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Slayven

Never read a comic in his life
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Oct 25, 2017
93,215
And that accent, is he going for drunk south Boston? Or Sam Kinison with a mouth full of Novocaine....What is happening here?
 

LAM09

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Oct 25, 2017
4,215
I didn't think it was that bad. Hope we see a decent amount of Venom in the film
 

Slayven

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Oct 25, 2017
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Why is everyone but the badguy speaking about the badguy's motivations?
 

Stat

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Oct 25, 2017
5,171
It seems odd that there isn't a lot of Venom shown so far. Hoping for way more in the actual movie.

Also, I think Tom Hardy is a great actor but I have a tough time believing him to be Eddie Brock.
 

Addleburg

The Fallen
Nov 16, 2017
5,068
The movie could end up being bad, but I don't necessarily get this vibe from the trailer. The only part that's kinda cheesy-looking to me is the part where he pulls the motorcycle back to him.

The voice of Venom sounds pretty good and reminds me of Willem Defoe's voice work in the Death Note movie (the only good thing about that movie).

But yeah, I'm just hoping that the part we see of Venom in the trailer isn't just in the last 10 minutes or so of the film. Sometimes when you have a recognizable actor playing someone who's human face would naturally be completely obscured, the studios go through great lengths to justify them being in human form/without a mask/what have you like Deadshot in Suicide Squad.

Hope this isn't the case here.

Who is the actress playing the scientist who says "sym-bi-ote"? She sounds just like a voice actress I've heard in kids cartoons before, am I mistaken?

Jenny Slate. She voices a recurring character in Bob's Burgers.
 

Expy

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Oct 26, 2017
9,866
His head is like off to the side when it transforms into Venom, it looks really bad.
 

LiK

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Oct 25, 2017
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Deception

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Nov 15, 2017
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Lots of rumors that Carnage will be in this. Who knows if it'll come true. But it would make sense that other Symbiotes will need to show up to give him a good fight. Venom seems OP already.



Probably why I liked it.
I just looked up the cast and apparently, Woody Harrelson is in with an uncredited role so maybe he will be Carnage?
 

Slayven

Never read a comic in his life
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Oct 25, 2017
93,215
His head is like off to the side when it transforms into Venom, it looks really bad.
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Gonzalez

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,679
His head is like off to the side when it transforms into Venom, it looks really bad.
We do see a dark haired woman attack Brock at one point in the trailer. This could be the same woman who talks to Eddie at the convenience store. She might have been bonded with a Symbuyoat halfway through.
 

Slayven

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Oct 25, 2017
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I guess the lady screaming was Scream, if they going to be that on the nose I can't wait to see Lasher, Riot, and Phage
 

wenis

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Oct 25, 2017
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Oct 26, 2017
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People screaming for Carnage before they even have released a Venom-movie is why Sony rushed for Venom instead of letting Raimi go through the cool original rouges gallery and why I bet Sony will push Carnage in the end of this film. Rush rush rush. Never let things take their time. ZZZ.

Erik Larsens Venom looked cool also btw.

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BWoog

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm just now realizing that all the dialogue sounds like it was written by Charlie from Its Always Sunny.

"The person you work for is a bastard man."
 

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Nov 7, 2017
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I can't believe that they're making a Venom movie and are pronouncing symbiote wrong. Like, what
 

Eidan

Avenger
Oct 30, 2017
8,578
Well I can say two things:

1) It does indeed look like Prototype.
2) A Venom story where the symobiote isn't initially introduced through Spider-Man is just weird.

This whole things really feels like a comic book movie from a bygone era. No connection to its source material outside of name and design.
 

Skinny Pete

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Nov 2, 2017
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Ha, I knew someone would quote me about that. I'm aware. But he and all the symbiote garbage reached peak awfulness (and popularity) in the 90s. I still have mental scars from Maximum Carnage.

I think that's from Kelley Jones?
His stuff works better in context.

Yea I think that is him. One of those artists whose work is a mixed bag for me.
 

Bus-TEE

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Nov 20, 2017
4,656
Having let the trailer sit with me for a few hours..,

The studio making no effort to make Michelle Williams look like an actual character rather than just 'the girlfriend' feels very tone deaf in this day and age.

Riz Ahmed looks like a standard, cardboard cut out, corporate bad guy clad in an Armani suit.

Hardy has a great American accent, see The Drop, but this one feels weirdly unfocused.

This feels tonally off, at first it seems like a dark brooding film and then all the action set pieces hint at broad, VFX heavy 'limb' effects rather than something more savage and bloody.

The bike sequence plays like a very broad action sequence and doesn't feel like it belongs to the same film teased at the start of the trailer.

I do however like the actual Venom transformation where the 'suit' seems to swallow Hardy's character.

Using the "in association with" on the Marvel logo and the Infinity War trailer music feels a little desperate.

In short? Eh. The more I see of this the more 'by the numbers' it looks.
 

Surfinn

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
28,590
USA
Seems like the stills of Venom look good but the animation looks real bad.

Uh.. what exactly are they going for with Tom Hardy? Such an awkward character/performance from the little bits we've seen from him thus far. I'm getting "The Room" vibes here with his delivery

The action looks fun for what it is but yeah.. the dialogue is laughable and the story looks weak.

Like.. they really said "you should be extremely afraid".. twice
 

Felt

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
3,210
Movie does look strange from this preview, but hey MoviePass will help it out.
 

Nemesis121

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Nov 3, 2017
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Saw the potato quality last night, this trailer you can clearly see 2 Symbiote.... hope we see Carnage...
 

Vampirolol

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Dec 13, 2017
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I saw the trailer with no sound and it looked unintentionally funny, almost like a parody. I now have less than zero expectations for this movie (not that I had any for a Venom flick).