
This weekend I decided to do what most of the movie going population and went and watched what had to be the biggest cash grab that has been shown at my local theatre all year, This Is It. First let me say that even though I will say that this thing which they showed to me last night fails to count as a movie as far as I’m concerned it definitely did not entertain me and by far did not make me proud to be a MJ fan. This show made me sad, as an MJ fan, because it became painfully obvious ten minutes in that this was going be a huge waste of my time because I was going to have to sit through two hours of him skipping lyrics and experimenting moves with the set up on stage because it wasn’t a concert, it was a rehearsal. There is a reason people rehearse, it is to perfect the show before they make people pay their money to see it. So why did Kenny Ortega, the ‘director‘, think that I needed to see this? Maybe it was because he was taken from us too soon, maybe because he got tired of reading emails from bummed out fans who actually had tickets to see him perform in London, or maybe he just plain didn’t give a damn. (more…)