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Morbius
2022 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Daniel Espinosa
Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.
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Maybe you're missing the reference to the Morbius movie joke, which sounds surprisingly fitting. It's not like older HNers never made funny references.
Edit: Apparently you didn't.
> an internet meme (...) ironically praising the film Morbius as simply "one of the movies of all time", without any adjective.
Nice. I'll use that one.
High budget artistic vision does not translate to financial success though; it's ultimately a tradeoff.
That said, good films don't need high budget.
I don't agree with your last take, either; the MCU was when the superhero movie formula was perfected. We're now in a post-MCU phase where what is being produced just can't reach the same appeal anymore. Morbius and Madame Web are outright flops. They seem to be rebooting Fantastic Four for the 4th time. Any sequel to established MCU characters seem to be independent / standalone films, sometimes a bit gimmicky like Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange horror crossover episode or Thor's 80's glam rock direction.
And yet: he gave you a differing opinion from the general consensus, and now, however long ago it was, you still think about it. I don't know if this was the professor's intention, but he made you think about the movie more, he made you think either "He has a point because of x, y and z" or "I think he is wrong because of x, y and z", which is a valuable lesson.
One issue with modern films is that people seem to follow or look for the general opinion of them. Lord of the Rings? Good. Morbius? Bad but memeable. Tarantino? Best films ever if you're also into feet. Etc. There doesn't seem to be enough space for a differing opinion or a honest conversation about e.g. films.
My “inside information” is just basic knowledge of the software industry. If MongoDB is growing is like claiming Morbius is a good movie. It’s just silly. Go ahead disagree with be, but it’s kinda silly.
They seem to be relying heavily on the fact that Avi Arad is involved. Just take a glance at his IMDB, his role as producer seems to have very little bearing on the quality of a movie. Yeah, he worked on Spiderverse. He's also worked on Fantastic Four (2005), Elektra, Hulk, The Amazing Spider Man, Morbius. I picked out the bad ones, but the point his, he's worked on a lot of stuff, plenty of it is trash.
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I always knew this was the case, it was a huge hunch I had from the Spiderman/Venom fiasco.
Was Amazing Spiderman incredible? no it was far from it, was Venom 1 good? it was good except the last fight, literally.
Yet its rating was 30%. (audience 80%)
Morbius as much as I hated the actor personally, I liked the movie, it felt like spiderman 1 in a way, the cinematic shots were better than anything Marvel has done in years.
Yet they all get horribly rated, Black Adam was I felt, good, more interesting and better CGI than literally every Marvel movie since maybe endgame, yet it was critically butchered.
NOBODY can tell me that Disney doesn't weaponize critics.
(For people who do not get it, review bombing Sony produced Marvel movies made them do worse at box office which in turn made Sony or forced Sony to give the rights back to Marvel).
It was pretty silly, but then again Morbius took itself very seriously and wasn't entertaining at all.
There are too many superhero movies. I like the format, they can be very enjoyable, but the more the genre expands the more it has to mine parody, bathos, and other comedic techniques. Even Shakespeare wrote some stinkers.
That's the thing - the economy can be doing however and it'll still be used as an excuse.
If you think you're missing something it's because you are, mind you.
Its the same meme as calling morbius the most movie
It’s Morbin’ Time (Morbius) was a similar recent joke where the comedy came from pretending a bad movie was good.
I know a few dozen struggling screenwriters who are trying to get (a) their screenplays produced or (b) contracted to write scripts. Note that these are all female screenwriters with an actual track record in industry (in this case, episodic broadcast TV).
It really boils down to a few gatekeepers (mostly old white guys) giving the screenwriting jobs to the same idiots over and over again. For example, the guys who wrote Morbius have never written a successful film that made money back at the box office but already have 1 new screenplay in production and have been contracted to write several more; meanwhile the screenwriter of Crazy Rich Asians (which not only outgrossed Morbius but nearly grossed as much as Morbius' screenwriters' other films combined) has only been hired for a single film (Raya and the Last Dragon) since.