Critics: wHAT DO YOU MEAN he’s a hungry, stressed, bisexual, monster-fucking, unemployed, auditory-overstimulated, disillusioned, anti-capitalist in a shitty apartment with a drinking problem!!!
Did everyone forget the scene where Eddie eats someone else’s Steak, throws it back on the plate and points at it accusingly, looking right at the waiter and says “This is dead… DEAD.” With such a lied to tone and face.
i just cant get over the lobster scene. like his friends are actively begging him, do not get into the lobster tank. please eddie. tom hardy you were in mad max fury road dont do this. and tom hardy looks at his friend like “i know i shouldnt do this. i shouldnt be getting into this lobster tank but i’m going to anyway. i’m already mostly inside. cant stop now. i’m sorry i dont want to be doing this either there’s just no other choice for me.” and then he takes a bg bite out of a live lobster that’s still in the shell and everything.
tom hardy doesn’t actually know he’s being possessed by an alien yet in the story. he’s just resigned himself to whatever fucking meltdown he seems to be having. he doesn’t even seem particularly surprised that things have gone this way for him. like ten minutes later he finds out his heart stopped working and hes just like “you asshole” and he throws his alien parasite against the wall like a water balloon. and then he just leaves and is immediately kidnapped. what a fucking wild ride tom hardy is on.
tom hardy’s actual superpower is being the exact same level of dysfunctional no matter what is happening in his life. so when everything’s going ok for him he self-destructs spectacularly, but when literally everything that can happen to a human being happens to him, he does, like, unrealistically well. climbing into a lobster tank and eating a live animal with large claws just like… “well, this is what’s happening to me today. i’m so sorry you have to watch this, man. anyway here goes, i’m going to bite into a living creature with my human mouth and then LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS”
this movie’s fucking killing me from the inside.
IT WASNT EVEN IN THE SCRIPT TOM HARDY IS JUST A FUCKING GENUINE MADMAN
So I watched it. Here are some thoughts. Spoilers below.
The character designs for the symbiotes where in my opinion amazing. I found every frame where Venom and/or Riot (another symbiote) were in visually very interesting.
The interactions between Eddie Brock and Venom were by far the most fun parts of the movie. I found Venom’s dialogue so, so enjoyable, from when it was coming from a place of self-aware smug villainy (”SO MANY SNACKS, SO LITTLE TIME!”) to when the the dynamic between Eddie and him became more conversational (”PUSSY.”).
When Venom called Eddie a loser at the start of the film, and then as the climax approached, the symbiote admitted he was kind of a loser in his own world,,, god.
There was a fun little three-way kiss between Eddie, Venom and Eddie’s ex-girlfriend, Anne Weying (as Anne and Venom were fused together at that point). At the end of the film, Anne claims it was Venom’s idea, while Venom plots in Eddie’s head on how they were gonna win her back. It was,,, well, it was amazing.
Sometimes a family is an unemployed loser, his symbiote, his ex-girlfriend and his ex-girlfriend’s really decent new boyfriend.
Riz Ahmed evidently had a lot of fun playing an evil, delusional scientist, and I was actually extremely surprised because I thought I’d have a hard time buying him as a villain. He nailed it.
Tom Hardy rode a motorcycle.
“Mask!” “COPY.”
Venom is a messy bitch that lives for drama. Literally after a couple days of hanging out with Eddie, he’s like, “Hmmm. Maybe I actually don’t want to help my species colonize this planet?” Like damn, you dumb bitch. All you had to do was follow the plan for like ten fucking seconds.
When Eddie asked him why he changed his mind, he said, “YOU. IT WAS YOU, EDDIE.” So yeah, he may be a bloodthirsty alien symbiote who thrives of chaos and destruction, but he also falls in love in 2.4 seconds, so I think that’s enough to make him a relatable character.
Actually, as I’m writing this, I’m pretty sure it was his idea to make out with Eddie.
Venom actually pushed Eddie to be a better man, and to apologize for his mistakes with Anne. It was an unexpected dynamic that I loved. They, weirdly, made each other better.
Eddie Brock was emotionally exhausted the entire movie, and yeah, mood.
eddie brock really out there…livin his best life…exposing corruption…eating criminals…getting dicked down by his symbiote boyfriend every night…still nothing but chicken nuggets in the freezer…an icon
• unemployed
• anxiety
• big issues w big pharma
• alien fucker
• everyone is constantly pleading w him to get some sleep
• doctors r begging him to go to a hospital
• alien possesses him & ends up actually improving his quality of life
• nothing in freezer but chicken nuggets
• knows security guard is just doing his job, understandable, have a nice day
• talks 2 self in inappropriate situations
Say what you want about the new Venom film (and you should say good things because it was awesome) but Eddie’s high pitched scream and trip into the bathtub when he saw Venom was the most accurate real life reaction to ‘I have new superpowers/am possessed’ in history.
Like how many people would actually just roll with it? Be amazed and start jumping off buildings straight away? Nah, I’d panic and freak out.
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