Why are the critics putting the hit out on Morbius?
Why are the critics putting the hit out on Morbius?
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who care. the only one that matters is our guy armond whiteđ
I decided to rewatch Blade (1998) this week, and pretty early on in the movie some alarms started ringing for me that the vampires in the movie might be an allegory for Jews.
Beyond the obvious (âJews drink peopleâs bloodâ is a centuries old anti-Semitic concept now known as âblood libelâ) there were a few lines that stood out to me:
âYou've been watching too much TV. They've got their claws sunk into everything -- finance, real estate, politics. Probably own half of Downtown.â -Blade
This is a frequent anti-Jewish stereotype: that they are a secret cabal that controls politics, finance, and even the media.
In the Blade universe, vampires are not affected by crosses and holy water. Here is some in-film commentary about it:
âAll right, then, listen up, Vampire Anatomy 101. Crosses and holy water don't do dick, so forget what you've seen in the movies.â -Blade
Now why is this? Here is the closest Iâve seen to some evidence outside the movie. From IMDB:
âIn updating the vampire lore, [creators] Stephen Norrington and David S. Goyer decided that crosses wouldn't work against vampires, citing âWhat if a vampire was Jewish? Why would a cross work against him?ââ
To me, this is one short step away from saying âcrosses donât work on vampires in Blade because theyâre Jewish.â
So what about Blade: Trinity? In this movie, the vampiresâ blood farms are twice referred to as âthe Vampire final solution,â by Hannibal and Blade, which may make you think it is actually the vampires who are the genocidal monsters, but I think this is a red herring to distract us from the real Final Solution: Daystar.
Don't forget: it is the Nightstalkers and Blade who are obsessed with completely removing what they consider a disease (which âthousands of tens of thousandsâ of individuals were born with) from the gene pool. They were even willing to deploy a biological weapon to accomplish their goal. Sound like Nazis? Sounds like Nazis.
Who else #madatmorb here?
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Jared Leto wonât bend the knee; dude is literally a cult leader. This is an attempt to extinguish his ego, something theyâre doing to Will Smith.
Either that, or Disney did this to put the kibosh on Sonyâs vampire movie so their own vampire movie is successful.
whoa, have to rewatch.
It sucks, next question.
t. Hasn't seen it.
Vampires have always been an allegory for kikes.
It felt by-the-numbers as a superhero movie. Morbius just wanted to help The Doctor, The Doctor wanted to eat people after years of trying to love humanity, it ends on a sequel tease, and the MCU hook was more or less just setup for potentially an Andrew Garfield movie at best and that's really stretching. It doesn't really do much special but the effects when Milo and Morbius move were alright. Both Venom movies were far better.
Bros I don't get it, I thought it was gonna be the first movie to sell a gorillion tickets. Where the fuck is the Morbius sweep?
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>Both Venom movies were far better.
That bar is so low it's in Earth's core, and you're telling me morbius sinks lower than that?
Can't a movie just be bad anymore?
I mean, if you dislike either Venom movie (Carnage was definitely worse) I can't see you liking Morbius. The first act's setup is primarily spent with flashbacks and him in his lab, the second act is the powers, the third act is him constantly getting beaten up and pulling new powers out of his ass. It's just so rote and by-the-numbers that it's really hard to care at all. It doesn't even feel experimental in any way whatsoever nor does it have its own identity.
>It felt by-the-numbers as a superhero movie.
What are you talkin about, this had a lot more edge to it; there was an attempt to inject horror and psychological drama.
The problem was, both of them lacked bite. If they wanted to have horror, they should have included blood, and if they wanted psychological drama, they should have had more moral conflict from the main character. I wanted him to show a temptation to be evil and lord it over people- even just a little. And he should have cried at the end; that moment should have been full of pathos, but it wasn't.
Are you kidding? At no point does it feel scary in any way. It tries to be scary when Morbius gets his powers then immediately throws that away after that. You see him constantly panting from the blood withdrawal but he brushes that off constantly after Milo meets up with him and then after that he's never shown in that "Terrifying" light again except for one split second where his love interest's finger got cut at which point he reigns it in. When the guy at the hospital/hospice/whateveritwas gets slashed by Milo, Morbius doesn't even flinch at a giant, gaping, bleeding wound. So many scenes are in broad daylight or in massively lit white rooms. He literally has a vampire bat "aquarium" which acts like a flood light for his entire room.
I don't even know where you get psychological drama from because he only struggles twice and both times not only does nothing happen but there's not even any tension leading up to any of it. Dude has entire racks of blood and somehow can't keep himself under wraps for a few days. He barely has any connections to anyone and is on the run for like 70% of the movie, and when he's not he's either yelling or being yelled at by Milo or telling his love interest something before disappearing. He doesn't even really have much to go with with Milo, and Milo is just a maniac.
This. Morbius was cool.
They have decided to meme hate on Jared Leto for being Snyder's Joker.
I'm not saying it's actually scary, I'm saying it tries to be scary a few times. As well as Morbius' 'awakening' there's a decent number of scenes from Milo.
>I don't even know where you got psychological drama from
He struggles with the desire to drink blood; that's the main 'conflict' in the film. The problem is, it was just that; they never implied a /moral/ conflict or temptation. That would have made it a lot more interesting. Likewise, he never actually felt bad about fighting Milo, even at the end.