Morbius Is A Superhero Throwback In The Worst - And Best - Ways

thegamer.com:

Folks, Morbius is not a good movie. Trying to talk about movies is worse than ever in the Twitter critic era, where snobbery against the hugely popular superhero genre runs rampant, countered by an equally irritating insistence that Marvel movies are high art and just as worthy of Best Picture nominations as The Power of the Dog or Licorice Pizza, all wrapped up in the relentless hype train and the nuance-less divide that grades movies as excellent or terrible, with nothing in between. Morbius, however, has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat - it has united the entire film community. Casual or cinephile, insufferable or reasonable, Marvel or DC, it does not matter - everyone agrees Morbius sucks, and that's magical.

For my sins, I went to see Morbius on its opening night, with only around ten other people in the screening. Half of those ten was made up by a group of five teenage boys who frequently left their seats to grab extra drinks and snacks while the movie played, so compelled were they by what was unfolding on the screen. It's just not very good, for reasons I'll get into, and I don't think it's worth intellectualising that much. There is a good movie within the Morbius canon - that Guardians of the Galaxy became a megahit proves comic book standing matters for very little - and there are flashes of it being told here, but the fact remains that the movie is not good. That does not mean, however, that we can't enjoy it.

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Spoilers for Morbius follow.

For any holdouts for the Morbius fandom, like that somehow-very-real Discord server, I did not go into Morbius wanting to hate it, I'm a fan of Jared Leto's other work (Joker notwithstanding),