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10. Spider-Man 3 Did A Better Job With Venom's Origin Story Than Venom

Venom was a critical flop, but a box office hit, and there are a lot of people out there who love the movie. That's all well and good, but as an origin story for Eddie Brock, it's hard to come to any other conclusion than it completely and utterly failed in that respect.

Taking aside the fact Spider-Man was M.I.A. (his presence would have been welcomed, but wasn't necessarily essential), Venom was little more than a generic, forgettable sci-fi flick with a bland, cookie cutter take on Eddie's first meeting with his symbiotic "other." Riot was an abysmal choice of lead villain, while director Ruben Fleischer just didn't have a good handle on any of the characters.

Spider-Man 3 may have rushed Venom's origin story - there's no denying that it was shoehorned into the third act - but it at least managed to do his comic book counterpart justice.

He was a photographer, hated Peter Parker (even with Spidey absent from Venom, Eddie's bitter, jealous side was M.I.A.), and made a deal with the devil... after being bonded with the alien in a church. It hit all the right beats, whereas the 2018 movie just dropped the ball in nearly every respect.