Michael Payton

Now this is a film. Morbius is a visual film meant to be seen on a screen with your eyes. One might say the shots were recorded on cameras. It could be said that the aspect ratio of this film is a wide 2.39:1 -- glorious cinemascope. Jared Leto was in 100% of the scenes where he acted. The lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars appeared in the movie Morbius as Dr. Michael Morbius. (Jared Leto is an actor, too.) There were even some scenes where he appeared. The screenplay was written. This harkens back to a tried-and-true tradition that dates back to the dawn of Hollywood itself. Morbius was written as a script in industry-standard screenplay format. Fun fact: this is the same way they made Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and The Wizard of Oz! You might even say this film came out in the year of our lord 2022. This is because the film was made. The trailers were released and the megaplexes were full of screens. Morbius was on some of them. Overall, Morbius was simultaneously written, developed, designed, cast, acted, directed, shot, gaffed, edited, color graded, mixed, mastered, rendered, marketed, and released, some of them at the same time! It is a movie that you can watch, or others if you so choose. Dr. Michael Morbius is a character, and rightly he populates a story. Based on comics, this story is now a film. Morbius is truly one of the films of all time.

Gave me everything I wanted from a Sam Raimi-directed MCU movie and more. It fits in the MCU, but the directing and camerawork build the distinct comic book-y, classic horror-inspired, darkly humorous tone that could only come from Raimi. Like his original superhero Darkman (1990) and the Spider-Man trilogy, this film actually feels like a nutty, fast-paced comic book adventure. Got me reading the original Doctor Strange stories from Steve Ditko/Stan Lee in the '60s! It's clear that Raimi and screenwriter Michael Waldron (Rick & Morty, Loki) are passionate about the character and had fun with the possibilities of the multiverse. There were just enough easter eggs and references to other Marvel properties to whet franchise fans' appetites. Make no mistake, however; they were used at just the right times and with appropriate brevity. Multiverse of Madness still felt like a Doctor Strange solo outing, all crossover madness aside. All in all, I will definitely catch this again in IMAX before the week is done. Can't wait to buy the blu ray and add it to my Raimi home media collection!

Simply amazing. This show is peak television. I can't wait to rewatch it from the beginning to the perfectly written ending.