[Andrew NDB]

Just saw it.

* Nothing at all stands out in it but it's not nearly as bad as I suspected it would be. It's actually fairly competent. I probably enjoyed it a little more than the first Venom.

* Vampire bats aren't like that.

* Definitely could've benefitted from an R-rating, probably even moreso than the Venom movies. A super-vampire going around a room slashing 8-9 throats is pretty lame to see in PG-13.

* You can definitely see when you're watching a "Reshoot" scene. Leto's body looks way buffer and the coloring is different. I spotted 2 or 3 scenes that were definitely added in (clumsily) to add some "character moments" with a little levity. Tonally they feel as different as the Whedon stuff from the Snyder stuff in JL.

* I was a little confused about the structure. We begin a little bit ahead in time, with a still-human Morbius in the vampire bat cave. There is a device there, he cuts his hand and they fly all around him -- I thought we were seeing the moment he becomes Morbius. Then we cut to him as a boy, then closer to the present. At one point we see his vampire bat collection in the lab. Maybe this is my fault, but I kept waiting for us to arrive at that island and for him to go to the cave.

* Morbius' line in the trailers to the thugs about "I'm just kidding, it's your friend, Dr. Michael Morbius, at your service" is gone, replaced with just some kind of a "Get outta here!"

* On that note, how he acquires his new lab is silly and stupid. He overhears something about a lab at a restaurant... just follows some punks there and scares them out of it?

* You can definitely guess where the original Michael Keaton stuff would have gone. When Moribus goes to jail and is locked up... I bet he met Vulture there and when he escaped, Vulture followed and was probably like, "Thanks, Morbius! I owe ya one. Say, I was thinking about starting up a blah blah." But clearly Marvel made the final decision to keep the Venom/Morbius universe separate probably late into the game.

* The Keaton stuff at the end. I didn't notice this in the reviews here, but Keaton doesn't actually tell Morbius he wants to make a group to fight Spider-Man at all. It's not even hinted. He just says he wants to start a group. Maybe they won't even be fighting Spider-Man? If that's true then absolutely they're gonna round out the 6 with the "Reformed" versions of Goblin and Doc Ock and Electro and all. For sure. Also this final Vulture bit, they only used Keaton's voice. He's clearly not really there.

* Looking at the original 2 Morbius trailers, it looks like there is a whole deleted scene/storyline in a park in the daytime. Cop cars are rushing to it over the grass and Tyrese is there with some kind of big mechanical/cybernetic device on his arm. This isn't in the movie. Could be this was from the original end credits sequence and connected to the Vulture. i.e., in the original movie Vulture escaped with Morbius out of the jail and then at the end of the movie has some kind of altercation in-costume in a park? Dunno. Just guessing.