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hermionesviolin) wrote2018-10-08 07:16 pm
hermionesviolin) wrote2018-10-08 07:16 pm
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[MCU] Venom
I went to see Venom this afternoon -- mostly for the lulz.
IDK how to embed Tweets in DW, but @dykezuIa had Tweeted:
I will say, though, I was pleasantly surprised by how much of a role the female "love interest" gets.
Brock/Venom are kind of dudebros (I didn't love the emasculating insults, or the Tootsie joke), but not excessively so, and are overall fairly decent.
The movie isn't particularly statement-y, but I did appreciate the opening montage of investigative reporting (hi, Silicon Valley!), and tech genius + rockets made me think of Elon Musk, so of course I was rooting for the villain's downfall the entire movie.
Also, once I realized Venom's tongue wasn't actually venomous (despite his name), I was like, "Why was anyone freaking out that the Internet was thirsty for Venom?" [Though JFC, the movie's only been out for like 4 days and there are already 131 works on AO3 -- obviously some of them are just from the trailer, but a full 70 of them were posted on or after October 5, 2018.]
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The mid-credits scene teases I assume the sequel's villain -- which Google informs me is "Carnage" (Cletus Kasady).
The post-credits season is a teaser for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -- which made more sense once I remembered that Venom is originally from Spider-Man canon, and so it wasn't *just* teasing the next Marvel movie.
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We saw it at a small theatre so only got 2 trailers -- Captain Marvel and Alita: Battle Angel. Alita still feels problematic (besides the uncanny valley, our titular character has CGIed anime-large eyes), but I enjoyed the Captain Marvel trailer even more than the 2 times I'd watched it on YouTube (sometimes the big screen really does help). I know not everyone's thrilled with the Brie Larson casting -- that based on some comics iterations, some folks would prefer an actress more like Katee Sackhoff instead of yet another slip of a woman (similar to some of the pushback around casting Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman) -- but the only exposure I've had to Captain Marvel has been fannish osmosis, so I don't personally have strong preferences. Mostly when I was watching this trailer this time around I was thinking (as I did the second time I watched it) of Fake Geek Boys who asserted she had no expressions and never smiled, and I was literally noting every instance of a different expression, every time she smiled.
IDK how to embed Tweets in DW, but @dykezuIa had Tweeted:
venom: hello earth i’m here to eat you allAnd during the end credits, Zira found excellent reviews, like Vox's "Venom is a fun, twisted rom-com disguised as a bad superhero movie: Tom Hardy is just a reporter, standing in front of a parasitic alien symbiote, asking it not to eat him."
eddie: hey
venom: actually i’m going to marry this man and betray my entire race for him
I will say, though, I was pleasantly surprised by how much of a role the female "love interest" gets.
Brock/Venom are kind of dudebros (I didn't love the emasculating insults, or the Tootsie joke), but not excessively so, and are overall fairly decent.
The movie isn't particularly statement-y, but I did appreciate the opening montage of investigative reporting (hi, Silicon Valley!), and tech genius + rockets made me think of Elon Musk, so of course I was rooting for the villain's downfall the entire movie.
Also, once I realized Venom's tongue wasn't actually venomous (despite his name), I was like, "Why was anyone freaking out that the Internet was thirsty for Venom?" [Though JFC, the movie's only been out for like 4 days and there are already 131 works on AO3 -- obviously some of them are just from the trailer, but a full 70 of them were posted on or after October 5, 2018.]
***
The mid-credits scene teases I assume the sequel's villain -- which Google informs me is "Carnage" (Cletus Kasady).
The post-credits season is a teaser for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -- which made more sense once I remembered that Venom is originally from Spider-Man canon, and so it wasn't *just* teasing the next Marvel movie.
***
We saw it at a small theatre so only got 2 trailers -- Captain Marvel and Alita: Battle Angel. Alita still feels problematic (besides the uncanny valley, our titular character has CGIed anime-large eyes), but I enjoyed the Captain Marvel trailer even more than the 2 times I'd watched it on YouTube (sometimes the big screen really does help). I know not everyone's thrilled with the Brie Larson casting -- that based on some comics iterations, some folks would prefer an actress more like Katee Sackhoff instead of yet another slip of a woman (similar to some of the pushback around casting Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman) -- but the only exposure I've had to Captain Marvel has been fannish osmosis, so I don't personally have strong preferences. Mostly when I was watching this trailer this time around I was thinking (as I did the second time I watched it) of Fake Geek Boys who asserted she had no expressions and never smiled, and I was literally noting every instance of a different expression, every time she smiled.