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mochakissedgold · 10 months

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Well...that Kraven The Hunter trailer was not...very good at all now, was it Sony?

We are on experiment #3 of yet another boring and uninspired take of another Spider-Man *villain* -I say those words loosely since Sony's versions of these characters are far from resembling anything remotely villainous or even anti-hero esque but I digress - getting handed his own origin story no one asked for in Kraven the hunter and to the surprise of no one (maybe me since I thought Sony would learn their lesson🤡)...they STILL fucked this up!

Kraven is the most easy, simple and effective character you can adapt as villain for a future Spider-Man movie. His whole gimmick is he's a hunter who hunts for sport who's obsessed in taking down Spider-Man in order to prove he's the world's greatest hunter. Its simple. Now I don't mind if slight tweaks were made for his movie counterpart as long as the changes made weren't done on a significant scale where the character is totally unrecognizable, I'm fine with it.

Not here. Oh no, they fucking mauled (no pun intended) everything apart about what made this villain cool for me. His obsession with Spider-Man? It ain't here. So obviously since Sony hasnt yet established a proper Spiderman for this cinematic universe for whatever dumb fucking reason, we needed something else.

And what do we get instead as a replacement? A grown man harboring daddy issues who goes on a hunting spree to rid the world of evil men like his father after being left for dead as a young boy by said parent. Yup...excellent Oscar winning writing, right? What great storytelling!

Might I add this version of Kraven has superhuman abilities where he can connect with every land animal as means to spot his prey. I mean, what am I watching, Sony's answer to Aquaman and Tarzan rolled into one? What *IS* this movie trying to be?!😭 This comment I found on reddit sums it up perfectly another issue I have with on upcoming movie:

Venom is about a sympathetic man that transforms a monstrous anti-hero that eats people. Repeat with Venom 2. Morbius is about a sympathetic man that transforms a monstrous anti-hero that eats people. Kraven is about a sympathetic man that transforms into a monstrous anti-hero that eats people. There’s no variety here. It’s the same movie.

And for how he was gifted these powers you ask? From a drop of blood of a lion. The same damn lion that attacked him as a child. I'm not joking because this is explicitly shown in the trailer if you think I'm lying.

I should also point out a very huge difference between movie kraven and comic Kraven where in the comics he gets his abilities by ingesting various potions made from jungle herbs. He didn't inherit none of the shit from a lion's blood and even what he's got in the movie is greatly exaggerated, bordering on flat out wrong by comparison.

Imagine casting Ariana DeBose as his love interest - a whole voodoo priestess in the comics where you don't capitalize off of that potential where she could be the main power source of how he's given his abilities when the opportunity was right there! What a waste.

And there are people who really and honestly believe a corporate husk like Sony can handle any Spider-Man character better than what Marvel/Feige has done on their end with the brand? LOL ok suuure...

Anyways by that point of me watching what was left in the trailer, any little bit of interest I did have, flew right out the window. I don't care how much gore, blood, and carnage on display you show me, it didn't get me geeked at all. I can tell when a film has excessive violence to further the story at the betterment of its writing or is gory for the studio's sake to ensure an R rating. Guess which one this falls under🙃. Fuck, not even a shot of Aaron Taylor Johnson biting off a man's nose made me feel anything. I was as dry as a desert.

But I swear nothing could truly prepare me for the footage that followed soon after because this is where I truly lost my shit. And not in a good way.

And you wanna see what my immediate response was after seeing that shot? This:

Because I'm tired. I am tired of this studio constantly justifying the pointless existence behind these films through these teases and hints sprinkled in the hopes Tom or Andrew - or even Tobey for that matter - will show up for this dumb idea of a sinister six movie where all these villains join forces in fighting a version of Spider-Man only for them to turn around and team up with the hero they were just fighting moments ago to go up against an even bigger villain that either threatens the entire world or new york city. I bet my whole bank account that's the exact story Sony has been itching of telling and if so, its GARBAGE, and Y'all can keep letting this idea sit in the bottom pits of development hell if that's the case because it will never be a good movie (let alone a good comic book movie at that).

My expectations for this were already low when Kraven was announced and there I was, dare I say, showing some slight interest in how a villain like Kraven would be handled. That maybe Sony would finally win me over in finally getting at least one of these movies right with me, right?

HELL NO. 3 movies in - with two more on the way; one staring Sydney from Euphoria and another villain entry starring fucking Bad Bunny🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️I'm so excited for that last one especially 🙄 - and its painfully clear for each one that's already out, is on the way, or is in development are all nothing but cash grabs just so they can keep holding onto the rights of the Spider-Man brand and any related character to him. Since fucking 2002 they have been milking this cow.

2002! Two decades worth of Sony not producing a single original property since then and quite frankly, I'm sick of it. In fact, I've been tired of it. It just took this Kraven trailer for me to say "Fuck it."

I just seriously cannot wait for the day the full rights of Spider-Man revert back with Marvel where Feige can better utilize them because as it stands and will forever be the case since 2014 when Amazing Spider-Man 2 failed as the starting point up to present day, Sony just doesnt have that dog in them to tell good stories from this property no more. This studio really did peak at the height of genuine storytelling with that original Raimi trilogy.

I'll leave you all with this in mind: if it weren't for Sony still holding the rights hostage at this stage, we would've seen Venom in the mcu by now, and Kraven would've probably already made an appearance had Ryan's original plans of introducing him as a villain in the first Black Panther had went through. Oh welp🤷‍♀️

I suppose if there's one thing I know this movie won't fall short of is creating an entire new base full of fangirls who'll be thirsting after Aaron so..I guess there's one positive thing to be said on how this will be received in some cases which isn't saying a whole lot, really.

If anything, I'll probably check out the movie just for the eye candy of seeing him if I'm brutally honest but everything else is a hard no lol.

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