Though it is an entertaining move this does not follow ANY semblance of the spiderman story. The original story has spiderman saving the astronaut on re-entry when the symbiot escapes and attaches its self to spiderman, spiderman because extra super powerful and the symbiot loves it but spiderman is a good guy and doesnt like all the killing venom wants to do so spiderman takes it to a bell tower to use the vibrations of the bell to expel it, eddie brock is a sub par journalist who is always getting one upped by peter parker, and happens to be chasing the story of the symbiot, followed venom to the bell tower to get pictures, when the sybiot is expelled from spiderman it latches on to eddie, is very displeased with its new host, and hates spiderman for rejecting him, eddie hates peter parker for always one upping him, and together eddie learns who spiderman is (peter parker) and together eddie/symbiot (Venom) go after spiderman and in the end spiderman sends venom back to space on another rocket. little does he know there was another symbiot known as Carnage which is even crazier than venom and takes spiderman teaming up with ironman and war machine to take it down. The movie shows NONE of this. And the closest thing to Carnage it comes to is the symbiot they call Carnage.