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Summary: The True King
Review: As the true giant of modern music, of any genre, Michael Jackson is so talented it's almost scary. His boundary pushing videos and flawless songs with innovative beats have changed the world into a better, cooler, place. His acts are comprised of flawless dancing with absolute precision in his timing and movements, and of course the best voice ever to grace an eardrum. If his songs don't get you moving, you need to check your pulse. With a style all his own (unlike the utter sameness of todays music world.........Jessica Simpson........Britney Spears.........Christina.........they're all the same.........gimmie a break), and excellent charisma and rythum........he's just the one and only. Music stars today ( like the ones mentioned above) think they're talented..........haha........Mike has more talent in his baby toe than every musical artist of the last couple of years put together. He is without a doubt the greatest entertainer of all time and a really, truly, nice person. Point Blank: The greatest talent ever.
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Summary: Once and Future King...
Review: ...never forget it,Like I almost did. The most convincing shots are those thousands of fans crowding out arenas, men and women fainting during live performances of "Man In the Mirror", and the King marching with security agents around the world. That alone is stunning. What I also think: *"Why You Wanna Trip on Me" should have been a single and a hit: and they should have completed that video snippet at the end. Or was that part of David Lynch's teaser? *There are many instances where the viewer is gonna want to stop the vid/DVD, rewind, and see what's on the screen again and again. My favorites for this are the two seldom seen productions "In the Closet" (directed by Herb Ritts, may his soul rest in peace) and "Jam". "In the Closet" has the gorgeous eye candy Naomi Campbell in it, true, but MJ also does some gravity defying, physics be damned movements. Did they remove some of the dude's bones or what? *They should have put in part of the Superbowl performance when he is shot out from the floor and stands there still for about two minutes (The chutzpah! Superbowl ad minutes are going for the millions and he's just standing there wasting a minute or two in airtime!). That would have been great. *They say "Dangerous" was a monumental flop. By whose standards?
Didn't it do over like 10 million sales worldwide? That dudn't sound like a flop to me. Plus, do the math. A CD costs something in the neighborhood of 12 to 18 bucks: times 10 million, we're talking between 120 to 180 million bucks worldwide profit on album sales...yeah, yeah minus promotions and production costs, you still have a pretty decent chunka change. That dudn't sound like much of a failure to me. *Keep an eye out for Tyra Banks, Tiny Lister, Wesley Snipes, Heavy D and Kris Kross. If you blink, you'll miss them. *The Egyptian group dance on the break during "Remember the Time" is unforgettable. Worth every penny. Highly re-viewable. Definitely not just for MJ fans only.
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Summary: The best, baby!!!
Review: As we all know, Michael Jackson is the KING OF POP! This number-one film was in the Guiness book of World Records as the highest selling music video on '94!! Containing never-before-seen footage, behind the scenes action, unreleased videos, and all are full-length. This price is also a bargain. Pick it up even if you're not a die-hard. It is so worth it!! Dangerous is one of MJ's greatest albums with some record-breaking fantastic music videos! "The Short Films" contains: The Teaser (you have to see it!!), the controversial full lentgh Black or White (complete with The Simpsons ending and the face morphing and dance sequence), The Superbowl Heal The World performance (excellent), Remember The Time (starring Iman, Eddie Murphy, and Magic Johnson), also has behind the scenes (great dancing!!), Will You Be There, In The Closet (with Naiomi Campbell- the best MJ video ever!!)(with behind the scenes action also,) Gone too Soon, (A tragic remembrance of AIDS victim Ryan White), Jam (a awesome video with Michael Jordan, Kris Kross, and Heavy D.), Heal The World (donate to the foundation! It's a worthy cause!!), Give In To Me (featuring Slash from Guns n' Roses), Who Is It (such a great beat!!) and last but not least, concert footage to the Dangerous Tour. This movie is something. You have got to see it. The album is legendary, the beats are ear-piercing and jammin'!! All of these perfect music videos have such a story to tell. Michael Jackson is the KING OF POP!!!!
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Summary: michaels' music videos
Review: Dangerous was a creative and innovative period for Michael Jackson. This DVD is representative of the impact he had on the world with the timeless classic album Dangerous through his music, music videos and concerts and is a recommedation for every fan of good pop music.
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Summary: Bloated, overstylized videos with more money than soul.
Review: Dangerous was the project on which Michael Jackson began to lose sight of reality -- not just physical, but artistic grasp of reality.
"Smooth Criminal" is in my estimation the last great video he'd made, but even on that classic, you can see two incongruous personae emerging in Jackson's music-video approach. The celebrated nightclub dance sequence is understandably considered a landmark in the art of music video, but if we jog our memory, we'd also remember there's a long, boring, glitzed-up, and utterly foolish sci-fi plot built up around that sequence. (Joe Pesci as a drug villain and Michael Jackson the giant robot, anybody?)
Well, on the videos from Dangerous, Jackson let his love of Steven Spielberg and fantasy filmmaking take over, and lost sight of the musician and performer. There are some moments in these videos that are entertaining and remind us of vintage Michael Jackson videos, but these moments are never the centerpiece. Eddie Murphy and "Magic" Johnson hamming it up delightfully in "Remember the Time", Naomi Campbell's sensuous writhe in "In the Closet", and the ripping hard-rock performance by Slash, Gilby Clarke and Muzz Skillings in "Give In to Me" are great -- but they are also always pushed to the back by other far less interesting elements. The worst part is, there isn't a single video on here that uses Jackson's greatest visual gift, which is dance. Not a single precision-choreographed dance sequence (as seen in "Beat It", "Smooth Criminal", "Thriller", "Bad"...) among these videos, just utter chaos with fifty people each doing something different in the muddled, cacophonous dance "scenes" in "Black or White", "Remember the Time" and "Jam". Was there even a choreographer? And did s/he actually work with the director to figure out the moves and angles? These videos pale alongside Janet Jackson's videos from Rhythm Nation: 1814, just a couple of years prior.
Jackson also seems to acquire a kind of visual ADD in these videos, pulling together elements that don't mesh at all. The intro to "Black or White", while amusing in a juvenile way, has nothing to do with the song; the special effects in "Remember the Time" look cheesy, and "Jam" is nothing but a bunch of amusing cameos (Heavy D, Michael Jordan, Kris Kross) and mashed-together shots with no method to the madness. And let's not forget that utterly moronic "panther" ending to "Black or White"...if the sequence actually had something to do with Jackson's message and the song, I believe the controversy over that segment might have been less pronounced. Looking at it over a decade later, this sequence remains what it seemed, gratuitous destruction and lewd, aimless, undisciplined dance moves aimed to shock, and with no narrative, musical or thematic context whatsoever.
The only self-contained and coherent videos here are "Who Is It" and "Give In to Me". The former, though opaque in its imagery, at least achieves stylistic unity, while the latter is a straight-ahead rock performance video. Poor editing spoiled its rock-out impact, though -- it makes you yearn for "Dirty Diana". And in the end, the only lasting moment of transcendence here, and the only piece up to the par of Jackson's Thriller and Bad videos, is the famous "morphing" sequence in "Black or White". It's visually attractive, fun, and helps get across the message of the song. Something most of these videos fail to do; it's little wonder that Jackson's later DVD collections tend to include very few of the Dangerous videos. They really are the nadir of his music-video oeuvre.
And after having bought four Michael Jackson music-video DVDs (not even counting the concert DVD that came with the Ultimate Collection boxed set, and my old VHS copies of Moonwalker and The Legend Continues), I'm compelled to slam those fascistic "Brace Yourself" intros that Jackson always slaps at the beginning of his video collections. Wagner-sized vocal chants, marching death squads, and hysterical masses? Who does that remind us of? That same megalomania, which makes Jackson constantly bombard us with messages of how great he is, is what had eventually sunk his music and videos to such pathetic levels as we've seen in the last 10 years. He never rediscovered the joy of music as we'd heard on Off the Wall and Thriller, and with the way his career is going now, it's not likely we ever will again.
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Summary: It was great !!!!!!!!!
Review: Dangerous: Short Films is an excellent film!!!! Not only do you get over two hours of Michael, you get exclusive behind the scenes footage! It's a must for any MJ fan, I know I love it! I also recomend seeing " Moonwalker ", " HIStory 1 " and " HIStory 2 "
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Summary: nobody does videos like mike
Review: everybody knows how bad MJ is in music but video goes on a whole another level.the vision and of course the dancing are prime time michael.his mind in video is just the same in music it's endless and this video is just another in a solid list of great entertainment from the king of pop.the guest and diversity he has in his videos speaks of his worldly influence. his concepts make him the godfather of video among the many high titles he has as an ambassador to music.
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Summary: BEST OF THE BEST
Review: excuse me its MJ .. do i have to review?
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Summary: a ledgend will never die
Review: I honestly believe that this dvd shows the true greatness of michael jackson. the dancing the singing and the truth. by the truth i mean you can really see what michael jackson is like when he is not performing, he is no freak like the tabloids say he is he is simply one of us.
i would advise anyone to buy this dvd it's amazing.
10/10. from a true mj fan.
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