Featured Audience Ratings

• Anthony L

  
  Everything you could ever want to know about Micheal Jackson's album, Bad. Hard to believe it is 25 years old already. It was the third album I ever bought and it's still undeniably good, no matter where you sit on the MJ good guy/bad guy debate. I wish some of my other… More
  Everything you could ever want to know about Micheal Jackson's album, Bad. Hard to believe it is 25 years old already. It was the third album I ever bought and it's still undeniably good, no matter where you sit on the MJ good guy/bad guy debate. I wish some of my other favorite albums would be so meticulously explored, it really is a fans dream with taking heads from everyone who worked on the album, bar the man himself of course. It probably could have done without the gushings of Justin Bieber and the like, I was listening to this when his Dad was still in school, no one needs to hear him tell us how good the album is but I guess the producers saw it as a way to reach out to the kids as if MJ hasn't done that already. No, I don't mean it like that but the music has and will always speak for itself. Surprised to see it was directed by Spike Lee but it explains why it is so good.

• Brian R

  
  When I watched Spike Lee's documentary "BAD25", I saw a humble, serious, determined artist at work. Lee uses the talking heads approach and well as much as I admired Jackson as a music artist, I didn't find anything special with what Lee was trying to present with… More
  When I watched Spike Lee's documentary "BAD25", I saw a humble, serious, determined artist at work. Lee uses the talking heads approach and well as much as I admired Jackson as a music artist, I didn't find anything special with what Lee was trying to present with this documentary other then to showcase archival footage fans hadn't seen before. For those hoping the picture will talk of Jackson's personal flaws, won't find it in this documentary. Bad25 is about an artist totally in control of his craft. One of the archival footage I did admired was watching Martin Scorsese directing Jackson, Wesley Snipes and dance choreographer Jeffrey Daniel for the music Bad. At times I was hoping Lee would show more and more footage of them but the clips is pretty standard and it's no different from viewing a behind the scenes footage one would find on DVD. Before going on set, Wesley Snipes mentions a few words about the character he portrays. Jackson and Daniels practising the dance moves for BAD late into the night and the well known breakdown of Jackson and his dancers addressing Snipes and his posse like preachers setting the wicked straight. I also admired of Lee showing Jackson's inspirations. From Fred Astaire, Grace Kelly, Bob Fosse, the old gangster pictures of the times, and the Vincent Mineilli film "The Band Wagon". I also admired watching the working relationship between Jackson and Siedah Garrett. Futhermore Tatiana Thumbtzen remembers working with Jackson's in the music vid "The Way You Make Me Feel". BAD25 also provides inteviews from Chris Brown, Mariah Carey (who was impressed with Jackson's acting skills in BAD), Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green, Andre Harell, Thelma Schoonmaker, Richard Price, L.A. Reid, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, and Justin Bieber. Bad25 is good although the album is probably better.I felt "Michael Jackson's This Is It" set the mark. Shamone.