Michael Jackson Videography

PRINCESS MJ · Sep 2, 2024

Awhh Bambi and his films!

And to think he'd been singing and dancing all his life but that isn't even what he "really" wanted to do!

He wanted to act more than anything. He had been ready to stop touring so he could focus on his acting career since 1984!

To this day, I still don't know why he wanted to be in films SO bad the way he did.

Someone should also make a post like this about Michael's love for Broadway, Musicals, Plays, and Live Theatre. He LOVED them.

R1chard · Sep 4, 2024

MJJCommunity said:
The Legend Continues

Never seen this one. Is it worth getting?

RIP_2009 · Sep 6, 2024

IMO the MJ videography is a sad story as we dont have much and what we do have is mainly on the DVD format only

The only one I really like is the «Bad25» documentary and the quality on bluray is amazing.
«This Is It« is also good while «Moonwalker» im not a big fan of.
«The Life Of An Icon« was ok but only watched it once….on bluray.
I have a few DVDs as well but most likely I will never watch them again as the quality just isnt good enough
on my big size OLED in 2024.

83magic · Sep 10, 2024

with the recent passing of james earl jones, I felt it was appropriate to share this video of ‘the legend continues’ documentary, which he narrated. r.i.p

it isn’t 100% complete, but unfortunately the original vhs

is long out of print. michael himself produced it, and it aired on showtime. just like ‘the making of thriller’ before it, and the more recent ‘thriller 40’.

zinniabooklover · Sep 10, 2024

83magic said:
with the recent passing of james earl jones, I felt it was appropriate to share this video of ‘the legend continues’ documentary, which he narrated. r.i.p
it isn’t 100% complete, but unfortunately the original vhs is long out of print. michael himself produced it, and it aired on showtime. just like ‘the making of thriller’ before it, and the more recent ‘thriller 40’.

Thanks for posting. I'd forgotten that Michael produced it. I wish we had an interview where he talked about that part of his work.

83magic · Sep 11, 2024

zinniabooklover said:
Thanks for posting. I'd forgotten that Michael produced it. I wish we had an interview where he talked about that part of his work.

I think the documentary was an amazing introduction to someone unfamiliar with michael’s career at that point. however, I agree that michael’s voice was sorely missed. that may have been by design though..

I have many wonderful memories of this, and I think it definitely set the template for the others that followed. unfortunately, I don’t think it aged well and I see it as a product of its time

that could be partly due to late eighties aesthetic and presentation, but it’s mainly the motive behind it.

it was designed to show michael as this mythical, untouchable, larger than life figure. the second half in particular featured celebrities, who had nothing to do with his story, who were essentially paid to call him god. it’s disingenuous when we now know how some of them truly felt about him (cindi lauper, katherine hepburn, sean lennon). even the segments with the three fans that got to tour the jackson family home, was scripted. it wasn’t entirely honest about the dip in popularity after 1972 and before ‘blame it on the boogie’. diana ross, berry gordy, and bobby taylor were crucial voices that were also absent. a lot of the crowd reaction and hysteria was actually edited and taken from other occasions (such as the ‘victory’ tour), and placed during the final ‘heartbreak hotel’ performance.

still, I’m thankful for the rare footage. it really is like a highlight reel until the closing credits, which was the first time I saw the james brown concert appearance from ‘83

it was also great to hear michael’s mentors such as sammy davis jr and gene kelly speak highly of him. make no mistake, the hype is justified. it’s just that i prefer the instances where the work speaks for itself, like ‘the making of thriller’.

zinniabooklover · Sep 11, 2024

83magic said:
I think the documentary was an amazing introduction to someone unfamiliar with michael’s career at that point. however, I agree that michael’s voice was sorely missed. that may have been by design though..

oh, I didn't mean his voice needed to be in this. I just meant, in general, I wish he had been asked about this part of his work. This project or what he did on the Can You Feel It video - which I don't even particularly like, tbh, but I would love to hear his thoughts on producing. I'm just griping bc journalists never really asked him properly about his work. I know he liked to maintain a degree of mystery - and that's fine - but he talks very freely about the Thriller video in the 1999 MTV interview. I will always believe he would have responded well to the right kind of questions if only the journalists could be bothered to do a better job.

83magic said:
I have many wonderful memories of this, and I think it definitely set the template for the others that followed. unfortunately, I don’t think it aged well and I see it as a product of its time [...]

It is but that's unavoidable. It makes me feel nostalgic!

83magic said:
[...] it was designed to show michael as this mythical, untouchable, larger than life figure. the second half in particular featured celebrities, who had nothing to do with his story, who were essentially paid to call him god. [...]

I'm not keen on the talking heads, ngl.

83magic said:
[...] still, I’m thankful for the rare footage. it really is like a highlight reel until the closing credits,

There are so many fabulous images!

83magic said:
which was the first time I saw the james brown concert appearance from ‘83it was also great to hear michael’s mentors such as sammy davis jr and gene kelly speak highly of him. make no mistake, the hype is justified. it’s just that i prefer the instances where the work speaks for itself, like ‘the making of thriller’.

Sammy and Gene were great. I love the fact that Hermes Pan is in there, that's really cool. It's not perfect but I'm grateful that we have it.

83magic · Sep 13, 2024

documentaries are actually my favourite format. it’s the snapshots that encourage me to delve deeper. there’s been so many over the years. even though it’s the same story, I hope they continue being made to keep things fresh for current and future generations. another thing I credit ‘the legend continues’ for is the absence of profanity.

zinniabooklover · Sep 13, 2024

83magic said:
documentaries are actually my favourite format. it’s the snapshots that encourage me to delve deeper. there’s been so many over the years. even though it’s the same story, I hope they continue being made to keep things fresh for current and future generations. another thing I credit ‘the legend continues’ for is the absence of profanity.

Feeling a bit

atm. Just been watching some interviews with the director of a new Luther Vandross documentary that's coming out in a couple of months. She was talking about the research she did for the film and mentioned the hundreds of hours of interviews she watched as preparation. External interviews that he did with journalists for the media but, apparently, also loads of internal interviews that he did for Sony! She didn't go into detail bc it wasn't relevant to the question she had been asked but I'm intrigued. What were these 'internal' interviews? What were they needed for? I'm pretty sure there isn't a treasure trove of Sony interviews that Michael did, I'm just fantasising about how awesome it would be if such a thing did exist.

I'm frustrated. Just a bit!

83magic · Sep 13, 2024

zinniabooklover said:
Feeling a bit atm. Just been watching some interviews with the director of a new Luther Vandross documentary that's coming out in a couple of months. She was talking about the research she did for the film and mentioned the hundreds of hours of interviews she watched as preparation. External interviews that he did with journalists for the media but, apparently, also loads of internal interviews that he did for Sony! She didn't go into detail bc it wasn't relevant to the question she had been asked but I'm intrigued. What were these 'internal' interviews? What were they needed for? I'm pretty sure there isn't a treasure trove of Sony interviews that Michael did, I'm just fantasising about how awesome it would be if such a thing did exist.

I'm frustrated. Just a bit!

I’m still upset about the ‘lost tapes’ from michael’s memoirs being abruptly removed

I found those to be more interesting than anything else.

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