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Originally Posted by cheebacheeba
Venom.
Well...I figured I owed it to the character to see this, after all I've read since borrowing issue #3 of "Lethal Protector" from a kid in my home-room in the 90's, then diving both backwards and forwards into the character, following the journey both host/s and symbiote have taken over the years.
I, surprisingly did not hate it.
Ok so the origin is pissed into the wind to give this some independence. Kind of grating just a little bit because SO much of the character was built on the anger at Parker/rejection from Spider-Man...ah well.
So he'll never be outright murderously creepy and sinister. Ok.
They made the Venom incarnation look right...and truth be told the big white spider emblem would have looked stupid.
He was the RIGHT SIZE, they went sparingly on the tongue.
The "conversations" between the creature and the host were great too, not entirely a copy of how it went in the comic, but well done nonetheless.
How the symbiote fought, I liked a lot. The chase scene. The apartment scene. Great. It moved like Venom should.
The only real issue I had was that I thought the villain was pretty bland, and while I know we've had endless carbon copies of Venom throughout the years...I found "just another Venom" to be a bit boring.
For this reason, while he was hinted at I kind of hope they don't do Carnage as the very next thing in line.
Yeah though, I mean...it was watchable. I liked it.
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I'm not anxious to see Venom, though I surely would if it hits netflix. I didn't read his comic entry, just saw Venom in a Spiderman cartoon ep and Spiderman 3. Venom was introduced 1984 and Carnage 1992. Those two are basically the only 2 Spiderman comicbook characters to become famous after the 1960s, correct me if I'm wrong.
It's too bad Rami didn't leave Sandman out of Spiderman 3 and instead devote it to the Venom story, would have been right up his alley considering his brilliant rending of the Spiderman 2 story.
I wish Rami would have changed gears and did Mysterio. He was always my favorite villain. He's a fascinating character with cool powers. Maryjane was in theatre, so that would have been a natural entry point, maybe a love triangle. The Mysterio head is pretty wacky for live action, but maybe making it a little smaller would work.
What a coincidence, I was just taking a peek at Mysterio, to see if he was original to the 1960s TV series, made it to the comics, or vise versa (in the comic 1964, TV series 67)... And I see Mysterio is going to be in the new 2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home. Gyllenhaal will play Mysterio. How about that? I didn't figure this new Tom Holland series would do Mysterio because he's an older man that Parker wouldn't run into, whereas McGuire and MJ were old enough to be involved with him.