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"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-:)
 
A minute ago at my bakery (Germany).
Employees talking:
- I'll go to the movies tonight
- What are you gonna watch?
- MICHAEL (and I love how he enthusiastically and almost proudly pronounced it MY-KALLLLL) 😀

Just this cute lil interaction made my morning lol
 
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