This Is It - but is it really?
Today the concert film This Is It will be released in cinemas around the world. I shall go see it tonight, with a childhood friend who used to buy the world's most disgusting cheap'n'nasty bubblegum in order to collect dinky Michael Jackson stickers.
We shall see what all the hubbub over the last (!) ever (!) MJ concert film is about tonight, but really, you can have a foretaste here in the trailer. (Or by watching one of the many trailers.)
Needless to say, if you're looking for a warts 'n all biopic or a searing insight into the man that's been touted as our generation's Elvis, I don't think This Is It at all. This is far more likely to be two hours of unadulterated adoration for the talented but warped man who turned himself into a human freakshow.
The music, is of course, essential to any pop soundtrack of the 70s, 80s and 90s. That's indisputable. However, one doubts that The King would have approved of his only daughter marrying the King of Pop, even temporarily.
The biggest similarity between Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley in coming years may prove to be the fact that their earning power not only lasts longer than they do on this earth, it grows and grows.
Another similarity would be the rapid growth of conspiracy theories that Jackson isn't actually dead, but alive and well - and probably living in a gold-lined bunker with Elvis.
Something rather amusing to arise out of the hoopla of This Is It is the fact that one of the greatest losses to the world will be Michael Jackson's distinct pong. According to the LA Times:
"He had this amazing fragrance," said Mekia Cox, one of 11 backup dancers who worked with Jackson between April and June on This Is It, his series of 50 sold-out concerts scheduled to start taking place at London's O2 Arena.
Another dancer, Daniel Celebre, referred to Jackson's singular musk as "the love potion", recalling its ability to trigger an almost Pavlovian response in people downwind. "No matter what you're doing, as soon as you smell that smell, boom! You have to get more focused," Celebre recalled. "Because he needs to know we're having that love. And throwing the love around."
One thing is for certain, we shall never smell his like again.
Given that smell-o-vision hasn't yet been invented, will you be among those flocking to the cinema to see This Is It over the next two weeks? Why/why not?
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he wouldn't be able to smell himself as he didn't have a nose.
I dont think I will go see it. From what I can tell it is just one big "copy and paste" job from footage that probably would have never seen the light of day if he hadn't died when he did.
But I am willing to accept I may be wrong!!
Not going to see this. There are plenty of other films with better prosthetic make up effects monsters I can watch.
I assume This Is It will be just Americans gushing over how wonderful MJ was. Boring!
When I saw the shorts all I could focus was how skinny he was. Yeuck.
Not me. I'll never get that hour back
Nah. gonna see paranormal activity instead.
i luv mj
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Not me, he creeps me out too much and no matter how I try all I can see is that fake nose.