The only reason I have little problem with Venom being in the movie is because Raimi is still running the show and I have faith in him to make Venom a great villian in the movie. If anyone else were running the show I'd probably have almost written it off as soon as Venom being in it was announced. There really haven't been many good Venom stories over the years. In fact, none I've read realy topped the original. The good news is we should get to see crazed psycho bent on killing Spider-Man Venom, rather than one dimensional anti hero Venom if they're smart about it with this movie.