Bust Rodd posted:

Sandman’s inclusion was so distracting. Of all of Peter’s villains he feels the most contrived and OP, and I never feel like Peter beats him in a satisfying way that makes sense. Sandman functions more like a Swamp Thing level god then a villain. Even in a movie opposite Electro it just seems like Sandman could easily, effortlessly just destroy Manhattan and shred Spidey like mincemeat by become a razor-bladed sandstorm desert twister and every Sandman fight is just Spidey lasting until the plot macguffin works or functions and deactivates Sandman.

I liked Carnage fine as a “thank god I’m vaccinated and can enjoy a movie” sort of reward for surviving COVID but as both a fan of Carnage and a huge fan of the first Venom film it completely loving sucked and lacked stakes of any kind and just completely wasted Harrelson and Hardy. There was a way to make this script more about developing the relationship between Cassidy and Brock, make it more personal. Imagine a comedy-action-horror film in which Eddie & Venom are being chased through the city by a serial killer, who almost catches them, but Eddie escapes, but not without Cassidy getting getting impaled by Venom and becoming Carnage…

I’m not a screenwriter but I just don’t understand how you can make a Venom/Carnage movie where Venom & Carnage only interact for 5 minutes at the very end. Just an insanely weak script with nothing going on.