Living with Michael Jackson: A Tonight Special
Martin Bashir conducts a rare interview with Michael Jackson and is given unprecedented access to the reclusive performer's private life over a span of eight months, from May 2002 to January 2003.
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- Cast:
- Michael Jackson , Martin Bashir , Paris Jackson , Boris Becker
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just watch it!
It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
It was all twisted. MJ loved kids but was not a pedophile.Martin Bashir did the documentary for sensational purposes and for the money making. Martin Bashir omitted all the kind things he himself said, but then left it out of the documentary. You can see all this in the Michaels own documentary which was filmed at the same time, and it gives a total different picture of Michael. Martin Bashir only wanted Michael to seem band and odd. He must have realized what this would do to Michael, where he in the end of the documentary questions all about Michael, his plastic surgery (why is that so important?) his relationship with kids (is it normal?)
.... is how journalist Martin Bashir introduced this documentary on this one time superstar , so right away I was expecting lashings of irony and I got it and a whole lot more though I have to admit this is sometimes an uneasy watch .A lot of people have come on here to put the boot into Bashir saying he set MJ up . I`m not too keen on Bashir myself since I`ve always found him something of a lightweight reporter but Bashir is blameless in getting Michael to say and do things on screen , everything weird , camp and disturbing from this documentary is down to Jackson not Bashir Michael goes into a store - Which has been closed by request from MJ`s entourage - and buys millions of dollars worth of junk . Bashir`s fault ? Michael and Martin drive around a track in go-carts with Jackson screaming " Oh stop it you`re cheating " in the most laughably camp voice I`ve ever heard . Bashir`s fault ? Michael tells us his hobby is climbing trees and it`s his favourite thing in his life . Bashir`s fault ? Michael takes his weirdly named children out for a walk with masks on their face . Bashir`s fault ? Michael invites a 12 year old boy who`s suffering from cancer to stay on his ranch alone . This is the same Michael Jackson who ten years ago was hit by allegations of sexually molesting a young boy on his ranch and who instead of going to court to clear his name and be proven innocent of the allegations decided to give the alleged victim a multi million pound compensation deal . How is any of this Bashir`s fault ? I should also point out that as I`m writing this review Jackson`s ranch has just been raided by police earlier today The only criticism I have with Bashir is that he didn`t ask the most obvious question which is this : " Michael if you`re an Afro-American then why do all your children resemble one hundred per cent white Europeans ? "
Watching this documentary on the life of an entertainer I liked as a kid It's sad to see what Michael has done to himself. His bizzare behavior coupled with the way he denys how much plastic surgery he had, Makes it clear the man needs help from a phsyciatrist. It was sickening the way he treated his youngest son by dangling him over a window balcony in Germany, along with other admissions that here horrific. Some people have criticized Martin Bashir because he was try to make Jackson look bad. He didn't have to, Jackson did it himself. When Bashir asks him how many surgeries he had, Michael says no more than two which is a flat out lie. You can't tell me by looking at him twenty years ago to today that he's only had two! Also his extravagent spending in Las Vegas makes me wonder where he gets his money? (I'm not sure owning the rights to the Beatles songbook covers everything.) Michael Jackson is sadly not even a shadow of his former self. From the time he was the young lead singer of the Jackson Five, to the early 80's when he was at his most popular, to finally what he is today.
I thought the "living with Michael Jackson" documentary was very unfair to him as it didn't portray him as he really is. People really annoy me when they criticise him and they don't know the truth about him. People say that he had plastic surgery on his face to make him white but haven't people heard of the disease vitiligo which he has. He is a very caring and loving father and loves being around kids because he didn't have a childhood & didn't experience things that most kids do. It's good that they are showing "Michael Jackson the footage you were never meant to see" on Monday 3rd march. Because then people will see the truth and no edited version like f*****g Martin Bashir. He allows kids to sleep in his bed but with him on the floor do you really think he really wants a sexual relationship with little kids? he just adores being around them. He wants to adopt 2 kids from every continent that must show that he wants to take care of them nothing sexual.Oh my God how can people think that, they must be sick themselves.MICHAEL JACKSON RULES and I LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!