Well folks it's less than two weeks away and I would say that the anxiety is killing me, but frankly I am not having any real emotions as Venom hits theaters next Friday. That being said Sony has started to amp up advertising over the past week. So far we have been hit with some promotional features and TV spots with some new footage. However, yesterday we got hit with our first clip of the movie and let's take a look at it below:
So the first thing that came to mind when I saw this was: "why?" Which honestly shouldn't come much as a surprise as I have found myself asking this question after pretty much every release this PR team has done for the film. The clip has fairly shotty dialogue accompanied by Tom Hardy overacting this part. While I get that they are trying to play Eddie up as this Michael Moore-esque conspiracy journalist, this whole interview just comes off as dumb. Usually you don't get handed a PR piece on a major corporation without going through some sort of vetting process to make sure you aren't there to destroy the subject of your piece. Honestly it feels choppy, especially toward the end when Drake tells Brock that "he's done." Eddie goes off the handle and starts to accuse the man of threatening him. It just feels so incredibly forced and uninspired. This brings me to my question of "why," which pertains particularly to this: if you were less than two weeks away from release, you have a box office projection of under 60 million for opening weekend, and your movie is supposed to be an action packed "antihero" film, why are you bothering with an exposition scene? No one cares about this. What little faith people have or had for this film was in action sequences. Why not release a more tame clip of Venom fighting off a bunch of goons, maybe tone down the violence for TV (oh wait I almost forgot you already had to tone it down since it's no longer rated R).
If this weren't enough of a red flag, it was also recently revealed that the film's review embargo would be lifted October 2nd, two days before the film hits theaters on the evening of the 4th, at 7:30pm PT or 10:30pm ET. This is NOT a good sign as usually this means that a studio has cause for concerns to allow those reviews to hit the web. It is to minimize damage to the film's image, so as to decrease the effect on box office numbers. Numbers which, as we have stated previously, are already projected to be VERY low.
Either way, we will see what critics are saying on the 2nd and Ill let you know what I thought of the movie as I will be seeing it on the 4th, opening night.
This has been another edition of Comic Relief! see you next time!
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