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• JF says:

  June 26, 2009 at 2:20 am

  Your first sen­tence should prob­ably read “Remember when Michael Jackson did that movie, and he turned into a Transformer because Joe Pesci with a Japanese top­knot and a cadre of face­less goons tried to inject a kid with heroin?” It makes so much more imme­di­ate sense with that addendum.
  The last 20 seconds of that clip are kind of dev­ast­at­ing now.
  By the way, long­time read­er, first time poster.

• Tom Russell says:

  June 26, 2009 at 3:22 am

  Wow.
  I mean, just…
  … wow.

• Paul says:

  June 26, 2009 at 5:33 am

  Joe Pesci turned up on BBC or Sky News last night talk­ing about his friend Michael Jackson and I sat there think­ing “When did they ever work togeth­er?” Thanks for answer­ing that ques­tion. JF is right – I did­n’t expect to be moved by any­thing in that clip but the end­ing had me blink­ing quite a bit.

• Dan says:

  June 26, 2009 at 7:05 am

  You know, I used to love this movie as a kid. Now, as an adult, it’s kind of an uncom­fort­able glimpse into Jackson’s psyche.

• colinr says:

  June 26, 2009 at 1:11 pm

  I like the way that all Pesci can do it shout noth­ing stronger than “Shut up” at Michael and the kid, yet the film glor­i­fied in the deaths of many face­less goons. What kind of a mes­sage was that? Adn think of all that pol­lu­tion caused by the explo­sion that kills Pesci…no won­der he had to do Earth Song later on to atone for it!
  “The last 20 seconds of that clip are kind of dev­ast­at­ing now”
  You know, watch­ing it now it makes me think that he one-upped the Scientologists there. After all what is plan­ning for ali­ens to come and take you off in their space­ships set against actu­ally turn­ing into a space­ship and leav­ing three cute chil­dren gag­ging on your exhaust fumes?