{"id":37001,"date":"2022-06-04T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/morbius-gets-resurrected-by-memes-flops-on-first-day-back-in-theaters\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:49:15","slug":"morbius-gets-resurrected-by-memes-flops-on-first-day-back-in-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/morbius-gets-resurrected-by-memes-flops-on-first-day-back-in-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbius gets resurrected by memes, flops on first day back in theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Morbius<\/em> is back in theaters – despite no one even asking for it – and its unpopularity is only making itself more obvious. The film made just $ 85,000 on Friday after making a return to over 1,000 theaters, bringing its domestic cumulative to $ 73.6 million (via Forbes<\/em>). <\/p>\n

Morbius <\/em>was originally released on April 1st and wasn’t the most well-received. In The Verge<\/em>‘s review of the flick, our TV and film reporter, Charles Pulliam-Moore, says Morbius<\/em>‘pacing, plot, and the performance of its lead actors feel “ill-conceived,” and “calls into question Sony’s grand project of building an entire cinematic universe on Spider-Man’s back.”<\/p>\n

Sony likely re-released the movie with the hope that renewed interest in the “it’s morbin ‘time” meme would somehow trigger a second larger wave of people who would want to sit through the Spider-Man<\/em> spin off. But it turns out that a meme’s popularity doesn’t directly correlate to genuine interest – who could’ve guessed?<\/p>\n

In an even more cringey move, Jared Leto – the star of Morbius<\/em> – just had to get in on the meme, posting a video on Twitter<\/a> that shows him reading from a fake script titled Morbius 2: It’s Morbin ‘Time<\/em>. Here’s to hoping that Sony is just trolling us all, and isn’t planning on having Dr. Morbius make a cameo in the next Spider-Man<\/em> with his hip new catchphrase, or, even worse, get a sequel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n