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THIS IS A list of things that happen in the new movie Venom: Riz Ahmed, personifying every rich supervillain trope at once, utters the words "God has abandoned us … I will not"; Tom Hardy hops in a restaurant's lobster tank and eats a crustacean raw; the movie's titular character says "on my planet, I was kind of a loser"; and an alien turns into Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams. These are the kinds of moments that turn a movie into a cult favorite, or into a total disaster. Venom could be either—if it had any idea what it was at all. What the movie is supposed to be is an adaptation of the Marvel Comics series featuring the anti-hero known as Venom. (The character, like his comics-world brother Spider-Man, is currently the property of Sony, so this movie, like Spidey's standalone flicks, are produced "in association with" Marvel, not by the studio itself.) It's a live-action movie about a super-something born of melding a o...