Other than the Batman reboot and Wonder Woman, D.C. Comics haven't done jack at the box office or in terms of creating a viable franchise.
All of the Marvel movies with probably the sole exception of Fantastic Four has hauled @ss at the box office.
I really thought this movie would be Marvel's Waterloo, but I'm eating crow. I guess either fans got tired of the racist crap and decided to spend their money to shut the haters up or it truly was a spectacular movie without the PC and SJW crap. I'll definitely catch it on a matinee now.
National Review liked it.
Just saw it. There is very little SJW crap in it. Only a couple of comments by the bad guy. There IS a one world order undercurrent that only comes into play at the end. The characters are pretty good. Some good action mixed in with a pretty decent story. I have to say that I never read comic books as a kid so I don’t really know the history of the Black Panther - just what they presented in the movie.
My kid really wanted to see it, so I took him. There were a couple of things that had he and I rolling our eyes, but it certainly was not enough to ruin the story for us. Pretty good movie all the way around. Very entertaining.
I read a lot of super-hero comics as a kid, and over all I preferred Marvel. The only DC characters that strike me as legendary are Superman and Batman. Movie-wise, I thought Man of Steel was boring, but I thought Batman v Superman (director's cut) was decent, and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot!) was quite good. Even though I preferred Marvel comics, I have grown bored with the Marvel movie franchise. I never cared for the movie version of Thor, which made him sort of a dumb jock. I'm kind of tired of modern super-hero movies making too big a deal about where the super-hero fits into modern society. I preferred the approach they took in Christopher Reeve's first outing, in which the world was grateful to have such a hero in their midst, and when Superman fought for "truth, justice and the American way".
I was never interested in Black Panther as a Marvel character. I also never cared for Dr. Strange.