Michael Was Fun, But Can We Get A Janet Jackson Movie Next, Please?
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Michael Jackson biopic lacks substance and soul
2.0 out of 5.0 stars2.0 Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael,” a biopic on the infamous singer, Michael Jackson, provides less substance than a glance at his Wikipedia page. While the casting of his nephew (Jaafar Jackson) to play the singer is intriguing, it does not mask the movie’s overt bias. The movie constantly falls back on its music, but that backing can only go so far. It is a movie without a soul. The movie begins from early childhood, where Young…
This could have been a gripping story of great depravity (of a son, a man, an artist), reflecting on the realms of power and violence. Meanwhile, "Michael" attempts to restore Michael's lost innocence.
Around the launch of the new biopic about Michael Jackson is revived the conversation that is considered the greatest star, not only of pop, but of the music that defined the change of millennium and the transition of an era in the music that ended and that had Michael Jackson as the protagonist, both for his musical genius and for a life full of contrasts, that pendled from a hyper-controlled childhood by his father Joe and his separation from …
Why ‘Michael” the Movie and Michael Jackson the Man Still Stir Controversy – Free Press of Jacksonville
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson The predictable backlash against the Michael Jackson biopic came fast and furious. Many critics either panned the film or savaged it. There isn’t much middle ground. But that’s no surprise. It was that way with Michael for many of his later years. You were either wildly enthralled by him or wildly repelled by him. Many of the anti “Michael” the film critics are ticked off because it paints a way too sympathetic Michael, …
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