Michael | Official Trailer

Well based on the box office performance there will 100% be a sequel so we can all discuss it again then haha

Has anyone here actually seen the movie? If so, how was it?

Seeing as you’re determined to paint the man in such an angelic light.

How would you have felt if your children slept in a bed with Michael Jackson or more to the point any adult male who isn’t family?

Was all this just completely innocent along with the books locked away in a safe that had pictures of not fully dressed children?

What has 1917 got to do with world war 2. It's called 1917 cause it's set in 1917 - World War 1.

World War 2 was a completely different event. The movie is called 1917 cause that was the time period that the movie was set in. It's not called World War 1 or World War 2. If it was, then it would be expected that the movie would cover events in those wars.

The MJ movie is named Michael, and I guess the general opinion is that it should contain all issues relating to the subject matter, not just cherry picking by the family as to what is appropriate or not.

It's saying a lot that there's a pretty small number of people arriving into the thread to say it's great… 😂 I did talk to a work colleague who went to it the other day and thought it was pretty terrible.

Strange lack of them arriving to the thread...

Michael – 3/10

Putting the crappy, overly dim, modern movie lighting to one side, I found myself enjoying the first chunk of this film. The Jackson 5 era has all the best songs, and it harks back to a more ‘innocent’ time in MJ’s career. That all quickly evaporated the second Jaafar Jackson appeared and started singing some isolated ‘Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough’ vocals. Man, that was rough. You can see why blending in the actual MJ vocals was a necessity. Jaafar proves himself to be a decent mimic of MJ’s on-stage persona, nailing the dance moves and very much ‘looking the part’. His acting chops are just about passable in some scenes, but toe-curling in others.

As has been discussed already, it portrays MJ as the second coming. Why bother putting his traumatic upbringing and fractured relationship with his domineering father front and centre, when you’re not going to make any effort to show the aftermath of said trauma? He is literally portrayed as a saint. The rest of the film doesn’t offer much more than cosplay recreations of things we can all look up on YouTube. It really does beg the question; what are we doing here?

My favourite part was when Michael quoted Fred Astaire and told a music video director to “Pull the camera back and shoot the dancers in full” and then the film proceeds to do anything but. Instead, it has more of that awful ‘whiplash’ editing from that god awful Queen film.

We’ve been overexposed to MJ’s music our entire lives, but this did briefly manage make me take a step back, look at it objectively, and acknowledge that he really was a phenomenal talent. The music he made with Quincy Jones is outrageously good pop music. A back catalogue that is of such quality that it simply cannot be ignored or shelved, no matter how tainted the artist is. When you think about it, us Brits are blessed that Gary Glitter’s discography is complete and utter tosh.

The one thing this film has done is answer the question; ‘Are the masses willing to separate the art from the artist?’ The box office answers with a resounding yes. Come back Woody Allen, all is forgiven.

Looking forward to Michael 2: The Return of Jaafar

You're really struggling to find a positive review if you're resorting to the critical drinker. 😂 He's taking a break from complaining about everything being too woke for his liking?

So now you're just getting annoyed at people for giving honest reviews? You're entitled to love the movie as much as you do but being actively annoyed by people who didn't think it was great is a bit odd.

That's their opinion.

Its saying a lot that you're coming into a thread to mock people for enjoying a movie you have admitted you have no interest in seeing