Todd McFarlane Defends Venom From Negative Reviews

In an interview with Yahoo, Todd McFarlane, who helped create Venom back in 1988, defended the recent 2018 movie from negative reviews from critics. Here are highlights:

On the negative reviews for Venom: “It was a big roller-coaster ride. Visually, everything was coming at you. 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 and you were watching this movie? You would love it.”

On enjoying the movie: “This thing delivered everything it was supposed to. It was gnarly, it was nasty, it has 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.”

On Spider-Man 3: “When the Topher Grace character turned into Venom, he didn’t really add a lot of weight. I intentionally made him bigger because I always wanted it to feel like Peter Parker/Spider-Man was going up against an elephant and there was no way he was ever going to push him over. So he was going to have to come up with another way to trip up the elephant, which was gonna be to use his brain instead of his brawn.”