Completely agree! The Eras tour is often ranked against This Is It with Taylor coming out on top financially however, admission to the Eras screening was premium priced (3 times the price of regular tickets). Attendance figures would be a much better measure of success.
Actually it would be cool if we see MJ interacting with classic disney characters like Peter Pan or Dumbo in this way when he's at Neverland or alone to show his isolation and disconnect from reality.
Yes I always wanted this movie to have light fantasy elements, touched upon this last year in early posts about the biopic, the worst thing they could do is make it a dry biopic like most of the others. Michael was magical not just on stage but also in his mind and that should be brought forward in the film.
I personally don't like the idea of MJ seeing fictional characters like that but, I can imagine how it might be done.
I thought about this exact thing too but I didn’t want to post it because I always seem to talk about SITD (aka the greatest song of all time)
And you still think this won't make a Michaellion dollars??
No I expect 500 million
It's ok to keep expectations low in the comunity and it's good to keep them high in the studio.
This Is It made about 280 million dollar which I find fairly low considering the hype surrounding MJ in the months after his passing. I think it was a financial success but I expected more. My local cinema which has new movies for just 2 weeks had about 15 people attending the film Including me and 3 friends who at a stretch could be called casual fans. The movie only reinforced the opinion that they had that MJ was really weird and kind of crazy. To be fair I can’t blame them, we only got a glimpse of his former genius on This Is It. The only time they went silent was during Human Nature.
I cannot agree with this as my experience was quite different. I live in a very small country (population = 2M only) and Michael was never really popular here. The cinema was pretty much full and at the end of the movie everybody aplauded - I had never seen such a reaction before.
2m! Let me think which one could it be
No need to think, a look will be enough.2m! Let me think which one could it be
Ah Slovenia the country boxed in by Croatia, Italy, Austria and Hungary
A lot of fans didn't go to see This Is It. For some his death was still too painful so they either didn't want to see it at all or preferred to watch it alone at home. Others boycotted it because they were blaming Sony and AEG for Michael's death.
Low? It shattered the records for concert films, becoming the highest grossing by a wide, wide margin. I really think your personal experience at the cinema might be coloring your judgment here. When you look purely at the facts, This Is It was a massive commercial and critical success. The people you were at the cinema with may have walked away from it thinking MJ was weird and crazy, but that definitely was not the consensus. When you look at reviews from the time, you see near-universal praise for his involvement in every detail of the show, his kind nature, and his ever-present talent (things we all knew as fans, but after years of negative press there were many people who never knew that or had forgotten).
Yeah, the MJ Estate was immediately receiving contentious responses from many fans. A shame as that was easily their best project to date. They really should have let it simmer, allowed more eyes on it, and just let the hype play out more. Maybe delay the soundtrack proper for 2010. And then in another 2 years, looked at a posthumous album with more consideration. The rushing early on set them far back.
I never saw Michael live so TII was the first time for me. I'm sure that had a lot to do with why I loved the film so much. I'm not saying I didn't have reservations about it bc I did, from the very first viewing. But, really, I just loved it, flaws and all. I had no idea he was doing stuff that he'd been doing since the 70's (J5 medley, for example).
My first initial thought was that: all the same.
I don't think you can reason with such garbage.
Stop with the nonsense. This thread is about the biopic not delusional TII takes.
