I bought it on 4k Blu ray, and it has to be one of the worst comic book movies I've seen in ages. If you enjoyed it, that's cool but I don't take user or critic reviews as gospel, I watch or play things for myself and make my own decisions.

That scene when Eddie is standing on the golden gate bridge looking at the Life labs building? Mighty fine sound stage he was standing on, that movie had more issues than I can count. From the pretty lame buddy comedy that Venom and Eddie build rather suddenly and the ending that was not only abrupt but pretty anti climactic and don't even get me started on the kinda low budget look of a lot of the special fx and the movie just not having enough Venom. I want to see VENOM not Eddie Brock with goo arm powers.

You really think I care about social issues with a comic book movie? Based on quality alone I'd watch Black Panther 500 times versus watching Venom another single time. Maybe if they just let it have an R rating, and hadn't cut the movie into a shell of what it was supposed to be then we wouldn't be having this exchange.

Black Panther was severely over-rated imo. I thought it was average at best.
Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2 and Thor Ragnarok are the 3 greatest superhero movies imo.

I loved Venom. AAA or not, that movie was fantastic. (And no Rotten Tomatoes scores. There is nothing more worthless than a Rotten Tomato score)

SuperSonic is right. The real problem is that Star Wars Games used to have a large pool of talent that LucasArts was able to choose from. Now it’s all in house developers for EA, and that’s it.

You're right. Venom was incredibly mediocre. The only portion of the movie where there was an entertaining bond between Eddie and Venom was the last 5 minutes (used extensively in the trailers) and the after-credits scene is so hastily put together that I actually burst out laughing.

For those using the audience RottenTomatoes score as proof, the most accurate audience score (morons can't vote multiple times) is CinemaScore where Black Panther for example scored an A+ and Venom scored a B+. By CinemaScore standards, Venom was an alright but forgettable movie. Sorry, guys.

Regardless, audience scores aren't particuarly great at reflecting movie quality. Most of Transformers movies have gotten As from audiences and they're mostly shite.

Critics only care about pushing a political agenda nowadays. Want proof? Black Panther is nominated for best picture... Black Panther.... I'll let that sink in. A movie that even the biggest Marvel fanboys say was just okay.. California and Holywood no longer care about making great art, just pushing agenda after agenda after agenda. It's honestly sickening.

I was going to watch this new netflix original made by dreamworks (can't remember the name) but the basis was there are these aliens running from their world and the land on Earth, this AI tells them it's going to disguise them. It says it's going to make them into people eveyone completely ignores, a Woman and a Latino. (This was in the trailer for the show) the second I saw that I went and dropped a quick dislike and moved on.

Then that new Sabrina show on netflix, the very first episode is about the football player abusing his "white privelage" went and dropped a dislike and never moved back, Netflix is filling up with propaganda, and if they keep it going i'm cancelling my subscription.

Letting EA make them is probably worse than that.

Honestly if it has to go exclusive (like Spiderman) to be any good I'm all for it.

Disney approached Sony to give the Marvel properties the AAA treatment thus saving the Spidey game franchise from mediocrity and made it a " force" to be reckoned with.

Spider-Man sold just as much, or maybe more by now, than the last Star wars game, which released on multiple platforms.

While I don't agree with restricting the franchise to one platform, it doesn't mean that it's a terrible thing for sales, and people will go where the games are. Spider-man was a different scenario from what's being discussed here, but a Star Wars game created with the same love that Insomniac put into SM, with a top-tier team from Sony, would probably break records for sales.

I don't think it would happen, but you have to ask yourself this. Would you prefer a half-assed mediocre Star Wars game years from now since EA has none in production except probably the next BF game, or a top tier, AAA game on the level of Sony's exclusives years from now, but you'll have to buy a PS to play it?

I'd choose the latter, and it's not just because I will have a PS5 anyhow. It's because I know the game would likely be spectacular, and better than anything EA could manage to churn out....assuming they just didn't cancel it again. I mean, they've cancelled two SW games since getting the franchise. SW is a franchise which pretty much lends itself to being easy to make a game for. All one needs is talent, and a half decent story.

@rainslacker: read and learn something.
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adults need to stop placing their bias onto kids.
this is the reason Lucas retired. he got tired of telling adults that want to recapture their childhood through their love with star wars, and now want it to be like when they were children...... never going to happen.

grow up

@rainslacker: "They're free to like it, without having to worry about us ruining it, because as they grow older, and understand things better, they'll see the many flaws that exist."

and should we count all the flaws in the original trilogy?
I mean, you can't be serious? that's the point I'm making. when you're young you go without bias and analytical thinking. as a kid you fall into the world and enjoy the ride.
tell a kid he's stupid for playing with a big box, and how you don't understand why they like such things.

I said they're free to like it, but as I got older, i started noticing the flaws of the original trilogy, and I could write pages on the flaws of the prequels. I could do the same for the new movies.

But what adults are really going around ruining this for kids? The kids like it, that's great, but even in the reviews, the kids are saying its flawed. They're saying it's flashy and has lots of action. It's a popcorn flick.

But what I also see in all those kids reviews is that they're saying it has a good story. At least a lot of them are.

I don't know if this is just an issue of kids not really recognizing good story, or if this is just good by their standards. The latter seems more plausible, because based on most stuff I seen made for kids nowadays, it's all pretty lacking. Even disney and Pixar stuff is dumbed down compared to 20 years ago.

Lucas, for all his faults, could tell a good story. He was also good at staging a direction. His biggest fault was in his ability to write dialogue, and direct people. But beyond that, he was fine, and the original trilogy grew into a timeless classic because it held true to established themes, and had characters people could relate to.

These new movies don't tell a good story. It's quick one liners with mostly immediate resolutions. False drama to build up the inevitable. No natural exchanges or narrative discourse. No surprises, no twists, and everything ends in essentially a Deus Ex Machinima fashion, or you have characters who just manage to overcome their struggles with no effort. Even the prequels weren't like that, outside of predictability that came mostly because of pandering, despite how horribly written and structured they were.

I'm fine if kids now want to like it, but it doesn't change that as they grow older, their opinion is going to change. That's what happens when you get older. If it doesn't happen, then God help us all, because it means standards are just continuing downward.

I think the new movies are good popcorn flicks. For that, I have no problem with them. but as Star Wars films, they aren't that good, even for a series that was never a grand masterpiece of story telling to begin with. Yes, as a kid you go in without bias, but the thing about kids, is as you say, they don't look at it analytically. because they don't, their actual views on the movie have nothing to do with the movies quality, rather, if they were entertained. I was entertained by the films, but I don't think they were that good. That shouldn't change a kids opinion on it, anymore than that kids opinion on it would change mine.

Or get a sense of humour. Also if people enjoy the movies thats great, im just commenting on how I felt about them, im not trying to convert anyone, just exercising my right to free speech. If disney need to fix star was, it must be broken.

@rainslacker: "But what adults are really going around ruining this for kids? The kids like it, that's great, but even in the reviews, the kids are saying its flawed."

Kids come to these sites and read, they read comments on youtube as well as watch all the grown manchildren crying in videos.

a couple of kids give it a 2 or 3 out of 5, most likely because their parents were crying about t in the car.the average is 4 of 5 - 80%. 133 reviews.

stop reaching, you're wrong.

It’s funny how easily people tend to forget the great games BioWare developed.

Tell me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Bioware already have an open world star wars game?

the old Bioware is long gone

@sampsonon: KOTOR had some very basic open world elements in as far as choosing locations. But it was not an open world game. It would fit in an open world game so perfectly though, I hope they make another one. One of the greatest games of all time in my view.

Old Bioware you mean. Before the Dark Times. Before EA.

#godmars: Bioware is still amazing. Dragon Age Inquisition is an awesome Open World game. Using that same gameplay system in a Star Wars universe would be incredible I feel.