Posts by driftingeagle27

electricskipper86 said:Honestly, I wouldn't say it was lip-synced at all—quite the opposite, really. If he worked that hard during the Dangerous Tour Rehearsal, I can't even imagine how he killed it live. Sure, maybe some tiny parts were playback, but only during those rare moments when the dancing was most intense... just my take, though—correct me if I'm wrong. :P
I mean, it’s gotta be insanely tough to dance and sing for two hours straight while giving that much energy and love to the crowd—not to mention the way he treated his dancers, the band, and the crew during rehearsals! Michael Jackson... 😍
The tour concepts are incredible—the set, the choreography, everything is just way beyond expectations. It's a shame we don't get the actual tour, but hey, at least we have the movie. 😢
It fascinated me how much effort he poured into this; he wanted every single detail to be perfect. Truly beautiful. 😍 He would never ever scream at someone for messing up—he’d just calmly explain his vision and how it should look, always reminding everyone he does it out of love, in such an innocent, sincere way. 🙂
Bottom line: the movie is amazing. A friend and I actually cried through a good chunk of it, and we're already planning to see it again. Just go watch it. 🙂

Just because they used a backing track during one rehearsal doesn't mean that's how every single rehearsal went or how the actual concert functioned, since you don't always have to test everything all at once 🙂.

He’s got that vibe where he sings a bit and then acts like, "Hey, understand me, I'm just saving my voice right now," and I'm just sitting there thinking, like, how can you even be saving your voice when you barely started singing? 🙂

ruggedmarlin15 said:I have one major issue when it comes to tours like the ones Michael Jackson used to put on. To be honest, I’ve never been a fan of having music blasted directly at me. playback (Well, maybe not to that extreme). Personally, I think just watching the film is plenty. You end up paying about 10 to 15 times less, you don't walk away feeling ripped off, and the audio quality is solid—it sounds like a studio recording. 😉 ... Do you think there's a better way to say that?

We have no way of knowing how much playback was actually being used, if any at all, but from what I've seen during the Dangerous Tour Rehearsal, you can clearly hear him singing.

So yeah...

Let's just say this was my general vibe during the screening:

😢

Content-wise, it’s touching, inspiring, charming, pretty powerful, endlessly musical, and for the die-hard fans, it might actually be pretty devastating.

I don't even have the energy right now to go on about what a massive shame it is that those concerts in New York didn't happen. Such a total bust 😢.

The way Michael Jackson holds himself is impressive; the choreography absolutely kills; and the stage production is top-tier.

But the best part is really his musicianship and how sophisticated he is. Just listen to how he expresses himself when he's explaining things or giving directions during the rehearsals.

And so on.

There it is.

No point, I gotta sit with this and let it sink in for a few more days.

Amanda Lopez50 said:Bergman? Why even bring up Bergman? To me, those two are basically polar opposites 🙂 Bergman is a thinker, a philosopher who uses film as nothing more than a backdrop to broadcast his moral views and deep convictions. Harmony Korine doesn't seem to give much of a damn about morality, and he definitely isn't interested in philosophy as a concept—he’s all about intuition, just throwing out raw experiences he thinks the audience needs to witness and feel first and foremost. Watching Bergman is like reading some highbrow masterpiece, whereas watching Harmony Korine is like being thrown into an intense experience where you just feel things without overthinking it 🙂
Or am I totally off base? 🙂

Honestly, it was just a random thought that crossed my mind, but hey, it's a decent enough starting point for a conversation.

I generally lean toward cinema that actually hits you and keeps you engaged rather than some camera-based lecture or essay. I want to be thinking *after* the movie ends; while it's playing, I just want to live through it.

Plus, both Harmony Korine and Bergman are pretty obsessed with... people; the human condition 🙂. And the quality of life.

Benjamin Thompson66 said:Harmony Korine is solid, honestly one of the best in American cinema right now, but let's not get ahead of ourselves by comparing him to Bergman... 😁

I've never really been much of a Bergman guy myself, but I'd say this hits much closer to my own vibe 😛.

Benjamin Thompson66 said:Maybe Julien Donkey-Boy is actually the better film

I haven't quite found the energy to sit through it yet, but I will, and I have a feeling Werner Herzog—who I'd bet on over Bergman any day of the week 🙂—is probably playing a huge role in this one.

The American Bergman, just better 😍.

Honestly, these posturing types can't seem to think about anything besides real estate.

I'm telling you, why isn't anyone playing any rock and roll?

I'm doing my best to just not think about it.

fadedowl said:so I'm still hoping I might get a little benefit of doubt

Sure. Look, it’s not like this is some massive crisis or anything, but maybe the Professor could’ve been just a bit more chill and reasonable if you’d let us riff on Halid and that whole "Mediterranean cultural circle" thing for a minute 😛; sometimes having a conversation is better than just getting handed a red card.

Regarding off-topic stuff in general, pretty much anything can turn into a discussion point on a thread, even if it wasn't mentioned in the original post. Obviously, it’s off-topic if someone just wanders in out of nowhere talking about something totally random, but on an Azra thread, we naturally drifted into politics, which isn't exactly a stretch given how everything ties back to the core subject (Azra, Stulic). I don't think there needs to be much heavy-handed policing here (not that you were being strict anyway).

Bottom line is, it's whatever.

First off, let me tackle the big one:

what else wouldn't you be? 🤷

By the time I actually felt like doing something about it, it was pretty much too late anyway, but don't sweat it, I'll get around to it today.

fadedowl said:glad you feel a little bad... if you felt a lot, maybe you’d actually care 😁

Just a little, but honestly, just as a heads-up for next time—if I can get even a hint of whether the next thread that takes an interesting turn is going to get shut down, I'd appreciate it, because from what you wrote here, I can't tell if it will.

fadedowl said:unfortunately, objectively speaking, it's my fault for not handing out a ban card to the OP immediately and just locking this thread since it was posted in such a condescending way...

I guess you could say that, but since you didn't, and you saw we had enough people there to handle him, maybe you should have just let the thread play out naturally, guided by basic decency rather than whether the topics popping up—like sociology, geography, or politics—actually interest you personally.

I honestly wish the admins—or whoever’s actually running this show—would give us some guidance on when a thread should be shut down.

It’s kind of a bummer that got nuked, because I poured a ton of time into it and now that whole conversation is just going to sink, even though it turned into this really interesting debate that could’ve actually taught the younger crowd joining the site something useful.

Look, if a mod wants to close a thread, fine, they can do whatever they want, but isn't the whole point of being a moderator to actually manage the discussion so things don't get out of hand enough to require a shutdown in the first place? It feels weird when you let people go on for several pages and then suddenly just kill it—like, if you were already thinking about closing it, why not just do it immediately? I could’ve used that extra time to grab a coffee or something.

Glory fades, and everything eventually turns to dust...

Jesse Sanchez60 said:Afterward. Just like this. Maybe some KSET reviews would be a little too much for you guys to handle. 😲

When people claim something is truly beautiful, they’re usually just wrestling with a messy collision of subjective criteria and personal standards that shift depending on who you ask. But here, technical dexterity and a genuine sense of harmonic balance matter way more than just raw energy, especially since Zero managed to channel all that intensity into this refined, subtle way of expressing those deep, atmospheric vibes.

Aside from being a solid review, this kind of stuff actually gets people to show up to shows, because honestly, who’s actually going to sit there reading every single line twenty times before deciding to go? 🙂

Still, this one line pretty much sums up everything:

Is this the guy I just laid out?
👋

Not even close.

Maybe I’ll be a hell of a lot more careful about who I let in after dealing with one particularly nasty situation, but if I decide I actually want to be with someone...

What happened back then might serve as a guide for navigating things better—and maybe knowing when to bail 🙂before things go south—but an innocent partner shouldn't have to pay the price for some other idiot's bullshit.

We'll see if that Paranormal Activity flick actually holds up better than Blair Witch, where it's basically just students stumbling through the woods breathing heavily onto a mic.

briskhound2 said:They used to broadcast it in four parts, but the American version is just two feature-length pieces—I actually grabbed a copy recently, each running about an hour and a half. There's a new movie in the works too, but let's be real, they aren't going to squeeze the whole novel onto the screen. From what I read, they might even cut out the childhood stuff and just stick to the present timeline. Apparently, this one is supposed to hit theaters soon...

That would be an absolute disaster, though honestly, I have no idea how they'd even pull that off.

Christian Taylor3 said:Then again, you clearly haven't seen 1408:



🙂

Pretty weak flick if you ask me, just zero pacing and nothing else to show for it.

Matthew Anderson4 said:Pure vibes, honestly. 🙂

I’d say it hits maybe 80% for me.

M. Night Shyamalan isn't exactly known for being a consistently top-tier director, but I'll always be grateful for how much I got sucked into watching Signs. Honestly, I had pretty much given up on actually being terrified by a movie at this point, considering I've seen more horror than I can count.

It's mainly that one scene with the news report. The sheer atmosphere—just pure vibe—of some amateur footage playing on a TV inside a lonely farmhouse in a world facing a quiet invasion, combined with that build-up where you just know you're about to see something terrifying.It might even be my favorite horror scene of all time.

All that zombie stuff, the jump scares, the blood, the chainsaws, whatever... it's all pretty weak.

I don't know, I guess they'd need to come up with something genuinely fresh if they want to actually rattle me again, but I haven't a clue what that would even look like.