See, I feel like I'm being unfair to Tom Hardy, because Fury Road is quite literally my favourite film, and he's great in it, and Peaky Blinders is one of my favourite TV series, and he's good in that too.
I think my issue might actually be more with Christopher Nolan, whose films, for the most part, I cannot stand. To this day, the only two times I can remember being visibly, apoplectically filled with rage in a cinema involved Nolan films — The Dark Knight, and Interstellar. When I watched the former, I realised very early on that it was basically telling its viewers to condone 'extraordinary rendition,' abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and so on in the name of the 'war on terror,' and this horrfied and angered me. The latter film also had a theme that really enraged me (trying to remain and heal a damaged Earth is cowardly and unambitious, and we should all aspire to leave this planet behind, travel through space, and find a new planet to colonise and live in), and I remember that I was so visibly angry that my husband noticed and asked me if I was all right!
So poor old Tom Hardy had the misfortune to be in an overhyped Nolan film, pick up a vocal and enthusiastic fandom as a result, and I've been resentful of him ever since...
As you say, Venom is an enjoyable film. I agree with you about the ethics of Brock accessing his fiancée's work documents — I'm a former journalist and I was watching in horror thinking that is not how journalistic sources work!
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I think my issue might actually be more with Christopher Nolan, whose films, for the most part, I cannot stand. To this day, the only two times I can remember being visibly, apoplectically filled with rage in a cinema involved Nolan films — The Dark Knight, and Interstellar. When I watched the former, I realised very early on that it was basically telling its viewers to condone 'extraordinary rendition,' abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and so on in the name of the 'war on terror,' and this horrfied and angered me. The latter film also had a theme that really enraged me (trying to remain and heal a damaged Earth is cowardly and unambitious, and we should all aspire to leave this planet behind, travel through space, and find a new planet to colonise and live in), and I remember that I was so visibly angry that my husband noticed and asked me if I was all right!
So poor old Tom Hardy had the misfortune to be in an overhyped Nolan film, pick up a vocal and enthusiastic fandom as a result, and I've been resentful of him ever since...
As you say, Venom is an enjoyable film. I agree with you about the ethics of Brock accessing his fiancée's work documents — I'm a former journalist and I was watching in horror thinking that is not how journalistic sources work!