What the corpus says about The Insider (1999)

The 57 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:33:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ The Insider · craft · The feeling-out scene between two good actors is a Mann staple, with Thief's the best. · "Crosby and Khan and Thief is the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Spotlight · contrast · Spotlight was a hit because it is a satisfying bad-guys-get-caught story, while The Insider is meditative and ambivalent. · "Spotlight is just like, let's get the bad guys with our reporting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Heat · career · The Insider was Michael Mann's first film after Heat. · "It was man's 1st movie since heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:25:21 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Any Given Sunday · career · Pacino did The Insider and Any Given Sunday in the same year. · "This in any given Sunday in the same year?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Gladiator · people · Russell Crowe inverts his Gladiator body into a dad bod in The Insider. · "changing his gladiator bod to dad bod."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:21:45 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Heat · verdict · Mann getting this movie made 34 years after Heat is called an achievement, though Heat with De Niro and Pacino is the true apex. · "And heat, he had De Niro and Pacino at a point when that still mattered and got like the best possible movie out of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:37:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Mike Wallace Is Here ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · industry · The documentary on Wallace informs the Plummer scenes. · "And I think it actually informs this scene a lot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:58:31 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Frontline (ESPN and the NFL) · industry · ESPN's Frontline-NFL episode was their version of corporate influence over news. · "Yeah, ESPN went through this with the frontline thing when they killed the NFL."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Thank You for Smoking · what-if · A punnier title like Thank You for Smoking would have told you what the movie was about. · "Like Jason Reitman's, thank you for not smoking."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Erin Brockovich · what-if · Titles like A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich are cited in the title-brainstorm. · "Civil action is called."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:23:10 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Broadcast News · what-if · Jokey sequel in which Wigand dates the Broadcast News lady. · "Or a sequel where he, Jeffrey Wagan, starts dating the broadcast news lady."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Dante Spinotti ↔ The Insider · craft · Spinotti shoots most of the film handheld from someone's collar to visualize the characters' life-changing decisions. · "He also shoots the insider, but they're essentially trying to visualize what it's like for people to make decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:36:55 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ The Insider · craft · Nobody likes a wide shot of water like Mann, first the Gulf with Crowe, then the ocean with Pacino. · "So good. Nobody likes to wide shadow water like Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:11 · Chris Ryan or Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Tangerine Dream · contrast · The Insider's operatic Dead Can Dance score departs from the synth sound Mann is famous for using. · "man's so famous for using like Tangerine Dream and these really evocative, synthy, beautiful sounds. And this has almost like an opera score."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Lowell Bergman · people · Lowell Bergman is the real person behind the Al Pacino character. · "the Al Pacino character in real life."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The Insider ↔ Heat · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:05:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider · fun · The Insider got seven Oscar nominations including picture, director, and adapted screenplay, and was swept by American Beauty. · "giving it 7 nominations, including pretty much all the big, heavy hitters, best picture best director, best adapted screenplay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:29:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider · fun · The Insider was budgeted at 68 million and made about 29 million, felt like a bomb, and Joe Roth said selling it was like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back. · "when Joe Roth talked to the Times right before the insider came out, he said, uh, in regards to selling the movie to the public, he said it's like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:32:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Insider · fun · Most rewatchable scene nominees: the car feel-out in the rain, the lunch exposition table, the Gulf, the golf range, Wallace at 5:30 am, and Hewitt versus Bergman. · "Most rewatchable scene, Lowell and Jeffrey in the car feeling each other out while it's raining"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:40:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Insider · fun · The golf range scene: a henchman stares Wigand down after each swing until he grabs the 5 iron; the hosts rate the henchman a 9.5 swinger and Crowe a 4. · "Crow's like a four."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:56:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider · fun · Most 1999 moment: Pacino and Crowe faxing, payphones, and the New York Times in the lobby; plus the offhanded Ken Starr reference. · "I have Pacino and Crow faxing back and forth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:01:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Insider · fun · Casting what-if: Val Kilmer was up for Wigand, and the hosts debate whether Crowe showed what Kilmer's career could have been. · "I think Russell Crowe showed what Val Comer's career could have been."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:59:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Any Given Sunday · craft · A Pacino-style speech from Sonny to JP would have been the way to keep Sonny out of the final race. · "That probably would have been the way to have Sonny not race in the final race as he gives a Pacino, like any given Sunday speech, to JP."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:59 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Grouped with Working Girl as part of the era of the professional woman on screen. · "broadcast news in like a slightly different way."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Same 80s serious-comedy wave. · "Tootsie, Big Chill, Lost in America, Pritzies on, or Baby Boom, Broadcast News."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · craft · Day-Lewis learned to make muskets for his method. · "Daniel, Day Lewis was like, I'm going to go learn how to make, you know, muskets"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Insider (1999) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Insider (1999) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:33:01 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ The Insider · craft · The feeling-out scene between two good actors is a Mann staple, with Thief's the best. · "Crosby and Khan and Thief is the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Spotlight · contrast · Spotlight was a hit because it is a satisfying bad-guys-get-caught story, while The Insider is meditative and ambivalent. · "Spotlight is just like, let's get the bad guys with our reporting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Heat · career · The Insider was Michael Mann's first film after Heat. · "It was man's 1st movie since heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:25:21 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Any Given Sunday · career · Pacino did The Insider and Any Given Sunday in the same year. · "This in any given Sunday in the same year?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Gladiator · people · Russell Crowe inverts his Gladiator body into a dad bod in The Insider. · "changing his gladiator bod to dad bod."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:21:45 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Heat · verdict · Mann getting this movie made 34 years after Heat is called an achievement, though Heat with De Niro and Pacino is the true apex. · "And heat, he had De Niro and Pacino at a point when that still mattered and got like the best possible movie out of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:37:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Mike Wallace Is Here ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · industry · The documentary on Wallace informs the Plummer scenes. · "And I think it actually informs this scene a lot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:58:31 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Frontline (ESPN and the NFL) · industry · ESPN's Frontline-NFL episode was their version of corporate influence over news. · "Yeah, ESPN went through this with the frontline thing when they killed the NFL."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Thank You for Smoking · what-if · A punnier title like Thank You for Smoking would have told you what the movie was about. · "Like Jason Reitman's, thank you for not smoking."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Erin Brockovich · what-if · Titles like A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich are cited in the title-brainstorm. · "Civil action is called."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:23:10 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Broadcast News · what-if · Jokey sequel in which Wigand dates the Broadcast News lady. · "Or a sequel where he, Jeffrey Wagan, starts dating the broadcast news lady."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Dante Spinotti ↔ The Insider · craft · Spinotti shoots most of the film handheld from someone's collar to visualize the characters' life-changing decisions. · "He also shoots the insider, but they're essentially trying to visualize what it's like for people to make decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:36:55 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ The Insider · craft · Nobody likes a wide shot of water like Mann, first the Gulf with Crowe, then the ocean with Pacino. · "So good. Nobody likes to wide shadow water like Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:11 · Chris Ryan or Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Tangerine Dream · contrast · The Insider's operatic Dead Can Dance score departs from the synth sound Mann is famous for using. · "man's so famous for using like Tangerine Dream and these really evocative, synthy, beautiful sounds. And this has almost like an opera score."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] The Insider ↔ Lowell Bergman · people · Lowell Bergman is the real person behind the Al Pacino character. · "the Al Pacino character in real life."
[pairs] The Insider ↔ Heat · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:05:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider · fun · The Insider got seven Oscar nominations including picture, director, and adapted screenplay, and was swept by American Beauty. · "giving it 7 nominations, including pretty much all the big, heavy hitters, best picture best director, best adapted screenplay."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:29:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Insider · fun · The Insider was budgeted at 68 million and made about 29 million, felt like a bomb, and Joe Roth said selling it was like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back. · "when Joe Roth talked to the Times right before the insider came out, he said, uh, in regards to selling the movie to the public, he said it's like walking up a hill with a refrigerator on your back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:32:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Insider · fun · Most rewatchable scene nominees: the car feel-out in the rain, the lunch exposition table, the Gulf, the golf range, Wallace at 5:30 am, and Hewitt versus Bergman. · "Most rewatchable scene, Lowell and Jeffrey in the car feeling each other out while it's raining"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:40:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Insider · fun · The golf range scene: a henchman stares Wigand down after each swing until he grabs the 5 iron; the hosts rate the henchman a 9.5 swinger and Crowe a 4. · "Crow's like a four."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:56:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider · fun · Most 1999 moment: Pacino and Crowe faxing, payphones, and the New York Times in the lobby; plus the offhanded Ken Starr reference. · "I have Pacino and Crow faxing back and forth."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:01:06 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Insider · fun · Casting what-if: Val Kilmer was up for Wigand, and the hosts debate whether Crowe showed what Kilmer's career could have been. · "I think Russell Crowe showed what Val Comer's career could have been."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:30:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Spotlight ↔ All the President's Men · lineage · Spotlight was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of All the President's Men, if not its style. · "it was closer to the spirit of the conclusions of all the president's men, if not the style."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:59:38 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Any Given Sunday · craft · A Pacino-style speech from Sonny to JP would have been the way to keep Sonny out of the final race. · "That probably would have been the way to have Sonny not race in the final race as he gives a Pacino, like any given Sunday speech, to JP."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:59 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Grouped with Working Girl as part of the era of the professional woman on screen. · "broadcast news in like a slightly different way."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] All the President's Men ↔ Network · theme · Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail. · "there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Same 80s serious-comedy wave. · "Tootsie, Big Chill, Lost in America, Pritzies on, or Baby Boom, Broadcast News."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · craft · Day-Lewis learned to make muskets for his method. · "Daniel, Day Lewis was like, I'm going to go learn how to make, you know, muskets"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Insider (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Insider (1999) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.