And I agree with HIStoric (howya been?) in regards to the Estate.
I'm good thanks, hope you are too
@SrananKing:
-Jackson tours: Keep in mind that to release the Jackson Tours, they need the permission of all of the Jackson brothers, a few of whom have disputes with the Estate, which will make it a lot harder to get things done.
-Short films in HD: Restoring and remastering Michael's short films will not be an easy or cheap task. Many of them from the Thriller era onwards were shot on film, but from what I understand they were often transferred to tape during the post-production process to help save on costs. If we want HD versions of Michael's short films, they're going to have rediscover ALL of the original film negatives (which can be difficult for 30-40 short films, especially with Michael's sporadic archiving habits), re-scan the negatives, restore and repair any damage that might've happened to them over the years and then reassemble the film from scratch. Here's hoping they have the original editing decision lists (EDL) from when they cut the videos in the first place or this process will be drastically more time consuming as they have to study which takes were used visually and where each cut was.
After all that, for many of his later Dangerous-era onward films, they're going to have to not only re-render the CGI - assuming they still have access to the original assets - as the CGI would've been rendered in standard definition. On top of this, the music video's only feature stereo-mixed audio which wouldn't be acceptable to many people these days, so they'd have to re-mix every single music video into surround sound, so here's hoping they have all the audio assets for each film too. Phew, that's one film down. Now let's repeat that for 30 something more...
-'How is it fair to tease us with HD snippets of BTS footage' We received a LOT of BTS footage in Bad 25, I remember being super happy when I first saw that based on the plentiful amount of new footage alone. They're not going to release raw, unedited BTS footage, no-one does that. As for concert footage, they HAVE released full material. This Is It was essentially a concert film with the way it was structured and edited (never mind the extensive new material on the Blu-ray/DVD), we also got Bad at Wembley 3 years later. When it comes to what they have access to on film nowadays, we don't know what they have access to. It's much easier to criticise them when you don't know what they actually have
now.
-'Are you easily pleased'. No, I am not easily pleased. I didn't care much for the OTW documentary, the reissue was piss-poor and so was the Michael album. Everything else I'm happy with more or less.
-New songs They are new songs to the absolute vast majority of people. So what if the 1% of the Michael Jackson fanbase has already heard them? You have no-one to blame but yourself for that - and yes I am among those people as I had heard most of Xscape's songs before they had come out. It didn't diminish the excitement of Xscape for me, it might've as well been new songs to me thanks to the contemporary mixes we got from modern producers.
-What is the Estate doing for Michael's legacy? Michael has been the highest grossing celebrity every year since he passed away - bar one - so evidently the public are reacting to his legacy and the Estate's treatment of it very, very well.
I mean, alongside releasing the highest grossing music documentary, releasing two Top-Five posthumous albums (that topped a number of international charts mind you), releasing the first ever complete set of his music videos, helping produce a Michael Jackson related tour that ended up being amongst the highest grossing in HISTORY, releasing a remix album that spanned his career, re-issuing his Bad album with hours of new material, bringing him back to life in a holographic performance that, while it wasn't up to fans standards, made headlines around the world and was enjoyed by many casual fans/non-fans alike... oh yeah I see what you mean, they
clearly haven't done much. It's all so meagre isn't it? /s
-Re: Dangerous 25, Captain EO, Ghosts, Thriller 3D: Lack of Dangerous 25 was disappointing, that we can agree on. The issue with Captain EO and Ghosts is that they're both extremely short, so you can't release them standalone, they'll have to be released in boxsets of some form. Additionally, Disney might have rights to Captain EO that interfere with what the Estate can do. As for Thriller 3D, the rumours have pointed towards this year. What do you actually think Thriller 3D will do for Michael's legacy though? The 3D fad train left the stations yeeeaaaarrrsssss ago, and everyone has seen Thriller a million times - 3D isn't going to bring anything new to it.
Re: Neverland: There have been threads on here about this, but one big issue with Neverland is that it's extremely out of the way compared to other attractions like Graceland, which isn't. You can't transform Hayvenhurst into a Graceland like area too as that's in a tightly packed residential neighbourhood..
So no, I am not going to be greatful for the meager stuff released in 8 YEARS time.
Stop being so entitled. Go long at what other fanbases of dead artists get and see how lucky we are.