10 Big Questions From Venom's 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.