So how bad was Morbius?

If you’ve made it to the theaters in the past week or two, you know there has been quite a bit of buzz about how Morbius performed and, well, just how it was in general. And honestly, if you haven’t seen it yet, I’m sure you have been seeing it all over social media and probably trying to figure out if it’s worth going to see. I will never be an advocate of not seeing a Marvel or Marvel-adjacent film, but I will just say that maybe consider saving your money for MoM and waiting for Morbius to come out on streaming platforms. Just a small piece of advice if you haven’t seen it yet. But of course, we have watched it and are here to give you all our thoughts and feelings about the film and its’ bigger repercussions. You can catch the full podcast episode by clicking the link below, or clicking the button to find your preferred listening platform.

I think the first thing that desperately needs to be talked about is the end credit scenes. After the film’s release, it came out that Kevin Feige had not been talked to about the end credit scenes, which I think was pretty obvious. Sony has, for better or worse (but aiming towards worse) screwed with the continuity of Marvel’s films, as they have created holes that we didn’t have until right this moment. Going into this film, we knew it would be interesting since the Vulture from Tom’s universe was already seen in the trailer. Which then became the whole of two end credit scenes, so that was already sort of annoying. But the concept that somehow Vulture came over from Tom’s universe makes no sense when Marvel explicitly said that everyone who knew Peter Parker was Spider-Man came over to Tom’s universe, not the other way around. And as Morbius showed, it seems that he is the only one that came into that universe from elsewhere. To make matters worse, Morbius confirmed that he is in the Venom-verse, which means that Venom went over to Tom’s universe too and STILL somehow Vulture came over to Morbius’. Then there’s the whole factor that when the spell was reversed Vulture didn’t return like everyone else did (or at least that we know of).

The last big issue with this is we have no confirmation that there is a Spider-Man in this universe either at the moment or coming in the future. This means Vulture teaming up with Morbius to fight Spider-Man makes nearly zero sense when Morbius has absolutely no beef with someone who he doesn’t even know. Now, of course, this means Spider-Man may make an appearance later, as either Tom’s, which would somehow mean Vulture and Morbius come to him or vice versa, or through another Spider-Man, such as Andrew or Miles Morales. The biggest reason Tom’s universe doesn’t make sense is solely because we did the Multiverse with him, and the Multiverse isn’t going to stay open forever. If anybody is going to travel anywhere, it needs to be ASAP. Could this be Andrew finally getting his third film? I literally have no clue I’m just throwing it out there for everyone. And lastly for Miles, once again, I have no clue what could happen, but like I said, this universe doesn’t have a Spidey yet (to our knowledge) so it could be really cool to introduce him here.

Another personal issue for me was the messy CGI. The worst of the CGI could be seen in the super awkward slow-mo shots that maybe could’ve been cool if the CGI was based in 2022 and not the early 2000s. It just was strange and made an already ‘meh’ movie just hard to get through. I will say that I thought it was cool how they went about showing some of Morbius’ powers, such as the echolocation and his flight abilities. It allowed the audience to really jump into the powers with him and know when they were being used. But like I said, had the CGI been better, I think it could have pulled the audience in more.

The plot was a typical Sony plot, which I predicted from the get-go in our predictions episode. The best part was prior to the newest trailer release, you actually didn’t fully know the plot. Sony, in the heat of trying to give this movie additional hype, actually spoiled the plot completely, making it so there were near to no surprise moments. His best friend is the bad guy, easy to see coming, and him becoming a vampire too? Done. You weren’t going to have a Sony anti-hero movie where the hero didn’t fight a foe that was him just evil (now is the moment to think about Venom and Venom 2). Then the whole girlfriend bit? Ah, let me get to that in one second. Regardless, everything about the film was like checking plot boxes, it didn’t give anything new and certainly didn’t take the audience on a ride with it. Instead, I sat there checking my watch, praying the film would end.

I said I would get to it and I keep my word. So the girlfriend (and no I didn’t pay enough attention to remember her name) becomes a vampire. Whoopeedoo. The issue is how they introduced it as if the people behind this film really looked at it and were like, yup we need to make another. Not to mention, it was introduced the exact same way they introduced the next foe at the end of Venom 2. Once again, we love the uniqueness of the film. I’m not sure we should be looking towards a sequel, as this film didn’t do great enough on its own to warrant a second one.

Now, we go a lot more in-depth with all of these ideas in the full podcast episode, so please make sure to listen to it to really understand our thoughts and feelings. After reading this, I’m sure you’re sitting there thinking Morbius is the worst film to ever exist. And honestly, it isn’t, but as an MCU-adjacent film, it certainly falls around Incredible Hulk. But it’s okay, as we will move forward from it to an actual MCU film and probably one of the most hyped films ever: MoM. I hope everyone has gotten their tickets since it premieres in less than three weeks! Also, continue to keep up with MoonKnight as it premieres every Wednesday. With all this content, Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

Image: “Morbius”, Molly Freeman, ScreenRant