A blog formerly known as Bookishness / By Charles Matthews

"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Venom: The Last Dance (Kelly Marcel, 2024)

Tom Hardy in Venom: The Last Dance
Cast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Clark Backo, Alanna Ubach, Carlos Fernández, Jared Abrahamson, Hala Finley, Dash McCloud, Andy Serkis. Screenplay: Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy. Cinematography: Fabian Wagner. Production design: Chris Lowe. Film editing: Mark Sanger. Music: Dan Deacon. 

Even though he has himself to blame, having co-produced and -written Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy deserves better than this noisy, messy farrago of special effects and wisecracks. So do we, though it's pretty clear from the ending and from the mid- and post-credits sequences that we've not seen the last of Eddie Brock and his symbiotic sidekick. Try better next time, Tom. 
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