{"id":835025,"date":"2021-10-01T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835025"},"modified":"2021-10-01T11:59:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:59:15","slug":"review-venom-let-there-be-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-venom-let-there-be-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: \u2018Venom: Let There Be Carnage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freview-venom-let-there-be-carnage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=835025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.899408284024\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/\">Culture<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">If Neil Simon had worked for Marvel, this is what might have resulted<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-736x407-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-e1633099835616.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-300x166.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-1024x567.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-768x425.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-1536x850.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image3-1400x775.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/john-podhoretz\/\" title=\"Posts by John Podhoretz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">John Podhoretz<\/a> \u2022 October 1, 2021 11:50 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"96.666490346469\">\n<p><i><span>Venom: Let There Be Carnage<\/span><\/i><span> is like the second-season premiere of a Neil Simon buddy-clash TV sitcom in the guise of a comic-book-superhero-monster movie. You can hear the intro to the show in your head: Can two beings, one an intergalactic sociopath with magical powers and the other a hangdog Internet journalist, share a body without driving each other crazy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first <\/span><i><span>Venom <\/span><\/i><span>told the story of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), who ends up with the creature Venom living inside him and whose hunger for human brains and general destruction he must figure out some way to contain. This is a Marvel Comics situation, I gather, related in some way to Spider-Man. (I will forbear insulting comic books at this point, as some of my best friends like them.) It was not good at all\u2014it was mostly a bad non-musical version of the <\/span><i><span>Little Shop of Horrors<\/span><\/i><span> musical\u2014but it made a lot of money at the box office. As the second <\/span><i><span>Venom <\/span><\/i><span>begins, Eddie and Venom are pretty much just hanging out together, shooting the breeze, with Venom alternately insulting Eddie and advising him on his work and romantic life and Eddie taking the alien\u2019s ribbing with irritated resignation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I have to say that this time the Eddie-Venom dynamic is surprisingly funny. Tom Hardy is a wildly charismatic and amusing performer when he\u2019s not overly mannered. And the sequel doesn\u2019t bother to rehearse the plot points from the original, explaining the workings of the symbiotic relationship between Eddie and the oil-spill-looking demon that occasionally overtakes his physical form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So they\u2019re friends now, and somehow Venom has basically become a nice guy. He likes Eddie\u2019s ex-girlfriend and doesn\u2019t even want to eat her fianc\u00e9. But there has to be trouble in paradise, of course. So for unclear reasons, they fight, and Venom vacates Eddie\u2019s body in a huff. So then they\u2019re broken up and they\u2019re both liberated and also sad. Venom wanders around during a Halloween parade and feels liberated to be himself. Eddie gets a new TV because Venom broke his during a tantrum. It\u2019s surprisingly diverting, and well-staged by its director, the peerless motion-capture actor Andy Serkis (who was Gollum in <\/span><i><span>The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span> movies and the lead ape in the most recent <\/span><i><span>Planet of the Apes <\/span><\/i><span>trilogy).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alas, a movie has to have a plot, and I regret to say this picture has a shockingly lousy one. It involves a serial killer who ends up with a Venom-like creature inside of him. It emerges in the midst of his execution by lethal injection (in San Francisco, no less, where in real life a serial killer might well be elected the local district attorney). Woody Harrelson plays the serial killer, and while he can be a wonderful actor\u2014and is the actual son of an actual contract killer, no less\u2014his character seems less like a macabre and terrifying villain and more like a poor guy who has been driven mad because the world has forced him into a haircut that\u2019s half-Shemp, half-rockabilly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Woody reunites with his long lost love, a mutant with screaming powers played by Naomie Harris, who has never known a part she couldn\u2019t turn into a horrifying display of overacting. I\u2019d guess she\u2019s another Marvel character and that therefore her presence will delight fanboys, but her place in this particular story makes absolutely no sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But then, the story makes absolutely no sense. Apparently Woody Harrelson\u2019s monster is stronger than Eddie\u2019s monster, even though Eddie\u2019s monster is somehow Woody Harrelson\u2019s monster\u2019s father. But I don\u2019t even know why I bother. Let\u2019s put it simply: If you don\u2019t like creatures with long, wet tongues, you should avoid <\/span><i><span>Venom: There Will Be Carnage.<\/span><\/i><span> If you have a hankering to see <\/span><i><span>The Odd Couple: Endgame<\/span><\/i><span>, buy a ticket.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture If Neil Simon had worked for Marvel, this is what might have resulted  John Podhoretz \u2022 October 1, 2021 11:50 am Venom: Let There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}