The much-anticipated "Venom" is finally released today!
This anti-hero movie, which was released in North America as early as October 5, achieved the best box office record in North American film history in October in the first week of its opening. Before the opening of this large domestic ticket warehouse, the cumulative global box office has exceeded the $500 million mark!
In stark contrast to the super high box office, there are extremely polarized film reviews. While the critics are almost all bad reviews, the audience is full of praise for the content of the film.
Extreme polarization
So, is "Venom" really good-looking?
First answer the most important question: "Venom" is not good-looking.
Of course, those who only talk about what they say but not why are hooliganism, and then I will talk in detail about why "Venom" is not good-looking.
Broken structure, out-of-tune rhythm
"Venom" tells such a story:
A spacecraft crashed to the earth, and the symbiote carried in the spacecraft was taken by the Life Foundation for experimentation.
Journalist Eddie Bullock (played by Tom Hardy ) received a tip that the Life Foundation was conducting an inhumane experiment and began investigating the Life Foundation. Such behavior touched the boss Carlton Drake ( Ritz The interests of Ahmed ), Eddie was naturally arranged: the job was lost, the fiancée Anne ( Michelle Williams ) ran away, and what’s more unfortunate was that cancer was detected, and her life was not guaranteed. NS.
Suddenly Eddie had nothing. He didn't expect a research and development staff of the Life Foundation to come to his door at his worst moment, hoping that he could expose the true face of the organization. Eddie decided to venture into the research and development center of the Life Foundation. Unexpectedly, Eddie was accidentally possessed by Venom. Eddie escaped from the laboratory in a panic. Then, with the help of Venom, he showed his talents and got rid of the hunting team sent by Drake.
Although the venom gave Eddie great power after possessing the body, he seemed to feel extremely repulsive about it, and got rid of the venom with the help of Annie and her new boyfriend, a tool man.
Eddie, who lost the shelter of the venom, was easily captured by Drake. He was horrified to discover that Drake had been "rioted" by the symbiote, and planned to take a rocket to the planet where the symbiote was located, bringing back millions. The same kind invaded the earth and wiped out all living things on the surface. Just when Eddie was about to be killed, the venom possessed on Annie arrived in time and rescued Eddie.
Afterwards, Venom decided to save the planet with Eddie, so the two (Venom is considered as individuals) once again joined forces to go to the rocket launch platform. After a fierce battle, they killed the riots and saved the earth. Finally, they lived together from time to time. The PG-13 life of a gangster.
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After watching the movie, you can’t help feeling that the plot design of the movie is so conservative and clichéd, Eddie Anne broke up, Venom accidentally possessed, learned of the villain’s conspiracy, and the final battle victory... I can guarantee that it will be based on the basics of watching the movie. The audience can foresee the ending even after seeing the beginning. In short, it's 2018, and it's really dirty to show these things to the audience.
Of course, no matter how cliché a story is, if the level of the storyteller is high enough, it can inject new vitality into the story. But unfortunately, director Ruben Frescher's popularity is still a bit worse.
You can intuitively feel that the overall structure of "Venom" is: there is no structure. If you insist on making a formal division, then you can barely divide the movie into two parts from before and after Eddie is possessed by Venom. Before Eddie is possessed by Venom, what is presented to us is the love between Eddie and Annie. The scene is embarrassing from time to time, Eddie has become a loser step by step, and the tedious and boring villain Drake who is completely innocent and has no characteristics; after Eddie is possessed by venom, what is waiting for us is a train full of mouths outside. Star life, simple and crude plot advancement and several painless action scenes.
It’s unbelievable that, excluding the easter eggs and the credits of the ending credits, the length of the full feature film of the whole movie is 90 minutes. When every minute seems very extravagant, the director actually spent nearly half of the movie's time lavishly. To describe in detail the love affair between Tang Laoshi and Xiaomi, as well as his depressed, impoverished life after becoming a loser, these contents can obviously be reduced to 30 minutes or even 20 minutes, and they are not even well shaped. The character's character does not bear the corresponding plot turn.
When the staff of the Life Foundation found Eddie, the screenwriter even asked Eddie to refuse her request to expose the Life Foundation, and then let Eddie see the affection between her ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend without any preconditions. After being stimulated Eddie suddenly changed his mind and agreed to the female staff's request to sneak into the institute to investigate. You really can’t understand the logic behind the characters’ actions.
After enduring the slow-paced and sleepy half of the movie, you are greeted by three fast-paced action scenes that dazzle the audience. There are also several literary scenes interspersed with them, all compressed into half the length of the film. Just rushing to the end, this makes the narrative rhythm of the second half of the story abruptly accelerated, and the excessively changing rhythm makes the film have a clear sense of tearing. In addition, in order to broaden the viewing scale, Sony let the film be presented in the form of PG-13. Although the special effects of the three action scenes are dazzling enough, the scales deliberately grasped still make the scenes unsatisfactory.
Empty characters, boring conflicts
Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, and Ritz Ahmed are all excellent actors who can stand alone in the film, but when the three are playing their respective roles, there is always a kind of Feeling of being out of state. The design of the film further aggravates this feeling. It is difficult to perceive Tang Laoshi’s character as a reporter from his character modeling. It is more credible to say that he is a veteran and a private investigator. And it turns out that the rivalry between them did not collide with the expected sparks.
Especially Tang Lao wet and Xiaomi, when Michelle smashed her pillow at Tang Lao wet at the beginning of the film, when Tang Lao wet looked confused, an indescribable embarrassment began to spread in the film, even if it was two. When an individual is shooting a kiss scene, you can also perceive the distance between them, just like two plastic insulators, the two of them really don't call at all.
The screenwriter seems to have left all his energy to Eddie and Venom. There is very little ink on the portrayal of the villain Carlton Drake. You basically don’t know why he experimented so madly, or what drove him to achieve it. If the cooperation with "riots" is only for the pursuit of "power" and "immortality," it can only be said that this approach is very lazy.
What’s even more strange is the screenwriter’s setting of Annie. After breaking up, he doesn’t seem to be sad. When he quickly finds a new boyfriend, he still doesn’t forget his old love. When accepting the selfless help of his new boyfriend, he doesn’t forget to recount the old love with his ex boyfriend. , Such an unpleasant plot portrays Annie's fate as a "green tea bitch".
Fortunately, the existence of Symbiote Venom and Eddie has diluted the hollowness of other characters to a certain extent. The relationship between Venom and Eddie seems to be both foe and friend, and the CP relationship of mutual love and love, as well as the discussion of Venom's tsundere loyal dog. Hi attributes, concurrently serving as an emotional expert, life mentor, and a selection of cold jokes, instantly captured the hearts of a large number of fans (especially female fans). The overwhelming images of Tang Laoshi and Venom CP on the Internet are the best evidence. . Some film critics think this is a subversion of the evil image of the venom villain in the original comics, which is very ooc (out of character), but in fact the original venom in the original has no concept of good and evil, but it will be affected by the host itself. The influence of good and evil can "make the good guys become more courageous and make the bad guys become super villains." In fact, it is worthy of recognition that the film gives Venom such a personality, but whether this step is an accurate calculation based on commercial considerations is not known.
The real dissatisfaction is that the film's handling of the change in the relationship between Eddie and Venom is too cutting corners. The symbiotic relationship between Eddie and Venom is a topic worthy of in-depth discussion, especially when the film gives Venom a unique emotion and personality. As a host, Eddie, who has a normal three views and a sense of justice, is a parasite. The collision of two different ideas between the cruel and morally acting Venom, and the transformation of Eddie and Venom’s psychological transformation from confrontation and mutual use to mutual understanding and mutual support, should have been It is the most charming part of the film.
But it seems that the film does not intend to deal with this issue in depth. You can hardly feel the conflict between the two parties in the film. The relationship between Eddie and Venom, which should have been more complicated and even dangerous, was directly affected by Venom. The sweet "I like you" and the full-blown "I am actually a loser on my planet" are transformed into the sympathetic sympathy of "the same people who fall into the world".
With Lee's version of "The Hulk" hitting the street, superhero movies should avoid excessive literary art, but this does not mean that the film can ignore things that are worth discussing so perfunctorily.
The surprise of the film and what I want to say
Although there are so many bad things about "Venom", the place worthy of recognition should still be given due praise.
The first is the comedy talent shown by Tang Lao wet in the film. I guess that even he himself did not expect that he has such a comedy potential that exceeds expectations. What Tang Lao wet lacks is only a fan who can help him release himself, such as movies. The venom of Chinese love talking and laughing.
Secondly, from the perspective of visual effects, "Venom" is undoubtedly qualified, and it restores the fluidity of the biological cell body of the venom protists. Of course, the most amazing thing is Michelle Williams's. Female Venom (regardless of why Venom suddenly became able to successfully fit with Annie), and the most bizarre and beautiful kiss scene that she and Tang Lao wet presented to the audience in 2018.
But... that's it.
No matter how high the total box office of the film is, it is difficult to conceal its poor quality, but compared to other bad films, its luck seems to be particularly good. Of course, this can also be attributed to Tang Lao Shi’s own hard-working performance and box office appeal. . In fact, what really disappoints is not how bad "Venom" is, but how good it could be. If it is true as Tang Laoshi said, the 30-40 minute segment of "Venom" has been cut, "Even my favorite part has not been cut into the movie." Of course, this pot can't completely let the director Ruben Buddha. Rescher and the screenwriters come to memorize, I believe that Sony Pictures has to take the lead. They seem to be guilty of the old problem of excessively interfering in film projects. But this time, judging from box office feedback, they won.
Is this result good? It's definitely a good thing for Sony, but not necessarily for movie fans. Once the sweetness of this creative mode is tasted, the conservative Sony will be even more reluctant to let go of their hands and feet. What's more terrible is that the audience is too easy to satisfy, as long as you can see the sweetness of Tang Lao wet and the venom together. Feel free to give good comments. In the long run, wanting to see a more breakthrough movie instead of a nondescript play house movie like "Venom" is tantamount to idiotic dreams.
So, I'm sorry I can only give two and a half stars. Nowadays, when fans are in a group carnival and when the film box office is hot, pour cold water on them. Even if they are scolded at ky, it doesn't matter if they are hot, what should be said.
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