Morbius a movie that ended up being a complete nutter disaster.
It's a superhero film that's been the topic of
thousands of internet memes in recent weeks.
Now Sony pictures made a huge mistake because they thought that their
film was actually getting a positive attention online when in reality
the memes were not meant to laugh along with the movie.
It's to laugh at the movie.
And so Sony pictures decided to rerelease it and it did not play out so
well for them.
So first a brief summary of the film.
No spoilers, I'm gonna be very careful here.
So Dr. Michael Morbius, played by Jared Leto gains
superpowers after he infuses himself with bad DNA.
And this experimental procedure to save his life but
he needs blood to survive, right.
And it starts with him needing synthetic blood but
eventually he needs like real human blood.
I think that's what the premises.
And so Sony is attempting to build a cinematic universe like
the MCU with superman villains such as Morbius and Venom.
And as our producer Taylor mentions it's just a soulless cash grab
meant to capitalize on the ongoing comic book movie trend, okay.
And Taylor is not the only one who said that that's what the critics say as well.
The film was incredibly shallow.
Here's one example simply put Morbius is one of the laziest,
shallowest, most pathetic attempts at a movie blockbuster in some time.
Now the movie made 163 million worldwide on a budget of around 80 million.
So it either barely made back the combined cost of production and
marketing or it fell short of that benchmark.
So not a good sign.
But either way, it was a low gross for a superhero film.
Morbius didn't perform well with critics.
It did poorly in the box office, but it was immediately embraced as a meme on
the internet and this is where things start to get good, okay.
So these are some of the comments and
some of the memes that you might have come across on line.
Here's one example,
the best part of Morbius was when he said it's Morbin time and
morbed all over those guys [LAUGH] by the way that post has over 200,000 likes.
From there, the joke kind of snowballed on Twitter,
TikTok and a dedicated subreddit for the film.
So here's another example, missed the birth
of my wife's son because I was too busy watching
Morbius 2022 for the 135th fifth time.
I love this film so much.
Now, obviously that's a joke.
>> Well, not so obvious to Sony [LAUGH].
>> No, here's another example.
Strongest anti-Morber and then they have like a picture of a dork and
then weakest Morbhead.
And it's the guy with the chisel chin.
>> Mm-hm.
>> I will admit I'm turned on by that guy.
>> Really.
>> Yeah, I don't know who he is.
I don't know. >> Which is a bit too much.
>> I like strong chins.
I don't know.
>> Well it is Morbin time.
>> Leto kind of chins like that chin, I'm here for that.
>> God bless.
>> Anyway, so let's see if there's anymore.
All right, so Sony sees all this and they're like yeah,
here's more, could you see Morbius together at prom?
Somebody wrote on a sign.
Let's take a look at another one.
The great Morbius rerelease.
No, the cycle to the next one yet.
So then Sony sees all this stuff, right.
This is dominating online conversations about the film.
And so the people over at Sony are like, I think they love us.
I think we should do a re release.
And they did and it was a disaster.
The Great Morbius Re-Release resulted in an $85,000, Friday gross.
Less than fantastic Beasts 3 despite being in nearly double
the number of theaters with a whopping $82 per theater average.
>> Wow no, that's historic.
That's one of the lowest I've ever seen in my life.
So, I know it's a re-release but normally there's way in the millions even for
flops under a million, 85,000 in 1000 movie theaters.
It's like unheard of.
So, I really wonder did Sony release it because they thought,
well, maybe it'll be campy and people will go, right.
>> You gotta hope that they were smart enough to like.
I don't know but even that's not smart.
>> Another hand, they are the same folks who made Morbius [LAUGH].
So it's not like they know what's going on.
Look, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is mainly Disney.
I don't wanna get the complicated Spider man crossover, right.
But my son, yeah, my son will see and demands to see
every Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, TV series etc.
He was like Morbius no interest.
My bad by the way, Brett noted that I said superman villains instead of Spider man.
>> Yeah, that's.
>> And the chat is hilariously losing their minds over it.
I don't care.
By the way look I get that people like superhero movies.
I get it, there is a place in society for superhero movies.
Can we get other things too?
Can we please get other things too?
>> Only super movies.
>> I hate Hollywood right now.
It's just nonstop [SOUND] superheroes like Spiderman, Superman,
who cares what difference does it make?
>> [LAUGH] They're gonna go ahead and cry.
>> Go ahead and cry, okay but again different strokes for
different folks, right.
Like you like that stuff good I'm glad that there is a wealth of content out
there for you.
I like stuff too, that is not in that space.
>> Yeah. >> How about us?
How about the rest of us?
You're offended, I'm offended.
I am offended that all we get now is
the UMC move, okay, we get it.
Can we just please, like that's the thing about Hollywood.
They one thing works and they're like that's it.
We have to cast Emma Stone in everything.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Emma Stone is the only actress in
existence and she will be the only actress we cast in every movie.
>> Yeah, remember when they had two media movies come out at the same time then they
had ants and bugs come out of the same time.
>> Yes.
>> And then they had two movies about the president getting kidnapped from
the White house at the same exact time.
>> Yeah. >> Even our own Ben Mankiewicz was
in one of them, I don't remember which one.
Okay, and they're widely uncreative.
And so, guys just because it's a superhero movie doesn't
mean it's going to be good that the reason people love
the MCU is because Disney is doing a fantastic job with it.
And a lot of the movies and certainly the series like Loki and
Wanda vision are really smart and interesting, right.
>> Mm-hm. >> But Sony a different company can't just
vomit out Morbius and be like we give you superhero enjoy people.
No, it has to actually be good and the reason.
I keep wanting to say omnibus.
>> [LAUGH]. >> That's why I keep stuttering when I
read the graphics on Morbius.
Because it's.
>> You know you're too political.
>> I know.
>> When you even think of the word omnibus.
>> I know I keep, it's like say omnibus Tana say it, say omnibus [LAUGH].
>> The only way a superhero movie could be worse than Morbius is if the superhero was
called Omnibus [LAUGH].
>> The only way [LAUGH].
>> And by the way the reason why there's nothing but
superhero movies now is because a lot of movie theaters are shutting down because
of what happened in COVID and it never came back.
And so the art house movies were already small now they've gotten
smaller in terms of the attendants.
And the only thing that's moving ticket sales are the big giant releases.
>> I know, it makes me really sad.
So then Hollywood thinking well that's the only thing that's
actually getting to people show up at the movie theater.
So I'm gonna create nothing but that whether it's good or bad.
>> Right. >> But I like him, look it's not for
Anna I get it, but for me it's always Morbin Time.