It might be the deepest stretch in movie history.
Because of that, I think The Insider got kind of lost.
Had it come out even a year later, this movie might have done some real award damage.
It’s a pretty remarkable film.
It also somehow pulls it off without anyone being a cartoon character.
You believe all of these people involved.
Watching it now, it does feel like it happened a long time ago…and it did.
This had all just happened.
I think Russell Crowe is a fantastic actor.
That’s obviously not a very hot take but I really wish he’d make better movie choices.
What’s the last movie that people could mostly agree was a good movie?
That came out over 7 years ago.
I could easily see him winning another Oscar if he took smaller parts in better movies.
The Insider was the first of three straight Best Actor nominations for him.
He won the next year for Gladiator and then was nominated the following year for A Beautiful Mind.
It’s in the last decade that the wheels came off.
Al Pacino hasn’t been better since this movie.
He’s perfect as a producer fighting like Hell for a story that no one wants to tell.
We know Pacino can be a salesman fromGlengarry Glen Ross (#91).
But he’s the pulse of the movie.
Crowe is brilliant showing the paranoia and legitimate fear he was facing.
Pacino is the one that always has to be logical.
He really is one of the best directors of his generation.
I’m very excited for his next movie Ferrari which is due to come out in December.
Michael Mann, Al Pacino and Russell Crowe manage to pull it off.
Even more amazingly, it still holds up.
You don’t see dramas that often that tackle how evil large corporations truly are.
Michael Clayton and The Insider are two of the best.
Back To The Future Part III
47.
A Bronx Tale
48.
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
49.
Eyes Wide Shut
50.
The Green Mile
54.
Man On The Moon
55.
Boyz N The Hood
56.
Grosse Pointe Blank
57.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
63.
The Usual Suspects
65.
In The Line Of Fire
66.
My Cousin Vinny
67.
The River Wild
79.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Stir Of Echoes
82.
Mission: Impossible
83.
For Love Of The Game
86.
Being John Malkovich
87.
Men In Black
88.
Glengarry Glen Ross
92.
Die Hard With A Vengeance
93.
The Blair Witch Project
94.
Any Given Sunday
99.
The Wedding Singer
100.
