Seems like they forgot the first rule of escapism. People want to imagine themselves as the hero, and if your hero is the antithesis of your audience, you must tread very carefully to get your audience to care about your "hero."
I am more interested to see how Shazam! does than this movie...
Shazam, if handled right, could catch far more fire than anyone expects.... It doesn’t have the MCU push around it to prop it up, but the character is a teenage boy who winds up with super powers....
It will be interesting to see if the teenage and younger demographic shows up for it. If it catches, it will catch bigger than anyone predicts, because, what kid doesn’t fantasize about this?
Its a lesser character in the DC universe, and DC is notoriously bad at taking its characters from comic books to film... But if there was a movie that I would think may surprise at the box office, Shazam would be the one I would think would be more likely to surprise.
No it will never pull in the numbers of the Captain Marvel, as its not part of some decade long intertwined storyline.. but if it catches, I suspect it is fare more likely to exceed expectations that Captain Marvel will.
Honestly I expect Captain Marvel to do fine, but underperform expectations.