After watching the disappointing Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, I am hungering for a good music biopic. Michael Jackson's story is rife with drama and amazing music. I don't know if they are going to try to make him look good, bad, or something in the middle.
Hearing the music and seeing the set pieces made me very nostalgic for the 1980's. Jaafaar Jackson sounds like Michael, but in the one scene where he talks, it feels a lot more like an impersonation than a fully lived-in character. As much as I didn't like Baz Luhrman's Elvis, Austin Butler did an amazing job of going beyond the caricature and creating a fully realized character who was at the same time larger-than-life.
I need to see more before I get too interested.
Thoughts?
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