8 Reasons Why Sony's Venom Movie Has Us Worried
2. Villains Are Better In Small Doses
Though it's certainly not beyond the realm of possibility to make a great film centered on a villain, their history doesn't exactly do much to encourage optimism.
Generally speaking, cinema's most endearing villains have not ever been even what anyone would consider main characters. Think of the shark in Jaws or Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Those villains were so effective specifically because of how incredibly well utilized their time was.
These two are also great examples of how attempting to give the sequels over to them as main characters, resulted in much lesser villains. Take the follow-up to Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal. It is a film much more focused on Lecter, that ultimately dilutes the character's presence and menace as a result.
More recently in the world of comic book films, there was, of course, DC's Suicide Squad. The film was a genuinely awful attempt at a villainous team-up, that resorted to basically turning all of its villains into heroes.
Venom has the potential to be a truly great big-screen villain, but not like this. When it comes to villains, less is definitely more. Apparently, no one ever told Sony that.