{"id":20527,"date":"2022-06-03T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/morbius-returns-to-theaters-because-of-all-the-memes\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:53:40","slug":"morbius-returns-to-theaters-because-of-all-the-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=20527","title":{"rendered":"Morbius Returns To Theaters Because Of All The Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past few months, a lot of people have been sharing memes connected to terrible superhero film Morbius<\/em>, which stars noted method actor Jared Leto<\/span> as a living vampire guy or something\u2026look, I\u2019ve not seen the film, okay? Anyway, all these memes, jokes, and online ha-has have been fun, but things are getting out of control. Sony\u2014likely seeing all the renewed interest in *Morbius <\/em>and all things morbin\u2019\u2014has now brought the movie back to theaters. What have we done?<\/p>\n*
Morbius<\/em> was released back in April<\/span> to very negative reviews. For those who aren\u2019t aware, it\u2019s a Sony Marvel movie, not an MCU joint. This means it can tease at connections to the more popular, successful MCU films<\/span>, but will likely never be allowed to truly join in all the money-making fun of Iron Man<\/em> and *Dr. Strange.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n*
Making only about $170 million at the box office, Morbius<\/em> should have slid off into the night to go die in a field, or whatever happens to unsuccessful comic book movies. But the future Oscar winner got a second wind upon its release on digital streaming, after which the Morbius<\/em> memes exploded thanks in large part to a Twitch channel that began streaming the movie 24\/7<\/span>. Here\u2019s what *Kotaku<\/em>\u2019s own Jeremy Winslow reported last week<\/span>:<\/p>\n*
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Thanks to the film\u2019s proliferation on Twitch since at least May 24, a glut of Morbius <\/em>memes have started infiltrating the internet. There\u2019s Twitter user Rama_Firmansya\u2019s hilarious \u201cHistory of Morbius <\/em>Meme\u201d<\/a><\/span> a timeline spanning 2016 to 2022 that charts our progression from \u201chugh mungus\u201d to \u201camongus\u201d to \u201cmorbius.\u201d There are a variety of box art memes of *Morbius <\/em>as a* Nintendo DS<\/a><\/span>, Switch<\/a><\/span>, and Wii<\/a><\/span> game\u2014a trilogy, if you will. Hell, I even spotted an entire Twitch channel named morbing_man that was only streaming *Morbius <\/em>memes before the company yeeted it into space. The memes are everywhere at this point, like a virus. Like a\u2026morbius?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n*
*And all of this has led to something very strange. Sony, seemingly reacting to all this newfound buzz and online morbin\u2019, has brought the film back to theaters. As* reported by Exhibitor Relations on Twitter<\/a><\/span>, Sony has confirmed that *Morbius <\/em>will be* *back in 1,037 theaters this weekend<\/a><\/span>, over two months after it first opened. And I\u2019ve already spotted at least a few folks who\u2019ve bought tickets.<\/p>\n*
Sony hasn\u2019t yet confirmed why the film is heading back to so many theaters so long after its initial release. It\u2019s safe to assume that it has to do something with the sudden spike in online chatter, but you never know. Maybe Sony just really liked *Morbius <\/em>and wanted to share it with folks.<\/p>\n*
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***Kotaku <\/em>has reached out to Sony about the film\u2019s sudden return to theaters.<\/p>\n***
Unfortunately, all this brouhaha could lead to an even darker future in which Morbius <\/em>gets a sequel. And sure, we\u2019re all having a good laugh at the \u201cMorbin\u2019 Time<\/a><\/span>\u201d jokes, but it\u2019s time to stop. The world doesn\u2019t need to give possible cult leader Jared Leto<\/span> a successful C-grade superhero franchise, let alone more money. Please, stop morbin\u2019 so much, folks. There\u2019s still time. We can still stop Sony from making *Morbius 2.<\/em><\/p>\n*
Maybe you think it won\u2019t be so bad? Perhaps you even liked the first film? But if we get a sequel, you better believe Sony will make the people behind it cram in memes, inside jokes, references to the existing memes, and god forbid, more morbin\u2019.<\/p>\n
***But then again, that also sounds\u2026amazing?<\/p>\n***
Okay, never mind, I\u2019m in. Morb your brains out and get us a terrible, meme-filled, far-too-late sequel that completely misses the trend and ends up being a wild shitshow. Perhaps *that <\/em>will finally kill the living vampire, and with any luck, Leto\u2019s career. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n*