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Utterly terrible, makes Spiderman 3 look like Citizen Kane

posted 3 years ago by Mister Babadook (2709)
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I mean non stop comedy, every scene with Eddie and Venom is damn near unwatchable, just slapstick comedy galore. Venom just never shuts the fuck up, its a small miracle Eddie isn't driven insane and medicated with this nails on a chalkboard voice constantly yammering in his head.

Venom goes to a rave and mic drops? he befriends chickens? just fucking terrible. And this is called Let There Be Carnage? theres no carnage in this fucking movie, theres comedy thats it.

Its just such a damn shame they finally got the chance to do a live action Carnage movie and this dogshit is what they gave us. And Carnage doesn't even feel like a threat, he's dealt with rather quickly and it doesn't take much effort.

[–] Lord Rake (4536) 3 years ago

I thought the first one sucked as well. The CG is just as bad as Spiderman 3 and it's just as cheesy. But what can you expect from Sony? It would probably suck even if Marvel did it, they do the same cg cluttered overload and dumb jokes that I've never seen one person laugh at.

[–] cyguration (3951) 3 years ago

Haven't seen it yet, but I have read similar criticisms from anybody who isn't just looking to "turn their brain off".

This is a real shame because Carnage was always one of my favorite villains; he was usually depicted as an Avengers-level threat. Even in the old Spider-Man cartoon they depicted Carnage as too much for both Spider-Man and Venom to handle, which did require some of the Avengers to help out with. It's also funny because even in that old cartoon Carnage really was creating massive carnage and havoc everywhere he went, just absolutely wrecking everyone and everything.

The thing that makes this so awful is that the casting for this film was pretty good; Woody Harrelson as Carnage could have been an Oscar-worthy performance in the same vein as Joaquin Phoenix in Joker or Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Sad that they scuttled their own potential success by undercutting the characters.