{"id":46535,"date":"2019-03-05T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46535"},"modified":"2020-08-10T20:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:24:49","slug":"a-morbius-film-sounds-pretty-bottom-of-the-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46535","title":{"rendered":"A Morbius film sounds pretty bottom of the barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just a few days ago, I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse<\/em>.\u00a0 It was fantastic.\u00a0 I felt it captured a lot of what the series has been trying to convey over the last decade, that Spider-Man was more of an idea, and not so much exclusively Peter Parker, and that it\u2019s entirely possible for absolutely anyone, regardless of race, gender or any other difference, to be, a Spider-Man (or woman).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even more amazing was the fact that Into the Spiderverse was a creation under the Sony Pictures banner, with no affiliation whatsoever to the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the Disney overlords; because it was actually good<\/em>; unlike the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man sequels, and although I have little interest in watching it, I heard Venom<\/em> was a turd too.\u00a0 Needless to say, it\u2019s impressive that Sony actually created something of significant quality with the Spider-Man property, because they\u2019ve demonstrated a surprising ineptitude with it previously.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without question, into the Spiderverse is the crown jewel of Sony\u2019s collection of Marvel films released, and if they\u2019re smart, they really stick with the formula of creating quality animated films.<\/span><\/p>\n

So with that said, I just found out that Sony is releasing a spinoff film, based on another Spider-Man villain: Morbius the Living Vampire<\/em>.\u00a0 Much like the Venom film, it doesn\u2019t seem like there\u2019s any real tie-in to any Spider-Man properties, and honestly, I have no idea what Sony thinks they\u2019re doing by releasing stand-alone films about Spider-Man villains without actually tying them into any Spider-Man storylines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Needless to say, my knee jerk reaction to finding out that there\u2019s going to be a Morbius film is definitely a great big wtf, and it exacerbated by the fact that playing the titular role of the human vampire is Jared Leto.\u00a0 I feel like that Jared Leto is probably into, or has at least had some time, when he was into comic books, and definitely wants to be involved in comic book movies.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he felt like he struck gold, when he got the role of The Joker for Suicide Squad<\/em>, but he probably wasn\u2019t anticipating becoming overwhelmingly overshadowed by Margot Robbie\u2019s portrayal of Harley Quinn, whether that was by design, or just happenstance.\u00a0 And given the fact that it\u2019s pretty clear that Marvel films are vastly more successful than DC films, of course he\u2019d be interested in getting into a Marvel flick at some point.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then he ends up landing the role of fucking Morbius, who\u2019s basically a third or fourth-tier villain in the large rogue\u2019s gallery of Spider-Man villains.\u00a0 I mean seriously, I know a lot of Spider-Man villains have been used up in the truckload of Spider-Man films that have ever been made, but to just go with Morbius??<\/span><\/p>\n

Morbius is the guy you go with when Demogoblin, Shriek and Carrion need an extra baddie to help pad their chances against Spider-Man.\u00a0 He\u2019s literally a bottom of the barrel property, that\u2019s being scraped up to the surface when plenty of villains like Carnage, Hobgoblin, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter haven\u2019t been touched by any films yet.\u00a0 Morbius is the guy that is in the background of a large melee, that diehard comic fans pause and carefully scan the scenery to be excited about seeing, just to say that they spotted him.\u00a0 He\u2019s not a guy to make an entire film about, especially when Sony has no earthly idea what they\u2019re doing with the Spider-Man property themselves, and that he\u2019s probably not going to make an appearance at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the fact that it\u2019s Jared Leto playing the role; at least I can take solace in the fact that he probably won\u2019t be getting any better of a Marvel role for a while because of this; but then again if Chris Evans was able to shake off the Human Torch to become Captain America, anything\u2019s possible, but what it really boils down to is the fact that I don\u2019t really care much for Leto.\u00a0 His face and his beady eyes remind me of a lucky troll, and I always feel like he\u2019s trying too hard to leave stamps on his characters, and his whole method acting seems really obnoxious, and he looks like a walking embodiment of an sexually transmitted disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

The only thing I\u2019d hope for is that Morbius acts as a vehicle for the rebooting of Blade.\u00a0 And then they get like, Mahershala Ali to play Blade, who kills Morbius.\u00a0 And Jared Leto\u2019s career.\u00a0 But much like how Sony owning the Spider-Man license creates issues, Blade was originally New Line\u2019s license, and I\u2019m sure this will never happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plus let\u2019s be real here: Ali is too smart to tie himself to non-MCU Marvel films, and he\u2019s already loosely associated with the MCU, with his role in Luke Cage<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, the idea of a Morbius film seems really cringeworthy and gives me a reaction of whyyyyy, when there are so many better Spider-Man villains and even other characters, that are far more interesting, and won\u2019t be such obvious makeup\/SFX money sucks to make far more interesting movies about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever though, if this is what it takes to anchor Jared Leto out of the good, MCU for a while, I guess it could be worth it.\u00a0 But not for the film itself.\u00a0 Zero intention of watching it, even pirated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a few days ago, I saw Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.\u00a0 It was fantastic.\u00a0 I felt it captured a lot of what the series has been trying to convey over the last decade, that Spider-Man was more of an idea, and not so much exclusively Peter Parker, and that it\u2019s entirely possible for absolutely anyone, … Continue reading A Morbius film sounds pretty bottom of the barrel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,41,83,49],"class_list":["post-46535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-observations","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46537,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions\/46537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}