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Posted on 04/25/2026 10:39:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The Michael Jackson biopic gives new meaning to the word 'sanitizing'
The new biopic about Michael Jackson offers snapshots of his life from ages 8 to 24. It doesn't have a plot, really, just a timeline in which he gradually moves toward separating himself from his abusive father. With the exception of his early plastic surgeries, which he ascribes to a desire to make his face more symmetrical, there's nothing remotely questionable about the behavior of the kid we see in Michael. He's gentle and childlike and in love with animals and toys and Peter Pan. We are meant to understand all this as a form of psychological protection from the soul-crushing violence and emotional blackmail committed against him by his father Joseph (played as an unadulterated demon in human form by the brilliant Colman Domingo).
The movie concludes with Michael having liberated himself from Joseph's tyranny and, now free to be truly himself, burning down the joint as he performs "Bad" at a concert in London in 1988. But this was not the original ending, according to the peerless Hollywood reporter Matt Belloni. As filmed, the last third of Michael centered on the child-molestation and rape accusations against Jackson that dominated the 1990s—but not in a way intended to complicate or deepen the movie's portrait of its subject.
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I know this movie is going to make hundreds of millions of dollars, if not a billion or more, but I have no way to gauge whether it will do so because people enjoy it for itself or whether it will just be enough to have the re-created Jackson right before their eyes and the songs they love played on Dolby or IMAX speakers. What I know is that, abused or not, successful or not, immortal by dint of his talent or not, Michael Jackson was an evil man, and this movie is a whitewash of evil.
I'll be giving it a miss.
There have been a number of documentaries about Michael Jackson. All of them have at least some mention of his odd ways. I doubt this latest bio offers anything new.
They are just trying to trash him.
Only in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman.
I am not a genre snob and I try hard not to dump on other people’s viewing preferences. But I feel the same way about biopics that I do about flying spandex movies. If they bring people into the theaters and help keep theatrical exhibition alive, great. That’s how to ensure screens are available down the other corridor for my kind of movies. But I have zero interest in biopics, especially of pop culture people.
This will NOT be a trash Michael movie. His own nephew is playing Michael. The family would not allow a skewering
This new film seems to be focused on his life before he turned into that rich white woman.
I prefer this latest take on MJ.
I’m getting more and more distrustful as time has gone on. We know the left calls Trump a pedophile every single day. MJ was as big as Trump (maybe bigger) and I don’t trust that those kids, encouraged by their parent$, were telling the truth. I also know someone in the industry who knows someone who hung out with MJ a lot, and they said that it didn’t happen.
MJ was amazingly talented. I will see the movie.
A lot of the family is against it - including his daughter - but some support it, because they can get money. And it is trashing him - he wasn’t woke so he is bad.
He trashed himself long before he left this earth.
Because he worked with Ronald Reagan?
It’s weird how many female “Michaels” you see at the DemonRATs’ “**** ICE” riots and Ho Downs.
Self-actualization is a terrible way to die.
“If they bring people into the theaters and help keep theatrical exhibition alive, great. That’s how to ensure screens are available down the other corridor for my kind of movies.”
Sounds like a reasonable non-emotional way to look at it. Makes sense.
That’s the Netflix version.
Not that desperate for entertainment.
Do you mean the 1984 anti drug/alcohol participation?
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