[YMS] So, I just saw Morbius Morpheus Orpheus drinking a 40 in a death basket and it was not very good...
It was kind of boring, it was kind of cringe it, was kind of funny,
you know, the typical Jared Leto superhero movie experience.
now Jared Leto isn't terrible in every film he's ever been in,
Requiem for a Dream is still one of my favorite movies ever,
but in projects like this he comes across as trying WAY too hard...
it's like he desperately needs for his interpretations of comic book characters to be legitimized
and canonized it just reeks of ego and self-insistence!
"hey everybody, I'm such a method actor that I wear crutches everywhere on set
"to the point where it's actually negatively impacting the production
"and the people that are working with me, so they have to get me to compromise to use a wheelchair
"instead to not slow everybody down because I'm being such an asshole."
The film itself is also really "try hard" and "cringe" as with many sony films the marketing was terrible
[Clip] -um... do you have a tail or is that your hair in the back?
*speaking Japanese*
-Hair and a tail! Wow!
*avatar giggles*
-that's the best of both worlds!
[YMS] -That was real, by the way ,uh... yeah the trailers also suck,
the only intelligent marketing decision sony made was to release the film on april 1st,
even if Jared Leto wasn't in this movie it would still be pretty bad,
at its core it is a very boring story with no interesting characters,
it's really difficult to give a shit about anyone or anything in this movie,
it feels insanely derivative and unspecial, the tone and pacing of this movie are incredibly awkward,
the end product feels like something that's been re-edited about a thousand times,
which would make sense considering how many times this film was delayed.
It feels like a movie that might have initially had a more comedic tone but then they found it too conflicting,
and got rid of most of it?
At the end of the official trailer there's a part where Morbius says "I am Venom and then he's like just kidding!"
"Michael Morby is at your service"
and in the movie the same thing happens except they cut out the "just kidding" part,
so in the finished film he's just claiming that he is venom...
and there's no comic relief at the end of it and there's we don't understand why he would say that, really...
So, immediately I thought "Okay, well I guess they're just... they just thought it was too silly and they didn't want that in the movie because that would have messed with the tone."
but then the very next scene is some weird shirtless dance scene, with the main villain!
He's just dancing by himself like getting ready for something and that scene is supposed to be silly, I think...?
Right?! Plenty of confusing choices in this film.
Spoilers from this point on, I guess...😒
Use the chapter selection to hear me talk about the other movie, it's much better...
At the beginning of the movie when he merges himself with the "bat DNA" or whatever turns himself into some kind of batman, or something,
he TF's and he freaks out and kills everybody on a boat and
then he wakes up and he's like "What have I done?"
and he winds up jumping off the boat and I guess presumably, using his superhuman strength to swim away somewhere,
but the way they showed this was so strange!
it was a transitionary wide shot of the boat, where he just jumped off like so nonchalantly as if it was some sort of matter-of-fact thing...
there was no lead up to it we never saw him looking over the edge being like
"Oh will I be able to swim? I was just a cripple a moment ago..."
[YNS] -You know, here's nothing going through his mind, we never experience anything through the character,
it's just already happening before you realize that's what the character is doing,
to have the main character just jump off the boat in a quick transitionary shot like that moving between scenes feels like it belongs in a comedy film...
But, this movie is insisting that it is not a comedy film.
It's trying to be pretty serious for the most part and it's pretty silly...
Another instance of very confusingly delivered information; is when morbius is being detained at a jail or somewhere,
and his friend shows up the cops "tell him your lawyer is here"
and his friend shows up in the room and jared leto's like "lawyer, I don't remember you finishing law school!"
and his friend says "that's because I DIDN'T!"
What's the purpose of that last line from his friend like the information is already very clearly communicated...
You only needed Jared Leto to say "I don't remember you finishing law school."
Like that's
*stammers*
it's so clear that he's just showing up there pretending to be a lawyer ,right?
So, his friend is repeating that information for who?
the audience, I guess?
were people ACTUALLY confused in test screenings or something??
And then they have a quick conversation that lasts less than a minute,
and the officer is like "okay your time's up" and all I'm thinking is like "you just... you just got here!"
throughout the film, Morbius needs blood uh... but Morbius also invented artificial blood,
a long time ago... and that was unrelated...
So, he's drinking the artificial blue blood and as he's testing out his own powers he says
shit like "ah this artificial blood probably won't... be working the same after a while.
"At some point I'm going to have to use REAL BLOOD and that will cause a moral dilemma."
But there was no reason for him to assume that...
Like, the artificial blood had not started waning in efficacy at this point yet,
he was just hypothesizing like "Oh yeah, this will probably happen" and within like a minute of screen time he's locked himself behind a glass dome
and he's like *stupid voice* "Ah! I'm dying because I don't have enough nutrients, because the artificial blood isn't working as good as it was 10 seconds ago!"
and his friend just shows up out of FUCKING NOWHERE and he's like *stupid voice* "Oh, what's wrong?"
and Jared Leto writes the word "blood" on the other side of the glass,
he's like "Oh I g-got you some blood, all right!"
and this was essentially the plot device, that justified why his friend found out about the whole "vampirism thing"
so he could be like "You gotta cure me too, because I'm also crippled! Or something..."
and then the friend turns into the villain, yada yada yada...
Another very silly point in the film, is when he notices some criminals
using counterfeit 100 bills, so he follows them all the way to their... like ghetto... science lab... somewhere...?
which they're presumably using to print counterfeit 100 bills...?
a bunch of gangsters in a run-down science lab,
that seems like it's at the bottom of an abandoned train station or something...
and Jared Leto shows up and he's like "I'm gonna need your science lab"
and he beats them up and they run away, he's like "I guess I live here now..."
and they never come back!
And that's that's how *loses composure*
that's how *laughs*
he gets his science lab!🤣
Come on, this is a pretty silly movie, it's funny!
now don't get too over hyped because most of it is just boring,
this isn't like the perfect "so bad it's good" movie or anything, its-
*stammers*
just got enough silly moments, where I was kind of enjoying myself.
The fight scenes in this movie were very cringe and awful,
the characters would fly around with these really awful and distracting looking cg weird trailing effects,
every fight scene constantly interrupts itself with these super slowed down moments of
*makes slow motion sound*
and it makes it super cringe because, when you slow down a moment like that and you emphasize it the implication
is supposed to be that what you're watching is super intense or cool or special,
but they would just slow it down at what seemed like random moments of the fight scene,
that aren't really particularly interesting or visually stimulating or anything!
Like, oh time slowed down at this moment in particular for some reason very interesting, cool it feels forced and insistent, and it just winds up becoming very unsatisfying and very silly...
The end fight scene was particularly anticlimactic, it didn't really feel like the villain posed so much of a threat to him and he just summoned the bats,
and that's how he wins...
There was nothing interesting about the filmmaking,
the way it was shot was very bland it was very darkly lit most of the film,
overall this is just a movie, that is not very memorable outside of some parts that made me laugh.
The post-credits scenes were equally funny and embarrassing...
Fucking, Michael Keaton as Vulture shows up and is warped to Morbius,
and is like *dumb voice* "Oh, I have no idea how I got here, I was just eating porridge or some shit,
*slurred speech* "it was... probably has to do with Spider-Man though..."
It is so fucking funny how hard they're trying to force the Spider-Man storyline into these sony's spin-off films!
Like *stupid voice* "hey guys yeah the Spider... Spider-Man stuff is influencing this movie see???"
And they end it with some sort of implication like "Yeah, we're gonna like fight Spider-Man together
"we're The Vulture and Morbius are gonna do something... we're just doing something... something's gonna happen with Spider-Man's... related😵‍💫
"maybe all of them, I don't know...🤷‍♂️
"let's put ALL THREE Spider-Men in Morbius 2... That is something that will happen!"
Anyway, wow... this movie was uh... very bad uh... it gets funny as it goes along...
I kind of enjoyed myself at parts, it wasn't..... like the most torture... ever it wasn't the worst thing ever...
I enjoyed it more than the Venom films because it's easier for me to laugh at something that's trying hard to be serious,
whereas the Venom films are simultaneously trying hard to be funny and also failing
and so it's less easy for me to laugh at those films...
So yeah, this is a better ironically funny "so bad that it's good" movie than the Venom films in my opinion...
none of these are good, but if you want to laugh at something then Morbius is a safer bet, and I'm giving this one a THREE out of TEN...
Another film I saw was Everything, Everywhere: All at Once,
it is a mouthful of a title, but it is also a mouthful of an experience.
This film is directed by Dan Quan and Daniel Scheinert,
the two had previously directed Swiss Army Man together,
and that's a film that I thought was decent, it had some charm, but I really could not stand how they ended it,
it's worth watching for sure, I'm probably never gonna see it again, though.
then in 2019 Daniel Scheinert directed The Death of Dick Long (which i thought was absolutely hilarious).
The screenplay, by Billy Chu, is genuinely fantastic,
many people will judge this film on a surface level but it is actually pretty layered,
the characters are super well written and there's actually a lot to pick up on on a second watch,
it's also one of the ballsiest films of the past decade.
anyway when I first reviewed that film, I was so impressed with the screenplay that I kind of overlooked the directing,
there was something about its presentation that didn't quite click with me the first time,
but after a second watch it's so much clear about what it's going for and it's ironic nature of how it's presented.
So yeah, I take back my comments about how there wasn't anything particularly special in the directing because it is a very well well-directed and well-presented film.
There's a lot going on and I definitely didn't give it enough credit.
Anyway, now the two Daniels are back together with their most recent film: Everything, Everyware...
*tongue tied* blugh!
I can't even say it!
Anyway I fucking loved this movie!
And at this point, I am ALL FOR whatever these two directors are doing.
Swiss Army Man had a level of quirkiness that was at the very least interesting.
But, at points it felt like it wasn't quite sure how to portion or balance it...?
I can enjoy quirkiness in films for sure, but I'm not as interested when it feels like it's just being quirky for the sake of it.
There needs to be something more there for me it needs to enhance existing elements of the story and characters,
and in this newest film they struck a perfect balance with these elements.
This is not just a "haha this is so weird isn't it crazy how weird this movie is?!" movie...
this is a genuinely substantive purposeful and profound film!
And its presentation just happens to be a super entertaining crazy trip!
This is a film that's very out there in terms of what it's showing but it's also super accessible.
there's not a lot of movies that are this weird that i would also recommend to everyone,
without really spoiling anything: this is the best Matrix movie since the original Matrix!
It very clearly derived a lot of inspiration from those films.
The fight scenes in this movie are immensely entertaining and much better choreographed than the newest... Matrix... film... 😒
There are so many incredibly satisfying sequences in this film, there are crazy choices that this film makes and it works every time!
it is super entertaining throughout and it does NOT slow down over its 2 hour and 19 minute run time.
it is very well paced, it is very well shot, it is funny, there is a lot to chew on; visually, thematically, story-wise, character-wise,
the performances are great, and one of the main actors is the guy that played Short Round in Indiana Jones: and the Temple of Doom, that's awesome.😁
The ONE aspect of this film that I felt was a bit lacking, would be the musical score.
sure the music was more or less appropriately used in terms of "when" it appeared in the film,
but the only time where the music itself was truly emotionally effective,
was when they were doing a rendition of a classical piano song that i don't remember the name of... 🤔
In those sequences the music did so much, but every other point in the movie where it was an original composition it just felt like
meh...?🤷‍♂️
The music doesn't really add anything like it's... it's suggesting the tone...
But, it's not... really... adding... to the experience....
So, yeah the original score could have been much better; I really would have loved to hear something more memorable,
this film deserved a lot more in that department...
Either way, it didn't ruin the movie and like i said the classical music sections were super effective.
Overall this movie is absolutely fantastic, everybody should go see it right away,
everyone, everywhere, all at once! 😉
this movie has a lot to say and i love how they told this story,
please check this movie out, you'll be doing yourself a favor if you do. I am very excited to watch this again for a second time,
and I'm giving this one a NINE out of TEN!
Thank you!
Hello youtube this is an update; I have seen the film for a second time now,
uh, it is still a 9 out of 10 film,
that is still my rating.
However, I enjoyed the music a bit more on my second watch,
Um... on my first watch, like... I wa- I was mostly really noticing the music.
Um... again yeah, while the Claire de Lune was playing,
but also kind of near the end where it was like during uh some of the climactic scenes,
I felt like it just wasn't... it wasn't as much as it could have been... and I still feel that way, however watching this a second time,
uh there's a lot more...
parts about the film score that I really enjoyed... um the score near the beginning,
the opening scene of the film was really awesome I think it was also used at parts in the trailer,
um... and you got to give the score credit for doing... a lot of things at once,
because uh, when I watched it for a second time I noticed like, it's trying to emulate a lot of different... genres,
um it's it's
all over the place...
um so it's trading like consistency,
uh for I guess the thematic...
elements of the film is that you know you know it's everything everywhere all at once.
So, I get that...
um I enjoyed what it was trying to do,
I enjoyed the talent that went into it however, i just think that in terms of like in terms of like a melodic score in terms of like having a melody at different points in the score,
um it was just lacking in term... in terms of like an actual composition I wish it was... I wish it was more memorable.
uh very well put together still, anyway
that's... that's my little update I don't think the score for the film is as bad as the first time I watched it on a second watch.
it's trying to do a lot of things, thank you, so much!
[Scoot] -there you go
[Scoot] -nice... [Adum] -This is actually fucking ridiculous 🤣
[Scoot] -So, you gotta hit three... tiny... marks...
[Adum] -I'm so sad about this...
[Both] *laughing*
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