Latest on MJJC

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

I think they did a fantastic job putting together what remained after the cuts even if it did have an effect on the pacing and story. I didn't expect to fight back tears as often as I did but a lot of them were tears of joy because Jaafar's performance made me forget it was a film; for those two hours, we had Michael back and it was a gift.

As striking as the resemblance, voice and mannerisms were, the true and extraordinary feat in my eyes is that Michael was humanised which is a treatment he rarely received in both life and death.
 
Currently, the film has a 40% critic score and a 96% audience score, but the average rating is still lower than Bohemian Rhapsody's:

60+85/2 ≈ 72%
40+96/2 ≈ 68%

Michael needs another 4% to surpass Freddie Mercury. I hope the critics can throw in a few more points 🙏
 
uk & irland biggest opening day for a musical biopic of all time with 71% of the total market
wednesday !!

italy : $1,3M ( 480 locations)!!, biggest opening day for a musical biopic ever with 72% total market, the highest average per-theater,

mexico : wednesday $1,6M with 64% market share,

spain : $1,1M on wednesday across 520 screens and 62% market share, highest opening day for a musical biopic ever,

germany : $1M on wednesday AT 849 screens
market share 55% biggest opening day ever for a musical biopic,

australia : $1M ( 290 locations) wednesday
biggest opening day ever for a musical biopic,

brazil : $651,000 for a running cume with
previews of $2M the biggest opening day ever
for a non-superhero,non-franchise with
68% of the market share.
 
I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but I thought Lior Rosner's score/music, or rather use of multitracks or whatever he did, was not good in this film. It screamed daytime TV soap the way he used it.
 
Some are too critical imo, it will never be good enough or enough run time, timeline mixes, skips or details from other eras here and there are expected.
The person I went with thinks its even good that way the allegations are not shown with an open end. Its not even possible to portray the allegations without taking any side.

I think all in all its a solid 8.
Me myself I hope they can deliver even more with more runtime for part 2, including more bad era and at least show mjs feelings toward his unfortunate situations.

I'm interested if this generates new fans. I talked to someone who thinks kids born 2009 onwards can not really relate, same as for example elvis for me, I didnt live it, for them its just a star which was famous.

I saw it in imax, ask me anything-:)
 
AlwaysThere said:
So word on the street is Diana Ross pulled out of the movie last minute for reasons unknown, further complicating matters and forcing filmmakers to scrap her already-shot scenes altogether. I believe the actress who was cast as her issued a statement, but I can’t find it at the moment.

Honestly, the fact that the movie is even semi-coherent is something of a miracle. The Chandler issue was the estate’s fault, but Diana deciding to back out is insane.
Click to expand...
The girl who played bonnie in vampire diaries plays diana in the michael movie
 
KingofPop125 said:
The editing was also pretty by the books, and I even caught a glaring mistake during the Motown 25 performance. When Jaafar does the back-and-forth head turn before the moonwalk, the movie cuts to the audience. When it cuts back to Jaafar, he does it again and then moonwalks. That was such a sloppy edit that I was surprised it made it past post. I shouldn’t have expected more from Antoine Fuqoa, who only has one great movie under his belt (Training Day) and all the rest in his filmography range from okay to bad.
Click to expand...
That was in the clips shown before the release too. I'm suprised they didn't make some final edits after it.
 
I will say, I didn't expect certain songs to stand out so much to me -
I've been playing both Big Boy and Stand a lot.
 
dam2040 said:
I will say, I didn't expect certain songs to stand out so much to me [/spoiler]
Click to expand...
That second song you mentioned is single handedly what got me so into the group that did it, and I thank them every day for it.
 
Don't forget this weirdly put together collection of songs from the film is out today.

It's beyond me why they couldn't have used the "newer" mixes used in the film.

ab67616d0000b273e33bf4a404a7a27a8aa4d727
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top