Was Morbius Being A Bad Movie The Best Case Scenario?
Superhero movies are so societally overwhelming that one cannot be good or bad without also being a massive cultural topic of conversation. The internet will find a way to shout about every comic book character to grace the screen, whether it's debating their eligibility for an Oscar or proclaiming their failure a global conspiracy.
Morbius is a bad movie. It has fully lived up to the terrible trailers and the awful premise, becoming the awful film that it was always destined to be. Its box office return has been disappointing, critics have torn it to shreds, and, at the time of writing, «Morbiussweep» has been trending on Twitter on and off since the film's release.
Jared Leto's Morbius Wins Box Office Weekend With Modest Opening
The two social media trends surrounding Morbius are both a ton of fun. The genuine trend features the unfortunate souls who chose to wander into a screening of the film sharing photos of empty theaters. The other centers around altered Rotten Tomatoes scores, edited Wikipedia pages, and fake article headlines designed to pretend that Morbius is a culture-defining blockbuster hit. As with a lot of these movements, aspects of team irony have become sincere.
Some hardcore Morbius fans, of which there are at least a few, seem convinced that MCU fans have negatively impacted the film's reception. This interweaving of rubberneckers turning up to laugh at a studio dumping money behind a no-name comic book character and a widely disliked actor and genuine fans decrying the unfairness of cinema today has ensured that Morbius evades its obvious destined fate. If Morbius had been a decent or even good film, likely, most people would already be done talking about it.
Morbius should've been dumped onto screens
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