Sony’s latest superhero flick Morbius has recently been released in theaters. It stars Jared Leto as Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who accidentally turns into a vampire after trying to find a cure for his rare sickness. The release date of this movie was delayed several times, so people were somewhat excited for this flick that featured Dr. Morbius, who was an anti-hero and Spiderman villain in the comics.
Unfortunately for Sony and Marvel comic fans, the movie was met with bad reviews from critics. It currently has a 5.2/10 IMDB score and an abysmal 17% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes (which is admittedly a bit too harsh, in my opinion). Nonetheless, the point stands that Morbius has not been a great success in theaters so far.
Expectedly, people have taken to Twitter to poke fun at Morbius and its faults. Let’s take a look at some of the best Morbius memes we can find.
The movie hasn’t been out that long, but there’s this amusing trend of memes for Morbius we can call #MorbiusSweep. It consists of people documenting the definitely real slew of attention the movie has gotten. “Morbius fever has swept the nation.”
Morbius has officially passed “Avengers: Endgame” to become the number 1 highest-grossing film ever.
Morbius fever is sweeping the nation pic.twitter.com/ISn8cKa18i
— Muad’Daniel (@Djhassall196) April 3, 2022
The cinemas are filled up to the brim with excited superhero fans.
Morbius fever has gripped the nation pic.twitter.com/EFMREZa1nu
— Eric Szyszka (@ericszyszka) March 31, 2022
This man has restored my faith in humanity.
Be careful out there everyone. I had 2 Morbius tickets in my car and someone broke in and left 4 more. pic.twitter.com/AUtwDehdbM
— ︎︎ ︎ (@jrvsscarlet) March 31, 2022
This box office record is unbeatable.
‘MORBIUS’ has earned $4.8 Trillion in the film’s worldwide box office opening weekend.
Read our review: https://t.co/HTqWgH6F6W pic.twitter.com/dYWJLG6PLU
— Jack™️ 🎞️ (@TheBatMuppet25) April 3, 2022
Morbius just needed some tiny tweaks to be the perfect film.
Morbius wasn’t even that bad it just needed better acting, casting, plot, directing, characters, effects, lighting, scenes, structure, soundtrack, and editing
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) April 3, 2022
Morbius actor Tyrese Gibson acknowledged a faked quote, and its gold.
Tyrese Gibson fell for a fake Martin Scorsese quote praising #Morbius as 'the truest height of cinema' 💀 pic.twitter.com/sgu8cjBF0i
— ScreenTime (@screentime) April 3, 2022
The movie has made a trillion 300 million money dollars.
me when someone asks me how many tickets morbius is selling #MorbiusSweep pic.twitter.com/BNNCFEcWbP
— danielle🍋🌸 (@fyridk) April 4, 2022
The words “Morbius” and “Discord” should never be together in one sentence.
the Morbius Discord community https://t.co/EyEiXGInzb
— guy online (@fellawhomstdve) March 31, 2022
Petition to add the word “morbed” as a verb in the Oxford dictionary.
the best part of Morbius was when he said "IT'S MORBIN' TIME" and morbed all over those guys
— Rata 🌃 (@RANK10YGO) April 2, 2022
Despite all the funny criticisms and memes against Morbius, the movie has gotten a 70% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Is this another case of Venom, a movie that critics hate but is adored by audiences? Maybe when time passes and more people get to watch and critique the movie, we’ll find out the answer to that question.
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