Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Venom (2018)

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-06-2018, 11:04 PM:

Well this is a contender for the noisiest movie of the fall season, I'll give it that.

It also has the most ridiculous credits sequence in superhero-movie history.

It has the "featured" credits - about 3 minutes
Then a mid-credits scene - about 1:40
Then the crawl credits - another 12:00
Then a 3-minute excerpt (not really a trailer) for the upcoming animated Spiderman movie (3 minutes)
Followed by some more credits for about half a minute.

All adding up to TWENTY MINUTES of credits + bullshit. It's as bad as that Glen Campbell classic, "Rock A Doodle," which also had insanely-long credits.

Oh, the movie? Eh. It's a "dark" Marvel flick, which is about all you need to know, or at least that's all I need to know.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 10-07-2018, 09:26 PM:

I sat and watched this movie again today with my wife and a group of friends. I have to admit I enjoyed it more the second time. It's still never going to make my "buy the blu-ray" list but I thought it was above average for a Marvel flick -- probably because it has a small cast and you don't have to have seen 7 other movies to follow it.

I'll give it 2.5 out of four stars. Might have been 3 except that credit sequence is incredibly annoying.

Posted by Dave Bird (Member # 490) on 10-08-2018, 07:47 AM:

I miss movies up to and including the 70's for using Opening Credits + "The End".

I also miss film in this case, for obvious reasons. Those credits are ridiculous.

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 10-26-2018, 08:24 PM:

CINEMA: Regal Warren East 20, Wichita, KS
AUDITORIUM: 17
PRESENTATION: Regal Roller Coaster Vision in a standard stadium seating auditorium
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None [Cool]

RATING: Three stars (out of four)

THE PLOT: A corrupt pharmaceutical company...oh, wait, they're all corrupt. Wackiness ensues.

I was pleasantly surprised by this. It was way more fun than I had been led to believe. Not quite on the level of "Ant-Man" but kind of in that direction. And it didn't overstay its welcome.

I didn't have an issue with the credits because I got up and left when they started. YOU CAN DO THAT, you know. You can TOTALLY DO THAT.