Appreciating the little things: This is it.

It would have been totally amazingly awesome. If only he did at least one concert before passing away. The pyrotechnics, technology. I like the part where they multiply by ten so it looks like a thousand ppl instead of ten. There is basically nothing not to like in the whole thing. If Michael actually worn his outfits and the full effect is there, it would have been his perfect comeback. I don't know why, earth song always makes me feel sad. Thats the only song that i actually feel sad. Carmen feels sad in I'll be there, Bhav feels sad in you are not alone. So i guess we each have our songs. Through this, at least we get a glimpse of Michael Jackson. He repeats these lines, "Thats why we have practices", "God bless you", "i love you'. Lol. He does act rather childish. Its cute. But i do agree on the fact that he wouldn't have liked to have the rehersals published. He always wanted to be the best, as he is a perfectionist and i doubt he wants ppl to see him being.. not so perfect. although he was conserving his voice, he still sounded damn good. lol. There were a lot of favourite parts in the movie. Definitely worth 10 bucks. and i'm so buying the cd. Oh and thanks to Letitia who told us about staying after the last bit where the little girl hugs the earth. Haha. reminds me of the part where MJ went on the cherry picker(thats what it sounded like when they said it in the movie. Lol. yeah. someone correct me please) and MJ was like yeah, michael the daredevil then Kenny Ortega was like, Michael, hold on to the railings please. Lol. Ok. Now, This is it was fabulous, but it let me feeling a little dissatisfied. Cause its like.. incomplete. i want the full effect. mind blowing. ugh. Ok. Now i'll get to the bad part.. There were these bunch of guys who came and sat in our row. I was directly beside and they obviously idiots as one of them thought they're voice was so beautiful(not!) and started singing along with MJ. At first nobody complained. Then he continued for the second song and yelling Mj's "aoooww!" Ppl started shushing him like mad. Then he quiet down. but was singing loud enough for ppl beside to hear. which was me. -.- i tell you i felt like strangling the life outta him. Especially in earth song. I felt like just telling him, " we all come here to hear Michael Jackson sing! NOT YOU!!!! Grrrr!!!" but i didn't wanna cause a fight or a scene. nyeh. I'm a pengecut all right. I just glared at him a few times and he still hasn't gotten the message. GRRRR. I was fuming ok. haha. angie was like saying how geram i looked in the cinema. haha. but he obviously loves MJ, although he's being a first-classed ass. But even though ppl have the URGE to sing along doesn't mean we all just blare it out for everyone to hear right. -.- Grr. They look like pai kias. hahha. After the credits rolled, they were like up near where the projector are and started tossing their shoes over the projectors and laughed as though they have never seen a shadow. -.- but oh well, forgive them, cause at least they love MJ right? lol. Carmen says she isn't forgiving them. hahaha.

Many of the musicians and craftsmen interviewed in “This Is It” talk about Michael Jackson’s perfectionism, so it begs the question: Would Michael Jackson have wanted this movie of rehearsal footage to be seen by mass audiences?

Filmed during a series of run-throughs for a London concert engagement that was canceled after Jackson’s untimely death this summer, “This Is It” takes us behind the scenes of what was going to be a gargantuan show, complete with dancers, filmed segments, pyrotechnics and acrobatics. The footage was meant for Jackson’s personal archival use; only after Jackson’s death did the concert promoters and others involved with the show decide to go public with this material.

Like any performer rehearsing for a complicated show, Jackson isn’t giving his all vocally over the course of the process — he’s figuring out segues, trying out dance steps, riding the cherry-picker and juggling any number of other issues that pop up while putting together an enterprise of this size. Subsequently, audiences who see “This Is It” expecting a traditional concert film will be disappointed; Jackson skips lines of songs while dealing with other stage matters, and even confesses at more than one point that he’s saving his voice for the real show coming up.

Where “This Is It” soars, however, is as a dance movie; to watch Michael Jackson move is to witness one of the great entertainers of the modern age. Inheriting the legacy of giants like Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr. and Fred Astaire — and adding his own spin — Jackson’s dance routines here are breathtaking. Emotional interviews with his backup dancers, who have come from around the world for the rare opportunity to perform alongside their idol, reveal the influence that the King of Pop (who choreographed the show in collaboration with Travis Payne) has had on subsequent generations of performers.

Watching Jackson collaborate with concert director Kenny Ortega (the man behind the “High School Musical” movies, and the director of this documentary) and the rest of the crew reveals a human side of the performer that’s been hidden from the general public for decades. We see a talented singer-dancer fine-tuning an extravaganza, and in so doing we are reminded that, behind all the tabloid craziness and larger-than-life eccentricities, there was still an artist and a person.

The slickest parts of “This Is It” are the filmed sequences that were intended to be part of the stage show, ranging from a graveyard horror show for “Thriller” to the destruction of a rainforest set to “Heal the World.” (Less successful is the “Smooth Criminal” clip, which edits Jackson into black-and-white footage from film noir classics like “Gilda” and “In a Lonely Place”; seeing Jackson in the same frame as classic Hollywood faces like Rita Hayworth and Humphrey Bogart only underscores the damage that was perpetrated upon Jackson’s visage over the years.)

Like the 1965 documentary “The Epic That Never Was,” about a movie version of “I, Claudius” that stopped production in mid-shoot, “This Is It” invites us to imagine a finished product that never came about. To remember Jackson’s singing voice at its finest, put his albums on; if you want to experience his breathtaking talent as a dancer and showman, in what would turn out to be the final weeks of his life, well, “This Is It.”