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welcome to the moist meter today we're
taking a look at the new Venom movie Let
There Be Carnage with the first Venom
movie I was applauded for my bravery
cheered on in the comments section for
finally saying what people were afraid
to say when the movie came out that it
kind of [ __ ] sucked ass I didn't like
the first video movie that much I didn't
think it was great felt like I was
missing so many things and the final
product was just like a choppy mess
where it didn't really have a satisfying
story and a way of getting there my
biggest complaint was like Venom in his
relationship with Eddie Brock it just
feels like it just came out of nowhere
in one scene they hate each other
Venom's mad and then the next scene he's
like you know what I want to [ __ ]
save Humanity it's like well how did we
get there but setting aside my
criticisms of the first movie I think
the second movie is better I think it's
a goofy fun movie it doesn't take itself
too seriously at all but it's also
pretty redundant when compared to the
first movie because it kind of does the
same thing at the end of the first Venom
movie it's like we're gonna save the
world we're gonna eat bad guys we're
going to be a hero that's not afraid to
rip some [ __ ] heads off and in this
movie they come in and they're like
we're not ripping heads off you're in
timeout because Eddie Brock doesn't want
bad guys to get their heads eaten by
Venom so pretty much the entire movie is
just them bantering with each other and
granted it is enjoyable because I think
the writing's good and Tom Hardy's very
good so them joking around and getting
mad at each other and having these
arguments that you would expect a couple
to have is fun but when that's the
entire first hour of the movie like the
bulk of what's going on is just them not
seeing eye to eye on how bad guys should
be eaten and how they should be a hero
and how Eddie Brock just wants to be
left alone it's just kind of tiresome
because we've already kind of seen that
with the first movie I do love the
actual fight with Carnage I think at the
end of the movie when they fight it all
works really well it's a very satisfying
fight but everything leading up to there
I feel like they didn't know how to get
it to that point so they just threw in
what worked the first time for most
people which was the back and forth with
Eddie Brock and Venom and I will say
again I just don't think Venom movies
work at a PG-13 rating it like for
Carnage for example when Carnage is
going crazy he's [ __ ] killing
everyone and Cletus Cassidy when they're
killing everyone it's really cheapened
by the fact that they do it all like off
camera off screen so you don't really
see that you're not really like afraid
of them or really impressed with their
power it's like oh this guy he kicked
somebody and now we don't see that
person again it's like ah it's kind of
lame that's not exactly scary I I said
this in the first the first movie I
thought it was supposed to be R
initially because the first movie is so
chopped up that it feels like they cut
out everything that made it R and I also
feel that way about this movie it feels
at times that it's edited in a way to
hide scenes that were R-rated that they
took away at the last second I don't
think that's the case because the first
movie was PG-13 I imagine they planned
for this one to be the same rating but
it still does feel that way it's just
there's something about the move movie
like it just jumps around and it just
gets real silly and I'll not like it's
self-aware silliness just like huh this
is kind of dumb to give you an example
this is going a bit into spoiler
territory so spoiler warning for this at
the end of the movie with the fight with
Carnage uh Cassidy has his girlfriend
there and you don't care about his
girlfriend they don't really do anything
to flesh out this relationship or make
you as a viewer care it's pretty
underwhelming it's kind of dumb but it's
there because they thought it needed to
be there to have like a climactic final
showdown so it is what it is and his
girlfriend is very clearly a psychopath
just like Cassidy she's killing people
she encourages him to kill people she's
impressed when people are dying cars are
blowing up cops are being murdered she
loves it and then at the very end of the
movie it inexplicably or maybe I missed
it Carnage is about to hurt Eddie
Brock's most uh you know most important
person and she's like don't do this
Cassidy now you've gone too far you've
got to stop so then Carnage starts
strangling her he's like we're not
stopping and I'm gonna shut you up and
then Cassidy's like no that's my
girlfriend and then there's like this
you know this uh back and forth with
Carnage and Cassie like you can't hurt
her it's my girlfriend but she told us
to stop and she can Scream real loud
that's bad for us and it's like what the
[ __ ] is going on why was she even like
upset with Carnage and Cassidy in the
first place she was all on board for
killing complete strangers and now when
it's someone who's a little less of a
stranger someone she actively kidnaps
now it's a problem it's like what the
[ __ ] is going on so it's just really
again all over the place sometimes and
it just feels like it's missing crucial
shots and scenes okay now back from
spoilers the rest will be spoiler free
that was really the main one I wanted to
talk about I like I said I didn't I
didn't have like a bad time watching the
movie I I enjoyed it because I thought
the the goddamn [ __ ] eyelash in my
eye yeah like I said I did have fun
watching it because the writing was
strong with its banter since that was
the main bulk of the movie was just them
bantering and they at least did a good
job with that they even sent [ __ ]
Venom to a rave so it's very clear that
they're indulging in the silliness of
the movie but overall I don't think it's
like a great movie Cletus Cassidy I
think has played well by Woody Harrelson
but it's not a very good character they
don't do a great job with them they just
established he had a girlfriend that he
you know this girl that he really liked
when he was young and now he wants to
get back together with her and he's a
serial killer and they try and do that
thing with serial killers where they say
like the wackiest [ __ ] that's like super
deep but with Cassidy here they just
don't know how to write that it's like
you know you see like in like anime
where the villain has like these crazy
monologues that are all like really
profound and like wild well they try and
do that with Cassidy but it just doesn't
work so like when he's on death row he's
giving like his last speech and it's
just super goofy it's not like oh that
was scary ominous and yet profound it
was like he'll give a speech and it's
like hey Eddie you know when you flush a
toilet and the water goes down the pipes
that water's not coming back that's like
me on death row I'm water in a toilet
Eddie it's like it wasn't a very cool
villain monologue and it really wasn't
it's scary it was just kind of goofy so
I was pretty disappointing and again the
girlfriend isn't really a strong
character either they don't do much to
flush her out they just make her equally
a psychopath to Cletus Cassidy so that's
really all you get there from that
relationship so you as a viewer aren't
really going to care very much but like
I said the final fight with Venom vs
Carnage was satisfying I did enjoy it I
just wish leading up to there there was
more about the movie than just banter
there are some scenes of Carnage blowing
up police cars blowing up helicopters
and [ __ ] and and it's good like it's
it's still fun to watch I think Carnage
is a really cool character but it's
disappointing to have a character like
Carnage who's a all about [ __ ] murder
and blood in the streets and Gore and
[ __ ] like going crazy
to be a PG-13 movie where it just feels
like he's a super watered down version
of Carnage so he's not as intimidating
as you would expect him to be but that's
that's more nitpicky I I don't think
this movie was ever going to be R-rated
though I think it should have it's not
bad I want to make that clear I
definitely think this is better than the
first movie so I did enjoy it I didn't
have a bad time let's plug it into the
moist meter I'm giving Venom Let There
Be Carnage a 60
hopefully if they continue the Venom
franchise they can finally stop making
the majority of the movie Just Eddie
Brock and Venom bantering it is
enjoyable but I think doing it three
times in a row is like the main bulk of
the movie is going to be a bit much so
hopefully now we can just establish as
the lethal protector they're on the same
page now and going forward we can start
from that point instead of go backwards
so anyway that's about it see ya