Now that it’s available on Blu-ray, Ruben Fleischer’s Venom is once again a hot topic of discussion in the online film community, and character co-creator Todd McFarlane has even come to the film’s defense. The movie, despite being a big time box office hit, was savaged by many critics when it hit theaters, and McFarlane feels they got it all wrong.
“It was a big roller-coaster ride. Visually, everything was coming at you,” McFarlane told Yahoo this week. “I think at times… the critics get it wrong in that they forget their age. They come in, and they’re 42 years old, and they come in with their attitude and they’re going, ‘Stop it.’ What if you were 16/15 and you were watching this movie? You would love it.”
McFarlane continued, “This thing delivered everything it was supposed to. It was gnarly, it was nasty, it had a big cool Venom, which was what I was looking for. [That] was my bias — I just wanted to see the visualness of Venom that I had created 30 years prior. I didn’t think that Spider-Man 3 did that right.”
