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The question for me is mostly: Is it a bad film, OR is it a bad film because it doesn't cover the later, controversial, non musical stuff?

Posted by: goodvibe61 on Apr 21, 09:24 in response to TheWeekendWarrior's post The reactions I've seen from last night's MJACK...

The film is going to naturally struggle critically from the get go, if it avoids the controversial stuff altogether. Plenty of "critics" are going to give a negative review regardless in that case. So it's set up to be an uphill climb critically. 


Personally: I'm probably one of the few who are far, FAR more interested in Jackson's artistic output. His work has basically been one of the soundtracks to my life; I believe he was one of the great artists of the second half of the 20th Century. And I've always been both a big fan of his work, and fascinated by his artistic growth, from the J5 as a kid, to the early solo albums in the late 70's, to the enormous breakout of Off the Wall. And I think his superstardom at the time in the early 80's was pretty unprecedented. And I would love to see a film about that. And if that's what this is, then if it stinks on that end then so be it.

But if the criticism is due to what the film is NOT about, that's lame. if the criticism is that it doesn't capture anything meaningful out of an artist's work, ok then, and that's very disappointing.

Which is it?






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