Michael's old Music Director is one of my pilots at the company. (made millions with Michael and being a pilot was always a dream of his...so it's his quasi-retirement job) Anyway, I had lunch with him during a training event a few weeks ago, and he told me all about MJ. From our conversation, he told me that MJ was about the most insecure person he's ever known, and would get physically upset if anybody brought more attention than him in a room.

It was cool hearing this guy's stories....whether it's playing with Stevie Wonder, Def Leppard, Christina Aguilera, whatever. He's a musical genius and a savant when it comes to memorizing stuff.

"This is it"...That's a laugh. They'll be trying to make money off his rotting corpse for years to come.

Saw it with the wife.

My take aways were that he did work hard, he had a vision he wanted to share and was a very good entertainer.

As far as a movie, it was definately a fan film. It provided zero illumination on how he got to where he was and why he did the things he did (both good and bad). But then again, that stuff will not see the light of day for at least a few years.

Do I regret going, no.

Would I see the movie again, no.

Dude, it's a compilation of footage from his concert rehearsals, not a movie about his life...

I'd heard he could barely move or sing, the O2 shows were going to be 5 minutes of him tottering around with the backup dancers and lipsynch carrying the rest of the show, and I figured the movie would be mostly fawning interviews and old video clips.

Wrong.

80% of the movie was him performing, without the lightshow, the backup dancers in warmup clothes, only a handful in the audience - and he was great. Moving great - sharp, crisp, graceful - and singing great too. The man was older than me, older than most of us on this board, and he was stepping like it was 15 years ago. I was very impressed and entertained.

He is a controversial person, has always been, but he was a spectacular entertainer and the movie was a pretty good reminder of that.

We'll never see the end of the MJ exploitation garbage, just like John Lennon and Elvis, more stuff will be produced and sold after death then they ever sold during his life...