Synopsis:

Bad Movies Made Less Bad Presents: Less Cheese, Less Cringe, Better Pacing Simply honed down to a quick 83 minutes of hopefully just the fun stuff.

Intentions:

Venom 2 had promise, but ultimately was bland in its villain department. Cletus' motivation to reach out to Eddie being simply that he wanted Eddies friendship felt weak, Cletus and Frances's story was also pretty weak IMO, and Carnage failed to be truly menacing. But I did love the relationship dynamic of Eddie and Brock growing to accept each other fully. The pacing was awful too, with key plot information dropped at odd times, and often way too late. Only after the bodies are discovered do we understand why Eddie is still trying to not go public as a hero.

Change List:

• New intro credits typography and location typography added for a more "crazy" vibe • Intro scene is tightened, some dialogue trimmed. Removed Frances speaking to Mulligan in the van, and cut Frances waking up in Ravencroft. • New Title Card • Tightened Mulligan and Eddie scene at the Station. Removed Mulligan mentioning Eddie previously interviewing Cletus before, and did a little FX work to keep Mulligan's mouth moving from behind when he is talking to Eddie with the new dialogue. • Music added to add drama to attempting to eat Mulligan, and lightheartedness in the bathroom, inspired by I Love Jeanie. Tightened Venom and Eddie's bathroom scene. Added in Eddie describing their current situation with the FBI. • San Quentin lead in uses the guard discussion from Venom 1's mid-credit scene. Cletus's appearance in Venom 1 was just so different, I am redoing their first interaction. This required upscaling the 1920x800 original footage and cropping to 1920x1080 • First scene with Cletus is highly trimmed, with the shots of Frances reading the paper removed. (We don't know her situation yet.) Lots of dialogue removed to hopefully seem like a fruitless meeting for Cletus. • Removed Mulligan getting upset at Eddie to "not make him look bad" (seems like too much of Mulligan caring about Eddie personally too soon.) • Removed "It's a Tree!" line • Reporter interviewing Eddie at Rodeo Beach and how Eddie is "back on top" • Added a mix of the first present day Ravencroft scene with the doctor walking the halls heckled by inmates moved up to this Ravencroft intro scene. Then dialogue from Frances being told that Cletus is going to be executed. This is our first look as the adult Frances. • Some dialogue timing was adjusted in Eddie's apartment between Venom and Eddie so Eddie's responses are quicker to Venom's lines. Removed discussion of their current situation with the FBI. • Alley scene with thief tightened to remove "bowling" joke. • Removed "Awkward" line in restaurant. • Removed Cletus's abusive dad from the postcard story, and the "Hugs and Kisses" part. • Tightened Eddie's final interview with Cletus, and removed Cletus eating the symbiote on his finger • Removed Carnage randomly destroying prison cells to keep him focused on killing the prison guards, remove the guard saying "Please, I got a family" • Removed Mulligan finding Eddie's tape recorder. • Removed Carnage talking to Cletus when he first steals the car, moving it to shortly after when they are driving on bridge right before Cletus and Carnage's first conversation. • Removed Venom saying "You Love Me!" at the club • Added squishing SFX when Cletus murders the gas station attendant, and removed Cletus fixing his hair. • Adjusted Carnage saying "A red wedding." • Removed Cletus's mention of "gifts" at the wedding • Removed Cletus mentioning abuse in final fight (he was just a bad kid) and that he's not crazy, just vengeful • Removed Frances grabbing the bell rope falling down • Removed Cletus saying that he just wanted Eddie's friendship • New first half of credits sped up and rescored with a mostly instrumental I Dream of Jeanie theme. • Moved beach scene to a mid-credit scene, added a joke from Venom 1's deleted scene "Ride to the Hospital" • Added a trimmed version of the post credit scene from Spider-Man No Way Home showing Eddie jumping back.

Additional Notes:

Story pacing is hopefully fixed for easier to understand motivations for the characters, and over the top dialogue is trimmed back to reasonable amounts that hopefully keep the story moving briskly.

Other Sources:

Deleted Scene from Venom 1 Music additions by Hugo Montenegro

Special Thanks:

Joseph Quinn for early collaboration and feedback