Often, pop stars who leaped to the big screen have mixed results. While some stars manage to headline seminal classics like Prince's Purple Rain, others, like Vanilla Ice's Cool As Ice, become infamous flops forever ripped apart in online memes. In most cases, the star's input behind the scenes gets deferred to screenwriters and directors to create a traditional narrative inspired by their life story. However, when Michael Jackson released Moonwalker in 1988, the King of Pop gave fans a glimpse of how his genius mind works.