Parasite in city sequel4/6/2024 ![]() From lobster tanks and investigative journalism to Woody Harrelson’s clown wig, this is the Venom Power Ranking. (The love affair has been going strong ever since.) Now, with Venom’s long-delayed sequel, Let There Be Carnage, finally arriving in theaters on Friday, there’s no better time to catalog all of the eccentricities that helped turn the original movie into an instant so-bad-it’s-good classic. Over the course of just 48 hours, I was prepared to forsake Jackson Maine because, much like Tom Hardy’s twitchy protagonist, I couldn’t get Venom out of my head. (And honestly? Pretty erotic, too more on that later.) Whether or not the film was in on the joke-that seemed to vary from scene to scene-in the hands of Hollywood’s resident oddball Tom Hardy, Venom was flat-out hilarious. While the trailers sold the movie as a generic superhero origin story, Venom was actually the world’s strangest romantic comedy, centered on a meet-cute (?) between a sweaty journalist and the alien parasite living inside of him who has an insatiable craving for human flesh, tater tots, and chocolate. But by going into Venom with a dismissive attitude and zero expectations, I fell right into its trap and was exposed as a LOSER. ![]()
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