{"id":8410,"date":"2020-08-29T20:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2020-09-07T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T10:16:24","slug":"venom-spider-man-far-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/venom-spider-man-far-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Venom & SPIDER-MAN: Far From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2018 Venom movie<\/a> is a reboot of the character which draws inspiration from the Planet of the Symbiotes<\/a> comic plotline, which makes it a little strange that people were surprised it came across like a love story; it was<\/em> a love story. Overall I think this focuses a little too much on being goofy and would’ve been better if Brock had more agency instead of basically being piloted by the symbiote for much of the runtime. The visual effects are solid though and I’m now cautiously optimistic for the upcoming Maximum Carnage adaptation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second of the Marvel co-produced Spider-Man<\/a> films, Far From Home<\/a>, acts as a postscript to Endgame<\/a> (which is mainly why I watched it, having been ambivalent about Homecoming<\/a>) in addition to advancing its own ongoing relationship plotline. It has pretty much all the same pros\/cons as its prequel (impressive visuals; Parker’s still in school) and will probably end up better if you aren’t<\/em> familiar with the featured villain ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2018 Venom movie is a reboot of the character which draws inspiration from the Planet of the Symbiotes comic plotline, which makes it a little strange that people were surprised it came across like a love story; it was a love story. Overall I think this focuses a little too much on being goofy and would’ve been better if Brock had more agency instead of basically being piloted by the symbiote for much of the runtime. The visual effects are solid though and I’m now cautiously optimistic for the upcoming Maximum Carnage adaptation. The second of the Marvel co-produced Spider-Man films, Far From Home, acts as a postscript to Endgame (which is mainly why I watched it, having been ambivalent about Homecoming) in addition to advancing its own ongoing relationship plotline. It has pretty much all the same pros\/cons as its prequel (impressive visuals; Parker’s still in school) and will probably end up better if you aren’t familiar with the featured villain ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[172,180,174,439,423,192,29,183,62],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-dramatic-support","tag-marvel-comics","tag-movie","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-school-life","tag-science-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}