The Reel Rejects - SPOILER ALERT: Morbius Post Credits Scene Is WORSE Than I Imagined!!

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

SPOILERS AHEAD -- The film is one thing, but Morbius's Mid/Post Credits Scenes are something else entirely. We discuss The Living Vampire's sequel setups, Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes/Vulture appearance, and how on earth these scenes turned out the way they did. Were they plotlines from the film, repurposed? Were they last-minute add-ins? WHO KNOWS??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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is if he sincerely meant, let's do some good. I know. Because that's who Morbius' character is in this movie. He would rather do some good. But if it is a setup for The Sinister Six to do some bad, I'm like, why would he be intrigued? What's intriguing about what he's heard so far? Why is the question not, what do you mean? What kind of good are you talking about?

Ladies and gentlemen of the reject nation, listen, listen loud and clear. We have no interest in doing a Morbius spoiler talk. Zero. They did it for us. They did it all for us before it came out. But here's what we do want to talk about. The best post-credit scenes to have ever existed in the history of Marvel. That's right.

We just click baited you with saying they're the worst. We're here to convince you that they're the best ones ever. Played you. Played you. Idiots. Click the like button. and then leave a comment. That's what you get for being dumb.

Yeah. Anyway. Engage with us. No, these were the worst post-credit scenes, I think, ever in Marvel. Since the MCU began. I don't think anything really taught those amazing Spider-Man-2 ones with damn. These are magically bad. They had done themselves.

There's so many things and so few things all at once. Real quick recap of what happens in Morbius. He's a doctor with the blood condition. Ends up experimenting with bats because who wouldn't? and to then find a way to, you know, cure himself, becomes a vampire along the way. But it's like, ah, I don't want to be a bad vampire, though, end a movie. Okay, that's pretty much thrill. And then they do this.

They cut to, now, both of the post-credit scenes, they play in between credits. So I think they're technically mid-credit scenes, but who really says, Maker? You guys want to be, like, technical semantic assholes in the comments? People call it post-credit scenes. It cuts to the first post-credit scene. It immediately turns into what I can only describe. as a sizzle reel for the vulture spin-off movie.

Like obviously they're not going to make this vulture spin-off movie because they did it all here in 30 seconds or less. The first thing you see the breaking in the sky, like, oh my god, that's the Doctor Strange spell. No way home. That's what's happening right now. And then you see Adrian Toombs, Michael Keaton vulture,

transported into a cell, which raised some questions already. of okay I thought the spell was supposed to send people home even that even though there's raised some questions like okay questions are fine I can roll with it let's see what they do and then they just screw it all up in like 10 seconds yeah the second freaking Michael Keating gets there hope the food's better in this join that's like what that was my first time like he's a cool comic book guy of course he's on phase and it's just like all right i'll adjust i guess i gotta use this multiverse thing to my advantage

just to just it doesn't know what's going on but sure i'll adjust i got this under control i got no records of my existence here i'll just get out of jail and go do stuff somehow felt very out of character to me it didn't flow right it didn't seem right no element of surprise it seemed like they didn't tell michael keaton what was going on we can't tell him because it might ruin it just act a little, be like, just say this line. It felt that way. To me, Adrian Toombs, man who did everything for his family, and he's being transported to nowhere in some, like, magical way. You'd think he'd be a little freaked out. Even the spider people were a little freaked out. Like, how did I get here? What's going on? But Adrian Toombs, hope food's better in this joint.

Yeah, you know, I built a suit one out of alien technology. I got this. And then it cuts to the news report footage, right? What do they say on the news? Yeah, they say something about like, Oh, Adrian Toombs, he claims he just showed up here. There's a high chance he's going to be let out of jail, basically. I'm paraphrasing. Yeah, that he'll be released right away, because we don't know who he is. Yeah, and we're not going to look into that. And then apparently it just ends right there, that's scene one.

Like, what a stupid-ass thing? And then it just started making me ask more questions of, what was the original post-credits? What was the original inclusion? It's like so obvious that when he's transferred to the prison, that's a reshoot they inserted because this had to come out after No Way Home Now. It legit feels like there was a plot line in the movie, probably in the scene where he was locked up and in the orange jumpsuit where he probably would have run into or met Adrian Toombs there that they then took out of the movie and then went, what's like one or two of the most important bullet points from that to get the point across? Let's make that the post credit scene.

And then the second post credit scene. They outdid themselves. I already thought the first one was bad enough. Oh no. Cut to Morbius driving on the highway. Where's he going? Where is he? I thought he could fly now. I thought he flies. He's saving his energy for crying. So he gets called two in the morning. Apparently he's like flying under the radar now.

Why would you be speeding so fast in a car then? Wouldn't you want to be flying? What? He's got echolocation to sense cops, you know? So apparently he feels like he's got some type of threatening, like there's a threat coming. Then Vulture comes flying in. He's got a suit now. No one knows why or how. Check my gear out. No one knows how impressive I am, Michael Morbius. He shows up.

And then it just had me go, what message did he send Morbius initially to compel him to drive out at near 3 in the morning when he shows up? And he's like, this is a threatening situation. Not a good one. What message did he send him? I feel like it would be way easier to get Michael Morbius on board with you if you just contacted him as Adrian Tobs, honestly. The biggest issue I had with this scene is it felt out of character for both of them. And it was so apparent they did not have the actors in the same scene. it felt that way. It felt like they had some

voiceover recordings for Michael Keating they had him do, and then they had Geroletto do a few reactionary takes, and then they were like, we'll figure it out in editing. We just put it in editing, we'll figure it out that. It looks like they repurposed a car commercial, and then did a couple shot, reverse shots of Jared Leto in a field, and then made

that the seat. So the first thing that Michael Keaton says is like, thanks for me to me, Doc. It's like, this is not, what is this, what is the tone? What is your familial banter here? Thanks for me, move doc yeah what does this he seem like you like called the meeting at like three in the morning it just seemed like such a hey how's he going sorry to call you here under such weird

circumstances can't be too careful and then he says i don't know how i got here thinking has something to do with spider man it's just like such bad dialogue then it does it further drove home that point it further drove home like why is he just adjusting to here and not trying to figure out how to get home to his wife and kid he like why is he not trying to figure any of this And again, why would Vulture want to set up a sinister six instead of trying to figure out how to get back home? Like, what's the motive here exactly? And then to make things more confusing, he goes on to say, I'm thinking, you and I and a couple other people like us, we could put together a team. Do some good.

Do some good. And then Morvius is just like, intriguing. And then it's sense. And I'm like, wait, wait, there's a whole character turn in here and a whole bunch of eyes. other mumbo jumbo that we have no context for for either of them in the situation and it's just more confusing because it is it like real good or sarcastic good yeah like do some good like oh we can make good money do like criminal yeah activities or is they're gonna try to make the sinister six like a team of good there's a dirty dozen oh dirty half dozen now why why would morbius be

the only way i can see morbius being intrigued is if he's Sincerely meant let's do some good. I know. Because that's who Morbius' character is in this movie. He would rather do some good. But if it is a setup for the Sinister Six to do some bad, I'm like, why would he be intrigued? What's intriguing about what he's heard so far?

Why is the question not, what do you mean? What kind of good are you talking about? Because you just presented me a display of power rather than a display of benevolence, you know? Shouldn't end on intriguing. It's like you should end on. What are you talking about? And how is Venom going to figure into that, too?

Because you know he's going to be part of that team, and Venom is a character already established to want to do a little good, actual good, whereas, like, the vulture, that doesn't seem like the MO yet at all. Question the rules of the spell, which is something I think they can explain a way a little bit better, that seems like it's a combination of a bunch of deleted things. It didn't feel real.

It does feel like it was made a couple days ago. It really does. It felt like a marketing team put together something last minute. Like, let's make some readjustments. Let's do it like this. What are some discarded takes we can use? Let's just figure something out based on that. It seemed like they didn't tell Geroletto any direction.

And they were like, just do it a few times and let's do which one's best for this. And same thing with Michael Keaton. Like, it really got the sense that Michael Kitten didn't even know what he was talking about. The whole setup is just confusing, goes against character for both of them in so many ways. I thought they were poorly put together, poorly executed, confusing. funny for all the wrong reasons and they feel like a weird micro movie and they make the previous whole movie you just saw feel worse for having this is i think part of it too keep it up sony keep it up really excited for whatever your sinister six movie turns out to be i bet that is so much

worse of a sinister six setup and the director confirmed that's what he's doing that is so much worse of a sinister six setup than what the amazing spider man too did yeah like that was like oh god brother when that happened but at least in some way they established that there's shady things they're building here at oscorp yeah here this just comes out of nowhere yeah this is so bad and it and it all harkens toward a sinister six that's actually just a team of is just the suicide squad or something a team of anti-heroes who ultimately are not going to be allowed to be that sinister anyway guys leave your thoughts down below do you love it Yeah, so.

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