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Post by respect77 on May 18, 2024 2:41:05 GMT
Has Halle Bailey been confirmed to be in this? Playing Janet? She would make a great Janet. No, that is just fan desire.
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Post by aazzaabb on May 18, 2024 3:06:20 GMT
Has Halle Bailey been confirmed to be in this? Playing Janet? She would make a great Janet. No, that is just fan desire. Really? I got excited. Perhaps a lesser known name would be more realistic for Janet anyway as it’s more a supporting role.
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Post by aazzaabb on May 18, 2024 3:12:35 GMT
He deleted it now, maybe he wasn't supposed to talk about the shooting of the movie, but this is what he posted. I find it odd that all these musicians are being invited on the set and then excepted not to leak info. They sure know exactly what they’re doing in regards to creating hype. I really hope it lives up to it. Perhaps these real life musicians are bringing some inspiration to the cast.
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Post by ontime on May 18, 2024 22:12:10 GMT
I hope that Janet’s character is brief in the biopic. According to her, she lost Michael as a brother during Thriller. There’s no reason for her to be more than a tiny footnote in his story.
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Post by russtcb on May 18, 2024 23:33:27 GMT
Anyone expecting this to be "the biggest biopic of all time" or anything along those lines is setting themselves up for disappointment.
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Post by theunknownmonster on May 19, 2024 4:29:26 GMT
Anyone expecting this to be "the biggest biopic of all time" or anything along those lines is setting themselves up for disappointment. You don't think it's going to be huge?
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Post by respect77 on May 19, 2024 4:51:28 GMT
Anyone expecting this to be "the biggest biopic of all time" or anything along those lines is setting themselves up for disappointment. Well, I have seen a attendee at CinemaCon declaring that by the trailer it looks so impressive he wouldn't be surprised if it topped Bohemian Rhapsody. Although I have to say I have no idea how one can see that from a 23 seconds trailer. But visually it seemed to have impressed a lot of people. We have also seen opinions that Jaafar is REALLY morphing into MJ, he has his moves and gestures to a T. Which is nice, but once again, we still don't know how he can act. A lot of positive vibes are coming out of the shooting but it's too early to tell. One thing is for sure, there was enough drama in MJ's life to make it a lot more interesting, engaging, eventful and emotional than the average musical biopic. And of course, the music will help carry it too.
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Post by russtcb on May 19, 2024 5:21:58 GMT
Anyone expecting this to be "the biggest biopic of all time" or anything along those lines is setting themselves up for disappointment. You don't think it's going to be huge? I think it's going to do the same thing every other music biopic does: be popular for a few weeks, then disappear.
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Post by russtcb on May 19, 2024 5:25:27 GMT
Anyone expecting this to be "the biggest biopic of all time" or anything along those lines is setting themselves up for disappointment. Well, I have seen a attendee at CinemaCon declaring that by the trailer it looks so impressive he wouldn't be surprised if it topped Bohemian Rhapsody. Although I have to say I have no idea how one can see that from a 23 seconds trailer. But visually it seemed to have impressed a lot of people. We have also seen opinions that Jaafar is REALLY morphing into MJ, he has his moves and gestures to a T. Which is nice, but once again, we still don't know how he can act. A lot of positive vibes are coming out of the shooting but it's too early to tell. One thing is for sure, there was enough drama in MJ's life to make it a lot more interesting, engaging, eventful and emotional than the average musical biopic. And of course, the music will help carry it too. My point is that it's getting the same type of buzz every other music biopic gets. MJ fans are just paying closer attention to it during development, is all. I don't doubt that it'll be a popular movie but I think most MJ fans think this is gonna be like the glory days or Marvel or something. Personally I think it'll do what every other music biopic does: he popular for a few weeks, then just be forgotten fairly quickly.
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Post by respect77 on May 19, 2024 5:44:22 GMT
Well, the first big biopics of this new biopic wave (BR and Rocketman) did more for those artists than just be popular for a few weeks and then disappear. Their effects can still be felt. Although it probably it has a lot to do with the timing, ie. that they were two of the first movies of this wave because objectively I don't think they were any better than the biopics that came after them (I actually hated Rocketman and BR just felt average to me. I much preferred the Elvis biopic.) Now it's rather a biopic fatigue in the general public and that can go against the Michael biopic (and of course the fact that MJ is more controversial than Queen or Elton), but when OTW came out there was already a disco fatigue, yet MJ put out one of the most legendary disco albums. So it can be done against the odds.
At the end of the day key is how good and interesting the movie will be (just like OTW managed to overcome the disco fatigue by simply being a great album). One thing is for sure, MJ's life was eventful and dramatic like no other pop or rock star's so it has the potential to being more than the cliche rock and roll story where usually the dramatic peak centers around something like drug addiction and that's it. Sure MJ's life had that element too, but not just. So many ups and downs, so many different type of conflicts and drama.
I really have a hard time imagining how they will be able to fit so many things even in 3 hours, plus the music, the concert scenes etc, but that's the challenge.
Also, I don't think there's anything wrong in fans being hyped for it. At least we have something exciting and potentially positive to look forward to rather than just the Robson trial. I don't like superhero movies so to me personally this is definitely more exciting than Marvel.
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Post by russtcb on May 19, 2024 5:57:35 GMT
No one said fans shouldn't or couldn't be hyped for the movie. What was said was that if fans are expecting this to be the biggest thing ever, they're setting themselves up for disappointment.
I don't care about Marvel either (I've only seen one of their movies) but that doesn't change the fact that they are big movie events.
I'm looking forward to the movie as well but I'm keeping my exowctatios realistic is all.
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Post by respect77 on May 19, 2024 6:12:27 GMT
No one said fans shouldn't or couldn't be hyped for the movie. What was said was that if fans are expecting this to be the biggest thing ever, they're setting themselves up for disappointment. But do they? I mean you probably can find hyperbolic, unrealistic expectations just like anything else on social media, but I'm not sure if that can be generalized to the whole fandom. For the most part I just see fans being excited about the contents of it, how Jaafar will look, sound, sharing leaks from the shooting etc. Things like that.
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Post by russtcb on May 19, 2024 6:36:50 GMT
No one said fans shouldn't or couldn't be hyped for the movie. What was said was that if fans are expecting this to be the biggest thing ever, they're setting themselves up for disappointment. But do they? I mean you probably can find hyperbolic, unrealistic expectations just like anything else on social media, but I'm not sure if that can be generalized to the whole fandom. For the most part I just see fans being excited about the contents of it, how Jaafar will look, sound, sharing leaks from the shooting etc. Things like that. I didn't say "the whole fandom", I said "anyone".
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Post by aazzaabb on May 19, 2024 8:24:10 GMT
Well I’m absolutely hyped and excited! I’m also a Marvel fan -to a certain extent. I can’t see why this wouldn’t be huge -apart from a downturn in people going to the movies- , and coming after Elvis which I loved. I’ll admit I have big expectations for it and don’t see why it would necessarily fail. Between fans, casuals, curious people and the potential media storm, that’s a pretty potent cocktail of interest. Everything I’ve seen so far suggests -to me at least- that this is pretty big machine and every effort is being taken to suggest this is going to be a bit of a moment.
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Post by aazzaabb on May 19, 2024 9:48:47 GMT
But do they? I mean you probably can find hyperbolic, unrealistic expectations just like anything else on social media, but I'm not sure if that can be generalized to the whole fandom. For the most part I just see fans being excited about the contents of it, how Jaafar will look, sound, sharing leaks from the shooting etc. Things like that. I didn't say "the whole fandom", I said "anyone". Isn’t that the same thing? 😁
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