Review - VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (2021) (Patreon)

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2021-10-02 07:09:28

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2022-04

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Tom Hardy returns to (literally) talk himself through yet another "Salvage it in post and hope for the best" placeholder spin-off for the Sony Bootleg Marvel-Verse, this time additionally featuring Woody Harrelson cashing in some Gen-X meme chips on a "Natural Born Killers" riff as the titular Symbiote's all-the-way-bad nemesis in a disposable storyline that's all about jogging in place while this studio and Disney work out Spider-Man's visitation schedule. Marvel fans will have fun dissecting the future implications of Naomie Harris' offhandedly-unexplained super-villainess and a weirder-than-usual post-credits gag and more-than-crumbs hat-tips to the first film's earnest adoption by the LGBTQ community are appreciable; but it remains a lazy if not offensively so speed run vision of one of the genre's most one-note popular fixtures.

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Review - "VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE"

Tom Hardy returns to (literally) talk himself through yet another "Salvage it in post and hope for the best" placeholder spin-off for the Sony Bootleg Marvel-Verse, this time additionally featuring Woody Harrelson cashing in some Gen-X meme chips on a "Natural Born Killers" riff as the titular Symbiote's all-the-way-bad nemesis in a disposable storyline that's all about jogging in place while this studio and Disney work out Spider-Man's visitation schedule. Marvel fans will have fun dissecting the future implications of Naomie Harris' offhandedly-unexplained supervillainess and a weirder-than-usual post-credits gag and more-than-crumbs hat-tips to the first film's earnest adoption by the LGBTQ community are appreciable; but it remains a lazy if not offensively so speed run vision of one of the genre's most one-note popular fixtures. #Venom #Venom2 #VenomLetThereBeCarnage