Venom: The Last Dance (2024, D: Marcel) -- The Spoiler Reviews Thread
 

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Running Time: 109 Minutes

Current RT Score: 37% as of 10/24/24

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/venom_the_last_dance


This is Kelly Marcel's directorial debut. She wrote the entire film series. Although Tom Hardy does have a co-writer credit on this.

Seeing an IMAX show tonight.

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This was not good at all. My benchmark for bad movies is Madam Web and it's above that, but not by much. It just doesn't have any real reason to exist. There are two end credit scenes for those who are going.

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I saw it last night. Lame for AMC to promote it as a "Fan Event Screening" There was nothing special about it. And they gave out a really lame Venom cord organizer.

Anyway, as for the movie, I gave it 3 stars, but mainly because of the banter between Venom and Eddie, which I found enjoyable still. But, it's easily the worst of the trilogy. Barely any story and Eddie spends a lot of time traveling and bonding with a hobo family.

Does it indeed wrap things up? Yes I guess, but how satisfying will be up for interpretation. I didn't really find the end of Eddie/Venom that satisfying. Venom did die at the end.

2 post credit scenes. Mid credits featured a pissed off Knull, who was featured throughout the movie as his master plan failed. I guess Knull will come back or might come back in another Sony Spider-Verse man.

2nd was a kind of stupid one with the bartender that Eddie met earlier and him coming out to a complete wasteland.

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If there's a sure sign the superhero movie boom has dimmed, this reviews thread having only 2 posts on it by Saturday night is one of them.

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There’s not really anything to talk about. I saw the movie. It was fine. Had some moments.

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As I already said, I went to the Thursday IMAX fan screening. Rather than giving out a nice poster, pin or replica ticket or comic, this is what they gave out. What the fuck? :lol: I guess Sony ran out of money for marketing.

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Just came back from this. It was fine. I think the first film was much better, 2 is atrocious, and this was ok. The Dolby Cinema presentation was great, though. I think Clark Backo is gorgeous - loved her hair.

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I felt the same way about this movie as I did the other Venom movies. I love everything about Eddie and Venom, but could not care less about any of the rest.

This one was particularly slapdash and barely told a coherent story. Ejiofor and Temple and company were so thinly sketched and poorly established that I assumed they be must be characters from the previous movies following through on plot threads that I had completely forgotten about. But when Venom is all "Surprise horsey! I love horsey!", that other stuff goes away and I'm all in. I'd totally watch another one of these.

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The ABBA dance number was trash.

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If you hate fun.

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I started off completely lost as to what was happening, and that lasted a good 30 minutes. If I hadn't just sat through 25 minutes of previews, I would have wondered if I missed the first ten minutes.

Danny Rojas! Futbol is . . . a meaningless bit part?

After that 30 minutes and a non-sensical set up, I settled in and it was . . . fun . . . fine.

It's a good cast that was completely wasted with a good six or seven plotlines being excised or trimmed down to the nubs -- just enough that you know something else was there.

The 3D in the river scene was amazing (even if the story didn't make sense). In a day and age when most action scenes are virtually incomprehensible with shaky cam and quick cuts, the final action scene was a delight and its editing made far more sense than the editing in the rest of the movie.

While I undoubtedly agree with WhySoBlue . . .

. . . I'll also say, I wanted to Venom out to dance with Mrs. Chen!

There was probably a good movie in the footage that was shot . . . It just wasn't put together competently, especially since Kelly Marcel was the writer, director, and a producer. The filmmaking itself was not suspect, but the editing and integrity from script to screen was.

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It was fun, but was not nearly as fun as it should have been.

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I kind of liked the first Venom movie. I did not like the second one at all. And I have never rewatched either movie since then.* That probably speaks to the series as a whole. As for this one, it probably falls somewhere in the middle, insane enough that it has it's moments, but too stupid for me to really care.

*in fact, I even bought the first movie on 4K disc, but then sold it before I ever watched the movie at home.

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I liked that they had the cute mom from Ted in this. Wish they had used her more though.

I wonder what the chemical formula of "Hyper Acid" is.

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Windom, my mind immediately went to Ted Lasso and I was about to ask who the 3rd connection was . . .

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Saw this yesterday, since I just couldn't convince myself to watch something as heavy as We Live in Time and the wife didn't want to watch Here.

I'm a huge superhero fan, but I'm just rather baffled at this trilogy. Are these aimed squarely at an audience that will simply go to the theater for any slop whose trailer contains the words "Based on the comic book"? What's the hook here? Tom Hardy being borderline unwatchable as he talks to the most irritating "man"child in recent memory? I find the "fluidity" of the character's design difficult to even observe (I liked it most in the dance sequence, where he/they appear to have an actually defined silhouette for the first time in the series) and now there are even more gleep glops where you can barely make them out. The only things less distinct are their characterizations. And don't get me started on how much this took from Logan.

Are we supposed to get emotional at a Maroon 5 montage of disposable cinema at the end? I will say I was somewhat surprised they killed Venom and not Eddie, since the symbiote goes on to bond with other hosts in the comic.

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I haven't seen it yet, but I heard that

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Except it wasn't Venom, it was the one that bonded with Keely from Ted Lasso. That is why that end sequence made no sense whatsoever, as that one survived.

Theoretically, there is still the remnant from the bar which is what people think that one was. I was hoping the remnant would become the new Venom with Danny Rojas, but given his small amount of acting (or the direction he received) in this, I don't know that I want him back.

Bring me more Christmas Venom (I don't know all their comic book names).

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What makes you say the remnant from the vial isn't the one from the bar? Not saying you're wrong, I just don't remember any specifics from the scene that would lead us to believe that it was from the purple one and not Venom.

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I may be wrong, but I thought it was purplish and was shown with a crackle of electricity going through it.

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Had an e-mail from Regal (none by me, but I still get the e-mails from before I moved back) that the giveaway for Gladiator 2 is a foam #1 finger. -rolleyes-

Edit: Sorry, "thumb's up" foam finger.

Edit Edit: Looks like AMC, too.

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Finally got to see in theaters recently.

It's definitely better than Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) but that wasn't a huge threshold to cross.

While I appreciated the fan service in the finale, the entire film still felt like an enormous soup of ideas.

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This was one of the most idiotic, unnecessary and terrible movie I have seen in a very long time. Very long. The cgi is terrible, the story, the bad guy(s) were hideously created and most moronic put to celluloid in a long time. I really, truly, think there is not one redeeming quality in the whole movie. I’m in awe Tom Hardy was attached and did all 3. He’s so much a better actor than this pile of rat feces.

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Holy cow, this was awful!

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This was not very good at all. Almost turned it off during the Major Tom car ride. The finale with all the symbiotes was alright.

I did not like Carnage either. The first one will be the only one I revisit in the future.