JackBauer said:
the only thing I partially agree with is that they need to stop humanizing villains and make them do bad stuff simply because they're evil. humanizing them feels like a cheap way to make people care for the villain, except that we're NOT supposed to care for him.
as for the rest, no Carnage in any movie ever, thank you very much.
I agree that they need to stop humanizing villains to the point where they are always good people and then become bad because of their powers. That was a stupid theme because Peter Parker was the same person with or without his powers. And when he tried to ignore his powers and his responsibility, THAT is when he became someone else. When he tried to ignore Spider-man, we saw him ignore someone being beaten in an alley way. Peter would have helped in that situation with or without his powers, if he were thinking clearly. So why should the villain become some kind of opposite when they get powers?
But, at the same time all things have reason. Peter Parker has enhanced, speed, stregnth and such because of the Spider bite. It goes on and on, with cause there must be effect.
A villain has to have reasons behind their motives, and I feel that it would be more entertaining watching a villain who has motives behind their actions rather than someone who "only wishes to kill".
If they go into detail about Cletus' childhood. Show him with abusive drunks for parents or something, and then show him kill them. Show him do all kinds of things to become what he is and then give him the powers, then we'd have some form of reason behind what we're watching.
If I just want to see an idiot kill people, I can play GTA and mow people down "wit mah carr".
Doctor Octopus was calm, calculating and cool in the comic books. He had some motives and stuff, even if they were selfish they were plans behind the actions. Carnage has "I wanted a ****ing pony when I was a child, and I never got one. Now I'm gonna rip people's throats out and pop little children's faces like chewing gum!! RARRR". That's not thrilling or anything in a movie. It's just "okay...?"
Like when you watch a horror movie, and the guy is just killing a bunch of people in various ways. You begin to laugh more than feel adrenaline or anything. It's not suspensive. It's not dramatic. The bastard is just killing people for the sake of shock.
If Carnage is ever in a movie with no reasons beyond "kill kill kill", then he will be no different than like Jason or someone.
Now if it were a deep storyline that really made carnage seem scary, then I'd want to see that.
I was talking to my friend about Carnage and Venom. They were saying that Carnage was scary. And I said that Venom could be much scarier than carnage ever could. But then they reminded me of Maximum Carnage. And I was thinking about what it would be like if I were walking in the mall and saw this skinny red creature with sharp claw-fingers in one hand, and an axe for a hand in the other. With it's skin living, moving, and squiggily. The way he was in the game.
That actually would be kind of freaky. So they would have to make him visually shocking, and keep a great storyline to pull it off.