Morbius, for better or worse, is a piece of cinematic history. Because it's the first time a whole studio was gaslit into thinking their flop was beloved unironically
@@SwiftNimblefoot It’s sort of a satirical protest of the direction superhero movies have largely been taking for a while now. So when Morbius gets announced and it looks like the most generic of generic shlock edgy superhero films, the internet, as it tends to do, decided to fuck with it, and started praising the film as the best film ever made, even though it was clear it was terrible.
@@SwiftNimblefoot online sarcasm it was so bad an full of negative reviews the only way to stand out was to be like “nah best movie “ and the joke ran it up so much idk who saw the trending but didn’t see the content an green light this dumpster fire twice
The funny thing is when blade came out, the advertisement was not "he's the first black superhero so if you don't like this, you're a rac*st" it was he's half vampire and half human and he hunt vampires, us "cool" I mean we're not blind, we can see that he's black, we just don't care and judge the film to be either good or bad, and it was a damn good film
To be fair to Morbius, it was one of very few Marvel films in recent years where the protagonist was legitimately horrified at the loss of innocent lives, and actively tried to save lives. It already rocketed high above Phase 4 for that alone.
"Performative profundity" is the perfect summary of Jared Leto. I don't think he "method acts" to enhance his performance, I think he does it to give himself the airs of a tortured artist suffering for his art. It demonstrates a dumb, shallow, superficial and frankly childish understanding of what it means to be an actor; I would compare it to someone putting on a beret and a black and white striped shirt to prove how much of a genius painter they are. If Leto could act, he wouldn't have to put this much effort into acting like an actor.
Oh my God... please, take more of my thoughts on Leto right out of my head. Dude fuckin sucks as a actor. I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that asshole basically drags down every single thing he's in.
There’s a scene in Alexander, Colin Farrell and Leto are on a balcony conversing. You can see, feel and taste the reality of the offering- the pair of them are coked out of their minds (CF essentially cannot recall making the film or Miami Vice) and both, Leto in particular, believe to their cores that this is an Oscar worthy duet. This is the scene that’ll be remembered. It’s total cringe.
There's two ways for a movie to be bad: it can have a lot of elements that are bad or it can simply lack anything that's good. I'm at an age now where, in many ways, the movies I dislike the most are the ones where there is simply an absence of good. That's the main reason why I called Mulan 2020 the worst movie I had seen that year. It's not that there was a lot of stuff that was cringingly bad but there was nothing good about. There was not one character that I found interesting, not one minute where I had the slightest investment in what was going on.
Definitely. I enjoyed attacking Multiverse of Madness much more than I did reviewing this film. Multiverse was positively bad in a great many ways. Morbius was soul-crushingly pointless
I would actually argue that Mulan 2020 did both. It managed to simultaneously have nothing good AND add in the woefully bad at the same time. The original message of the movie was stripped from it, leaving in the thematic and iconic things that made the original great to fall flat as imitations due to the removal of the substance. And yet it also added things that were objectively and narratively bad like the witch, the phoenix that showed up for no reason to "guide" Mulan, and the inclusion of chi to make Mulan simply good at everything because ancient Chinese magic (which is at once racist AND sexist). Mulan 2020, in my honest opinion, is both a movie that adds nothing to a beloved classic AND does active harm to the target audience.
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@@ZEFFENWULF I fully agree , Platoon wears that ill-fitted black hood and drags a heavy axe with the best of em. His very public executions in the internets village square feels more like a beautifully grotesque Shakespeare play than some random brute lopping off heads into a bloodstained wicker basket but is no less brutal in its delivery and display. This man deserves all the success coming his way. that's for sure.
being a character actor requires tapping into something jared either does not understand, or just doesn't have it inside him. it's like when zuckerberg tries to act human: it comes out just cold, creepy and borderline uncanny.
Movies like this continue to make me appreciate movies like 12 Angry Men. Simple setting, simple premise. Just actors actually acting and telling a story. Either the Jack Lemmon or Henry Fonda are examples of not needing flash over substance
I struggle to understand how it could be so hard to do a vampire protagonist. Look at vampires: the masquerade, or even a web serial like a Journey of Black and Red on royalroad... it can be done, it can be cool, bloody, 18+ rated. They can be great protagonist, even ones you root for, even keeping their villanous traits.
Bale drops 20kg+, goes back up to 82kg, gets to 84kg (from memory), eats a can of tuna and an apple a day, loses another 20kg+ then beefs up to 94kg's. That timeline is off the top of my head but you get the point. An actor that really takes his characters seriously and is good at acting, the opposite of Leto.
Thank you for that shout out to BLADE! Mfkz pretend like that never happened . Black Panter to Blade is like Beyonce to Amil Laruex and Amerie, it'ts less talented but with a bigger budget ,more weave and make-up it's able to suck up the goddamn air!
I remember playing the Tobey McGuire inspired spider-man 3 game on ps-2 when I was a kid and wondering why the hell there was a random vampire involved in the plot. The lizard was explained later. But it wasn't until I didn't watch Morbius that I was like "OH!!! THATS WHY THERE WAS A VAMPIRE IN THE GAME!!!!"
Nobody wanted Guardians of the Galaxy really... and I think they knew that. What did they do? They worked on the script over and over till it was awesome. Morbius on the other hand... felt like it was wrote by eighth graders. I didn't think anything could be worse than Vemon 2 but damn I was wrong.
Venom 2 was at least dumb spectacle. I liked it when the CGI slippery boys were fighting each other. It wasn’t GOOD, but it had moments I remembered 30 minutes after finishing the movie, unlike Morbius.
Honestly, Morbius's biggest issue was that it's a cookie-cutter Phase One Marvel movie going through the motions, but in a completely different media landscape. Clumsy establishing scenes, then the main character gets superpowers, then it's scenes explaining the superpowers and setting up the one odd power/quirk that will turn the tide in the finale, then the antagonist is created from an established character close to the protagonist and they have the same powers as the hero, then the hero gets seemingly defeated, but he somehow pulls through, we get a big action-climax, and then the established quirk saves the day, and then we have an after-credits scene to build hype. The movie literally goes through the same beats as the original Iron Man, just without the charming and relatable characters, but with meaningless horror and action sequences and a straight up unsatisfying ending. It's trying so, so hard to recapture the old spark, but the ones working on the movie doesn't seem to understand what made those Phase One movies special, and just try to vaguely imitate them.
The only thing missing from the review was Dan Aykroyd's "Bad Cinema" host Leonard Pynth-Garnell leaning over from the seat behind you and remarking, "There... That wasn't so good now, was it?" It used to be that Hollywood's Golden Rule was that everyone wanted to be first to be second. These days, they're OK with being within the first 200 and really, who cares about profits when we're talking about works of art like Morbius, am I right? And so we're presented with endless cinema sequels, derivatives, and reboots, with the vast majority of them produced by writers, directors, and producers who haven't a clue on what made the first efforts successful. Comics have seen a similar decline, where the bulk of the traditional readers of comics pine for a return of last century's excellence even as the today's creators seem convinced a Deep Thought is anything that requires more than 280 characters.
Thankyou so much for saying what I have been saying for years now about Jared Leto. He's a complete flake and I haven't the slightest idea why people even give him the time of day.
He is not a bad actor and not a bad choice to play Morbius actually. And the character is great and a movie about him has lots of potential. But it was just a souless cynical product by executives.
@@CabezasDePescado Sure, if you put every actor in history on a scale, he's not on the low side but it always looks like he's being artsy just for the sake of it rather than for great results. He makes method acting look overrated (which it might actually is). If Jared Leto has to kill an ant with a nuke, there are many other actors who can kill an elephant by just pinching it.
@@CabezasDePescado incorrect... he fucking sucks as an actor. He's essentially an better looking Nic Cage. He keeps getting work somehow despite the fact that he can't fucking act. He's never been in anything good outside of Fight Club, and he had literally nothing to do with why that film was good.
I would comment on how "this video is infinitely better written than Morbius", but I can't bring myself to do so, because it's not fair to this video to be compared to Morbius Also I'm still holding out hope for a third theatrical release, so I don't want to tear the artists down too much (as it is, in fact, morbin time)
I've got a soft spot for Hawkeye; he's vulnerable to the supernatural (like Loki's sceptre), but he's talented, tough, and self aware of his role in the Avengers. From what I've heard, D+ did him dirty.
If they had introduced him in a mystery killer style like the 90s Spider-Man cartoon introduced him, they could've saved money on budget and given it the adult/gritty feel that mightve drawn a wider audience. Swing and a miss 😓
I feel Morbius was a perfectly serviceable origin story for an antihero. Unfortunately, we have seen too many such stories already. This came out at a bad time.
“Method acting” aka when the script and characters arent good enough to just represent so you make people cart you to the toilet, even daniel day lewis made people cart him around for his dumb leg movie, this adds what to the audience experience? Nothing. It inflates the actors ego making them think their life actually has meaning
Thanks for saving me from this film. Also Venom gets a lot better if you just start it at the point Brock is breaking into the lab, ignoring everything else before this, it becomes okay to maybe good.
@@pascalsimioli6777 What I mean about venom is that, curiously, the first half hour is garbage and unrelated to the rest of the film. If they just cut that it's actually quite good. Yes, the total of the film is bad, but if you want to enjoy it, just cut the bit at the beginnning.
When I saw the interview with Matt smith and the interviewer asked if he’d do a morbius 2 or doctor who again, when he said “oh doctor who, any day. Doctor who’s the coolest show”. That just reinforced my love for Matt!
The morbterpiece cannot truly be appericated, until, one unlocked the 5th dimensional speech within their mind and ascend. Truly a ∞ out of Morbfinity.
I liked Morbius as a Vampire monster movie... As an MCU film? HAHAHAHA um no... It never was that to me. It was like a superhero film, in that BLADE (the one we're supposed to forget) was ALSO in the same universe.
I had never heard of him prior to the cartoon and thought they did a great introduction for the uninitiated. The writers of this movie should've taken pointers.
There are sooooo many Marvel characters that could use a movie. SOOOO many Marvel properties that would be incredible on film... and they chose Morbius.
As one of the few people this movie was made for (I actually have read several Morbius comics, ranging from his first appearance to modern day), I have a few observations. What seems to have happend as far as the story is that someone read the second Spider-Man issue he was in (which has his origin story) and the first issue of the Morbius series that was released in 1992. The boat came out of that second issue, and it shows as the best part of that movie since they lifted it out of the comic. It seems to have taken the aesthetic and gang related foes from the 2010's run, which is a mistake. Those were not very interesting whatsoever, and Morbius always did better fighting cults and demons, or even random assorted street thugs and monsters, rather than gangs. The time gap between the 92 run and first appearance is the reason why his fiancé's death feels so hollow. That happened jn the 92 issue, after 2 decades of history between the two characters involving them trying to save each other. He tries saving her from various cults and bad ends, and she actively goes after him trying to cure his condition. In fact, that was what she was trying to do when she died. This is the person that Morbius loves so much, that when he gets a wish granting maguffin, at the cost of his soul he brings her back to life. What should've been a high emotional point for the character was rendered little more than a footnote in the movie due to Jared Leto's and the other actress' performances and lines. They have no chemistry either. Matt's character was never in the comics. They should've just cut the middle man and made his friend Emile (the mentor in this film) the bad guy, and save his death for the end. That way there's more time for their relationship and less time wasted overall. They also tried to make Morbius quippy, which is antithetical to the character. He is one of Spider-Man's more deadly foes partially because he doesn't engage in banter, he does not get mad and lose his cool. He's one of the few villains that give Spider-Man nightmares. Having him joke is like having Spock quip: its jarring. Overall they should've done this film in the style of an old universal monster movie, instead of a 2000's superhero film, played up the emotional strings and nightmare scenario, onky to have him somewhat control it in the final act. If that was not available, they couldve at least made it batsh*t insane like the 70's comics, where he gets kidnapped by cat people, bites into someone only to find out that they are an android, and have to get of a planet of suicidal mutants. If they desperately needed a blueprint, there was Darkman, and the 90's Spider-Man cartoon which stayed true to the original character with minor deviations. Instead we got a generic, boring movie. I didn't even want him to have a solo movie, I just wanted him to be a villain in a Spider-Man movie or a Blade movie. He was going to be in Blade 2. Or just make a Legion of Monsters movie. Who thought it was a good idea to give him a solo?!
I know the studios want a new Twilight series, and I know, too, that they love remakes or revivals, or requels, so, why haven't they looked back into the old TV series Dark Shadows? The Barnabas/Angelique/Josette plot would be perfect for the kind of 3 film arc Hollywood loves. In that arc (from a show that contained a LOT of plot arcs over it's 5 year run) you have a handsome bachelor who is a member of a rich family, and his older brother--who is also his best friend---who are awaiting the arrival of the woman (Josette) that he met while on a business trip to the Caribbean Island of Martinique--a branch of the French Empire. Arriving a week or so before her employer's family, Angelique (Josette's personal maid) falls in love with Barnabas. Unknown to Barnabas and his family, Angelique is a witch. She uses spells to bring Barnabas to the realization that she will be his wife. She is not social climbing, but is in fact actually in love with him. This could be the first film. Second film would deal with the arrival of Josette to Barnabas' family home--Collinwood. It is then that Angelique uses her magic to cause Josette to fall in love with Barnabas' brother--Jerimiah, and he with her. They know that what they are doing is wrong, but under Angelique's spell neither of them can do anything, so they elope. Upon their return, a humiliated Barnabas challenges his own brother to a duel, and when the day arrives, Barnabas kills his brother, and Josette goes into depression as the spell upon her breaks, and she realizes that she actually still loves Barnabas but having given her virginity to his brother, and having been the cause of Jerimiah's death. In the third film, Angelique's plans and schemes come to fruition as Barnabas--against the will of his domineering father--marries the maid, and sets about trying to get her accepted in high society. Living in the old house--given to Barnabas as a wedding present by his mother--the pair are unhappy, as Barnabas knows that Angelique took advantage of his grief and used a spell on his baby sister--which threatened her life--to get him to marry her. Threatening to leave her, once the truth finally comes out, Angelique assures him there is nowhere he can go that her magic won't force him back to her. He shoots to kill her, and as she lays dying upon the floor, Angelique sets the curse that will see Barnabas transformed into a vampire. That is a small version of the plot for 3 films, but I suggest it would be better than anything being put out today.
I've seen a couple of videos in my feed now about this movie, and have ignored them so far, but when I saw you had put up a review of it, I decided to satisfy my mild curiosity about it. I am fully aware that The Batman was a fairly intense piece of Underworldish black leather clad emo fetishism that felt like it had been brought forward in time from the turn of the century, and was able to enjoy it regardless. However, part of that was due to the fact that Batman has always been my favourite comic book character, and part of it was due to the fact that I also have a serious weakness for latinas in particular, and Zoe Kravitz vicariously scratched that itch quite effectively. I've already mentioned my childhood interest in ghosts, and probably the fact that Egon Spengler was a major role model; Ghostbusters came out when I was six years old. That interest naturally led into study of other areas of the paranormal, including vampires, werewolves, cryptozoology, and ufology. Werewolves have always been the weaker twin of the vampire archetype. They have never really been independent of vampires to my knowledge. If I made the analogy of a music concert, vampires would be the headline act, while the werewolves might be allowed to perform a song at the beginning, and maybe one at the end. They're the second fiddle and the runt, and most of their action is motivated by their resentment of that. So for me, a film about a werewolf is unlikely to be very interesting; if only because, paradoxically speaking, for me a werewolf is actually a painfully mundane and ordinary thing. Werewolves are probably the single most pedestrian type of mythological creature in existence. You're essentially talking about a man who turns into a large and exceptionally vicious dog, on roughly the same timetable that women experience menstruation. Now that I think about it, there are some disturbing implications, here. But I digress. Your point is well made; that although some would argue it had already happened a while ago, it seems that the capeshit genre has now, finally, irrefutably reached the point of senescence. One wonders if the poor creature will ever be permitted to die; or if it will be condemned to the same unspeakable fate as Star Wars. A corpse suspended by puppet strings, and subjected to periodic jolts of hundreds of volts of electricity, in order to fool the credulous into believing that there is still a small flicker of life left in it.
I’m not sure where the link between vampires and werewolves originated. I think there are some old European myths that hold either that one becomes the other if not burned (eg werewolves, if not burned, return to life and “vampirically”) feast on the blood of soldiers), or else that they are fundamentally the same thing. I’d not be surprised, though, if it’s not the equivalent of Aliens vs Predator. Two impressive concepts unrelated at first but meshed together by film companies and establishing a kind of canon lore that’s now just accepted as if it was ever thus.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Universal certainly had a role to play with their early Dracula and the Wolf Man cinematic teamups, but I think the connection is older than that, although I'm not entirely certain about its' origins. My only real theory on the subject is that the Baltic states in particular can get both exceptionally cold and equally scary at night; and that prior to both science and electricity, there would have been a very extensive, and at times confused, popular mythological library about nocturnal things which needed to be kept outside. I've seen lycanthropy traced to a combination of the natural fear of wolves, and a couple of odd cases of humans with iron deficiency anemia; and stranger things have happened.
Old vamp myths also link them being able to turn into wolves. So that and werewolves returning to life as vampires is fascinating and a old link as well. But Ireland also has there version of a werewolf ones thats whole purpose is to protect the lost and weak and they always come in a pairs and fought alongside kings.
A word on method acting- as Sir Lawrence Olivier once said to Dustin Hoffman after he kept himself awake for two straight days to film a scene where the character had been awake for two straight days and appeared on set exhausted and delirious, Lawrence looked at him and said "Can't you just act?"
The Incredible Hulk is ok. Far better than what we have now. I liked Banner on the run being hunted down, living as a drifter/ hobo type character. Seems like there was plenty to work with. 🤔 🤷♂️
I will be forever disappointed that we didn't get another Hulk movie after Avengers. One of the most interesting storylines (Bruce and Hulk merging) happened offscreen while another (Planet Hulk) was cannibized by the awful Thor Ragnarok.
Imagine my shock when I made it through most of the video only to discover that the guy in the clips that I dubbed Discount Jared Leto was Actual Jared Leto.
I only know of Morbius due to Spider-Man the Animated Series, and even as a kid I found him particularly boring for as much time as the show spent on him. I've never heard anyone recommend a comic the character was in either, and I think it's rather telling that Spider-Man has ANOTHER vampire villain in Morlun who is used much more. I'm to understand that he is also not terribly compelling, nor is his family of likewise one note characters, but they at least tend to be trundled out for an excuse to do a Spiderverse plot. You'd think that Sony would aim for doing something like that with Tobey and Andrew as opposed to just making a movie about a character most people probably don't care about if they're even aware of him. At the very least, you could've given someone like Kraven the Hunter a movie instead.
Intense method actors are USUALLY compensating for their own lack of understanding on how to do a decent job in the first place. They seem to think if people can physically see their preparation, then everyone will get how deep and seriously they’re taking it. But more often than not, it’s bred from the actors own insecurities regarding their ability. I’m not saying method is useless, there are some situations that will be foreign to some, so a small amount of immersion to draw upon in the future can be immensely helpful. But we know you can walk on crutches Jared. If you need to use them 24 hours a day to remember how to do it properly when the director calls “action” then you’re probably just not very good 🤷♂️
My best friend and I watched this one evening and had a fantastic time. When you go in knowing it's bad (and watch it for that reason) it's so much fun.
Morbius, for better or worse, is a piece of cinematic history. Because it's the first time a whole studio was gaslit into thinking their flop was beloved unironically
I still do not understand the whole meme thing. I seen the memes, just did not get why people were doing this at all.
@@SwiftNimblefoot
It’s sort of a satirical protest of the direction superhero movies have largely been taking for a while now. So when Morbius gets announced and it looks like the most generic of generic shlock edgy superhero films, the internet, as it tends to do, decided to fuck with it, and started praising the film as the best film ever made, even though it was clear it was terrible.
@@SwiftNimblefoot online sarcasm it was so bad an full of negative reviews the only way to stand out was to be like “nah best movie “ and the joke ran it up so much idk who saw the trending but didn’t see the content an green light this dumpster fire twice
I don't think even Ghostbusters 2016 was first in that category.
@@SwiftNimblefoot You should've "Been there". When New Artifact DLC: Morbius hit the streaming scene.
Morbius with praticular crowd is a banger.
The funny thing is when blade came out, the advertisement was not "he's the first black superhero so if you don't like this, you're a rac*st" it was he's half vampire and half human and he hunt vampires, us "cool" I mean we're not blind, we can see that he's black, we just don't care and judge the film to be either good or bad, and it was a damn good film
To quote the bard. "It's morbin time".
That was the only good part. If the whole movie upheld that quality we would all be craving Oscars
To be fair to Morbius, it was one of very few Marvel films in recent years where the protagonist was legitimately horrified at the loss of innocent lives, and actively tried to save lives. It already rocketed high above Phase 4 for that alone.
It’s super generous to call it a Marvel film, knowing it’s made by Sony and has no relevant connection to the MCU
"Performative profundity" is the perfect summary of Jared Leto. I don't think he "method acts" to enhance his performance, I think he does it to give himself the airs of a tortured artist suffering for his art. It demonstrates a dumb, shallow, superficial and frankly childish understanding of what it means to be an actor; I would compare it to someone putting on a beret and a black and white striped shirt to prove how much of a genius painter they are.
If Leto could act, he wouldn't have to put this much effort into acting like an actor.
Oh my God... please, take more of my thoughts on Leto right out of my head. Dude fuckin sucks as a actor. I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that asshole basically drags down every single thing he's in.
There’s a scene in Alexander, Colin Farrell and Leto are on a balcony conversing. You can see, feel and taste the reality of the offering- the pair of them are coked out of their minds (CF essentially cannot recall making the film or Miami Vice) and both, Leto in particular, believe to their cores that this is an Oscar worthy duet. This is the scene that’ll be remembered.
It’s total cringe.
There's two ways for a movie to be bad: it can have a lot of elements that are bad or it can simply lack anything that's good. I'm at an age now where, in many ways, the movies I dislike the most are the ones where there is simply an absence of good. That's the main reason why I called Mulan 2020 the worst movie I had seen that year. It's not that there was a lot of stuff that was cringingly bad but there was nothing good about. There was not one character that I found interesting, not one minute where I had the slightest investment in what was going on.
Definitely. I enjoyed attacking Multiverse of Madness much more than I did reviewing this film. Multiverse was positively bad in a great many ways. Morbius was soul-crushingly pointless
I would actually argue that Mulan 2020 did both. It managed to simultaneously have nothing good AND add in the woefully bad at the same time. The original message of the movie was stripped from it, leaving in the thematic and iconic things that made the original great to fall flat as imitations due to the removal of the substance. And yet it also added things that were objectively and narratively bad like the witch, the phoenix that showed up for no reason to "guide" Mulan, and the inclusion of chi to make Mulan simply good at everything because ancient Chinese magic (which is at once racist AND sexist). Mulan 2020, in my honest opinion, is both a movie that adds nothing to a beloved classic AND does active harm to the target audience.
Basically... apathy is worse than hatred. Both love and hate are still passion, but apathy is just nothing.
“Try ACTING my boy, it’s so much easier”
-Sir Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman (another method “actor”) on the set of Marathon Man
Jared Leto's best "method acting" was getting beaten up to a pulp by Ed Norton in Fight Club. That was great!
Dude sucks as an actor. He lent literally nothing to Fight Club and beyond that, he's never been in anything good.
Fun fact: jared leto took his method acting so far he actually turned into a vampire for this role
He discussed his role in detail with Nicholas Cage, it seems. :P
@@SwiftNimblefoot they discussed it while Nic was chasing the pidgeon it seems
Pfft he already looked like he ate babies.
He is as method as late Marlon Brando. Everybody hates him and think, he is self-centered dick.
Anything besides his Joker. Stop it Jared.
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Very kind. A guy can dream!
Do you need a second to get your tongue out of his arse lad?
@@TheLittlePlatoon I'm so happy for your dream came to life. Keep up the good work, dear Sir.
He really is one of the best at this
@@ZEFFENWULF I fully agree , Platoon wears that ill-fitted black hood and drags a heavy axe with the best of em. His very public executions in the internets village square feels more like a beautifully grotesque Shakespeare play than some random brute lopping off heads into a bloodstained wicker basket but is no less brutal in its delivery and display. This man deserves all the success coming his way. that's for sure.
I feel like no one is committed to writing as art anymore.
Apparently not, no.
That's because they're self-consciously thinking "I'm a writer, I'm an _artist!"_
being a character actor requires tapping into something jared either does not understand, or just doesn't have it inside him.
it's like when zuckerberg tries to act human: it comes out just cold, creepy and borderline uncanny.
😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Movies like this continue to make me appreciate movies like 12 Angry Men. Simple setting, simple premise. Just actors actually acting and telling a story. Either the Jack Lemmon or Henry Fonda are examples of not needing flash over substance
Massive film. Fuggin classic.
It was also greatly dubbed, at least for my language.
I struggle to understand how it could be so hard to do a vampire protagonist. Look at vampires: the masquerade, or even a web serial like a Journey of Black and Red on royalroad... it can be done, it can be cool, bloody, 18+ rated. They can be great protagonist, even ones you root for, even keeping their villanous traits.
Bale drops 20kg+, goes back up to 82kg, gets to 84kg (from memory), eats a can of tuna and an apple a day, loses another 20kg+ then beefs up to 94kg's. That timeline is off the top of my head but you get the point.
An actor that really takes his characters seriously and is good at acting, the opposite of Leto.
Thank you for that shout out to BLADE! Mfkz pretend like that never happened . Black Panter to Blade is like Beyonce to Amil Laruex and Amerie, it'ts less talented but with a bigger budget ,more weave and make-up it's able to suck up the goddamn air!
I remember playing the Tobey McGuire inspired spider-man 3 game on ps-2 when I was a kid and wondering why the hell there was a random vampire involved in the plot. The lizard was explained later. But it wasn't until I didn't watch Morbius that I was like "OH!!! THATS WHY THERE WAS A VAMPIRE IN THE GAME!!!!"
Nobody wanted Guardians of the Galaxy really... and I think they knew that. What did they do? They worked on the script over and over till it was awesome. Morbius on the other hand... felt like it was wrote by eighth graders. I didn't think anything could be worse than Vemon 2 but damn I was wrong.
No, they gave guardians of the Galaxy to a director who actually respected the source material
Venom 2 was at least dumb spectacle. I liked it when the CGI slippery boys were fighting each other. It wasn’t GOOD, but it had moments I remembered 30 minutes after finishing the movie, unlike Morbius.
Honestly, Morbius's biggest issue was that it's a cookie-cutter Phase One Marvel movie going through the motions, but in a completely different media landscape. Clumsy establishing scenes, then the main character gets superpowers, then it's scenes explaining the superpowers and setting up the one odd power/quirk that will turn the tide in the finale, then the antagonist is created from an established character close to the protagonist and they have the same powers as the hero, then the hero gets seemingly defeated, but he somehow pulls through, we get a big action-climax, and then the established quirk saves the day, and then we have an after-credits scene to build hype.
The movie literally goes through the same beats as the original Iron Man, just without the charming and relatable characters, but with meaningless horror and action sequences and a straight up unsatisfying ending. It's trying so, so hard to recapture the old spark, but the ones working on the movie doesn't seem to understand what made those Phase One movies special, and just try to vaguely imitate them.
When morbius stood up and looked directly at the camera and said “its morbin time” my theatre went fucking WILD
I’m still here at the theater the standing ovation never stopped , I miss my family
@@TeamBOBBYEE those who stopped clapping first were executed
The only thing missing from the review was Dan Aykroyd's "Bad Cinema" host Leonard Pynth-Garnell leaning over from the seat behind you and remarking, "There... That wasn't so good now, was it?"
It used to be that Hollywood's Golden Rule was that everyone wanted to be first to be second. These days, they're OK with being within the first 200 and really, who cares about profits when we're talking about works of art like Morbius, am I right? And so we're presented with endless cinema sequels, derivatives, and reboots, with the vast majority of them produced by writers, directors, and producers who haven't a clue on what made the first efforts successful. Comics have seen a similar decline, where the bulk of the traditional readers of comics pine for a return of last century's excellence even as the today's creators seem convinced a Deep Thought is anything that requires more than 280 characters.
I’ll have to add that to the clip bank!
Yeah, I'm sick of seeing guys spinning around on bloody wires....cheers.
Thankyou so much for saying what I have been saying for years now about Jared Leto. He's a complete flake and I haven't the slightest idea why people even give him the time of day.
Because he's married to who he's married. I think there's a name for those kinds of leeches
He is not a bad actor and not a bad choice to play Morbius actually. And the character is great and a movie about him has lots of potential. But it was just a souless cynical product by executives.
@@CabezasDePescado Sure, if you put every actor in history on a scale, he's not on the low side but it always looks like he's being artsy just for the sake of it rather than for great results.
He makes method acting look overrated (which it might actually is).
If Jared Leto has to kill an ant with a nuke, there are many other actors who can kill an elephant by just pinching it.
@@CabezasDePescado incorrect... he fucking sucks as an actor. He's essentially an better looking Nic Cage. He keeps getting work somehow despite the fact that he can't fucking act. He's never been in anything good outside of Fight Club, and he had literally nothing to do with why that film was good.
I would comment on how "this video is infinitely better written than Morbius", but I can't bring myself to do so, because it's not fair to this video to be compared to Morbius
Also I'm still holding out hope for a third theatrical release, so I don't want to tear the artists down too much (as it is, in fact, morbin time)
I've got a soft spot for Hawkeye; he's vulnerable to the supernatural (like Loki's sceptre), but he's talented, tough, and self aware of his role in the Avengers. From what I've heard, D+ did him dirty.
If they had introduced him in a mystery killer style like the 90s Spider-Man cartoon introduced him, they could've saved money on budget and given it the adult/gritty feel that mightve drawn a wider audience. Swing and a miss 😓
Loving your content. Your fair and constructive in your criticism
Personally i waited for this movie for years and it delivered on every expectation. Its the greatest piece of cinema ive ver seen.
Yeah I loved when morbious said its morbin time and morbed everyone
@@L0L246 please….no morb…morb jokes
@@-MrFozzy- It’s already too late
You are suposed to see the movie, not the cinema
Morbius is truly the best comedy of 2022.
I feel Morbius was a perfectly serviceable origin story for an antihero. Unfortunately, we have seen too many such stories already. This came out at a bad time.
“Method acting” aka when the script and characters arent good enough to just represent so you make people cart you to the toilet, even daniel day lewis made people cart him around for his dumb leg movie, this adds what to the audience experience? Nothing. It inflates the actors ego making them think their life actually has meaning
Thanks for saving me from this film. Also Venom gets a lot better if you just start it at the point Brock is breaking into the lab, ignoring everything else before this, it becomes okay to maybe good.
"this movie is good if you ignore the parts that are bad" it can be applied to anything and it's quite literally the opposite of "good"
@@pascalsimioli6777 What I mean about venom is that, curiously, the first half hour is garbage and unrelated to the rest of the film. If they just cut that it's actually quite good. Yes, the total of the film is bad, but if you want to enjoy it, just cut the bit at the beginnning.
New subscriber here! Big fan of your work!
Thanks for confirming my fears for this film.
You’re welcome, and we’re glad to have you!
Gotta confess I unironically love Underworld. It's style grabbed me as a teen and just sticks with me.
No sequel to Dredd, but apparently there’s a sequel to Morbius on the way
When I saw the interview with Matt smith and the interviewer asked if he’d do a morbius 2 or doctor who again, when he said “oh doctor who, any day. Doctor who’s the coolest show”. That just reinforced my love for Matt!
noooiceeee . we need more niche
seriously happy to find more well scripted reviews and rants especially by someone who's has taste
I was going through opiate withdrawals when this movie came out, and felt like hell. But watching this movie managed to make me feel worse.
I literally can't remember if I watched this movie or another long form review of it...
The morbterpiece cannot truly be appericated, until, one unlocked the 5th dimensional speech within their mind and ascend. Truly a ∞ out of Morbfinity.
Morbius was almost presented as the next villain in the fist blade movie
Mad respect for dropping Derezzed in as background music. Love that soundtrack.
I just see joker as a vampire in 30 seconds to mars!
"Like the lettuce on a Big Mac" is a perfect summation of the movie.
I liked Morbius as a Vampire monster movie... As an MCU film? HAHAHAHA um no... It never was that to me. It was like a superhero film, in that BLADE (the one we're supposed to forget) was ALSO in the same universe.
You know a film is bad when Venom (2018) dwarfs it in quality
I rather watch venom over this for next 10 years. It was dumb fun.
I gave Leto credit in that he actually looks like morbius
It's Morbin time
I wish you would voice an audiobook; your accent, rhythm and candor are like velvet in my ear
I thought Morbius was so cool… when I saw him in Spiderman The Animated Series!
I had never heard of him prior to the cartoon and thought they did a great introduction for the uninitiated. The writers of this movie should've taken pointers.
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I didn’t like the trailer so figured I wouldn’t like the movie… well now I know 🤣
8:25 Shhh, you don't need to tell our secrets to everybody like that.
Brilliant LP. Thank you for this.
There are sooooo many Marvel characters that could use a movie. SOOOO many Marvel properties that would be incredible on film... and they chose Morbius.
The few trailers I've seen put me off.
BTW, Subbed. (I thought I was already, LOL.)
Better late than never!
As one of the few people this movie was made for (I actually have read several Morbius comics, ranging from his first appearance to modern day), I have a few observations.
What seems to have happend as far as the story is that someone read the second Spider-Man issue he was in (which has his origin story) and the first issue of the Morbius series that was released in 1992. The boat came out of that second issue, and it shows as the best part of that movie since they lifted it out of the comic. It seems to have taken the aesthetic and gang related foes from the 2010's run, which is a mistake. Those were not very interesting whatsoever, and Morbius always did better fighting cults and demons, or even random assorted street thugs and monsters, rather than gangs.
The time gap between the 92 run and first appearance is the reason why his fiancé's death feels so hollow. That happened jn the 92 issue, after 2 decades of history between the two characters involving them trying to save each other. He tries saving her from various cults and bad ends, and she actively goes after him trying to cure his condition. In fact, that was what she was trying to do when she died. This is the person that Morbius loves so much, that when he gets a wish granting maguffin, at the cost of his soul he brings her back to life. What should've been a high emotional point for the character was rendered little more than a footnote in the movie due to Jared Leto's and the other actress' performances and lines. They have no chemistry either.
Matt's character was never in the comics. They should've just cut the middle man and made his friend Emile (the mentor in this film) the bad guy, and save his death for the end. That way there's more time for their relationship and less time wasted overall.
They also tried to make Morbius quippy, which is antithetical to the character. He is one of Spider-Man's more deadly foes partially because he doesn't engage in banter, he does not get mad and lose his cool. He's one of the few villains that give Spider-Man nightmares. Having him joke is like having Spock quip: its jarring.
Overall they should've done this film in the style of an old universal monster movie, instead of a 2000's superhero film, played up the emotional strings and nightmare scenario, onky to have him somewhat control it in the final act. If that was not available, they couldve at least made it batsh*t insane like the 70's comics, where he gets kidnapped by cat people, bites into someone only to find out that they are an android, and have to get of a planet of suicidal mutants. If they desperately needed a blueprint, there was Darkman, and the 90's Spider-Man cartoon which stayed true to the original character with minor deviations. Instead we got a generic, boring movie.
I didn't even want him to have a solo movie, I just wanted him to be a villain in a Spider-Man movie or a Blade movie. He was going to be in Blade 2. Or just make a Legion of Monsters movie. Who thought it was a good idea to give him a solo?!
Word?
I wanted that movie for years but didn't want it to suck so much
I know the studios want a new Twilight series, and I know, too, that they love remakes or revivals, or requels, so, why haven't they looked back into the old TV series Dark Shadows? The Barnabas/Angelique/Josette plot would be perfect for the kind of 3 film arc Hollywood loves. In that arc (from a show that contained a LOT of plot arcs over it's 5 year run) you have a handsome bachelor who is a member of a rich family, and his older brother--who is also his best friend---who are awaiting the arrival of the woman (Josette) that he met while on a business trip to the Caribbean Island of Martinique--a branch of the French Empire. Arriving a week or so before her employer's family, Angelique (Josette's personal maid) falls in love with Barnabas. Unknown to Barnabas and his family, Angelique is a witch. She uses spells to bring Barnabas to the realization that she will be his wife. She is not social climbing, but is in fact actually in love with him. This could be the first film. Second film would deal with the arrival of Josette to Barnabas' family home--Collinwood. It is then that Angelique uses her magic to cause Josette to fall in love with Barnabas' brother--Jerimiah, and he with her. They know that what they are doing is wrong, but under Angelique's spell neither of them can do anything, so they elope. Upon their return, a humiliated Barnabas challenges his own brother to a duel, and when the day arrives, Barnabas kills his brother, and Josette goes into depression as the spell upon her breaks, and she realizes that she actually still loves Barnabas but having given her virginity to his brother, and having been the cause of Jerimiah's death. In the third film, Angelique's plans and schemes come to fruition as Barnabas--against the will of his domineering father--marries the maid, and sets about trying to get her accepted in high society. Living in the old house--given to Barnabas as a wedding present by his mother--the pair are unhappy, as Barnabas knows that Angelique took advantage of his grief and used a spell on his baby sister--which threatened her life--to get him to marry her. Threatening to leave her, once the truth finally comes out, Angelique assures him there is nowhere he can go that her magic won't force him back to her. He shoots to kill her, and as she lays dying upon the floor, Angelique sets the curse that will see Barnabas transformed into a vampire. That is a small version of the plot for 3 films, but I suggest it would be better than anything being put out today.
I've seen a couple of videos in my feed now about this movie, and have ignored them so far, but when I saw you had put up a review of it, I decided to satisfy my mild curiosity about it.
I am fully aware that The Batman was a fairly intense piece of Underworldish black leather clad emo fetishism that felt like it had been brought forward in time from the turn of the century, and was able to enjoy it regardless. However, part of that was due to the fact that Batman has always been my favourite comic book character, and part of it was due to the fact that I also have a serious weakness for latinas in particular, and Zoe Kravitz vicariously scratched that itch quite effectively.
I've already mentioned my childhood interest in ghosts, and probably the fact that Egon Spengler was a major role model; Ghostbusters came out when I was six years old. That interest naturally led into study of other areas of the paranormal, including vampires, werewolves, cryptozoology, and ufology.
Werewolves have always been the weaker twin of the vampire archetype. They have never really been independent of vampires to my knowledge. If I made the analogy of a music concert, vampires would be the headline act, while the werewolves might be allowed to perform a song at the beginning, and maybe one at the end. They're the second fiddle and the runt, and most of their action is motivated by their resentment of that.
So for me, a film about a werewolf is unlikely to be very interesting; if only because, paradoxically speaking, for me a werewolf is actually a painfully mundane and ordinary thing. Werewolves are probably the single most pedestrian type of mythological creature in existence. You're essentially talking about a man who turns into a large and exceptionally vicious dog, on roughly the same timetable that women experience menstruation. Now that I think about it, there are some disturbing implications, here.
But I digress. Your point is well made; that although some would argue it had already happened a while ago, it seems that the capeshit genre has now, finally, irrefutably reached the point of senescence. One wonders if the poor creature will ever be permitted to die; or if it will be condemned to the same unspeakable fate as Star Wars. A corpse suspended by puppet strings, and subjected to periodic jolts of hundreds of volts of electricity, in order to fool the credulous into believing that there is still a small flicker of life left in it.
I’m not sure where the link between vampires and werewolves originated. I think there are some old European myths that hold either that one becomes the other if not burned (eg werewolves, if not burned, return to life and “vampirically”) feast on the blood of soldiers), or else that they are fundamentally the same thing.
I’d not be surprised, though, if it’s not the equivalent of Aliens vs Predator. Two impressive concepts unrelated at first but meshed together by film companies and establishing a kind of canon lore that’s now just accepted as if it was ever thus.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Universal certainly had a role to play with their early Dracula and the Wolf Man cinematic teamups, but I think the connection is older than that, although I'm not entirely certain about its' origins.
My only real theory on the subject is that the Baltic states in particular can get both exceptionally cold and equally scary at night; and that prior to both science and electricity, there would have been a very extensive, and at times confused, popular mythological library about nocturnal things which needed to be kept outside. I've seen lycanthropy traced to a combination of the natural fear of wolves, and a couple of odd cases of humans with iron deficiency anemia; and stranger things have happened.
Old vamp myths also link them being able to turn into wolves. So that and werewolves returning to life as vampires is fascinating and a old link as well. But Ireland also has there version of a werewolf ones thats whole purpose is to protect the lost and weak and they always come in a pairs and fought alongside kings.
What's the Daft Punk song at 17:00?
Derezzed
In other words:
It's never time for Morbi'n Time.
8:23 "Secretly miss large parts of it"?
Dude. Don't diss Underworld, it was awesome (though, certainly a product of it's time).
A word on method acting- as Sir Lawrence Olivier once said to Dustin Hoffman after he kept himself awake for two straight days to film a scene where the character had been awake for two straight days and appeared on set exhausted and delirious, Lawrence looked at him and said
"Can't you just act?"
Call of Duty Morbin Warfare.
I forgot about this channel. I saw you on Drinkers channel and forget to subscribe. Iguess it’s safe to say now….. SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!!!
I find the lack of morbin' memes here to be.. fitting.
But I've fed the beast already.. I'm afraid it's morbin' time.
I will never cringe about having been a part of the goth scene for twenty years.
A post cocaine come down. I didn't feel that ashamed after watching it LOL
The Incredible Hulk is ok. Far better than what we have now. I liked Banner on the run being hunted down, living as a drifter/ hobo type character. Seems like there was plenty to work with. 🤔 🤷♂️
I will be forever disappointed that we didn't get another Hulk movie after Avengers. One of the most interesting storylines (Bruce and Hulk merging) happened offscreen while another (Planet Hulk) was cannibized by the awful Thor Ragnarok.
Imagine my shock when I made it through most of the video only to discover that the guy in the clips that I dubbed Discount Jared Leto was Actual Jared Leto.
The true irony is Morbius is better than any Disney MCU offering since Avengers Endgame.
Omg the cocaine comedown reference was fucking too
Tier 😂😂😂😂😂
Shit had me rolling.
I knew I liked you, when you quoted Heinlein I knew why.
I’ve known of the Marvel character for years, but when I hear the name still default in memory to the antagonist of Forbidden Planet (1956).
The movie nobody wanted. -LP
Hold my Bud Light. - The Marvels
Leto played with Collin F. in Alexander The Great and ever since homie thinks of himself as Shakespeare.......................
In France, there's a cheese called Morbier. From the moment I have seen the title, I knew that it could only stink :)
I only know of Morbius due to Spider-Man the Animated Series, and even as a kid I found him particularly boring for as much time as the show spent on him. I've never heard anyone recommend a comic the character was in either, and I think it's rather telling that Spider-Man has ANOTHER vampire villain in Morlun who is used much more. I'm to understand that he is also not terribly compelling, nor is his family of likewise one note characters, but they at least tend to be trundled out for an excuse to do a Spiderverse plot. You'd think that Sony would aim for doing something like that with Tobey and Andrew as opposed to just making a movie about a character most people probably don't care about if they're even aware of him. At the very least, you could've given someone like Kraven the Hunter a movie instead.
Intense method actors are USUALLY compensating for their own lack of understanding on how to do a decent job in the first place.
They seem to think if people can physically see their preparation, then everyone will get how deep and seriously they’re taking it.
But more often than not, it’s bred from the actors own insecurities regarding their ability.
I’m not saying method is useless, there are some situations that will be foreign to some, so a small amount of immersion to draw upon in the future can be immensely helpful.
But we know you can walk on crutches Jared. If you need to use them 24 hours a day to remember how to do it properly when the director calls “action” then you’re probably just not very good 🤷♂️
It says a lot that the best and most memorable I've seen Jared Leto was getting his face bashed in by Edward Norton 🤣
They should all end with the epic breakdance fight
I think what anesthetizes me more than anything is the cheap TV style cinematography and editing. Nothing worthy of a big screen at all.
I was playing Tron Evolution and had whiplash when Derezzed was playing
My best friend and I watched this one evening and had a fantastic time. When you go in knowing it's bad (and watch it for that reason) it's so much fun.
Morbius is what you get when you ask Ubisoft to make a Marvel movie.
In response to your Doctor Strange question; the CGI was absolutely terrible. As was the film.
Great Review 👍
you had to use that clip from the fly while im eating cereal....you bastard XD
Is Morbius really worse than Eternals?
Underworld is totally a guilty pleasure of mine.
We really ought to have sent Leto back to 30 Seconds to Mars years ago.
I have a soft spot for Underworld 1, 2 and Rise
I personally think Jared Leto’s best work is 30 Seconds to Mars, his music is a lot better than is acting.
Leto should put the dress back on and go back to Dallas, his best role.
I had only ever heard and seen morbius in the 90’s Spider-Man cartoon
I love Douglas Murray!
Morbius is so good I cleaned up my house
Now they are doing another one, and I expect the same results 😅 (Kraven the hunter). the funny thing is that they expect a different result.
I adore the stereotype that all men that sound like this know each other.
Come for the critique, stay for the slay.
Remember when vampires, good or evil, were scary? Me either.