Oh hi, This is my first day of my November and all the good things happened in my life occurred in this month, I wanted to start and celebrate it by watching a BIG THING, thus I witnessed Micheal JACKSON'S (ie NOC-01-2009 01:00pm)THIS IS IT . And in a one-liner I'll say it's a RAW CUT version without any sweetener.
After a large fall the KING OF POP decided to make a GREAT COMEBACK with a concert named THIS IS IT, but due to faith or destiny he died without fulfilling it. This film shows the final days he spent on that concert with his rehearsals both on stage and behind the scenes.
Directed by Kenny Ortega who designed the original concert, failed to capture MJ's final performance for the screen. As the viewers expected we see MJ good dance numbers, the new assembled dance members, the new musicians (but miss to see an UNHEALTHY JACKSON, which strongly favors the argument that producers used BODYDOUBLES)and nothing more.
The problem with this film is, it just flat, no characters, no narrations, no developments. Just badly edited, badly photographed, and badly MANIPULATED. It just a Tele-play of some urban dancers and their warming up.
Even WWE promos looked better than this. I thought this film will milk the audience by Manipulating his memories with the actual unseen footage, but no, none of that happened, it just a flat cut.
The opening sequence shows sneak interviews with the dancers who auditioned for MJ's concert. (WOW, I though OK cool, they are going for ARNOLD'S PUMPING IRON DOCUMENTARY Take, by describing from DANCERS /PARTICIPANTS point of view, Showing how MJ planned the concert, how is executed and how he left off) BUT when the movie pickups from their it just reduced into mediocre DVD EXTRA feature which was done by a 10 year old. (even a 10 year old can do better!)
A bad setback to a TRUE FAN, or a NON-AVERAGE-FAN like me. Even at some point I doubt that the filmmakers used BODY DOUBLES for creating dramatic points for the movie. Especially opening sequence where MJ sat with director Kenny Ortega for selecting the dancers, and the much more elaborate dance sequence for THRILLER, which shows a different body-language MJ. Using Harsh Back ground Lights covering Jackson's face, edited with original Jackson footage I think the producers really want to polish his last performance, but the outcome was simply pathetic.
They should have at least seen the WWE produced homage videos, even with single photograph how they capture the emotions of their long lost WRESTLERS.I remember some of my friends tried to get off the cinemas because of the lagging coverage of the movies. Even the screen aspect ratio seemed so small that it's like watching some 70's PROJECTOR porn video. This documentary or Docu-DRAMA sucked a lot, because of it's bad quality and bad execution.
Anything good was , hmmm... no, there is nothing good in this movie except it's TRAILER, and the hype it made. This movie got all the awkward movements like MJ infamous PRIVATE AREA touching pose rehearsed by his fellow dancers, and we miss SLASH the guitarist, in-place it's a WHITE BLOND WOMAN (yeah like us, Jackson loved WHITE TRASH). Above all they forgot to add HIS Signature MOONWALK, sorry I don't know why the PRODUCERS left that in a hurry.
Yeah it's a documentary, but what I got was Kenny Ortega's RAW CUT version prepared in 8 hours with no essential score or subtitles cards. May be a DIE HARD fan should reedit this whole mess with new presentation and release it on YOUTUBE.
I gave this one 3 out of 10.
After a large fall the KING OF POP decided to make a GREAT COMEBACK with a concert named THIS IS IT, but due to faith or destiny he died without fulfilling it. This film shows the final days he spent on that concert with his rehearsals both on stage and behind the scenes.
Directed by Kenny Ortega who designed the original concert, failed to capture MJ's final performance for the screen. As the viewers expected we see MJ good dance numbers, the new assembled dance members, the new musicians (but miss to see an UNHEALTHY JACKSON, which strongly favors the argument that producers used BODYDOUBLES)and nothing more.
The problem with this film is, it just flat, no characters, no narrations, no developments. Just badly edited, badly photographed, and badly MANIPULATED. It just a Tele-play of some urban dancers and their warming up.
Even WWE promos looked better than this. I thought this film will milk the audience by Manipulating his memories with the actual unseen footage, but no, none of that happened, it just a flat cut.
The opening sequence shows sneak interviews with the dancers who auditioned for MJ's concert. (WOW, I though OK cool, they are going for ARNOLD'S PUMPING IRON DOCUMENTARY Take, by describing from DANCERS /PARTICIPANTS point of view, Showing how MJ planned the concert, how is executed and how he left off) BUT when the movie pickups from their it just reduced into mediocre DVD EXTRA feature which was done by a 10 year old. (even a 10 year old can do better!)
A bad setback to a TRUE FAN, or a NON-AVERAGE-FAN like me. Even at some point I doubt that the filmmakers used BODY DOUBLES for creating dramatic points for the movie. Especially opening sequence where MJ sat with director Kenny Ortega for selecting the dancers, and the much more elaborate dance sequence for THRILLER, which shows a different body-language MJ. Using Harsh Back ground Lights covering Jackson's face, edited with original Jackson footage I think the producers really want to polish his last performance, but the outcome was simply pathetic.
They should have at least seen the WWE produced homage videos, even with single photograph how they capture the emotions of their long lost WRESTLERS.I remember some of my friends tried to get off the cinemas because of the lagging coverage of the movies. Even the screen aspect ratio seemed so small that it's like watching some 70's PROJECTOR porn video. This documentary or Docu-DRAMA sucked a lot, because of it's bad quality and bad execution.
Anything good was , hmmm... no, there is nothing good in this movie except it's TRAILER, and the hype it made. This movie got all the awkward movements like MJ infamous PRIVATE AREA touching pose rehearsed by his fellow dancers, and we miss SLASH the guitarist, in-place it's a WHITE BLOND WOMAN (yeah like us, Jackson loved WHITE TRASH). Above all they forgot to add HIS Signature MOONWALK, sorry I don't know why the PRODUCERS left that in a hurry.
Yeah it's a documentary, but what I got was Kenny Ortega's RAW CUT version prepared in 8 hours with no essential score or subtitles cards. May be a DIE HARD fan should reedit this whole mess with new presentation and release it on YOUTUBE.
I gave this one 3 out of 10.