thread (SPOILERS!!!)

It was so bad. A 4/10 feels spot-on honestly.

Lazy, messy, a butchery of the source material and they degraded Eddie and Venom to being nothing more than a dumb comedy character.

 

I wouldnt said the CGI looked awesome but it was still really good, Venom himself looked great but there were some parts like when a symbiote tried to bond with a homeless guy that didn't looked that good.

 

The users here are known to be way more forgiving. There were 8s in the suicide squad forum for crying out loud. I wouldn't take it as a sign of quality.

 

Some users may be a bit forgiving, but way more users around this forum, as is the norm online, are regularly especially hard and harsh on things.
So it goes both ways: I woudn't take bad reviews as a sign a movie is automatically not for me, it is more variable than that.

Who says they enjoyed themselves (very much) also acknowledges there are obvious issues, while the negative reviews here are more succinct and seem to have a problem with the comedic tone.
That's my takeaway for now and it seems to me that's a good gauge for anyone on the fence to decide whether to go see it or not.

 

Saw it earlier, this isn't catwoman bad. But it's not good. It's like it belongs in 2007, only thing missing is a terrible uninspired tie in game to go with it. First off, the Trailers ruin most of it including the literal end of the movie. The final battle was really messy and the cgi is pretty spotty throughout. Plot is scattered, villain is about as run of the mill as he could get. Brock is very odd, I dont like what hardy did with him. Venom himself works pretty well and Is only thing that saves it. So I'm giving a 5. The post credit scene is terrible, One of the worst I've ever seen. Harrelson and the wig dont belong.

 

No, most users here are forgiving. Go see the ratings for most dceu films, how many 8s and 7s there are. Also I see a pattern of many users mentioning cat woman which means they lowered their expectations so much because they anticipated catwonan level movie and just because it's not THAT awful, they are relieved. The takeaway is that you expected the worse but that doesn't mean it's good.

 

How do you know what I expected?
You obviously are more than welcome to partecipate, but this is a reviews thread, not a "reviews review" thread.
Some people genuinely like the movie, some don't, some are mixed, accept it and move on.

 

The people who have those movies 7's and 8's probably just enjoyed said movies more than you did. Doesn't mean they are ''forgiving" we all don't share the same opinion and like different things.

 

No, I thought it was great. I was saying that it was evidence that you get great movies if you let your director go a bit a crazy. Or at the very least, interesting movies, as opposed to middle-of-the-road bland ones with only glimpses of the crazy like in Venom.

 

It was okay, definitely a pre-MCU movie kind of quality. Probably a 6-7/10.

 

That's nothing. Trank's F4 scored 8's and 9's here. BvS. Green Lantern. All the turds in the wind.

 

Saw it last night. The movie was a hot mess BUT I enjoyed it a lot lmao

 

Wow some of you guys are brutal I honestly thought it wasn't that bad. It wasn't like mind blowing, but it was not what I would call a bad movie.

 

I was no where near the mess people were making it out to be. I really liked the movie. I want to watch it again, to give proper thoughts on it, but for now, I all I can say is that it's not a bad movie and enjoyed the hell out of it.

 

Make no mistake. This is a BAD movie. There are things in this film that make no sense or I couldn't care less about. There are moments I legitimately turned away, facepalmed and chuckled during a scene because it was too painful to watch it play out.

However this movie is not dull experience whatsoever. It's strange. Catwoman, Elektra, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Xmen Origins, Suicide Squad, maybe Justice League; all bad movies that were very dull and a chore to sit through. There are better made movies where it angered me to the point of hating it like Iron Man 3 or X-men Last Stand. Venom is in this weird middle place where I'm entertained/fine with its existence even though it is an unintentionally bad movie.

Tom Hardy is good. I'll just say it. It's a bizarre portrayal but he is still very fun to watch and I don't think it craps on the character. In fact the one good thing that the movie does is it doesn't feel like a mockery of Venom - and at least the title character is enjoyable to watch. Everything else though is just kind of there to drive Venom.

I guess ultimately the biggest critique I have of Venom is that Ruben and company could've determined earlier that the script was unsalvagable garbage and adjust it to be a stylized parody of the 90s straight to video comic book B-movies satirizing Lundgren's Punisher or Captain America the way Black Dynamite parodied blaxpoitation films. Then it could've been a legitimately good film. However, it is what it is and I actually had fun with it surprisingly.

6 out of 10 for me. Tom Hardy brought in 4 points all by himself.

 

I can't believe they actually did She-Venom and gave Weying the symbiote for a while.

 

Anyone else catch the John Jameson easter egg? A nice nod.

 

Yep. Full name was in the credits too.

 

Yep. Man-Wolf here we go!

 

Yeah, i didn't expect that at all. I guess that's what Kevin Smith was teasing about the third act.. she looked pretty awesome as She-Venom

Yeah, there were quite a few nods to the comics.. I like how the symbiote asked for chocolate when they went to the store

 

What a bizzare film this was, cant honestly say its a good film but it was more entertaining than it had any right to be or after the first drab 30 minutes I thought it would be.

The writing is pretty terrible it has to be said and does feel very mid 90's in its story telling and I think it suffers most from a film that started out or wanted to be R rated but got cut back to the bone and perhaps left some better stuff on the cutting room floor, that might be being overly optimistic but Hardy's performance as Eddie/Venom almost makes up for the rest of the movie which is mediocre at best but the main character is at least engaging and entertaining but it needed to be a bigger part of the film really to be anything worthy of note but at least they have come up with a character and actor that I would consider seeing again but just hire some decent writers next time.

Its a hard film to judge with such a mixed bad of good, bad and awful but that even sort of fits in with how schizophrenic the character is to a degree but cant really excuse it and always feels like it pulling its punches rather than really embracing the horror or crazy that at times it promises but never really delivers.

At best its like a 6/10 film dipping below that hard whenever Hardy/Venom isnt on the screen but there are some decent moments to cling to and character that would be worth seeing again but as a standalone its going to be more of a guilty pleasure rather than something thats going to stand any where near the big boys in the genre as it is such an odd ball film at times mixed with totally generic stuff, seen and done much better.

 

I will say, of all the bad films I've seen this year, this one was at least interestingly bad. I could not help but feel that the filmmakers(and especially Tom Hardy) realized how stupid this project was and just decided to run with it. All of the weird, out of place, silly and stupid scenes in this movie were by far the most entertaining. It's bad and I can't in good conscience recommend it, but at least it wasn't boring.

By far the biggest mystery of this film is why in the hell Michelle Williams ever agreed to this.

 

Hardy pretty much saved this film and carried it on his back. He was worth every penny, they paid him.