Michael Jackson's "This Is It," the film

^^I meant like commercialized big-budget movies not being able to get made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yIxIhO23c

watched this this weekend.

was nice...obv it gets a little boring by the end as it's not really a film or a doc as such rather than just a bunch of rehearsal footage

but it was amazing to see him work and how much effort goes into putting on a show like that.

also just struck by how special he was as a dancer and how detail oriented he was as a musician

he was just musical as a human being, like everything he did seemed like music....as compared to, say, like madonna he was just from another planet, much more like elvis, just effortless different and special

Here's my review, FWIW -

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/11/it-would-have-been-something/

nice tracer!

yeah yr definitely right about how fascinating it is to see the insane production behind the scenes...

there was one part where michael was beatboxing how he wanted the band to play and i was just like...damn...how talented.

i'm glad you guys have good things to say about this, since i think the aura of a necrophiliac cash-in circulated so strongly around it that it wouldn't even have occurred to me to see it. now maybe i will.

his death is not discussed or even really acknowledged, which i think works...i mean it clear forms the context, but it's largely unspoken...only the audience really knows that no one will ever see the fruits of all this work, which makes it kinda sad

it doesn't really feel like a film or complete but it's a fascinating snapshot