In a week when Michael Jackson and Michael Bay share top billing in the zeitgeist, it seems only fitting that some overlap of the two would soon emerge to blow everyone's minds. Leave it to a Movieline tipster to find the Rosetta Stone, pointing us back to that glorious day in 1988 when Jackson's film Moonwalker featured the King of Pop in an epic, bittersweet transition from man to machine, saving the world from Joe Pesci and defending Sean Lennon's (among others') innocence in the process. If you've got about 10 minutes -- and for this kind of milestone, you'd better -- grab some Kleenex and flash back with us after the jump.
Moonwalker is available in its entirety on YouTube, perhaps the most grandiose testament to Jackson's visionary prime. The scene below eerily anticipates the Transformers phenomenon by two decades -- which of course won't please Bay, who will probably unearth some new polling data suggesting that audiences prefer his Autobots to Jackson's benevolent man-machine by a two-to-one basis. Maybe, maybe not, but only one of them will break your heart in the end. Goodbye, Michael, indeed.
ยท Moonwalker [YoutTube]