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Gonna be that guy... That is not irony. That is coincidence. I'm eternally amazed at how often I see even people with a Master's in English screw up using the word "ironic." I learned my lesson after Alanis Morrisette repeatedly screw up irony in her song "Ironic." Screwing up the usage of that word in a song named after the word is the epitome of irony.

That's how Venom looks. You may have also noticed his teeth, tongue, and eyes look crazy big and that he's 8 feet tall.

That's how Venom looks. You may have also noticed his teeth, tongue, and eyes look crazy big and that he's 8 feet tall.

I watch all my shows on my phone now, but I prefer to watch Netflix originals at home because they usually do them all in 4K. I have almost no free time at home--which is why I watch everything on the go on my phone--so it'll probably take me a few weeks to get through this. It's good so far, glad to hear it only gets better.

It takes a while to get through these every-episode-at-once thirteen episode series that Netflix dumps on us. I shouldn't even be reading this thread at all since someone may post a spoiler any moment now and I'm only through episode three, but I'm choosing to live dangerously. There are already a few posts with minor spoilers, none that are all that ruinous yet though.

That's a generous offer, thanks!!! Sure, I'll take it, I think he'll love it. I'll PM shipping info and I'll cover that cost.

What platform did you use to watch it on 4K from Amazon? I've found it to be a confusing maze of surprisingly steep technical hurdles to actually watch anything in 4K via streaming from either Netflix or Amazon. I can't do it at all from my computer, only from my XBox.

I'm still re-emerging into the world of action figures via my son, and this week I bought him the new Marvel Legends Wolverine figure. I'm mostly loving it, but I hadn't thought before about how challenging the claws are. Can you even make a Wolverine figure with excellent claws that a kid won't break off or hurt themselves with? This figure deals with that by making the claws easy to remove, but along with that I can't give them to my kid until he turns 7 or so since he'll lose them within days given how easy they are to fall off during rough play. But luckily this figure comes with a spare set of hands with no claws, and that's what my son got until he's not playing with toys like my dog plays with bones. Really nice figure. I don't think it's as good as the RevolTech Wolverine, but it's still a wonderful figure that looks great.

More alleged concept art for Scorpion.

Coming out this Friday!

The original is a "good-bad" movie, i.e. a movie with a bizarre mix of markedly dumb elements that's mixed with markedly good elements. In general I enjoyed it and look fondly upon it. I also re-watched it at least half a dozen times on cable in the 1990s. I also liked the Ramones title track enough to grab a copy that I listen to periodically. Trailer was fine but nothing about it struck me as clearly better. I like John Lithgow, but not as much as Fred Gwynne. The scene with the emaciated sister ALWAYS creeped me out no matter how many times I saw it, and the final scene where he's kissing his mutilated wife just seemed so absurd that it was funny.

They really look like crud on those smartphone videos people take them with though. I re-watched the first post-credits scene on YouTube when I got home last night and could barely see it.

Given that China has been the largest foreign market for the last three Spider-Man films and Civil War, you'd think Venom would follow the same pattern and again be their most lucrative foreign market.

I own but never read Spidey 361-363, gotta read it now!

NOTE: no spoilers here except in tags. The main post-credits scene comes quickly and you'll definitely want to see it if you're a Venom or Spidey fan, but you may not want to wait for the second one that comes after almost 10 minutes of credits because it has nothing whatsoever to do with Venom, it's an ad for something else that is only tangentially related to Venom. What it's an ad for I will put in spoilers:

Just got back. Friggin' loved it. As a hardcore Spidey and Venom fan, this was the Venom I wanted to see. Super-powerful, extremely imaginative, just a freaking awesome depiction of the character. But as has always been the case I can see why he doesn't appeal to most people, but I don't care, I freaking love him, and I love this depiction as much as or more as any from the comics.

Rotten Tomatoes does that too, it's just not the main score they show. Right under the "tomatometer" score it shows "Average Rating" and that's the equivalent to the Metacritic score, only instead of showing it on a scale of 1 to 100 it shows it on a scale of 1 to 10 with a single decimal place being used. Metacritic has the average at 36 right now and Rotten Tomatoes has their average at 4.6/10 right now.

Wow, have I forgotten a post or is it now-unanimous praise in the thread so far for Venom? Given that he's my favorite Spidey villain by far and I'm heavily biased towards him, now I'm really looking forward to it.

Comparing this movie to Suicide Squad will keep me away from seeing this at the cinema, I thought SS was a complete turd. I thought the same thing, although I'm going to see Venom today. All the Suicide Squad comparisons suddenly have me nervous again. I so wanted Suicide Squad to be good, too. All I need for Venom to be good is great action and cool symbiote effects, so I'm expecting to love it. But a huge part of me has been hoping the box office tanked to inspire Sony to give this to Marvel so the next iteration is much better. The movie doing this well may extend Sony's curation of Spider-Man longer than I'd prefer.

It isn't Eddie's tongue or teeth at all, all of that stuff on his face is the symbiote. The trailer did a great job of letting you watch the symbiote form those features overlaid on top of Brock's face.

Did it look that way to you in the trailers? I get what you're talking about--I thought something similar about Hulk in the 2003 Hulk film--but I didn't notice that in the Venom trailers.

I was thinking more about early in a film's release versus a film like Crazy Rich Asians that has been out for a while. On the first few days of release you can assume that diehard fans of existing properties will comprise the majority of votes, but a few weeks after release people who had no exposure to Venom will have their votes mixed in too.

I'm not sure how Rotten Tomatoes allows voting on that--are we sure those votes are from people who've seen the film?

It’s not bizarre, he is too shiny. You're going to have to go into more detail for others to understand it. He's been shiny since his very first appearance and he's as shiny as the black oil that his general design appears to be inspired by.