Review Pending – I will formalize my own review after a second screening of the movie.
In the meantime, everybody’s favourite Gentle Man, gave a classic Moist Meter review – since i echoes my thoughts, I’ve included it here.
The question therefore is; did you enjoy the film? If you could leave a comment and/or rating below, that would be much appreciated!
initiating moisture
welcome to the moist meter today we’re
taking a look at the new venom movie let
there be carnage with the first venom
movie i was applauded for my bravery
cheered on in the comment section for
finally saying what people were afraid
to say when the movie came out that it
kind of [ __ ] sucked ass i didn’t like
the first video movie that much i didn’t
think it was great felt like i was
missing so many things and the final
product was just like a choppy mess
where it didn’t really have a satisfying
story and a way of getting there my
biggest complaint was like venom and his
relationship with eddie brock it just
feels like it just came out of nowhere
in one scene they hate each other
venom’s mad and then the next scene he’s
like you know what i want to [ __ ]
save humanity it’s like well how did we
get there
but setting aside my criticisms of the
first movie i think the second movie is
better i think it’s a goofy fun movie it
doesn’t take itself too seriously at all
but it’s also pretty redundant when
compared to the first movie because it
kind of does the same thing at the end
of the first venom movie it’s like we’re
gonna save the world we’re gonna eat bad
guys we’re gonna be a hero that’s not
afraid to rip some [ __ ] heads off and
in this movie they come in and they’re
like we’re not ripping heads off you’re
in timeout because eddie brock doesn’t
want bad guys to get their heads eaten
by venom so pretty much the entire movie
is just them bantering with each other
and granted it is enjoyable because i
think the writing is good and tom
hardy’s very good so them joking around
and getting mad at each other and having
these arguments that you would expect a
couple to have is fun but when that’s
the entire first hour of the movie like
the bulk of what’s going on is just them
not seeing eye to eye on how bad guys
should be eaten and how they should be a
hero and how eddie brock just wants to
be left alone it’s just kind of tiresome
because we’ve already kind of seen that
with the first movie i do love the
actual fight with carnage i think at the
end of the movie when they fight it all
works really well it’s a very satisfying
fight but everything leading up to there
i feel like they didn’t know how to get
it to that point so they just threw in
what worked the first time for most
people which was the back and forth with
eddie brock and venom and i will say
again i just don’t think venom movies
work at a pg-13 rating it like for
carnage for example when carnage is
going crazy he’s [ __ ] killing
everyone and cletus cassidy when they’re
killing everyone it’s really cheapened
by the fact that they do it all like
off-camera off-screen so you don’t
really see that you’re not really like
afraid of them or really impressed with
their power it’s like ah this guy he
kicked somebody and now we don’t see
that person again it’s like that’s kind
of lame that’s not exactly scary i i
said this in the first the first movie i
thought it was supposed to be r
initially because the first movie is so
chopped up that it feels like they cut
out everything that made it r and i also
feel that way about this movie it feels
at times that it’s
edited in a way
to hide scenes that were r-rated that
they took away at the last second i
don’t think that’s the case because the
first movie was pg-13 i imagine they
planned for this one to be the same
rating but it still does feel that way
it’s just there’s something about the
movie like it just jumps around and it
just gets real silly and
not like it’s self-aware silliness just
like huh this is kind of dumb
to give you an example this is going a
bit into spoiler territory so spoiler
warning for this at the end of the movie
with the fight with carnage uh cassidy
has his girlfriend there and you don’t
care about his girlfriend they don’t
really do anything to flush out this
relationship or make you as a viewer
care it’s pretty underwhelming it’s kind
of dumb but it’s there because they
thought it needed to be there to have
like a climactic final showdown so it is
what it is and his girlfriend is very
clearly a psychopath just like cassidy
she’s killing people she encourages him
to kill people she’s impressed when
people are dying cars are blowing up
cops are being murdered she loves it and
then at the very end of the movie it
inexplicably or maybe i missed it
carnage is about to hurt eddie brock’s
most uh you know most
important person
and she’s like don’t do this cassidy now
you’ve gone too far you’ve got to stop
so then carnage starts strangling her
he’s like we’re not stopping and i’m
going to shut you up and then cassidy’s
like no that’s my girlfriend
and then there’s like this you know
this uh back and forth with carnage and
cassie like you can’t hurt her it’s my
girlfriend but she told us to stop and
she can scream real loud that’s bad for
us and it’s like what the [ __ ] is going
on why was she even like upset with
carnage and cassidy in the first place
she was all on board for killing
complete strangers and now when it’s
someone who’s a little less of a
stranger someone she actively kidnaps
now it’s a problem it’s like what the
[ __ ] is going on so it’s just really
again
all over the place sometimes and it just
feels like it’s missing crucial shots
and scenes okay now back from spoilers
the rest will be spoiler free that was
really the main one i wanted to talk
about i like i said i didn’t i didn’t
have like a bad time watching the movie
i i enjoyed it because i thought that
the god damn [ __ ] eyelash in my eye
yeah like i said i did have fun watching
it because the writing was strong with
its banter since that was the main bulk
of the movie it was just them bantering
and they at least did a good job with
that they even sent [ __ ] venom to a
rave so it’s very clear that they’re
indulging in the silliness of the movie
but overall i don’t think it’s like a
great movie cletus cassidy i think is
played well by woody harrelson but it’s
not a very good character they don’t do
a great job with him they just establish
he had a girlfriend that he you know
this girl that he really liked when he
was young and now he wants to get back
together with her and he’s a serial
killer and they try and do that thing
with serial killers where they say like
the wackiest [ __ ] that’s like super deep
but with cassidy here they just don’t
know how to write that it’s like you
know you see like in like anime where
the villain has like these crazy
monologues that are all like really
profound and like
wild well they try and do that with
cassidy but it just doesn’t work so like
when he’s on death row he’s giving like
his last speech and it’s just
super goofy it’s not like that was scary
ominous and yet profound it was like
he’ll give a speech it’s like
hey eddie you know when you flush a
toilet and the water goes down the pipes
that water’s not coming back
that’s like me on death row i’m
in a toilet eddie
it’s like it wasn’t a very cool villain
monologue and it really wasn’t
it’s scary it was just kind of goofy so
that was pretty disappointing and again
the girlfriend isn’t really a strong
character either they don’t do much to
flesh her out they just make her
equally a psychopath to cletus cassidy
so that’s really all you get there from
that relationship so you as a viewer
aren’t really going to care very much
but like i said the final fight with
venom vs carnage was satisfying i did
enjoy it i just wish leading up to there
there was more about the movie than just
banter there are some scenes of carnage
blowing up police cars blowing up
helicopters and [ __ ] and and it’s good
like it’s it’s still fun to watch i
think carnage is a really cool character
but it’s disappointing to have a
character like carnage who’s all about
[ __ ] murder uh blood in the streets
and gore and [ __ ] like going crazy
to be it a pg-13 movie where it just
feels like he’s a super watered-down
version of carnage so he’s not as
intimidating as you would expect him to
be
but that’s that’s more nitpicky i i
don’t think this movie was ever going to
be r-rated though i think it should have
it’s not bad i want to make that clear i
definitely think this is better than the
first movie so i did enjoy it i didn’t
have a bad time let’s plug it into the
voice meter i’m giving venom let there
be carnage a 60
hopefully if they continue the venom
franchise they can finally
stop making the majority of the movie
just eddie brock and venom bantering it
is enjoyable but i think doing it three
times in a row is like the main
bulk of the movie is going to be a bit
much so hopefully now we can just
establish he is the lethal protector
they’re on the same page now and going
forward we can start from that point
instead of go backwards
so anyway that’s about it see ya