Mark Binelli

And I left the theater, you know, humming his songs.

The reviews have been negative across the board.

Critics really hate this film.

I'm not defending it.

I didn't love it.

I understand why people enjoy this movie.

You know, I think I share some of the hardwired nostalgia for Jackson before the fall.

I still have a vinyl copy of Thriller that I won as a kid in a radio call-in.

So I'm the exact right age to have grown up loving his music.

And it's hard to resist those songs and to resist that version of Michael Jackson that was so predominant before.

everything else happened.

I benefited from seeing the movie

after having read this early version of the script, which I thought was terrible, and after having read all of these reviews, which, you know, lowered my expectation considerably.

So I was coming into this movie expecting to really, really hate it.

And I liked it more than that.

Yeah, you became its happy customer in the theater.

Yeah, no, to my complete surprise.

I mean, it's powerful stuff.

And again, it's a piece of propaganda.

I understand what the film is doing, and I'm not arguing that it's a good film, but it works in its way.