By the time they all converged in a church, and Mozart started blasting, it was hard not to be won over by this movie’s commitment to, well, all this. If you think he’s going over the top, get a load of Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kassidy/Carnage, who almost makes Hardy’s performance look tame.
The sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, decided to commit to just one of those tones, and it chose bonkers.Īndy Serkis directed this gonzo sequel, and Hardy’s reign of craziness went to another level. We didn’t see the point of a Venom movie without Spider-Man in it, but then Tom Hardy came along and made some Choices with a capital “C.” The first Venom switched between being serious and being bonkers without ever getting the two discordant tones to shake hands. Using pop cultural impact and overall narrative quality as our main criteria (along with Editor’s Choice), here’s a definitive list of Marvel’s best (and worst) Hollywood adventures. It’s a deep bench of titles - 63 films - and some of them are great (think Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 and X2) and others, well, not so much. Under his reign, Marvel became Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe was born, making significant box-office and movie history along the way.Īs Eternals arrives in theaters, we’re celebrating its release by ranking every movie based on a Marvel comics property.
From their humble, direct-to-video beginnings (see 1989's The Punisher, starring Dolph Lundgren) to the release of director Chloé Zhao's Eternals, the latest blockbuster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have spent more than 30 years watching the exploits of their favorite comic book characters kick-punch their way off the page and onto the big screen with mixed results.īefore the MCU kicked off with Iron Man’s big-screen debut, Marvel often struggled with its identity, after initially licensing its characters to a slew of studios and creatives, who did whatever they wanted with them. That all changed, as fans know, thanks to Kevin Feige.
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