{"id":46240,"date":"2018-10-05T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T03:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46240"},"modified":"2020-08-08T23:44:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T03:44:36","slug":"why-do-i-feel-like-venom-is-going-to-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46240","title":{"rendered":"Why do I feel like Venom is going to suck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No seriously, that\u2019s not meant to be a rhetorical question.\u00a0 Aside from knowing that a Venom<\/em> film was in the works and that it was going to star Tom Hardy, and seeing a single picture of what Venom was going to look like, I couldn\u2019t help but have this feeling that Venom was on the fast track to becoming an automatic stinker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Really, I\u2019ve got no basis at all to really believe that this movie is going to be bad, but I just can\u2019t help but assume that this movie is going to blow.\u00a0 A little bit of cursory research about the film only justifies the belief, like finding out that it\u2019s most certainly NOT a Marvel Studios film, but a Sony Pictures production, which we all know how good their last few things have<\/a> turned out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, as a result of Sony having already forfeited the rights to Spider-Man, really makes me wonder how a stand-alone Venom film could even come to fruition, considering the fact that the entire basis for the Venom character is basically Spider-Man\u2019s dark side manifested through symbiosis.\u00a0 Or, it\u2019s the same Venom that was once bonded to both Tobey Maguire Spider-Man and then Topher Grace Venom, and they\u2019re going to do away with Eddie Brock outright.\u00a0 But either of those are still terrible ideas, and just feeds into the thought that Venom is doomed before it even comes out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Man, how much must it suck to be Tom Hardy in this case?\u00a0 The guy had built up so much equity after being featured in such popular films like Dark Knight Rises<\/em> and Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em>, and then his career seems to be slowly rotting with a bunch of obscure films, or that shitty FX show, Taboo<\/em>.\u00a0 And then one day, his agent comes to him and tells him of this great opportunity for a lead role in a Marvel<\/em><\/strong> film\u2026 conveniently failing to mention that it\u2019s a Sony Pictures Marvel film and not a part of the vaunted Marvel Cinematic Universe.\u00a0 So while guys like Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Pratt, Chadwick Boseman and even Paul Rudd are off gallivanting on the MCU money printer, Tom Hardy is left sitting on the rotting corpse of the Sony\/Marvel universe, starring in a guaranteed stinker that\u2019s apparently giving away discounted tickets before the film even releases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe he\u2019ll be as lucky Chris Evans<\/a> and I want to say Josh Brolin<\/a>, but Deadpool 2<\/em> was probably the crown jewel of the FOX\/Marvel universe, and get to reprise a second role in the MCU.\u00a0 But by the time that happens, all the good properties might already be gone, and he\u2019ll have to be\u2026 maybe Venom, again?\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t that be some shit??<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, I get that it\u2019s really unfair to judge something so viciously for something that isn\u2019t even out.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t shake this feeling that all signs point to this film being really, really bad.\u00a0 Seriously, how can you make a stand-alone Venom film without any trace of Spider-Man?\u00a0 It pretty much means that this iteration of Venom won\u2019t have all of Spidey\u2019s powers, and will just be a glorified tentacle monster that looks like Venom, but will lack just about any traces of Spider-Man-y elements that defined the character.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, I have zero intention of paying money to go see Venom.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even a film that I\u2019d go see if I were given a free ticket, because it doesn\u2019t even seem worth the cost of fuel and time to go to a theater to watch it.\u00a0 However, I will say that if a less-than-ethical means of being able to see it comes along, and I can watch it in the comfort of my own home, I would then and only then feel some compulsion to watch it, kind of like out of the same morbid curiosity that made me want to watch the House of the Dead<\/em> Uwe Boll film.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No seriously, that\u2019s not meant to be a rhetorical question.\u00a0 Aside from knowing that a Venom film was in the works and that it was going to star Tom Hardy, and seeing a single picture of what Venom was going to look like, I couldn\u2019t help but have this feeling that Venom was on the … Continue reading Why do I feel like Venom is going to suck?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,45,41],"class_list":["post-46240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comics","tag-fail","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46242,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46240\/revisions\/46242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}