Member-only story
Venom: Let There Be Garbage
It’s hard to believe this is a real movie
Just when I had convinced myself Marvel films couldn’t get any worse, I talked myself into giving Venom: Let There Be Carnage a chance.
Oh, boy. This movie is the textbook definition of a turd. It’s like what could happen if you gave five ten-year-old kids a franchise film, and millions of dollars, and said “have fun.”
I was simply ASTONISHED by the level of incompetence with this film. In fact, I don’t think astonishment comes close to how I felt. It was something alien to my senses. Luckily, I didn’t allow this symbiote to gain full control of my brain.
The fact that something like this gets made today, with top tier talent like Woody Harrelson and Tom Hardy, and that it still gets marketed like it’s worth watching, is a true testament to just how low modern cinema has sunk by falling under the thumb of the Disney megopoly.
It’s utterly bonkers. Never give Andy Serkis a project ever again.
How much did Disney spend to insure this garbage got positively reviewed? How did anyone recommend this to audiences with a straight face, or their spinal integrity still intact?
Disney spent a fortune on this nugget of nothingness. It has all the soul of week old vat of French fry oil…