Morbius

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[sh9000]

 

 

 

[mikeszekely]

So... I have a pretty high tolerance for bad movies.  I mean, I was entertained by stuff like Dragon Ball.  So, when I heard that Morbius was bad I thought, "It's ok, it's a movie about a relatively obscure comic book character.  Not a ton of people are going to like it, but I'll probably still dig it."

Nope.

I mean, there's a lot of stuff that's kind of poorly explained.  Like, if Morbius and Milo have a blood disease caused by a missing gene, and Morbius has the technology to splice vampire bat DNA into human cells... wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use the same technology to splice the missing human gene into their DNA?  And, OK, so Morbius added some bat DNA to his genome.  So he gets bat powers, sure.  Echolocation, fangs, claws, sure, heck, I'll even allow super strength.  But I didn't realize bats are flying around with smoke trailing behind them all the time, or that their pupils turn into Spirographs whenever they use their echolocation.

But hey, like I said, I knew this movie was bad, and I've got a high tolerance for bad.  I'll allow all of it "so the movie can happen," as Ryan George's writer might say.  No, the real problem isn't a questionable power set and dubious origin story.  The real problem is that, for a movie about a vampire anti-hero, it's so boring!  There's a ton of setup before Morbius gets his powers, a few scenes of Morbius exploring his powers, tons of exposition and character dialog after, a few quick scenes with the villain killing someone, but only maybe two action scenes in the entire movie.  And, ok, not every movie, or even every comic book movie, needs to be action.  Sure.  If the story did something clever, explored some philosophical idea, or brought something novel to the table then there'd be at least some redeeming feature to mention, but no.  This has got to be one of the most-predictable films I've seen in years.  Like, I'm not even super worried about typing any spoilers here because you'll know who the villain is, how the villain gets his powers, and what Morbius will have to do to win maybe ten minutes into the movie.

Don't waste your time.

[JB0]

38 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

what Morbius will have to do to win

Is it "call Blade"? Because it should be "call Blade".

[mikeszekely]

1 minute ago, JB0 said:

Is it "call Blade"? Because it should be "call Blade".

That would have made such a better movie!

[sh9000]

[Big s]

Why is it going back to theaters?

[JB0]

2 hours ago, Big s said:

Why is it going back to theaters?

Because clearly we need to be punished for not giving Disney our money.

[Big s]

4 hours ago, JB0 said:

Because clearly we need to be punished for not giving Disney our money.

I thought this was Sony 

[tekering]

48 minutes ago, Big s said:

I thought this was Sony 

...and therein lies the punishment! 😑

[Seto Kaiba]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/06/04/box-office-jared-leto-morbius-bombs-again-with-85000-friday/?sh=58afc67a1cee

Morbius limped back into theaters on the back of a meme and earned... only $85K upon its return?

[mikeszekely]

1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/06/04/box-office-jared-leto-morbius-bombs-again-with-85000-friday/?sh=58afc67a1cee

Morbius limped back into theaters on the back of a meme and earned... only $85K upon its return?

Sony mistook the memes for general interest in what is, ultimately, a very dull movie.

[sh9000]

[JB0]

11 hours ago, Big s said:

I thought this was Sony 

My mistake. I knew this was Marvel, didn't know it was under the Spiderman license.

[Big s]

28 minutes ago, JB0 said:

My mistake. I knew this was Marvel, didn't know it was under the Spiderman license.

It does get a bit confusing. So far it’s spidey, venom and morbius

[sh9000]