Spike Lee BAD 25 Documentary- DVD / Blu Ray [available on iTunes Nov 19]

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Amazing documentary - thank you Spike Lee! Loved to hear about the choreography of the videos, the creation of the music all the elements that went into the orchastration of the tracks!
Was heartbreaking too, makes you realise again how much you miss him :sad:
 
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gonna watch it again on BBC iPlayer right now ^.^
 
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oh man. I cried a little during TII but it was heavy, especially when they all stopped talking and I saw Jerkmaine at the conference thingy. Still, it was one of the best things I've ever watched regarding the man and imo, the best docu out there. You wanna see who's BAD? who the real MJ is? watch this. Without a doubt.
 
CherubimII;3745808 said:
Have FUN, :party:and then come back and give us a review.
You sure? :D

Ok, here it is..:


Those 2 1/2 hrs really seemed like 1 hr!

So many funny, emotional, heartfelt reactions from all the people that were interviewed. I was expecting to at least cry a little, but that didn't happen. On the contrary....Michael was loved very much and that love was felt throughout the whole documentary.

The things I liked most:

-The choreography rehearsals for BAD with Jeffrey Daniel and Greg Burge (?) staying up all night at a New York hotel working on dance routines for the "Bad" video, trying new steps, completing eachother.

-Someone said Michael's face lit up, when he saw a woman's reaction to the crowd hysteria; "It's just like with The Beatles".

-Siedah and Michael, unseen footage…them singing together and Siedah singing it in a lower range as an example for Michael.

-Greg Philinganes playing IJCSLY on the piano and his way of talking overall

-Quincy saying that when Bruce, Michael and he felt goosebumps, they knew they had a special song.

-Joe Pytka (director TWYMMF) explaining why the waterhydrant was in the background of the choreography.

-Joe Pytka: "*** her and get it over with"...LMAO!! (sorry Tatiana)

-California Raisins part cracked me up again

-Steve Stevens talking about leaving a note out in DD. I want to see it again to find out what note he means.

-Quincy talking about when the syncopation of everything was right, Michael started dancing (if I remember it well)

-I knew the choreography of SM looked a lot like Fred Astair’s, but I never knew it was an homage from Michael to Fred Astaire.

-Kanye West about “Annie, are you ok” (x10times or so, hahaha). Funny.

-Jeffrey Daniel paying tribute to Don Campbell

-The tears of a lot of contributers. It gave me a warm feeling. Michael was loved very much.

-I can’t remember who said it, but someone said that Michael is a warm energy that just don’t go away. True.

-New to me: where ‘Shamone’ comes from. I always thought it was Michael’s invention.



There were also some other things that I didn’t like that much or I found to be less:

-I noticed Bruce Swedien is getting older :(. That man has something about him I like very much.

-I also noticed that Joe Vogel was the only one that just summed up facts. I missed the emotion that all the other participants did have. But maybe it’s because the others actually have met Michael and he never has. He seemed a bit of an outsider in this whole documentary. But that's my observation, of course.

-When I saw the credits I noticed this movie was also dedicated to Michael's children and Katherine Jackson. There was no mention of Joe Jackson.
I find that to be very childish. Michael had two parents.
 
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Without a doubt the best documentary since The Legend Continues, and it beats that by miles. Spoke Lee did what no one could do in Michael's life time. I just wish Michael could have seen it. He would have been so proud.

Yes, yes it is. (I so want The legend Continues re-released on DVD).
This documentary does what I hoped it would which is to remind people of Michaels true genius. For a lot of people who Michael was - was lost in a sea of tabloid crap and rumours, they forgot his talent, they forgot his pure heart, his music was buried and really only his die hard fans saw through it all and took the time to research all those rumours. Michael's legacy deserves positive, professional and estate approved projects like this or Michael will fade away with his music hidden under a blanket of lies.

I was concerned when I realised that '09 would be included but in a strange way it was a comfort found in sharing the 'witnesses' obvious grief. I let my 13 year old stay up to watch and I did cringe a little at the occasional F word and the reference that Michael should just shag Tatianna and get it over with.

All in all this brings to focus back to where it should never have been lost from and I loved it!
 
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http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=EUwyNySV_dc&desktop_uri=/watch?v=EUwyNySV_dc

it's my first time to see the full version. Spike lee did the great job as i said before. But I kinda hope there are more Michael behind the seen footage about how he navigated his ship. It's not because i want to see more Michael's face but because those footage will reflect Michael's genius much more in depth and powerful than other people's words. Like when they talked about smooth criminal, the part when the cat jump on piano, I would prefer watching the footage of Michael like I posted in here giving instruction rather than others talked on the documentary that they didn't plan it.
 
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Peeeeeeee stains haha
 
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where can i see it? as im not in the UK
 
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-When I saw the credits I noticed this movie was also dedicated to Michael's children and Katherine Jackson. There was no mention of Joe Jackson.
I find that to be very childish. Michael had two parents.

His mother and his children are beneficiaries of the Michael's will. That's why dedications only include them.
 
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Chamife;3746117]You sure? :D

Ok, here it is..:
Chamifie, thanks for the review. WOW!!!! I've only seen the condenced version shown here in the US.
I really got some catching up and more enjoyment to experience. Yea!!!!! :girl_curtsey:
 
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-When I saw the credits I noticed this movie was also dedicated to Michael's children and Katherine Jackson. There was no mention of Joe Jackson.
I find that to be very childish. Michael had two parents.

His mother and his children are beneficiaries of the Michael's will. That's why dedications only include them.

Yes the book is dedicated to those the Estate is responsible for caring for according to MJs own will and family trust. Most the family doesnt even support the Estate or this documentary or the BAD25 Album. They completly snubbed it. So why insult them and dedicate it to them. They dedicated to his Mother and children out of respect for them and to show where their responsibility lies.
 
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UK press update
It was really good to see that adverts for BAD25 appeared in the Sunday morning press, to follow up the documentary last night. I'm sure you'll have seen them before, but this is from the Sunday Times this morning, 2nd Dec 12: (it's about 1/4 of the broadsheet page, so quite big).


(I missed it yesterday, but the BAD25 documentary was also a 'pick of the day' in the Guardian weekly Culture / TV guide, sat 1st Dec. I can't see any BAD25 adverts in the Guide though. This is what the Guardian preview said:

How do you top an album like 'Thriller'? well, if you're Michael Jackson, you essentially talk yourself into it- and write your goal (100 million album sales) on every mirror you own. And , after Thriller, Michael Jackson owned a lot of mirrors. That's just one of the narratives uncovered by Spike Lee in this exegesis of Jackson's follow-up album, Bad-released 25 years ago. Lee is on a mission to explode a few ****** Jacko' myths, but what he uncovers along the way about Jacksons' drive to make a bigger, more urban record, is no less compelling. (credit JR)' )


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The doc is up on bbc iplayer, just for uk people i imagine, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p7n3h/Michael_Jackson_BAD_25/

It was such a great documentary. I hadn't realised there was no narration from spike, that's really hard to get a narrative flow going 2 hrs with just talking heads, he's a really talented filmmaker. It was great to have such a leisurely pace. The ending it with mitm was so fitting.

I avoided spoilers so hadn't realised the kiss was so damn short, i practically missed it - this has kept tatiana trilling for the past x no years? I'm going to have to watch slomo youtubes of it, which i'm positive mjfans have uploaded.
 
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The doc is up on bbc iplayer, just for uk people i imagine, http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p7n3h/Michael_Jackson_BAD_25/

It was such a great documentary. I hadn't realised there was no narration from spike, that's really hard to get a narrative flow going 2 hrs with just talking heads, he's a really talented filmmaker. It was great to have such a leisurely pace. The ending it with mitm was so fitting.

I avoided spoilers so hadn't realised the kiss was so damn short, i practically missed it - this has kept tatiana trilling for the past x no years? I'm going to have to watch slomo youtubes of it, which i'm positive mjfans have uploaded.
I was out with my family all day yesterday that I was so exhausted that I fell asleep on the sofa 10 mins before it started :'( I still managed to record about 1,5 hours of it, but missed the first hour :(

My UK friend will set me up a VPN tomorrow with UK address so I can watch it using iplayer :)
 
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A friend in the UK copied it for me and will send it over, can't wait.
 
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Yesterday I saw the edited version on a music channel I have called MuchMore Music. Like the one I saw on ABC last week. I can't wait to get the dvd in February to see it all and the extra footage.

It's kind of funny that now people are saying that Bad was his last best album. It was always Thriller or that's all people wanted to talk about. It's progress for sure. That's why it's important for the estate to go forward and focus on Dangerous, History and Invincible down the road. I think people are maybe more willing to taker a look at those albums and Michael's work. He did great work and it got ignored with all the tabloid garbage and all the problems Michael had to deal with. Maybe people will give it a chance now.
 
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Still no torrent or download for those of us in the US?!

I wanna be sure to have this for Xmas day when my whole expects to see it at my house..
 
I finally managed to watch it last night and I wasn't disappointed.
Spike did a great job with document, it was just right.
I was watching it in awe, like Metro said below article, it was hard work to be Michael Jackson:bow:

I said to myself before watching it, today I'm not in a mood crying and not going to cry, but somehow Vincent Paterson's teary eyes made me cry. The way he said "sorry, I just loved that guy" was heartbreaking moment for me, as well Joe Pytka hiding his face and tears with his hands:cry:



I cannot wait until Feb to see what is in the extra hour in DVD

As somebody already said it, roll on Dangerous 25.


Review from Metro:

Michael Jackson: Bad 25 offered a glorious reminder of his singing talent
TV review: The documentary Michael Jackson: Bad 25 saw all the scandals and freak stories of the king of pop's life take a back seat to his musical prowess - reminding us just how he became a superstar in the first place.

The story of Michael Jackson has become so mired in the murky controversy surrounding his premature demise, with yet another exposé/biography fresh in bookshops, that it’s easy to forget why we fell in love with him in the first place. But there it was in Michael Jackson: Bad 25 (BBC2), a glorious reminder of what made Jackson the King of Pop.
As we danced and harmonised our way through the track listing of (arguably) Michael Jackson’s best album, all the freak stories, the noses, the chimps, the questionable friendships, took a back seat to the sheer joy of the moves and the music. It was a visual remix of a defining moment in pop music history.
With Spike Lee behind the camera, this was no hagiography. But it was a celebration of a talent that’s been tainted by scandal and sadness. This wasn’t an attempt at the definitive Michael Jackson story but, as Lee interviewed everyone who had a hand in Bad, from Martin Scorsese to key musicians, it did offer some fresh insights.
Even back in 1987 it seemed like an awful lot of hard work being Michael Jackson, his perfectionism meaning he even had to get into character to do a California Raisins commercial, finding the emotional motivation of each raisin. Getting into character is what Jackson seemed to do best, even in apparently unguarded studio moments playing a version of himself. Every smile had its own shadow.
For much of its epic two and a quarter hours, Lee’s film kept its emotional powder dry, relying on diverting anecdotes – Jackson’s trademark ‘shamone’ was a nod to Mavis Staples, the lean in the Smooth Criminal dance can be traced back to Buster Keaton and so on – to flesh out the footage of Jackson in action.
But a fast forward to the present – reactions to news of Jackson’s death used as a preface to the writing and recording of Man In The Mirror – was intense, honest and almost wordless. Here, you saw how much Jackson meant to so many. The sad underscore of Lee’s film is that it made you wonder: when Jackson looked at the man in the mirror, who did he see looking back?


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/reviews/9...-reminder-of-his-singing-talent#ixzz2DzHT1xtL
 
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Havnt watched it yet. sky box is broke and didnt record the last 15 mins so im kinda using that as an
excuse not to watch it and wait till i get the dvd. i wanna watch but
with everything mj now tears is mixed in with joy and its draining physically and emotionally
 
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Still no torrent or download for those of us in the US?!

Looks like no one bothered to record the BBC version as they thought it was the same as the one aired in the US.
Many fans knows but very few has the knowledge and equipment to record BBC-HD version and transfer to pc.....then upload.
 
Is there anyone out there who recorded this documenty that BBC broadcasted? There should be plenty of MJ fans out there that could do the effort to help others who haven´t been able to see the longversion yet.
 
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I've downloaded a torrent that was 1.25GB and it says it is the BBC version. But now I can't open the file. It is .wmv, but I tried in all programs and it doesn't open. The ones that do open, it shows a colored image, with no sound, really weird.
 
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That was a great metro review bubs.

Havnt watched it yet. sky box is broke and didnt record the last 15 mins so im kinda using that as an
excuse not to watch it and wait till i get the dvd. i wanna watch but
with everything mj now tears is mixed in with joy and its draining physically and emotionally

Just a headsup if you decide to watch - The bit about mj's death is around half an hour before the end. There's a segment on leave me alone, then the bad tour and then suddenly you go to jerms in front of the hosp. So duck out of sight for 10 mins or so (?) for the 'witnesses' as spike calls them to talk about their feelings on that day and then the last segment is mitm which is a really nice touching ending.
 
elusive moonwalker;3746994 said:
... but
with everything mj now tears is mixed in with joy and its draining physically and emotionally
Tell me about it ..IJCSLY& MITM

Bubs;3746973 said:
Vincent Paterson's teary eyes made me cry. The way he said "sorry, I just loved that guy" was heartbreaking moment for me, as well Joe Pytka hiding his face and tears with his hands:cry:
I never saw that coming, Vincent did it for me ... bawl my eyes out :cry:

swedis;3747005 said:
Is there anyone out there who recorded this documenty that BBC broadcasted? ....There should be plenty of MJ fans who haven´t been able to see the longversion yet.
Count me in

 
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Thanks bonnie. i guess thats the good thing about recording it. u can forward through that bit.
 
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I'm sure somebody here said that the BBC weren't showing an HD version of the documentary.

Anyway, according to the Guardian the BBC showing only attracted about 800,000 viewers which is roughly 4.6% of the total.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/03/im-a-celebrity-viewers

I knew the BBC's decision to show it on BBC2 would produce low viewing figures but this is lower than I expected.
The Rolling Stones documentary attracted 900,000 viewers on BBC2, although to be fair they did have the advantage of major advertising across the BBC network, plus 'The One Show' special, plus 'Stones Night' on BBC2. I guess, if I take into account the fact the BAD25 didn't have any of that promo it's not so bad. (I still wish they showed it on BBC 1!)
 
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You will see a torrent soon appearing on a number of sites of a BBC iPlayer rip in 832x468 pixels in best possible MP4 quality :)
 
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I found out the other night that Bad 25 documentary was on MuchMore in Canada.
 
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I can't find a torrent or anything yet for BBC version :(
 
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