3rd February, 2019.
OK …
It’s just gone half past ten, if you must know.
And I am feeling decidedly annoyed at myself.
For putting my phone in the wrong place.
And not catching it in time: as it got knocked, gently slid off my desk … and landed face down on a floorboard.
You can possibly guess what I found when I picked it up, can’t you?
Yep.
£200 worth of octa-core phone … with a smashed screen.
I am — with some excuse — not a happy bunny.
But one who can, at least, head into town, tomorrow, to see if his meagre savings will get the screen replaced.
~≈§≈~
Right now, though, I’ve just seen a movie: having got back from my family’s place on the other side of town.
Vaguely thinking that I should, at least, try and spend more time with my nephew.
He’s now eight … and, I think, getting a taste for silly voices …
As you’ve possibly noticed from the introductory video.
A bit more time with Jude’s a good way — I’ve found — of putting a smile on a a face.
And certainly got me heading home in a better mood than when I went out.
At least … certainly in the mood for a movie …
You’re right: it’s the one in the poster.
The 2018 release that is … …
~≈§≈~
Venom opens … with a space ship crashing into the hinterlands of Malaysia. With its owners — mega-corporation, the Life Foundation — managing to pick up its crew …
And the cargo: three of the four samples of an alien life form discovered on a passing comet.
Some six months later?
Those three symbiotes have been held by the Foundation: headed by Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), who is determined to use them as a way for humanity to survive in space.
Meanwhile, reporter, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is down on his luck: after asking some somewhat awkward questions of Drake …
Until … ?
One of the scientist at the Life foundation gets in touch with him.
Doctor Skirth (Jenny Slate) … ?
Has some serious ethical issues about what the Foundation’s doing: and offers to show Eddie, very quietly, what she means.
Very quietly.
After all, breaking and entering into labs?
Can get you into trouble …
~≈§≈~
Now, I have to admit to NOT being a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
There are, after all, quite a few entries in the franchise.
That amount of churned out output is something I find off-putting.
However, a couple of the stand-alone entries in the franchise have managed to catch my eye, to date: the original Deadpool, and Black Panther.
In part? In part, I think, because they have little connections to the rest of the franchise.
We don’t need to have seen tons of the series to know who this is, what that does.
Venom, like Deadpool, and Black Panther, is equally stand-alone, and another fantastic blockbuster movie.
The effects, great.
The writing, solid.
The acting?
Superb.
I have to give Tom Hardy credit for a well done American accent: although I don’t know if any of my regular American readers will agree.
Either way?
If you want a very good blockbuster?
Go watch Venom
Venom★★★☆
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