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"Michael", a biopic about Michael Jackson, is officially happening.

Hurley509 said:
I can see why this opinion is unpopular. Biopics have been very popular of late and they've been a dependable cash cow. The Michael biopic may well gross over a billion dollars and will likely put Michael's music back in the spotlight again. After that maybe you can have your concert cinema tour but there wouldn't be the demand for that now.
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Concerts don't generally make much money in movie theaters. That's why very few have been released that way. They're either shown on TV or released on home video. The recent Taylor Swift one did pretty good, but she's a current artist and has a young Swifties audience. The Beyoncé one didn't do that well. I seriously doubt an old Jacksons tour from the 1980s is gonna make any money if released to theaters, when most of the Jacksons/J5 videos don't even get that many views on Youtube and that's free. Currently, it's hard for any non-IP movies to make money at theaters. People just wait for them to go to streaming in a few weeks.
 
Hurley509 said:
These photos look a lot less like Michael. I hope they can do some things in post production.
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I hate to be critical but I'm very disappointed by these pictures, I don't see Michael.

The official picture we got the other day made me extremely excited but this look is completely off.

Fingers crossed Hollywood trickery can improve the face.
 
Hulkamaniac said:
Here's what I think and ion care if it's an unpopular opinion

All of this is a joke to me. Biopics are no fun. I mean, why would you enjoy watching someone else acting as MJ when there is literally 4k concert footage out there. No. This ain't for me. Good if you like to waste 3 hours of your life seeing someone else acting as the greatest artist of all time, again, when there is CRYSTAL CLEAR concert footage from the 80's to be exhibited in cinemas all over the world. But no, let's make a boring ass 3 hour film of someone else acting as MICHAEL JACKSON. Oh but it is jafaar how could you say that. Yup, I CAN. still not Mike.
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Omg I cannot agree more!
 
Blues_Away2023 said:
I hate to be critical but I'm very disappointed by these pictures, I don't see Michael.

The official picture we got the other day made me extremely excited but this look is completely off.

Fingers crossed Hollywood trickery can improve the face.
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Bts photos aren't the same. The other photo was quite clearly photoshopped to a satisfactory degree.
 
Prometheus77 said:
Wow. That fucker really sounds like Michael. I'm shocked. Wonder what Jermaine thinks about that. ;) Kinda ironic.
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Really doesn’t… I’m so sick of people thinking that any grown man with a weak forced higher resonance sounds like Michael. The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Ralph Tresvant, Bogdan Ioan, Brandon Conway and Sebastian Suarez are all examples people have given and NO!

If you’re saying that then you clearly have NO IDEA what Michael sounded like. First, his tone was actually quite manly despite what people portray it as, I think people confuse his ability to hit very high notes in full voice and singing high and girly throughout the duration of his songs. However when he did sing higher and more boyish that style can’t be replicated because he did it effortlessly and these other singers sound like they’re holding on for dear life with forced efforts and poor technique. Let one of them sing Can You Feel It, Blame it on the boogie, Baby Be Mine, TWYMNF or Earth Song… it ain’t happening! Second that man had STRONG vocals! Crisp clean pitch, pulsing vibrato, high and low tonality on a whim with no issue and could rival the best vocalists in my opinion.
 
SmoothGangsta said:
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The other photos look off but Jaafar doesn't look too bad in this one in particular. He looks close enough to Thriller era MJ here.
 
james283126 said:
Really doesn’t… I’m so sick of people thinking that any grown man with a weak forced higher resonance sounds like Michael. The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Ralph Tresvant, Bogdan Ioan, Brandon Conway and Sebastian Suarez are all examples people have given and NO!

If you’re saying that then you clearly have NO IDEA what Michael sounded like. First, his tone was actually quite manly despite what people portray it as, I think people confuse his ability to hit very high notes in full voice and singing high and girly throughout the duration of his songs. However when he did sing higher and more boyish that style can’t be replicated because he did it effortlessly and these other singers sound like they’re holding on for dear life with forced efforts and poor technique. Let one of them sing Can You Feel It, Blame it on the boogie, Baby Be Mine, TWYMNF or Earth Song… it ain’t happening! Second that man had STRONG vocals! Crisp clean pitch, pulsing vibrato, high and low tonality on a whim with no issue and could rival the best vocalists in my opinion.
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And more blablabla. I did not say he sounds 100% like him, all the time, but the resemblance is there. More than from any others of the next generation or brothers. People keep saying that Janet sounds like him at times. I don't hear that at all. But this song at times sounds like him. No need to get your panties in a knot.
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
Let's read the rules again, shall we kids?



18. Posts that derail threads or are not relevant to discussions. Please do not derail threads. If you are not interested in or do not like a topic that is being discussed, then do not enter the thread just to bash the topic and/or insult members interested in discussing it. Do not post phrases that do not bring value to the discussion like, “Who cares,” “Not interested,” “Who gives a f---,” et cetera.



Basically, take your temper tantrum somewhere else, we don't care.
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Sorry, but that is lame. Why is it only allowed to praise something? That general opinion on a biopic needs to be able to be stated.
 
As far as appearance goes the thing that throws it most is the eyes. Michael had fairly large, oval shaped eyes whereas Jafars are more angular, the term would be "hunter eyes". I can see that production is going all-in on the make up and costume but we have to accept it's never going to be a like-for-like replacement for Mike. Just like every biopic, you have to suspend belief a bit and allow yourself to just "go with" it. I feel like Michael Jackson fans will be the least likely to do that. So hopefully some things can be done in post-edit to bring his look even closer. But are they really going to sit there, frame by frame, altering his eyes?
 
Hurley509 said:
As far as appearance goes the thing that throws it most is the eyes. Michael had fairly large, oval shaped eyes whereas Jafars are more angular, the term would be "hunter eyes". I can see that production is going all-in on the make up and costume but we have to accept it's never going to be a like-for-like replacement for Mike. Just like every biopic, you have to suspend belief a bit and allow yourself to just "go with" it. I feel like Michael Jackson fans will be the least likely to do that. So hopefully some things can be done in post-edit to bring his look even closer. But are they really going to sit there, frame by frame, altering his eyes?
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I doubt they're gonna do that.
 
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Does Jaafar have any acting experience? If not I'm suprised they chose him. Maybe his audition was good. I hope he does good job. Those photos look great.
 
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Hulkamaniac said:
Here's what I think and ion care if it's an unpopular opinion

All of this is a joke to me. Biopics are no fun. I mean, why would you enjoy watching someone else acting as MJ when there is literally 4k concert footage out there. No. This ain't for me. Good if you like to waste 3 hours of your life seeing someone else acting as the greatest artist of all time, again, when there is CRYSTAL CLEAR concert footage from the 80's to be exhibited in cinemas all over the world. But no, let's make a boring ass 3 hour film of someone else acting as MICHAEL JACKSON. Oh but it is jafaar how could you say that. Yup, I CAN. still not Mike.
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We dont know if its gonna be boring dont make assumptions.
 
They can't do anything about people taking photos lol. Unless it's intentional leaks then it's not the crew that's taking them.
 
Hurley509 said:
As far as appearance goes the thing that throws it most is the eyes. Michael had fairly large, oval shaped eyes whereas Jafars are more angular, the term would be "hunter eyes". I can see that production is going all-in on the make up and costume but we have to accept it's never going to be a like-for-like replacement for Mike. Just like every biopic, you have to suspend belief a bit and allow yourself to just "go with" it. I feel like Michael Jackson fans will be the least likely to do that. So hopefully some things can be done in post-edit to bring his look even closer. But are they really going to sit there, frame by frame, altering his eyes?
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People here have way way to high expectations lol. Jaafar looks great in the pictures, he is not a clone of Michael but probably the closest we can get.

Just enjoy that we are getting a biopic guys, hopefully it will do Michael justice.
 
I've seen people say that they could use digital effects (they could but kinda doubt it) or deep fake. I personally don't think deep fake looks convincing enough in motion for a film like this tbh
 
SmoothGangsta said:
I've seen people say that they could use digital effects (they could but kinda doubt it) or deep fake. I personally don't think deep fake looks convincing enough in motion for a film like this tbh
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To be fair, the CGI used in The Irishman for example (for the de-aging) is incredibly impressive to me. I don’t know if they would use that kind of technology for the biopic but I don’t think it’s impossible to do a convincing job with it.
 
dethorro said:
To be fair, the CGI used in The Irishman for example (for the de-aging) is incredibly impressive to me. I don’t know if they would use that kind of technology for the biopic but I don’t think it’s impossible to do a convincing job with it.
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I mean if they did actually go out of their way to use stuff like that I'd wait to see the results before criticising it, I just think it has the danger of not looking right.
 
SmoothGangsta said:
I mean if they did actually go out of their way to use stuff like that I'd wait to see the results before criticising it, I just think it has the danger of not looking right.
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Yeah, I totally agree. The budget for this film I heard was in the 120 million range. That’s a lot! Hopefully they will make it look really really good. Fingers crossed!
 
Prometheus77 said:
And more blablabla. I did not say he sounds 100% like him, all the time, but the resemblance is there. More than from any others of the next generation or brothers. People keep saying that Janet sounds like him at times. I don't hear that at all. But this song at times sounds like him. No need to get your panties in a knot.
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Again, no. It’s alright to admit you’re a novice and need your ears checked, we’re all here for you 😉
 
SmoothGangsta said:
They can't do anything about people taking photos lol. Unless it's intentional leaks then it's not the crew that's taking them.
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Ok, then let's wait a full recorded video or a live Instagram of the filmed scenes from those people cuz they can't do anything to stop them
 
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