10 Key Changes We Wish Recent Movies Had Made

4. Lose The Other Symbiotes - Venom

For all of its success and the praise levelled at Tom Hardy for his performances as Eddie Brock and Venom, the first stand-alone in Sony's Spider-Verse was a mess. The story was muddled, the presentation dull and the supporting characters ranged from boring to superfluous.

Unfortunately, that definitely went for the symbiotes - including Riz Ahmed and Riot, who was presented as the film's big bad. The performance is ok, given the material, but Carlton Drake is a non-character who doesn't really fit the mad scientist mould and using so many symbiotes at once is wasteful.

Rather than shooting that load, the first film should have cut its losses knowing that Venom was going to overshadow absolutely everyone else and just gone with a human antagonist interested in capturing Brock and experimenting on him. Then you leave the appearance of other symbiotes to the sequel, starting with Carnage who was teased in the post-credits.