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Originally Posted by Locke
I assume you're referring to Venom?
He wasnt really a 'Villain' per se in the Classical sense, what made Venom really cool was that he was an 'Anti-Hero.'
He was the hero of his own story and in his own way. He didnt follow the classical hero archetype, he would fight 'bad guys' but in his own way and without the normal restrictions that heroes typically limit themselves with.
And he hated Spiderman, who is a character that does follow and abide by normal hero stereotypes and tropes which made Venom even cooler because heres this character that considers himself a hero but is just over the top violent and who absolutely hates this wholesome goody-two-shoes stereotypical hero that most fans love.
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In the movie, Eddie Brock is definitely not a villain. Everything he does is righteous. That was actually a gripe I had with the movie. They took away from Brock's character by not giving him the jealous conniving background.
You're right about Venom becoming an anti-hero, but he definitely doesn't start that way, which part of what made the character interesting.
The movie was really held by back by the fact it was a movie. Most audiences probably don't want to see an actual villain as the focus for 2 hours, at least not without some kind of heavy protagonist counterbalance. Although they could have done a bit of a Momento angle, where the villain acts like a villain, but at the same time is self-righteous and taking a degree of willful-blindness to the whole ordeal.