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

Can someone tell me whether there is explicit violence in the movie? I am quite sensitive to domestic violence and wouldn't want to see it on a big movie screen.
 
Elton-Cetera said:
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Besides his music,🎶 Michael Jackson has left us another precious gift, his son Michael Jackson Jr. (Prince).🤗
Michael Jackson is smiling down from Heaven😇 and is so...very PROUD of Prince. 😍
Prince is more than ready to take over the Michael Jackson Legacy and the Michael Jackson Estate from John Branca.
I suspect Prince is, now, the one who holds the Jackson family together. God Bless and Protect Prince Jackson.🙏🏼
 
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Sarah_MJ said:
Can someone tell me whether there is explicit violence in the movie? I am quite sensitive to domestic violence and wouldn't want to see it on a big movie screen.
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What happens and when:
Joe beats Michael with a belt near the beginning. After they come home from the first show. Takes maybe 5 second or bit more.
 
Sarah_MJ said:
Can someone tell me whether there is explicit violence in the movie? I am quite sensitive to domestic violence and wouldn't want to see it on a big movie screen.
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From memory, around minutes 7-9 are not safe. There are also scenes after that where continuation of the physical abuse is implied but not shown. Take care of yourself! ❤️‍🩹
 
Xscape2040 said:
Although the violence and Joe itself is still quite soft compared to what is considered normal in films and television today.
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Sometimes / for some people a hint / suggestion can be (nearly) as bad as very openly shown violence, because the brain fills in the gaps.

Is there anything like "soft violence"? 😅
 
Aurescere said:
From memory, around minutes 7-9 are not safe. There are also scenes after that where continuation of the physical abuse is implied but not shown. Take care of yourself! ❤️‍🩹
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Thank you (and the others). I guess I will then not watch it in the theater, but wait until there is a stream so I can skip that part. I would really have liked the cinema experience though. But this is the best way then.
 
Sarah_MJ said:
Thank you (and the others). I guess I will then not watch it in the theater, but wait until there is a stream so I can skip that part. I would really have liked the cinema experience though. But this is the best way then.
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If I had known I would have arrived 10 minutes late because that scene almost caused a panic attack for me, as wonderful as Juliano Valdi was as little Michael. OTW era begins at ~30 minutes so you could time your arrival with that in mind if you still want the big screen experience, though you might have to call and check if that's okay and the exact start time since there's usually advertisements for about 20 minutes before the movie starts 🫂
 
Themidwestcowboy said:

Lol. This is laughably bad.

Would it kill them to use some unreleased HQ footage? Why the hell are they still using a VHS copy of a concert released 14 years ago to represent the Bad Tour and Michael Live in general?
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The Estate is physically incapable of coming up with a video clip idea that isn't just fans dancing while footage of MJ is overlayed or being played out in the background, this is like the 4th out of their 6 clips where they do this. It may have been sweet when MJ had recently passed away but now it's just corny and way too overdone. They're really creatively bankrupt.
 
alexbism said:
I really disliked the Motown 25, Beat It and Thriller ones if that counts 🤷
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Actually I didnt like those either - HATED the crowd shots and the shaky camera for Motown 25 (loved that the band leader was clapping along though). Thriller just looked so cheap and I don't know what purpose it served other than an ad for Thriller because his suggestion to "show the feet" didnt really feel like MJ getting his artistry across. It was bad. Beat It was by far my least favourite. I cringed beyond belief and the one scene in the film where i was like "that is not Michael Jackson".
 
innuendo141 said:
Did anyone else absolutely hate the Beat It scene, by any chance?
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Yeah I thought "Beat It" was a huge let down also, and I was really looking forward to seeing that one in the theater since it's one of my favorite MJ songs. "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" were wasted potentials, the former was rushed and the latter had too many cuts which killed the flow of it, like when the Motown 25 performance is interrupted because it quickly cut to some other scene. They could've been really good if they were properly showcased.

"Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough" was good though, once the actual video clip came on my theater got pretty hyped.
 
ChanceToDance said:
Yeah I thought "Beat It" was a huge let down also, and I was really looking forward to seeing that one in the theater since it's one of my favorite MJ songs. "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" were wasted potentials, the former was rushed and the latter had too many cuts which killed the flow of it, like when the Motown 25 performance is interrupted because it quickly cut to some other scene. They could've been really good if they were properly showcased.

"Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough" was good though, once the actual video clip came on my theater got pretty hyped.
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Motown 25 wasnt even made to feel important. Like everything else, it wasnt given room to breathe.
 
innuendo141 said:
Actually I didnt like those either - HATED the crowd shots and the shaky camera for Motown 25 (loved that the band leader was clapping along though). Thriller just looked so cheap and I don't know what purpose it served other than an ad for Thriller because his suggestion to "show the feet" didnt really feel like MJ getting his artistry across. It was bad. Beat It was by far my least favourite. I cringed beyond belief and the one scene in the film where i was like "that is not Michael Jackson".
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What bothered me the most with the Motown 25th performance is that there is literally no buildup to it, if you're not familiar with MJ's career you would have no idea how much of an iconic moment it is or how the Moonwalk shook pop culture at the time. I think the Thriller 40th doc did an amazing job in the buildup of the Motown 25th performance, you could feel the hype building up etc... Fuqua should have taken notes.
And yeah, Thriller looked Awkward to me, it just felt so off and I cringed during the Beat It rehearsal.
I was okay with the performances themselves, Jaafar is never gonna dance as good as MJ so it didn't really bother me that the illusion wasn't really there but I feel the way they introduced these three songs, which are the three his most iconic songs of his career, really didn't do them justice.
 
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