I can't cringe at his post where he makes embarrassing and baseless accusations that critics only gave Venom bad reviews because it's not in the MCU because I personally didn't like the film and don't want it to have a sequel?
That doesn't even make sense. Those two thoughts aren't related.
Me saying I don't want Venom to have a sequel because it's bad is an opinion.
Him saying the critics lied about it being bad is delusional nonsense.
Stop.
Please indicate where I said lied?
I could elaborate more if you care. The general consensus I got prior to release was it was an unneeded, sad ass attempt at Sony trying to expand the universe again with terrible trailers leading up to this. I would be included in this.
Turned out it's not really as bad as the other shit down there like BvS, SS, F4, etc. It's much closer to the okayish attempts back in the late 00's. Where it felt outdated and not at the current level of quality, but not nearly as bad. My guess would be people were expecting this year's JL. I don't think they are lying, but got caught up in a sort of reverse hype. People wanted to see Spidey return home, by all indication this did seem like it was going to be a turd. It was looking to be the film people can really rip into... when it's turned out alright.
I'll agree I worded it very poorly, but I didn't say they lied intentional to tank it. I'm on the side of reading it as, they saw Spidey done right in Homecoming and now have to see this. They didn't like it. Most likely Marvel could and would do it better. Turned out, the general population did like this take though.
To me personally, it's on par with Phase 1 Marvel. Where most of the films have some very good aspects to build upon. The first 40minutes of Ironman are fantastic, after that it struggles with the 5 minute villain, uninteresting plot, etc. But RDJ carried it. Captain America is my favorite one, I like it better than CW and WS. Yet, it's probably the weakest of the films plot wise, but that first 1/2 is fantastic to me and Evan's Rogers is perfect. Second half is rough, but Evan's emotional moments still shine. Venom reminds me of this. The Eddy/Venom interactions are the highlight of the film. It worked out surprisingly well because they actually made Venom stupidly charming(a loser) rather than the edge lord I remember. Them being losers worked out well and there is something there to hopefully build off of for better flicks down the road, like with Marvel.
