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| Images courtesy Sony Films |
Over the last decade or so, the trend has advanced and they’ve become more than just atypical battles between good and evil. They've transcended into a pop culture phenomenon and take major creative risks at times. Serious topics and themes have become part of the cinematic comic book landscape raising our expectations and connections to characters and their heroics and/or struggles.
On the opposing end is Sony, a major company that’s so enamored with the financial aspect of their contracted Marvel characters that they’ve lost all semblance of story telling and traded it for terrible looking computer generated snooze fests that feature no dynamics or creative ideas. Morbius is a defining moment for them, one so bad its existence is nearly unbelievable. Sure, it has some excellent sound design and the score isn’t half bad but that’s just not enough especially after two years of delays. They had time to fix this mess. But they didn’t. They literally chose to not make a good movie. And that's sad for all involved.
Their latest film, Morbius is a remnant of the late '90s or early 2000’s that has no plot other than the ethical fight between Morbius and his lifelong friend. It presents nothing new to the genre as it takes ten steps backwards by coddling old school ideas and never pushing any new themes or ideas. It’s all setup for a sequel or continuation that will most likely never come.
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| This movie is making me go sleepy time. |
Whether you like Jared Leto or not, the man has done some fine roles and is known as a hardcore method actor. The unfortunate part of Morbius is that they give him nothing to work with. There’s no luster, no formative arc, and only a base line script that calls back to the beginning days of this genre when most of these types of films were laughable at best, paying no respect for the artists that originated these characters. And to be honest, did Morbius really ever have enough depth to make that transition to film?
With Sony still holding rights to so many of the Spider-Man characters, it’s going to be a long time watching them mangle and destroy as much as they can with no due diligence in creating a respectable universe for them to exist in. To say the Venom movies are even way better than this Morbius dreck is a cast understatement. At least those took a “so bad it’s good” stance and were mildly entertaining. Morbius just checks boxes for its entire length, marking off each expected plot point as it goes. There is nothing remarkable or creative about this feature film. Leto and Smith flounder against awful CGI and sets and scenes that have no depth or realism.
If you're looking for bad, this is the definition of the word.
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