10 Big Questions From Venom's New Trailer
Will it be any good?
After premiering some new footage at their SDCC panel last weekend, Sony had remained tight-lipped on whether or not they would be releasing any new Venom footage to the public. Comic-Con came and went and as films like Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Aquaman, and Shazam! dominated the conversation, not a sound was heard from Sony.
Now, a full week-and-half later, Sony has unleashed a new Venom trailer on the world that appears to be a shortened version of the footage that was screened in Hall H. With the film now only two months away from release, this new trailer will probably be the last good look viewers get at the film prior to October 5.
But fittingly, it raises way more questions than it answers. Each progressive trailer for Venom has revealed increasingly more amounts of footage, plot, and effects shots to varied success. So with this final trailer now released, it seems as good a time as any to ponder the big question of it all; will Venom actually be any good?
Sorting through the trailer, these are the ten biggest questions we have about Venom, based on the new trailer.
10. Why Is The Sound Mixing So Bad?
The opening of the new trailer is the sonic equivalent of attempting to land a pole vault but breaking both ankles in the process. Immediately, thing's are off to a wobbly start.
As the visuals open with some fairly standard exterior location shots and the score begins to faintly twinkle in the background, Tom Hardy's voice interjects over the top of everything with;
"I'm Eddie Brock. I'm a reporter. I always seem to find myself questioning something the government may not be looking at. But I found something really bad. And I have been taken."
Putting aside the fact for a moment that this is some truly awful writing and that these lines are laughable at best, the sound mixing here is truly terrible. For starters, after every single sentence Hardy speaks, there is a harsh cut in the audio. Even the most rudimentary of editing software easily allows the user to blunt these cuts so that they blend in with the mix, but whoever edited this trailer apparently didn't know or didn't care about such things.
And to make matter even worse, the entire 'I always seem to find myself questioning something the government may not be looking at' sentence is very noticeably cobbled together from different soundbites. Listen to the word 'questioning' specifically, and it is obvious that this is little more than a lazy rip, taken from a different line. Even the reverb on various words in this sentence are completely off.
This is amateurish and not exactly encouraging in terms of what Sony is bringing to the table here.