Why did Michael Jackson still want to work with John Landis?

Yes, I'm being anti-Landis and why shouldn't I? Maybe I went a tad bit too far in suggesting that he got Vic Morrow and those two kids killed intentionally and Landis was more than likely high when filming that scene. But that doesn't mean that Landis wasn't at all remotely capable of what happened on the Twilight Zone set.

In the scene, a helicopter is hovering over Morrow and the kids; Landis was screaming into a bullhorn "Lower, lower, lower! Fire, fire, fire!" The helicopter dipped lower, more explosions were set off and one of the chopper's wings was crippled. The aircraft came crashing down on Morrow, decapitating him. The kids were crushed and dismembered.

The bottom-line is that Landis unnecessarily put Morrow and the kids' lives in danger. He practically had no concern for the safety of the actor or the children. All he cared about was making his segment of the movie as spectacularly violent as possible. The helicopter was flying at an altitude of only 25 feet (8 meters), too low to avoid the explosions of the pyrotechnics used on set.

Why should I give a shit if John Landis made classic movies if the man is more than likely the primary reason why three people (two of them being small children) died in such a horrific manner? That would be like saying that I shouldn't dare question the moral character of somebody like say Woody Allen or Roman Polanski because they may have made some movies that people have really liked in the past.

Even if it was on the surface a tragic accident, it's still mostly John Landis' fault. He refused to listen to anyone when they told him it was too dangerous while they were planning the scene and setting it up. Even while they were filming it he was again warned. But he insisted - on illegally hiring the children who were killed, on working them at night, at demanding more dangerous explosions, at demanding the chopper get closer and closer to the actors.

You are sick for supporting this guy.

ive been saying for sometime now but foebane you are one of the biggest pricks on these boards, everything that come out of that fat mouth of yours is utter shite , go suck a f**k u a hole