Anyone have any interest in seeing the Michael Jackson movie?

JustDave said:
I remember the group, The Jackson Five, in their early years. I think they were pretty good, and they also had this precocious little kid who was talented beyond his years as an added attraction, and who eventually eclipsed his brothers. But I was never impressed enough to follow him afterwards. But I will give him credit for one outstanding and amazing achievement, the Moon Walk, an incredible dance step.
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I will point out that...In the early 1960's, a number of performers were doing a variation dance move called "the Camel Walk " Best known was Ronnie Hawkins, a rockabilly singer from Arkansas, who came to Toronto around 1958, and stayed here. Here is a video clip of Ronnie doing The Camel Walk dance move. link.

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I checked the movie out in YouTube and watched the preview only. It says I have to rent it or buy the movie to watch it. Booo! :( It was recorded in 2026 so is still fairly new.
 
Aunt Bea said:
No, Thank you.

I would prefer to see an unbiased account of his life that helped us to understand the people and events that shaped his life. How he helped and harmed the people that were closest to him as he grappled with his own demons.

ā€œThe safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.ā€
C.S. Lewis
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You'd have to see the 2019 documentary "Leaving Neverland" to get the dark side. It is too bad if the movie doesn't cover all of his life though. I just now watched a trailer and it was bit loud for me. šŸ¤£
 
Not particularly interested but might. Never have known much about Michael Jackson beyond hearing his music in public places and aware he was greatly popular with mainstream media and culture. Have read very little about his controversies. FM AOR radio stations of my era didn't often play his music. After Thriller, I did wonder about where and how he learned his robotic, popping, dancing style that is a variation of classic bilateral pendulum dance styles that goes back to the 1920s era with jazz jive, swing and tap.


My own dancing, is a unique, freestyle, dynamic, 3-dimensional, bilateral, pendulum, shuffle running man style, I've evolved since dancing often at Fillmore West in San Francisco at Market and Van Ness during the 1970 through 1971 period, when I lived cheaply several blocks down the street. I dance, not for show or some club two person gender games, but rather because it is a most intense, exhilarating visceral experience. Same reason many are in underground Rave and now House dancing club scenes. In the above video, they relate he practiced dancing his style for hours, often 8 hours a day during periods of his life. Dancing a lot repeatedly just like with sports like skiing, or shooting basketballs like Steph Curry, builds skill by neural plasticity processes.

Ordinary people watching me dance, seem to have considerable trouble copying my movements because my lower body movements vary considerable from club dancing styles that evolved from stay in one spot, Disco and nightclub styles of the late 1970s, that then dominated. So most others without formal say jazz dancing training, lower body's become sort of lost. I can effortlessly dance about in any directions then stop instantly, and resume seconds later while hardly missing a beat. So have become a public model for others.

At some video game amusement arcades, they have dance game machines like Dance Dance Revolution, where people have to move their feet to positions the video displays shows. Anyone doing so repeatedly, will naturally learn how to move their feet around to synchronize to music beats, that is about upper to lower body separation that is also a huge part of advanced snow skiing technique. However, the machine styles are far more like Jackson's robotic movements, haha.
 
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David777 said:
Not particularly interested but might. Never have known much about Michael Jackson beyond hearing his music in public places and aware he was greatly popular with mainstream media and culture. Have read very little about his controversies. FM AOR radio stations of my era didn't often play his music. After Thriller, I did wonder about where and how he learned his robotic, popping, dancing style that is a variation of classic bilateral pendulum dance styles that goes back to the 1920s era with jazz jive, swing and tap.


My own dancing, is a unique, freestyle, dynamic, 3-dimensional, bilateral, pendulum, shuffle running man style, I've evolved since dancing often at Fillmore West in San Francisco at Market and Van Ness during the 1970 through 1971 period, when I lived cheaply several blocks down the street. I dance, not for show or some club two person gender games, but rather because it is a most intense, exhilarating visceral experience. Same reason many are in underground Rave and now House dancing club scenes. In the above video, they relate he practiced dancing his style for hours, often 8 hours a day during periods of his life. Dancing a lot repeatedly just like with sports like skiing, or shooting basketballs like Steph Curry, builds skill by neural plasticity processes.

Ordinary people watching me dance, seem to have considerable trouble copying my movements because my lower body movements vary considerable from club dancing styles that evolved from stay in one spot, Disco and nightclub styles of the late 1970s, that then dominated. So most others without formal say jazz dancing training, lower body's become sort of lost. I can effortlessly dance about in any directions then stop instantly, and resume seconds later while hardly missing a beat. So have become a public model for others.

At some video game amusement arcades, they have dance game machines like Dance Dance Revolution, where people have to move their feet to positions the video displays shows. Anyone doing so repeatedly, will naturally learn how to move their feet around to synchronize to music beats, that is about upper to lower body separation that is also a huge part of advanced snow skiing technique. However, the machine styles are far more like Jackson's robotic movements, haha.
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Thank you for sharing this interesting video and information. Do you have any videos of you dancing you'd like to share with us, David777?
 
No. Wish to keep much of the rest of my life and other web forums separate from influencing what I might post on specific forums. There are many shuffle dancing training videos on YouTube one can look at. Shuffle style dancing has supposedly been much more prominent in Europe. And in Los Angeles there seems to be some serious groups within House music culture moving that way with a lot of dance studios suddenly advertising. Shuffle dancing is now increasing in awareness again simply because the intense motion is more viscerally enjoyable exhilarating fun than other solo forms of freestyle dancing.
 
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David777 said:
No. Wish to keep much of the rest of my life and other web forums separate from influencing what I might post on specific forums. There are many shuffle dancing training videos on YouTube one can look at. Shuffle style dancing has supposedly been much more prominent in Europe. And in Los Angeles there seems to be some serious groups within House music culture moving that way with a lot of dance studios suddenly advertising. Shuffle dancing is now increasing in awareness again simply because the intense motion is more viscerally enjoyable exhilarating fun than other solo forms of freestyle dancing.
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I understand, David777. I don't like to post too much personal info online. either.
 
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