The entirety of "Thriller" re-enacted with Legos. And I mean the entirety -- all 13 minutes of it. Hell, the guy even includes the warning in the front from Michael Jackson where he promises that he doesn't believe in the occult despite his crazy zombie music video, which I totally forgot about. Fast-forward to 8:30 if you want to get to the dancin'. (Via Comic Alliance)
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william said:
Yeah First and cool vid
JackBauersKid said:
Nice
MachinaFatalis said:
OCD-Fueled fandom is awesome!
JPyke said:
I saw the THS on MJ this weekend, and I learned where the disclaimer came from. Jackson was a big fan of horror movies, which is where Thriller came from, but apparently he was a Jehovah's Witness and when they heard he was making a video filled with occult stuff, they threatened to kick him out of the church. I guess JW's have a zero tolerance policy with anything supernatural. Jackson was so concerned he was going to walk away from the project, but so much time and money had been put into it by Sony that they threatened to sue the everloving crap out of him. So he and his lawyer came up with the disclaimer and everyone was happy.
I never realized he was a Jehovah's Witness.
edgreen86 said:
But sadly, you can't recognize the Forrest J Ackerman lego in the movie theater. Fame is fleeting...
TrapJaw said:
You can't recognize hardly anything in that. It looks like they smeared a half-inch of Vaseline on the camera lens to film it...
NeverPlayedWOW said:
Props for being able to do the dance scene
snarf783 said:
seems pretty fitting considering that according to this... http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/icatalog4.html jackson had in his possession a 7'2" statue of darth vader made entirely of legos, see page 84
MyNoNos said:
@JPyke He was a witness early on, but his religous beliefs, much like nose changed often (too soon?).
That video is awesome though. I cant imagine what it took to complete, I do wish they used a better camera instead of my grandmas cell phone though.
TechnicolorNinja said:
Awesome video, I love it!
And yeah, Jehovah's Witnesses can be pretty strict on stuff like that. My cousins are (were? sometimes are? idk, it changes) and they can't even celebrate holidays because they believe every day is supposed to be celebrated or something like that, so I get it. When we celebrate my Grandma's birthday, we can't even technically say we are.
But still, applause for how much work that took to make.
chad said:
props to the creators who took the time to make the vidoe using legos for that thing is cool. and loved that they kept the rap by vincent price in the thing.
NunoXEI said:
I just cut together a matchup video to see how close it actually came--it's pretty nuts:
http://www.nunoxei.com/2009/07/02/michael-jackson-thriller-with-lego-comparison-overlay/
Erin said:
I feel that my life is a little bit richer for having seen this. LOL!
