Seen this video yet? It just came out today. It’s about 13 minutes long and it made me tilt my head to one side and say, “Hmmm…ok.” One of the things that got me was that it said, “Starring Marlon Brando…” He was only in it for ten seconds!! I felt that was a total gyp. 10 SECONDS!! It was like when Scream came out and they said, “Starring: Drew Barrymore” and she was only in it for five-ten minutes at the begining. But I digress.
He played a Boss, I guess, of a mob that ran the hotel Michael and Chris Tucker go into to chase this woman they saw passing the cafe they were originally in. Brando stays in the office while Jackson is fighting with his [The Boss’] even after one of his assistants says, “Boss, they’re fighting” (I noticed the assistant was played by Brando’s son, Miko). Eventually the bar catches on fire, Brando comes out laughs at Michael. Michael says, “I know who you are.” And he laughs and says, “They call me The Bang” or “The Brave” or something like that. He walks away as the place almost blows up. I was pratically screaming, “What function does his character really serve?!” I like Brando, but I was scratching my head.
Anyway…a lot of it was like Beat It, with the two different gangs fighting against each other (except in this case Michael is part of one of the gangs…if they are gangs).
It is probably the funniest video I have ever seen. Micheal Jackson as skirt-chasing tough guy with a fedora pulled halfway over his face is hilarious. He looks like one of the hoos from “The Grinch” and everyone in the video is acting like he is Clint Eastwood. Marlon Brando is unitelligable and his character serves no purpose. The wardrobe choices are just bizare. The funniest part is the long list of credits at the end, as if it was a movie. I just hope all those people were using pseudonyms to protect themselves. What a monumental ego Micheal Jackson must have.
I saw the preview for it. I can’t take him seriously at all. Not as a musician, an actor, or even a human being. He’s like a freakish parody of…something.
I have to admit, I turned it off less than a minute in. Partly because I’m just not a fan anymore (no offense intended to those who are), but also because the opening couple of seconds resembled “The Way You Make Me Feel” so closely (and I liked that song a lot). You know, girl in minidress walks down street, Mike and friend(s) watch her go by, singing presumably follows. I know the pretty girl/pursuing guy theme is fairly common to MTV but to me it seemed like he was recycling old ideas of his own rather than coming up with anything new. The outfits that I saw before I turned it off seemed straight out of “Smooth Criminal,” too.
I believe that Jackson could have passed this off ten years ago, of course, but not now. The biggest problem I had with it was that it was too long, and that they passed it off as ‘starring: Marlon Brando’ when his character had no purpose, like puddleglum said.