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Sony Spider-Verse discussion thread

It's pretty easy to understand.

Phase 1: Venom is a massive success. Twice.
Phase 2: What other anti-heroes/villains we can make into anti-heroes do we have?
Phase 3: Profit.

Sorry...

Phase 3: #itsmorbintime
I hate how right you are about that.

I had the same issues with Venom as I do with Kraven (also, I can't stand Venom), so I worry whatever dreck Sony comes up with will make just enough money to encourage them to keep going forward with this shit.
 
Venom made money while being a terrible movie (two terrible movies, now), but that can't sustain Sony's non-MCU Spider films forever. Morbius is probably considered at least a big disappointment, and I doubt that Kraven will do as well as Venom, since Venom at least had more mainstream appeal to prop itself up on.

Anyway, hopefully Kraven will not be another surprise money maker off a terrible movie, and Sony actually has to change up their strategy. Morbius seems to have burned them a bit, they probably just need one more under performance, or outright failure, to at least change their game plan.
 
This really isn't a new plan that Sony came up with because Venom worked, though. This is what Sony has wanted ever since they forced Venom into the third Raimi film. It's why the Amazing SM films were forced to set up a hypothetical future Sinister Six movie.

Whereever this obsession comes from, they've already stuck with it even after it ruined their classic SM movie series and ruined their reboot SM movie series and became one of the most pathetic memes of the 21st century with Morbius. It may take a lot more than just one more failure for them to finally admit they need different ideas.
 
If you're trying to slam Sony, using a proven clickbait site (even with an article that quotes a legitimate journalistic source like Variety) to do so isn't really the best choice
Yes, but given said cited reputable source, what's your actual opinion on what's being discussed?
 
The first Venom movie is basically an American take on the basic plot of "The Guyver" and the 2nd one is just garbage.
 
Then that's why you're still on Sony's side. :lol:

Kraven being characterized as both a hunter and a conservationist doesn't bother me because I'm willing to let stories be adapted or told however the people adapting or telling them want to do so.

Whether or not I've seen the two Venom movies and Morbius is irrelevant to that stance.
 
Kraven being characterized as both a hunter and a conservationist doesn't bother me because I'm willing to let stories be adapted or told however the people adapting or telling them want to do so.

This is just the start. Changing a detail doesn't make a bad movie. You'll see. Making a bad movie makes a bad movie. That's just one of the many ingredients in creating this disaster cake. History is showing us the way.
 
This is just the start. Changing a detail doesn't make a bad movie. You'll see. Making a bad movie makes a bad movie. That's just one of the many ingredients in creating this disaster cake. History is showing us the way.

"Bad is a point of view, Anakin".

There is no universal standard for determining the quality of film or television, nor should there be.
 
Why do they keep doing this? Kraven is a villain, keep him a villain, or at least an anti-hero.

The really messed up thing is, if Sony wants spider-man related superheroes, they can have them. Maybe instead of trying to fit an obvious villain in as a hero, they could try using: Scarlet Spider (any of them), Spider-Girl (any of them), Spider-Woman (any of them), Spider-Gwen, any alternate Spider-Man, Phil Urich Green Goblin, Agent Venom, Silk, Hornet/Dusk/Prodigy/Ricochet (some of Spider-Man's temperary alter egos that were eventually given to other people), etc. those are just the ones that immediately come to mind, and that I'm pretty sure Sony probably has the rights to. Plus, as has been said before, even the duo of Black cat/Silver Sable makes sense as a more heroic movie compared to just the outright villains that Sony is trying to twist.

I hope this movie bombs even more then Morbius. At least the character of Morbius in the comics is usually a tragic figure, you can twist that to anti-hero easily enough. Kraven is supposed to be a complete bastard, and being a trophy hunting a-hole is literally the core of his character. It definitely makes him completely unsympathetic, which is the point because he's a murderous villain.

This whole thing really does feel like a parody of a bad early 2000s comicbook movie.
Yeah, I've never understood Sony's obsession with Spider-Man's villains. There are tons of supporting heroes they could go with, but instead they just keep going to the villains and trying making them heroes, a lot of whom don't really work as anything but villains, and don't really make sense without Spider-Man
Characterizing Kraven as both a hunter and conservationist is fine with me.
You can't be a hunter and a conservationist, it's a complete contradiction. You can't claim you love and want to protect something, and then go around killing it.
And in relation to Kraven, it just goes completely against what the character is supposed to be. The whole point of the character is that he's a brutal, ruthless hunter, and trying to turn into an animal lover and "protector of the natural world" completely misses the point.
My favorite is when a child is born and is seen once or twice and suddenly it is a teenager. My aunt loved to watch "her stories" and you didn't visit her or call her at those times.
They actually did this this season on The Connors, Becky's daughter went from being a baby who could barely roll over on her own, to being about 5 or 6 in between episodes, but there was no time jump.
 
You can't be a hunter and a conservationist, it's a complete contradiction. You can't claim you love and want to protect something, and then go around killing it.

And in relation to Kraven, it just goes completely against what the character is supposed to be. The whole point of the character is that he's a brutal, ruthless hunter, and trying to turn into an animal lover and "protector of the natural world" completely misses the point.

Absolutely wrong. There are many responsible hunters who are also conservationists. Just because they track and kill game animals doesn't mean they aren't concerned with the ecosystem's well-being or aren't interested in conservation. In fact at least in some parts of the US there's a need for hunters to control the population of deer, for example.

Do you think every person that's ever hunted throughout history didn't care about the wild?

Now, big game hunting or trophy hunting, like the kind Kraven is usually shown to be... yeah they're generally not conservationists or interested in conservation. It's a very... unique take and I don't know how it's supposed to work.
 
Now, big game hunting or trophy hunting, like the kind Kraven is usually shown to be... yeah they're generally not conservationists or interested in conservation. It's a very... unique take and I don't know how it's supposed to work.

Theodore Roosevelt was famous as both a big game hunter and a conservationist. It is possible. After all, you can't keep hunting if all your prey animals die out.

Although I agree that an ethical and measured approach to hunting seems out of character for Sergei Kravinov, a guy who thinks it's okay to hunt and kill human beings purely for his own entertainment and pride. Although IIRC, we did get a more antiheroic, redeemable version of Kraven in the '90s animated series.
 
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