Looks like maybe the introduction of an external threat will help Eddie and Carnage see eye-to-eye more? So Venom will realize he needs to tone down his desires and Eddie will move more towards embracing them.

This post was edited by Kayeto on Aug 2 2021 10:51am

Looks tacky.

Too many comedy spots.

Wish they'd make a serious Rated R adaption.

Instead they make a corny family friendly MCU version.

If they’re funny who cares

The ones in the trailer were

So much this man.....

What irks me to no end, is that even after the monumental success we've seen with R rated films, studies remain fixed on this asinine belief that they're not a tangible recipe for box-office success. I understand that a single film may potentially have a lower return as it's available to a smaller portion of the public, but if the movie doesn't suck, that opens up possibilities for sequels + merchandising, which yields more in the long-term. These short-sighted bastards just care about the quick buck, so they'll churn out the same generic PG-13 movie that we've seen 10 dozen times already.

Look at what we've gotten with R rated comic/superhero films (Movie, Budget, Gross and I did round for a lot of these)

Logan / 100M / 620M
Watchmen / 120M / 185M
V for Vendetta / 50M / 130M
Deadpool / 60M / 780M
Deadpool 2 / 110M / 780M
Suicide Squad / 175M / 745M
Dredd / 45M / 41M
Kingsman / 81M / 415M
Kingsman 2 / 105M / 410M
Sin City / 40M / 160M

Outside two of these films (Watchment+Dredd), these movies were undeniable box-office hits, proving R rated films have the capability to be profitable. Let's be fair here, Watchmen was fucking phenomenal, but it came out 5-10 years too early. If they released that masterpiece today, it would have killed at the box-office. As someone who loves the graphic novel, they did an excellent job adapting it for the screen, and the casting (especially Comedian) was superb. Hard to say what went wrong with Dredd, I know lack of advertising was a big part of it, I honestly didn't know about that fucking movie until I saw it at Redbox. It was a surprisingly great film, Urban absolutely killed it, and it was a solid 7/10 or 7.5/10 action flick.

It's not surprising to me at all that Deadpool + Suicide, easily the weakest films in the list, were the most profitable. They're enjoyable for what they are, but hopefully we see more R rated films like Logan, and less trying way too hard shit like those.

Even though it isn't a film, you can add The Boys to that list. It's very R-rated and has been a smash hit for Amazon.

The Boys is television gold. I think I mentioned this before, but after binging the entire first season in a day and a half, I went and bought the entire comic series and burnt through those in a couple days lol. I am soooo fucking hyped for S3.

Honestly, as much as people complain about movies/shows being ruined these days by PC culture or w/e else nonsense buzz word they're on, we're in the golden age of entertainment.

It's on a yearly, or bi-yearly at worst, that a new awe inspiring show pops up out of nowhere. Whether the Wire, GoT, True Detective, The Boys, Bojack Horseman, or on and on and on man, it's just so fucking good.

It still makes me sad that dredd didn’t generate more money; good movie and Karl urban is the perfect lead for it

The marketing was so bad and forcing 3D where a lot of theatres didn't have the capabilities cut their intake quite a bit. Very rarely do we see box office bombs that reach critical success like that.

Mega City One needs to hurry up.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Aug 5 2021 08:50pm

I have very low expections for this movie. I was pretty hyped for the first one, as venom was one of my childhood favorites & who doesn’t like Tom Hardy ?

They somehow still managed to make a pretty disappointing movie