Michael Jackson: This Is It

I feel the same way,but I certainly wouldn't start a thread, unless I was gonna go.

I think I will see this on Blu-ray. As for the man himself, he was weird, but I'm deeply convinced he was never a criminal of any sort. Musically he was a genius. I had, and still have, great respect for him.

for those of you who are interested in seeing it, a contest

i've already ordered my tix, figuring the short release period will cause sellouts..

Being a huge fan of Michael the entertainer since I can remember, I'll be going to see this. I learned to dance watching him over the decades and my love for his music and performances has never faded. I still get chills listening to his music and for me, I've yet to hear any album as good as Thriller.

Hehehe. Every time I see the commercial for this on TV I can't help but sing out a little "Chim-on-AE!" in-between lyrics. South Park has essentially ruined MJ for life for me!

Please let the man rest in peace. I don't believe he will make money even after he is gone.

Why not? Elvis has been doing sucessfully it for years.

I heard there is a special discount for chidren under 12.

Were you first in line

Too funny, I would have said 10, but maybe you know better than I.

Gonna wait for the DVD.

This must be Hollywood's idea of a Halloween movie. They seemed to have shoved out a couple candidates, "The Box" and "The Fourth Kind", a week or they actually slipped their release dates. But this is about the only movie opening wide this weekend. I usually go see a movie Halloween night but the choices aren't so good this year. And I'm not into Michael Jackson.

SD and BD up for pre-order at Amazon.com now.

Probably won’t be available until March. This Is It


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Yeah, the whole thing is kind of ghoulish at that.

Maybe they should use this shot in the opening to set the tone:

http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2003/...027323836.html.

I found it compelling enough to stop eating popcorn until almost the ending. And I was nearly as awestruck as the dancers who couldn't believe they were hired to share his stage. That being said, I probably won't purchase 'this' on BD. However, I would buy all of his music-vids on one disc.

MJ was both a weirdo and a frakkin' musical genius.

OMG if he had done this show it would have topped any done by any artist out there in my opinion. Myself not much of a follower of MJ but this just blew me away. Kenny Ortega was a genius to put this show together including the movie. The rain forrest scene was very emotional. I was really hoping to see the aerialist perform which I presume was suppose to have been for Billie Jean. I read somewhere on the www one of the jackets he was wearing cost somewhere in the million dollar range. They brought in Swarovski Crystal and used their crystal in the costumes.

The dancers, did you see how many auditioned for this and what maybe a dozen or so made the final cut? They were awesome and added even more to the show. Even MJ in his feet and body movement was jaw dropping I have to say. Not many 50 yo's can pull that one off that's for sure.

I read too that the DVD and BD will possibly have 2 to 3 more hours on it. I know I can't wait to watch that in my home theater with a sound system better than what the theater had.

This movie is a definite must see again for me before it leaves the theaters. The local cinema had it on their mega screen and I recommend anyone seeing it to view it on the largest screen posible.

Neither was I and I was hesitant to spend the money to see it. Trust me you don't want to miss this one that's for sure. After seeing this if I had the money I would have flown to London to see it. MJ was very fortunate to have Ortega put this together with him.

We seem to have such a lack of talent these days that the word "genius" is thrown around very loosely.

Remember, before MJ took his last dose of sleepy time juice he could not get arrested in this country (well, actually he did pretty well at getting arrested, he just couldn't get any traction in the entertainment business). He had to go to Europe where his reputation as a child molester was not as strong as here in the US.

He was a pop stylist for sure, and a trend setter in the dance world. That does not put him in the same league as Albert Einstein and Ludwig Van.

MJ fell into the trap that all superstars tend to. He was isolated from the real world since childhood; surrounded by people that told him what he wanted to hear; and had plenty of money to allow him to circumvent convention.

It eventually killed him.

May his last performances shown in this film remind us of his talent and skill. It should also remind us that he had a full life ahead of him that will never be realized.

People are referring to MJ as a genius in the music industry, nothing more.

There are all kinds of different geniuses. Musical geniuses, lyrical geniuses, writing geniuses, art geniuses, film making geniuses, engineering geniuses, acting geniuses, etc. It's really kind of odd to compare him to a physics/mathematical genius. lol.

Einstein was a genius, but he couldn't write a great story like Joss Whedon and he couldn't do the moonwalk either I bet.

I guess they are wrong!

He was a pop star and a trend setting dancer. That's about it.

I guess they are wrong!
He was a pop star and a trend setting dancer. That's about it

aydu, Have you even seen the flick? If so, maybe your standards for being labeled a genius are far higher than the vast majority of people. I am not an MJ fan, but walked away with similar thoughts and feelings as Tim Wilkins stated in an ealier post.

People should separate Michael Jackson the phenomenal musical talent from Michael Jackson's personal life. You can like his music and not like his lifestyle and weird habits. James Taylor was a heroin addict for awhile, but I still liked his music.

Jackson was not just another singer. He was as big as the Beatles and the one concert I saw of him on DVD, "Live In Bucharest", was truly masterful and incredible. Listen to "Human Nature." Jackson wrote "Beat It" and was part of the Jackson Five, which performed "I'll Be There", another great song. Jackson was as good or better than any pop singer, certainly as good as Taylor and McCartney. Jackson put so much into each note of his vocals that some of his songs are like music from another dimension.

I never spent five seconds thinking about Michael Jackson when he was alive. After his death I suddenly miss his music, as well as the old girlfriend who turned me on to his music. Most of us have memories of what or who we were doing when we first heard his remarkable songs. Unlike the Beatles somewhat plastic and often silly music, Jackson's songs were great for romance and often very sexy. If you watch his concert, you can see young women going crazy for him, and he sang one song while hugging a girl from the audience. If he were a heterosexual, he could have had thousands of women. Many of us gained more from his music than we realized until after he was gone.

Apparently you must've missed "Beatlemania".

Also, there were quite a few Soul singers over the years who's music and singing had the same effect on women. In fact, much of the genre's output has been traditionally used in the seduction of them.

As far as performing - he probably wouldn't even had been what he was without guys like Otis Redding and James Brown preceding him.

He also didn't invent the Moonwalk, and many of his moves (though not all) were taken from kids in the ghettos.

And Jackson wasn't immune from putting out the occasional "silly" song in his career, either - for example, about love songs to rats, and singing childish ditties about the letters of the alphabet.

I truly don't think that a vast majority of people would know genius.

MJ was generously rewarded for being a pop star of the first order.

His lasting influence was in the dance world, where his moves are still envied and copied today. His days of being a producer of pop were long gone. His last few albums proved that.

With artists like The Beatles and Elvis in the pop world, MJ should take his rightful place beside them in any hall of fame, but none of those legends were geniuses - by any definition except that of a die hard fan.

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By definition, I think MJ could be considered a genius in the music industry.

You've got to be kidding me.

So that I may gain from your wisdom please list a recording star you would consider a genius.