Morbius

And they, you know, and again, I take it right back to talking about the Spumco.

And I think about Morbius in particular, and I don't know how Madam Web was more awful, but it definitely was.

It

definitely was.

Face down the road and assume that this is a bit of an origin story.

Doesn't that POV make sense? And Craven and Morbius should probably take note.

Not amazing, but I found it enjoyable enough.

3.5 out of 5 botched plastic surgeries.

How many have there been

now? What is there a Madam Web, Morbius, Craven? I mean, even as something as big as Joker, really.

I mean, we've had all of these.

So my question is with all of them, but even with this one, which I actually liked, but is it necessary?

That movie makes no sense why it exists.

And Madam Web, same thing.

Morbius, same thing.

All of them exist to try and make money to cash in on the character of Spider-Man and his cadre of villains.

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All right, rugs.

Opening thoughts.

This is kind of like DC's version of like the Sony movies like Venom and Morbius and whatever.

And it's in between the two.

yeah chris eccleston and then david tennant and then matt uh smith so

some good marvel villains not matt smith Well, he's a Morbius villain.

Oh, I didn't see that.

Not yet.

I did myself a favor.

It was like glug, glug, glug, glug.

You know where Morbius will be.

The spinning wheel of death.

Oh, yeah, but I think this feels very much like a 21st century superhero.

When I'm watching this in theaters, I'm definitely thinking Morbius.

I'm thinking Kraven.

I'm thinking a little bit of Madam Web.

I get why this is a risk we may not want to tie our moneymaker to.

If you want to call Supergirl a moneymaker.

The other thing is, there was question, would this be set in the Batman universe, and they used some of the same shooting locations for this as they did the Batman and Penguin, or would this be set in James Gunn's DC universe, and Gunn has finally come out and said, or I think it was Safran said, this is in the DC universe, this is not in Matt Reeves' world, but you wouldn't know it, it doesn't matter, it's in the same world as Morbius, isn't in the same world as Madam Web.

It'll feel more connected in the future.

Like, this is very much in the, what would you expect, yellow spandex? Ariel comic book adaptations.

I think that, I mentioned this last week, that I really felt like the uphill battle for this movie was that people there were going to be people who looked at this not the everybody but enough of the core audience for this movie that we're going to look at this and immediately think Morbius like it was going to have to miss the concept of this meant that it was going to have to overcome the reputation that when people see a movie about comic book villain from a group was the adversary of a very famous superhero even though it's from a completely different studio and completely different people made it and even though there's quality people like there's a black mirror director and Mike Flanagan with the script that's the reputation has to overcome but I still feel I'm still in a glass-half-full thing on this I still think that this movie could have a really good second weekend Like, there's going to be people who want to see something next weekend, like they want to see a horror movie for Halloween.

And there's nothing really else out there.

Nope, they're not seeing Other Mommy.

Whereas here, it's like, there is some effect in marketing a clay face if you separate it from the notions people have about a movie like this.

I did think things like the whole covering a face and it's all clayed up was pretty cool.

You know, and I feel like if it wasn't for Morbius and Kraven 100 salt salt in the earth ahead of it, maybe people would have been more receptive to that.

So now I think like, it's starting to get over that hill.