Watched Venom on my flight home from Toronto last night, and the best way to describe it is a good character wrapped up in a bad movie. Tom Hardy was good, though I think he tried a little too hard with the accent and mannerisms. The symbiote itself was great and I loved the interactions between it and Brock. Everything else though was pretty bad, especially the main villain and his henchman. They were straight out of a B-movie. It would be nice if Sony just wised up and let Marvel take the reigns to integrate Venom into the Spiderman world, but that will probably never happen. Hopefully they get a more competent writer and better actors for the sequel though (at least the post-credits scene was promising on the latter)
I also tried to watch the new Predator movie, but gave up about 15 minutes in. Holy hell that thing is hot garbage
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