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Dated effort brought back for cash in.

posted 14 years ago by patchesdf
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Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Angelica Houston and Michael Jackson got together to create one of the most GIANT BALLS OF SUCK ever put on film. This 17 minute short cost as much money as a full feature film at the time, and that asteroid at the beginning still looks like a rotating donut crumb. At the 2:43 mark I think I saw some surprise android buttsex. Angelica Houston looks like a Power Ranger villain. They spent all this money and effort into making her like this disembodied borg queen, why the hell did they cheap out on her costume and make it look like she has flexi-vent pipes for sleeves? The sidekicks look like someone in the Muppet factory did crack, BAD crack. This is so remarkably dated and such a throw-away effort I don't see the point in resurrecting it other than $$$.

Enjoy your money you shameless grave robbers.

[–] brianpritchard 14 years ago

Lighten up...

[–] I_hatenazis 13 years ago

You pretty much nailed it.

It was painfully bad and very dated. There is no way that Francis Ford Coppola could have showed up on that set. The beginning was all Lucas with a very derivative Star Wars story complete with a very bad hologram transmission from HQ. The dark and dreary star wars story suddenly morphs into a DANCE NUMBER!!! Wow, I didn't see that coming!

The guards turn into MJ's dance troupe who are good enough dancers to accompany him but not good enough to show him up. They form a perfect triangle with MJ at the point. As the dancing triangle drifts to the left suddenly MJ and the whole troupe stop, snap their heads and open palms to the right to the right. WOW!

Oh the pain. It was as if MJ and Lucas were doing a parody of themselves and Francis just signed his name on the paper.

MJ definitely did better things than this.

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