'Venom' directed by Ruben Fleischer
Venom is not a good movie but it has some strong elements going for it. Primarily a strong lead actor in one Tom Hardy. He's a really interesting dude to watch on screen like Brando or James Dean. Unfortunately he's like Brando or James Dean in a shitty cliched superhero movie. Its the same formulaic sack of shit videogame looking superhero shit you've seen a million times. But its got Tom Hardy hamming it up as both ace reporter Eddie Brock and as the voice of the C.G. inky blob alien symbiote. The Iago type character whispering in Eddie's ear known as Venom. Venom is a popular character from the Spider-man comics and because of corporate shortsightedness and a Marvel Comics bankruptcy in the 1990s all the film rights to all the spider-man characters belong to Sony Pictures studio. Marvel studios doesn't want to share Spidey right now so now the thing that looks like a combo of spider-man and the HR Giger's xenomorph now has no connection to Peter Parker in...