Michael Jackson's This Is It.

[princessconsuela]

Just got back from “Michael Jackson’s This Is It”. What a phenomenal experience. What an amazing glimpse at the man behind the magic that swept across decades, across continents, and breathed a new sense of creativity into art, a new lease of hope into life.

This isn’t a movie, or even a documentary. It really is a compilation of some 80 odd hours of footage from the last few days of MJ’s rehearsal for his upcoming concert in London. But in a little less than 120 minutes, I saw 2 sides of that living legend. I saw the mind-blowing genius that can create music par excellence and showmanship beyond brilliance, a genius so supreme it made me instinctively bow down to it. But I also saw a human being so humble, so simple, so honest and so pure; it almost made me reach out with a protective hug.

While I will never be able to pick one favourite over the rest from his songs, as far as this concert film goes, I must give an extra round of applause to “Smooth Criminal”!

This is it. This is the end of an era. But hopefully this will also be the launch of a message that Michael Jackson so dearly wanted to pass on… Love one another… Heal the world.

[J-Man]

Michael Jackson’s This is It.

This is not really a movie. It’s not documentary footage about MJ and his life. This is basically a concert with behind the scenes footage. Remember that MJ didn’t shoot this footage with the intention of making a movie. So all of his actions and reactions are genuine, he is not performing to the camera. He died before he could do this concert, and had he completed it, it would have been the best concert in the history of music. As it is, we only see one quarter of what it would have been, and that quarter was better than every concert I have ever seen! Remember we are seeing rehearsals only, and with just the rehearsal footage, I am impressed.

Not only with the material – MJ’s songs are great – and he plays ALL THE HITS, but with MJ himself.

He is in total control of everything. He even auditions the dancers…there must be like 300 or more of these guys and he goes through all of them!

During the zombie sequence in thriller (a new sequence that is just amazing!) MJ watches all the footage and directs everything that goes on. He cues all the music, and knows every single note of all of his songs.

To top it off, he is very humble. He seems very sweet at times and really seems like he is loving what he is doing. Frequently he looses himself in the song and begins to really sing – something he doesn’t wanna do because he is saving his voice for the show. Well let me tell you, his rehearsal voice is just as good as most peoples studio dubs!!!!

If you are fan of MJ you should see this film for sure. Even if you are a casual fan, you’ll find yourself singing along and moving to the beat.

5/5

J-Man