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Tango0102 Oct 2018 10:20 p.m. PST

…Wants to Show You a Good Time.

"Venom strikes an imperfect balance between two extremes—sticking too close to, or straying too far from, Marvel's source material. And that's a testament to Sony's belief that audiences are going to want to watch a charmingly-disheveled Tom Hardy murder and eat people in the name of twisted justice in this movie and any potential sequels.

Drifting away from the source material is always a risky gamble when it comes to comic book movies, especially when a film is trying to establish a character who's meant to carry a franchise. Roam too far, and comics purists will dismiss a movie as fundamentally inauthentic. Come too close, and a movie becomes dense to the point of being a drag—and in Venom's case, run into all kinds of legal complications that Sony's probably trying to avoid…."
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15mm and 28mm Fanatik03 Oct 2018 9:14 a.m. PST

Plan on seeing this.

Tango0103 Oct 2018 10:49 a.m. PST

Me too!

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