I’ve already posted about early reactions to Black Panther, the latest Marvel movie and noted how those early reactions were quite positive.

Welp, the movie is being released today and, if you go by the overall ratings presented on rottentomatoes.com, it would appear that critics are also falling head over heels for this film (you can see those overall ratings for Black Panther here).

Interestingly, or perhaps not, while a whopping 98% of critics have expressed positive feelings for the film, the audience reactions are a little less, at this point being in the still positive range of 77%.

Here’s the thing: It’s becoming clear that there are some people out there who are purposely trying to bring certain films down.

Apparently, some of them belong to the “alt-right”, a group that I don’t really want to waste too much time typing about.

There were rumors that this started with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, that some of the audience reactions were from people who simply wanted to bring the movie down.  I suspect there were elements there who did this, but given what I’ve read around the ‘net, TLJ was a film that some very much loved but which many others… did not.

How much of the film’s audience reaction, which over on rottentomatoes.com currently sits at a mediocre 48% positive, is attributable to the malcontents determined to bring something down is difficult to gauge but, again and based on my reading many people’s reactions to the film (positive and negative), I do believe there is a sizeable contingent of people who legitimately didn’t like it.

As for Black Panther, I’ve already noted before that I’m not all that interested in seeing this movie and suspect I won’t catch it until it hits either home video or some premium cable channel (like I did with Spider-Man: Homecoming).

Having said that, I have no reason whatsoever to believe the “pro” critics and early fan reactions are incorrect.  Quite the contrary: I firmly believe these positive opinions and, further, absolutely believe Black Panther is a good, perhaps even excellent, film.

…but…

Here’s the thing: As big a fan of comic books as I am, I’m becoming distressingly fatigued by this seemingly endless procession of comic book films.  Worse, I just don’t have the time like I used to to see films in general and, obviously, this includes superhero films specifically.  By necessity I’ve become choosy about where I spend my increasingly limited free time and, until something changes, that’s the way it is.

Sometimes, sadly, there can be too much of a good thing.