KRAVEN THE HUNTER Is Hilariously Awful
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Sony’s Kraven the Hunter finds itself in the unfortunate position of being the end of a cinematic universe that never really got off the ground. It’s a sad echo of last year’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which also faced a troubled production, plagued by reshoots and endless delays, before stumbling into theaters as the unceremonious conclusion of the DCEU.
At least Aquaman had the pedigree of a billion-dollar predecessor, a bankable star, and a proven director. It failed to live up to expectations, but Kraven can’t even boast those advantages. Instead, it arrives burdened by the weight of a shared universe that was doomed from the start.
The Sony Spider-Man Universe (or SSU, if anyone’s still bothering to call it that) has been a punchline for years. Despite a lucrative deal with Marvel Studios allowing Spider-Man to thrive in the MCU, Sony’s ill-conceived attempts to spin a villain-focused franchise out of the scraps left behind have been nothing short of embarrassing.
Outside of Venom, every installment has been a critical and commercial flop, riddled with inept storytelling and a fundamental misunderstanding of its audience. Now, Kraven the Hunter arrives as the SSU’s swan song, dragging its tattered reputation along for the ride.
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Stop taking villans and making them heroes!
The thing is, I can't understand the logic. As they say "the best villains are the heroes of their own story"...but from what I understand there was NO PLAN to include spider man at any point. So it always seemed pointless if it's never going to go full circle.
Unless it's DC universe (Except the jonkler 2)
Facts
@@mr.potatozz2059 If DC had balls make a cinematic universe where Batman and Superman brutaly kill people, that no wonder ahah
Bro that “sound” that rhino made might have been one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
Everyone in the theater laughed at that part it was great.
It's not Kraven time.
But its morbin time
Indeed, it is not.
Kraven Deez nuts, are you?
Muffin time
Why does this account name look like a tripcode
Lol the opening of your video is beyond hilarious
The Santa Claus 2😂😂😂😂😂 "Get me some moreee cocoaaaaa!" It fits for sure with that scene🤣🤣🤣
Kravens adaptation in the game was so much better
this is like making a Red Skull movie where's he's completely against fascism
you mean a red skull movie where fascism is glorified right?
This is like making a Transformers movie where none of them can transform
@@mechanwhal6590 transformers ONE: 💀
@@thatorangeguy3646 i forget mussolini came up with facism
Why do I feel like that weird noise he made wasn't supposed to be in the final cut and he did that so they could dub someone else screaming for some reason and they just forgot that's almost what it feels like to me lol
Kraven doesn't work as a protagonist. His whole shtick is that he's the constant threat of a persistence hunter who is obsessed with bringing you down. You can escape temporarily, but he will find you again, no matter how fast or far you run.
If you absolutely _had_ to make a movie with him on the "hero" team, it would have been better to pick a different protagonist who hires him to help in his quest.
Let's say some guy lost his family when a "monster" tore its way through the neighborhood, leaving him traumatized. Years later he finds out that there is a "hero for hire" who happens to have the ability to transform into the monster he saw. But law enforcement sees no reason to investigate on a hunch, and public backlash leaves him ostracized. So in order to protect others from this monster, he hires Kraven, who has made a name for himself by dispatching of some similar beasts (as evidenced by the trophies mounted in his mansion). Feigning to empathize with the protagonist's quest, Kraven joins, barely hiding his single-minded focus on the thrill of the hunt.
Over the course of the movie Kraven largely does "the right thing" - even going so far as to take hits for his employer - but in a way that makes it more and more clear that he does it for selfish desires, not because it's the right thing to do.
In the end they find out that this "hero for hire" has been moonlighting for the local criminal underworld and doing their dirty work, and the incident years ago had been a called hit. While Kraven manages to finally kill him in his monstrous form, the revelation that the true monster hadn't been this one person but systematic crime and corruption leaves the protagonist even more broken than before.
As he turns to leave with his new trophy - the contract now fulfilled - Kraven offers one last wisdom:
"In the wild, the strong prey on the weak. The concrete jungle is no different."
This could have been a really fantastic way to approach an anti-hero Kraven. Damn
Fun fact kraven was going to be the original villain of black panther but the higher ups said he couldn’t do it
And if tobey and Andrew couldn’t return for no way home he would have been the villain for the movie instead of the multiverse stuff
That opening is hilarious. I loved The Santa Clause. But in all seriousness, I knew Kraven was in trouble from the moment the trailer debuted.
AVI ARAD has ruined so far...
* Borderlands
* Kraven The Hunter
* Daredevil (2003)
* The Punisher (2004)
* Elektra (2005)
* Fantastic Four (2005)
* X-Men: The Last Stand
* Spider-Man 3
* Bratz (2007)
* Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
* The Amazing Spider-Man 2
* Ghost in the Shell (2017)
* Venom: Let There Be Carnage
* Uncharted (2022)
* Morbius
* Venom: The Last Dance
And now he's gonna ruin...
* Legend of Zelda
* Naruto
As long as Arad lives, there's no hope
How can you ruin "bratz"?
@@ganjaman59650 The same way you can ruin Elektra
Putting my head on the chopping block with this one, but I like Punisher '04.
That being said it's mostly because I loved it as a kid. As an adult I am well-aware that it divulged from the source material _a lot._
Like a Borderlands movie could be good
wait what? there’s going to be a live action Naruto and LoZ? and why of all people is Avi involved especially in a live action Naruto
From the opening trailer of this movie, you just KNEW it was gonna be HOT GARBAGE 😂
Why would you change Craven so much. He's a terrifying and disturbingly effective villain. Even with no powers, he's always come the closest to killing Spiderman. Why would anyone want to change a good character so much? I just don't get it.
Did anyone else's brain collapse during the movie?
4:45 They made a film about a character that hunts animals and people to test his strength against them then had him try to stop poachers? Nonsensical and hypocritical.
Rest in peace SSU. You will not be missed.
I blame Avi Arad
I blame sony themselves
These constant and very predictable Marvel and Blumhouse flops are why I'm so grateful A24 exist
Isn't this more a Sony thing though not Marvel, I know Marvel did a deal with them for Spiderman. Something like Sony still had the rights to make movies about the villains and other side characters that were attached to the Spiderman license they had.
Definitely not what I was Kraven
I remember hearing about the original leaked script that had Russell Crowe playing the first Kraven The Hunter and that he wanted his son to carry on his legacy, as well as injecting himself with animal growth hormones to gain superhuman strength and speed as well as communicating with different animal species.
Oh I can translate that sound. He was speaking Dolphin and said, "So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
Can you google translate dolphin to english ?
Honestly the only good part of this film was when Kraven said: "IT'S KRAVEN TIME!"
it was very ill conceived of making a series of movies based on spiderman related villains or other characters but never have them directly interact with or affect said protagonist, like they do in their source material. it's a dynamic, and Sony intentionally missed it, to no good ends
never understood the concept of it, all these villains are either motivated to do what they do or even become what they become because of Spider-Man even indirectly. It was always dumb, the only one that i could see work is Venom because in the comics it was retconned Spidey being the first host for the symbiote it was actually Deadpool
I honestly thought this movie came out a year ago, when the trailers were playing for it....
I had no desire to watch it then either, seemed like a predictable plot. Not to mention you could tell they turned a villain into a hero.
I mean it works for Venom, because he does become a "hero" in the comic book.
I even forgot it existed...
And at the end since all of these movies are supposed to be under the Spider verse... How would they reconcile them landing under Spiderman's radar for villains when they are all heroes and sh*t...
Venom works, of course because it also happened in the comics...
Morbius could've worked since he is an anti hero (if the movie didn't suck, it would've been really great)...
I can't be bothered with the other movies including this one...
@@ChaosMind10531but venom only hates spider-man, he's not bad in any other way, except maybe killing a holes, but the punisher does that too
I appreciate Aaron as an actor, but Scott Adkins would have been the ideal choice for Kraven because of his role as Yuri Boyka in the Undisputed franchise.
😂😂😂😂
Come on man, don't disservice Scott like that jaja
A lot of problems that Sony's SM rogue gallery is that they're taking notable VILLIANS and altering their stories into entirely new characters so they have very little source material they can fall back on to help them. Venom was a villian with Eddie only once they separated and venom bonded with Spidey and Flash did Venom and Eddie grow enough to be like Sony's depiction. Like he daid in the video Kraven IS A poacher and the head of a mafia-esc family thats ALL about hunting ANYTHING(people and animal of any variety) especially spider-people, but now he's a anti-poaching and orginized crime, they can no longer fall back on source Kraven because they're not really even the same character anymore.
TLDR: I believe Sony changed Spider-Man's rogue gallery too much for them to use the source material as a foundation for these characters and are struggling massively to write new stories for these characters.
Me and the 6 other people at the theater watching had a laugh when. Rhino made that fucking weird ass angry noise 😅.
Spiderman universe with little to no spiderman lol
This looks like a lot of studio interference. It could’ve better executed as a low budget, else-world, stand alone film focused more on the character
The early trailers from 6 months ago LOOKED promising. So disappointed with this movie and haven't even watched it. Thank you for letting us know.
That scene where he makes the sound makes me wonder if something else was supposed to be dubbed in there in post, like a deep bellowing grunt, which would have been something a Rhino might do if annoyed?
I said it before and I'll say it again, Sony cancelling the amazing spiderman movies was a massive mistake that I'm sure they even know cause none of this villains are nothing without spiderman and Andrew is my second favourite spiderman.
Kraven when he sees a poacher hurt the wittle aminals: "I'm Kravin' Justice!"
The movie that killed the Sonyverse, that even Morbius has a higher sales
After reading the title of this video, he actually did a stupendous job spoofing his intro of the preview audio. 😅
At the end of it all, it was clever of him to mention that "it's not Kraven time.
They should have gone the John Wick route if they wanted to make Kraven an antihero. Not killing his pet or wife but building the legend.
what a sad display of effort. Thank you for covering this and giving an honest look. Wish we had better studio efforts and no flippin exec interference in everything.
The cut to Ace Venture is gold.
What a joke. Sony oughta set a record for being the first studio to pay a streaming service to show this movie. Amazing that this movie was given as many screens as it was given last weekend
I want my money back. The trailer was for a completely different movie
Venom was horrible!! Each one worse than the previous.
Was it Morbin' time? No. Was it Kraven time? No. I know something better, it's Sonic time!
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is actually doing a lot better in comparison.
One of the underlying problems in all of these movies based around a Spider-Man villain is they fail to answer one crucial question. "Why would this Venom, Morbeus, and Kraven WANT or NEED to fight Spider-Man to do the death?" Morbeus one can argue would be failing to control his vampiric nature but Venom isn't a bad guy in these movies, if anything would try and befriend him and this iteration of Kraven has no beef with Spidey at all. Sure he kills bad guys maybe Spiderman would want to stop him but why kraven want to fight Spiderman who's just trying to clean the streets so to speak. He's not ensnared by his need to hunt the biggest game which would be valid for him. It'd be just like when he met another hero who didn't have a no kill rule. These aren't villains but they're based off villains lol.
Why is Rhino a guy who can turn into a rhino in this instead of a superstrong guy in a suit?
Madame Web was the best comedy of 2024, maybe the decade
So my guess is. Sony licensed out Spider-Man to Marvel/Disney for a few years and a few movies. During that time Sony intended to build this cast of characters, both good and bad, for the SSU. Then once they get their license back. They can make movies with Spider-Man interacting with this whole coral of characters. Unfortunately nearly every single character they put out. Was absolutely hated.
Too bad Don Jr and Eric never ran a foul of Kraven the Hunter.
Wasn't this guy in Bullet Train, too?
“This is so fu€kn’ lazy” lol 😂 I’m dead.
I wish it this guy got a fair shot with a movie. I always liked Kraven as a character
6:17 tenet, this, thor, the pope's exorcist. What the hell is going on with Russell Crowe's vocal coach
I never expected to see this channel to take the piss out of a film, normally you take the high road and act neutrally, but this was such a terrible movie it can only be ridiculed.
The sound rhino makes. I know this sound. It's made when you want nothing more than to scream so hard and so loud but you're still actively trying to suppress the rage so you close your airway up as you exert this anger through your body to vent it.. "quietly"
It sounds like choking. But instead of choking on something going down, air from your lungs and your own throat structure are creating the "choking sound" but in reverse, as it's coming out of your lungs.
Who's craving for some Kraven 2 now?
it was extremely rushed feeling until the end, as if they decided the ending first then figured out and added the rest 😭
As a comic fan, and a fan of Kraven, I was INCREDIBLY saddened by this rendition of the character. This was more Swiss than cheese
That's So Kraven
You've watched this for me so that I don't have to, thank you for your service.
Your last sentence sums it up wonderfully!
Thanks for the entertaining video and wonderful meme and clip work! A true delight!
I feel all the writers or director had to do to make this decent would have been to watch 1 episode of spiderman the animated series to get a good base for the characters
I always wished for a Kraven the tree hugger movie
Hey Niyat big fan! Never would have guessed but I’m loving your mellow delivery with the new editing style. Loving the new angle bro 😎
6:56 kinda sounds like cellphone zombies from Cell.
LFG!!!
So Tim Allen is the hunter 🤔 😂
I fell asleep twice.😂 the second time someone let me sleep and woke me up at credits.
And I usually LOVE these backstory type movies. It was just to fake, and predictable.
Is there anything scorpion can do that Dr octopus cannot😂 after all doc Ock has four long ass tentacles coming out of his back while scorpion only has one coming out of his butt😂😂😂
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe and Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🌨️⛄🧑🎄
Mate you memed the fuck out of this video and it's amazing 11/10
Since Sony has the rights to all the Spider-Man stuff, why didn't they use any of the ancillary heroes, like the Prowler, Speedball, etcetera?
Too bad Don Jr and Eric never ran a foul of craving the Hunter.
It’s not even so bad it’s fun like Madame Web, it’s just bad
The problem is we can have bad guys, everyone is a hero, everyone has a high moral sense…..because bad guys are not a thing and can’t be.
I didn't like The Rhino as the creature, but the actors human performance was very enjoyable.
Glad to see you've done a FROM video, I'll get oven pizza going and watch that next. Keep up the great work.
How to fix the movie, the lion that attacked him is later killed by him and add resentment to him making him want to kill all that are strong giving him the Original Kraven comically accurate villain. A character that wants to prove superiority over another like the comics and games then build upon that.
All we wanted was an ‘amazing Spider-Man 3” not a universe
Sony making villains "nice" & "friendly" is going against the point.
Russel Crowe just can’t seem to catch a break. He is PHENOMENAL why do studios keep WASTING HIM
Kraven Moorehead woulda been a way better film
I genuinely wish that I could talk with the writers of the DCU. Without fail, they continue to launch terrible superhero movies, one project at a time. They almost completely destroyed the Justice Leauge by focusing on the flash. How is it possible that the Flash television show, has BETTER graphics than the Flash movie?!?! It makes ZERO sense. I continue to watch, bc I love the superhero genre but I am constantly let down.
Marvel, has found the formula for the perfect superhero movie. They need to study Marvel’s approach and make the necessary changes so they’re not just stealing their method. Smh.
And what makes the DCU even WORSE, is that they know how to make INCREDIBLE Sup cartoon movies and series. But of course, like idiots, they decided to cut popular shows like “Titans” and “Young Justice”, creations that are VASTLY superior to the movies that they make. Smh.
No matter how much people praise it. I don't want Disney to own Spiderman
The Venom films were the only ones that actually mattered in this "ex-Spidey" universe, in my opinion.
Yes. They were goofy but was entertainable in the least. Anyways Im glad the spidermanless spider verse is over
@@EDDIEGLUSKY Me too. 👍
the Only Reason Venom Works is because... Well it´s Venom, im surpised they didn´t make a Green Goblin movie or A movie about Doc-Oc, the Lizard or Sandman if they were to make Movies about the Villians, im i right?
The movie was okay. Some cool scenes in it, but nothing worth watching again. Two points of contention to your video; 1) we are told why the Foreigner has a vendetta against Kraven. Kraven killed his mentor and someone whom the Foreigner felt close to and 2) Calypso specifically states that her grandmother was a mystic of sorts. I don't disagree with your video but you left out some things in order to bolster your case against why the movie was not good. Granted, these two explanations don't make the movie any better, just clarifying that we were given reasons for both. Keep up the good work!
I geniuly want to understand, why Sony try to make a Sinister 6 movies, alas Avengers, but ACTIVELY choose to NOT make the characters evil/villains but at best 'misunderstood with a tragedy origin story' anti hero.
Hell, why these characters,that Sony are trying to pass more as Anti-heroes, are being sold as Anti-heroes?, "Oh no, Kraven is killing (check notes) Randomg Mafia goons, villains, and poachers' , aka basically being an anti hero, rsther than a villain
I don’t understand how Sony doesn’t know how to make a good or decent movie of spiderman villains. Like the amount of these movies that have failed doesn’t ring a bell in their heads? I’m sure they could make a decent corny movie but they don’t. Egos to big to let someone write an enjoyable movie it seems
The opening destroyed me LOL 😂
The movie has already been leaked in HC quality which is Webrip with Arabic subtitles lol, pretty sure it may drop out of theaters soon and go straight to streaming even before the year's end.
3:05 to be fair, he got the powers when he was a kid. So if he wasn’t able to climb like this I’d be kinda disappointed 😂
My favourite moment was when he said "I'm Kraven a Hunt"
I miss when I was interested to see new movies in theaters, especially from Marvel. Gonna bet judging by this video that the movie wasn’t dark, gritty, or scary as it should have been. Not a comic nerd but even I know that’s more how Kraven is supposed to be, am I wrong?
Unpopular opinion but one I firmly believe:
Of all the Sony villain movies, Morbius was the most character faithful, and therefore the best of these films. I don't care about the memes and bad jokes people make about it lol
The question is…is it comic book accurate? If it is…then it’s not that some don’t like Sony renditions of comics. It’s, some don’t like comic books.
Enjoy the movie 🍿
We were too hard on the Rhino in the amazing spiderman
SSU should be called sony's spinoff universe not sony's spiderman universe because spider man is not even in it
I think the Sony execs think that "comical" means "totally like the comics and therefore super cool".
That Solid jj bit was the cherry on top 🤌
Kraven: I bigger spiders to squish.
- Looks at Sony
Truly Kravens last hunt is the death of Sony's whateververse ;p LOL
The weird part is that this Kraven seems like a weird mix of Pre and Past Serum Kraven the brutality of Serum Kraven but for some reason he is also gentle and loves Animals like Pre Serum Kraven.
Truly Funky what these Movie Companies do these Days maybe we should get a law that forbids big changes in post so that we avoid this kind of disaster of a Film but then again it would probably lead to other versions of disasters Movies.
I am not really surprised tho they already butchered Morbius [altho I liked the Movie most likely because I like Leto as Morbius] and Carnage so NO surprise that they butcher all the other Characters that they make Movies about.
Russel Crow seems on a similar path of Legacy Destruction in the Forms of shitty Films with shitty Acting that Bruce Willis sprinted down so not really a surprise either it's just sad. :(
Thus was made only to keep the license of spiderman and related characters within Sony. They need to release 1 movie every 2 years or it goes back to marvel.
If an alpha male podcast became a movie it would be this. Without imagery, this movie is a lot worse than you’d think. I had to double take on what I was watching to make sure it wasn’t RUclips auto playing random BS.