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'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' Is a Gay Love Story and I'm Here for It
Venom: Allow There Be Carnage is the sequel to the clip Venom. This sequel’s synopsis may tell it’s about the new symbiote Carnage, but this film is really about love. It’s about the love between two insane killers, and the adore between an alien symbiote and a human man. And I think that’s beautiful. Spoilers ahead for Venom: Authorize There Be Carnage.
Eddie and Venom
Eddie and Venom’s relationship is the heart of this movie. They begin as roommates who have been living together for too long. Favor an old married couple, they’ve grown annoyed with each other and are constantly bickering. It even gets abusive. They fight physically at one signal, trying to injure each other in ways they perceive the other would suffer from most. Venom wrecks Eddie’s apartment and leaves. At first, the two couldn’t be happier to be apart. Yet, they’ve grown codependent. Venom, particularly, misses Eddie (he is a symbiote who needs a host, after all). But first, they must discover who they are as individuals. Eddie returns t
Venom: The Last Dance Review: A franchises death Knull
It’s always weird as hell when a comedy series tries to end on a weepy, nostalgic notice, and it’s even stranger when it’s a series primarily focused around a gay romance between a nebbish journalist and his superpowered black-goo alien loved one. I don’t think one could ever really portray the Venom movies as “moving,” though they undertake have plenty of superlatives that one could toss at them: “unexpected delights,” “ferociously funny,” “proof that Tom Hardy is among the best working actors in Hollywood today.” It’s also an unexpectedly thriving franchise, done on the (relative) cheap by Sony, which spun gold out of a Spider-Man nature without ever acknowledging the wall-crawler’s influence. The first Venom was dunked on mercilessly prior to its release, but Hardy’s sheer commitment to the bit, assisted by genuinely reliable writing and a sturdy supporting cast, turned it into an endearing curio, which was full of the very things that made it a laughing stock (Hardy’s weird accent, the hints of lgbtq+ subtext, the Em
the big gay history of venom
justtt the whole thing. focusing on queer themes and matters of morality, because it turns out those things are beautiful intertwined. explaining the major characterisation split that makes it damn near unworkable to think of venom canon as one cohesive whole.
part 1: where execute the the gays fetch off, anyway, sinking their sexy little claws so deep into venom?
good news! venom is queer at the conceptual level.
and we owe it all to: symbiotes.
the birds and bees, symbiote-style
first of all, the only two truth about symbiotes that own remained untouched by retcons and rereretcons over the years are these:
- they are aliens.
- they reproduce asexually.
this means that symbiotes operate outside of the concepts of sex and gender. human standards do not use to them. they’ve got no frame of reference.
so, when we do show a symbiote to our cultural context - by, in-universe, bringing it to earth, or, on a meta level, it existence written for humans, by humans - there’s always, always something rife with queer appeal going on.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage has come out to the boos of critics and the applause of the general public. The Playlist’s Rodrigo Perez described it as a noisy, anarchic CGI-laden weaboo porn tentacle fest. His negative sentiments were not mutual by the numerous queer Venom fans on TikTok who were delighted that the Venom films reflected the queer chaos of the comics. Critics have continued to slam the film, citing valid critiques such as the overuse of CGI while ignoring the actual history of Venom comics and often misunderstanding the goal of this film.
Because this Venom sequel is not an amazing film, nor does it pretend to be one. The opening sequences of the movie are awkwardly paced, the brawl scenes aren’t overly creative, and the dialogue sounds almost surreal at times, and yet the film is still enjoyable. Venom: Let There Be Carnage has accrued an 80% rating score from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes (contrasting with the 60% given by critics) and is existence praised by comic fans on social media.
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