Madame Web review | What did Sony expect to happen?

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I never realised the film was this bad. This review is brutal and more importantly, enjoyable.

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Sony should just return the rights to Spider-Man live action and focus on the animated movies.
- It wouldn't matter. Disney would fuck them up. All of them.
  Let Sony have one stinker.
  
  Disney has been hit and miss. Sony has been all misses. GotG3 was good, and many of the shows, Loki, Echo, What If, Moon Knight, they have been good. I enjoyed She-Hulk, but I understand why many people didn't.
  The point is, Morbius could be morbin around in the background of the upcoming Blade movie. Symbiotes could have been connected to the Necrosword. Kingpin, Daredevil, and Punisher are all coming back to the MCU and it would be excellent if they had Kraven, Rhino, Vulture, Shocker, Prowler, Doctor Octopus, Chameleon, et. al. to interact with.
  
  Yeah 6 years ago I may have thought that letting Disney get all fragments of marvel IPs under their belt was for the best but I'm pretty sure Disney would just pump out similar bland garbage now.
  I'm a big believer that bland is worse than bad, although it's worth saying the Sony movies have been bland, they've been less bland and more bad than the MCU.
- The last three live action Spider-Man movies were fantastic, though. It's everything else that they should return for sure.
  
  You mean the 3 live action Spider-man movies made by marvel?
Is this the female Morbius? Its spiritual successor? Damn, sony did it again. Now we just need to meme about it and make Sony re-release it, so that it can flop twice, just like its predecessor. Too bad noone even cares enough to meme about it.
- Morbius was released twice?
  
  Yes
  https://www.ign.com/articles/morbius-theatrical-re-release-box-office-memes-unsuccessful
  Forbes reports that the movie made $300,000 across the 1,037 theaters it was screened in, translating to just $289 per theater.
  It was hilarious. It was one of the greatest corporate out of touch moves ever.
Every critic I see seems to agree this movie is bad. It's almost worrying how complete the consensus is.
- Yeah. Nowadays I'm sceptical of professional critic reviews, because sometimes I'll really enjoy a movie that some critics hate. But I'm surprised there is such a consensus, that probably means something.
  
  RottenTomatoes are very low: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/madame_web
  An overview: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/madame-web-first-reviews/
- I dunno. These guys seemed pretty psyched.
It might help if they used the Spider-Man characters people have actually heard of
- I'm not a marvel Fanboy. Or a Spider-Man super fan by any means. But even I've heard of Madame Webb. Not whoever this movie is about but the actual madam Webb. Morbius. On the other hand, yeah that one I wasn't necessarily aware of. But Madame Webb I think more people are aware of than you might guess.
  
  The only reason I know Madame Webb is that she randomly started telling Spider-Man what to do in the later episodes of his 90's show, where she felt completely out of place and poorly explained.
- I actually prefer the opposite. I don't want them to butcher Doc Ock, or do a Norman Osborn standalone. And the marvel movies show you can absolutely uplift a obscure character and suddenly make them popular.
  Sony just are sucking at execution, over and over.
  
  Honestly I liked Morbius, I thought it was refreshing that we just had a cool dark super hero movie without years of MCU baggage, stupid injokes, or meta humor.

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