Category: Movies

Just watched Hustle & Flow. You can watch the trailer here. IMDb users give it a rating of 7.6. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this movie with the last recommendation from Liam when he told me I needed to watch this. I’ve had this movie for some time and it’s been queued along with the other hundreds of movies that is waiting for me to watch.

You can check out the DVD or soundtrack at Amazon.com.

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Movie was quite interesting and said a lot about how hard it is to become a music artist. The connection with the audience was really strong and the music the movie came up with was actually pretty catchy, even though I mostly dislike rap. I guess this is what you call Rap & Pop, like the genre Eminem creates in.

The movie starts up with a pimp named DJay, where he houses 3 women, 2 black and 1 white. In the morning, he pimps the white lady, where she provides “services” in the back of people’s car. One black lady (already has a kid) is a stripper at a local strip club. The other black lady is currently pregnant, and can’t contribute to this “family”.

As a side job, DJay also sells pot.

The story makes a turn when a bum offers to trade a mini keyboard (piano) for some pot, which brings back memories for DJay. He used to scratch and rap when he was in high school and he wanted to revive that feeling. He bumps into an old buddy Key (Clyde) who does recordings (for church or lawyers) and Key requests the help of a church buddy Shelby who does the synthesizing. Together they start making some pretty cool music. They also made a music room and sound proofed it by stapling cup holders onto the wall.

Do note, this little family is hardly making it through. Drama starts up and the highest source of income gets kicked out of DJay’s house. Later on, the request the help of the pregnant woman to sing the chorus of the song, and she does quite a good job!

All along the story, DJay claims he knows Skinny Black, a big time rapper now who grew up on the other side of town and his biggest chance of making it big was to get Skinny Black to support his music.

BIG SPOILERS! The story continues and more truth is revealed… He seems to have succesfully convinced Skinny Black to give his music a shot, but when he enters the restroom, he finds out that Skinny Black threw the tape into toilet. He got so angry, she started punching Skinny Black. One of Skinny’s minions walks in and sees DJay punching Skinny while the other hand holding a gun. Shots got fired and DJay manages to escape after wounding one of the minions. They call the cops on him and he gets arrested and is put into jail for 12 months.

On the other hand, Nola, the white female was left in charge of trying to get the music on the air. After going to many many local radio stations and providing “services”, DJay’s song is finally aired and it becomes a big hit. In jail, there were these 2 prison guards who takes notice of DJay and starts telling their story of how they’re trying to start a band and if he could listen to his tape. He takes the tape and says what Skinny said, “Everybody gotta have a dream.”

Just watched Wallace & Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit. IMDB users give it a rating of 8.1. You can watch the trailer here. I thought the movie was rather fun and enjoyable, much more than I expected. I’ve never watched Wallace and Gromit before, yet I wonder if all of their works is this interesting.

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So as I stated, this was the 1st Wallace and Gromit show I’ve ever watched and I was pretty impressed. Storyline was pretty simple. You have a couple consisting of a man who’s an inventor and a dog who worries and takes car of this guy. They’re into the rodent capturing business after coming up with clever name called Anti-Pesto. It’s like a burgular alarm system, but instead of protecting your house, it’s protecting your vegetables against rodents. Pretty advance system it appears.

There’s a side love story with Lady Tottington, but there’s not much to describe there.

The story really starts when Wallace was trying to brainwash the rabbits. They’re too kind to kill the rabbits, but they can’t release it back into the wild, so they take care of it like pets. Suddenly Wallace gets a bright idea after being tipped off by Lady Tottington that you can’t change their nature. So he attempts to brainwash the rabbit, but something horribly goes wrong (something always does, doesn’t it). He accidentally reverses the brainwashing machine.

The story continues where it appears one of the bunnies turns gigantic under a full moon and Wallace and Gromit go about hunting it. All the towns people are in a chaos because it appears they have nothing to do besides worry about their precious vegetables and this giant were-rabbit was destroying everyone’s vegetables.

The story continues as Wallace and Gromit work as a teach, followed by a twist which was sort of expected and the finale. Storyline as I stated wasn’t much, but it was really fun and enjoyable.

For some reason, the rabbits didn’t look that cute, but acted awfully cute!

Went to watch Hostel last night with CMDCC. I’ve got to say this was one of the grossest, most disgusting and disturbing movie I’ve seen in awhile. It wasn’t exactly horrifying, but there were some parts that were so disturbing I hit behind my icee cup and bag of popcorn. IMDb users give it a rating of 6.3. You can watch the trailer here. I would only recommend that you ever see this movie only if you have the guts. I almost couldn’t stomach it myself. The movie is really consisted of 2 parts. The first 30 minutes or so was like a porno. Tons of sex and nudity. The remaning hour was filled with sick demented things which I’m not even sure I can describe in my spoilers.

Spoilers:

The story starts out with 3 guys, 2 American college students who are backpacking in Europe and a Icelandic man they met in London or Paris which joined their journey. F*CK! Just thinking about think is creeping me out. It also doesn’t help that I saw a bunch of screenshots when I was searching for the poster images. Anyway, these 3 guys arrive in Amsterdam and you know Amsterdam, pot is legal and a popular red light district. These guys smoked pot all morning and afternoon and then ends up clubbing at night. When they get thrown out, they wanted some girls and ended up at the red light district. Don’t worry, nothing happens in Amsterdam. There was a secondary goal for this trip. Josh, one of the guys, just got dumped by his girlfriend, and they were here to help him get her out of his mind. They end up hiring a prostitute, but Josh ended up not doing it.

So they’re all tired so they head back to the hostel. Apparently, there’s a curfew. It wasn’t clear if it was a curfew for that hostel or if it was a curfew for Amsterdam, but they were locked out in the cold. After awakening up almost everyone by their awful singing and having people throw glass bottles at them, some guy in a different hostel offers them his place if they climb up from the fire escape. So they chat there while a stoned guy and stone girl are having sex. The conversation got to the point where they were talking about girls and how they thought European girls would be easier to get. This was when the guy comes out and tells them about thsi special place in Slovokia where there so many hot chicks just waiting for Americans. At first the 3 were hesitant about, but after the guys showed them the pictures he took with his digital camera, the 3 decided they’d take a side journey to this little town.

Story continues fine. They arrive at the city. There’s a ton of hot chicks just as described and their roomates were these 2 hot chicks that were undressing when they entered and even invited them to the spa. They clubbed and they had sex and everything was going great until the next morning when their Icelandic friend disappeared. The clerk in the front desk says he checked out, but he wasn’t answering his cell phone or anything. They went searching for him the entire day, but couldn’t find him. They were pretty freaked out, but there wasn’t realy much they could do. They decided to go clubbing one last time since this was going to be their last night here. Somehow both of them got really sick and ended up falling asleep with a massive headache. Paxton (the other guy) fell asleep in the storage room while Josh fell asleep back at the hotel. The next morning, Josh wakes up chained to a chair. Ugh, this is going to be so gross. A surgeon looking like guy walks in and takes a drill and drills 2 holes, one in each leg. He unmasks himself and it turns out to be the man they met on the train and at the bar. He tells how he always wanted to be a surgeon, but the board would never pass him because of his non-stoppable shaking hands (reminded me of Mechy). Josh begged him to let him go and he started talking some more and took a knife and sliced 2 areas rather quickly. He then unlocked the chains and walks away. Josh sees this as an opportunity and tries to escape. But no good, the 2 places where he sliced were the tendons behind the ankle and you see his feet rip open the wound. He tries to crawl his way out, but when he reaches the door, the man was already standing there. That was basically the end of Josh.

Back to Paxton. He wakes up the next morning in the storage room and returns to the hostel. Apparently someone had already checked him out. He argues with the clerk which then gives him another room. He tries calling Josh, but no one answers. He enters his new room and there’s 2 females there undressing. They invite him to the spa. He’s starting to get even more scared. Could it just be a coincidence? He goes to the police to file a report, but they said there really wasn’t much they could do. He walks around and bumps into the 2 female roommates and asks if they know where Josh is. At first they were reluctant to talk, but finally ended up telling him he was at an art exhibition. Paxton demands that she take him there and she obliges. When he arrived at the building, he sees a man walking out. Paxton asks him how was it. This man replies, “If you’re not too careful, you might spend all your money on it.” They continue and walk in and Paxton suddenly sees the horror. I believe he actually sees Josh cut open right down the middle. He starts throwing up.

Natasha (the female) starts laughing and some big buff guy comes and takes Paxton away and chains him into a chair. The guy tells him to say something and Paxton responds asking what he wanted him to say. He goes, American and walks away. Some other guy walks in, in a butcher suit takes a scissor and starts snipping in front of his face. He starts begging the guy to stop and the guy actually seemed hesitant and accidentally speaks a line. Paxton knew that language and started begging in that language for him to stop. The guy gets frustrated and starts the chainsaw which he accidentally slices off the ring finger and pinky of Paxton. Paxton is screaming in pain and the man was in a hurry to stop him from screaming because I’m guessing was distracting him, but he slips on the blood and the chainsaw chops off his leg. Paxton saw and opportunity and because his hand was now smaller due to 2 missing fingers, he was able to get out of the cuffs and started yanking the chair until it got loose. The man on the other hand was trying to get back up. Paxton reaches for the gun and shoots to kill. He collects his fingers and sits back down and waits for the big buff guy to come in. He eventually comes in and Paxton turns around and shoots him. If you’re wondering why there was a gun, the tables were lined with tons of tools which allows you to inflict pain on the human body.

The rest of the movie consisted of him trying to escape. He gets to see what they do with the body parts. Apparently some butcher chops up the body parts and burns them.

MAJOR TWIST PLOT AHEAD. SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON’T WANT IT RUINED. So he finds a locker room and changes into some clothing. Some guy enters. Apparently, he’s a “paying” customer. All this time, I thought they were paying to see people get tortured and killed. But it turns out that they are actually paying to torture and kill these people themselves. Apparently, you can identify someone from this group by a tattoo on the inner part of your elbow. Also there’s different costs for different types of people. 3 costs were shown. That included Americans, Europeans, and Locals with Americans being the most costly at $25,000.

This following scene is where I had to almost cover my eyes. There’s another character I haven’t introduced you yet. There were these 2 Japanese girls also visiting this area and Josh and Paxton had met one of them back in the Hostel. While Paxton was escaping, he heard her scream, so he went back to help. He barges in the room and finds a man torching her face with a butane torch or something similar. Her eyeball was hanging out of her socket. Paxton shot the guy and Kana, the girl continued screaming. Paxton didn’t know what to do, so he took a scissor and cut the dangling eye ball off from the socket. *shivers*

He takes the girl and continues their escape. He finds a car and luckily there were keys in the ignition already. People had already started searching for them both. He drives off and the people chase after him. I’m guessing the police were also in on this since they set up road blocks, but it could’ve been for something else too. My intuition tells me it’s not.

[MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD] One of the coolest scenes is in the next few minutes where he sees Natasha and the other girl along with… THE BOY FROM AMSTERDAM that recommended them to come here. In a fit of anger he rams over them killing 2. Natasha was the only one that survived that crash, but nonetheless, the car suddenly comes out of nowhere and runs over her a second time.

One of the interesting group of characters were the children that demanded bubblegum or they beat the crap out of you or even kill you.

Paxton and Kana make it to the train station, but the bad men were already there looking out. While they were hiding, Kana saw her face [MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD] and couldn’t believe how ugly she had become. She couldn’t deal with this and jumps into an on coming train and kills herself. Pretty gross.

Paxton manages to escape during this diversion. He then hears the voice of that man they bumped into on the previous train ride. Paxton follows him and ends up killing him, but torturing him by cutting finger after finger off his hand. That’s the end of the movie. One thing CDMCC and I couldn’t figure out was how Paxton figured the man was part of this society? He did show his tattoo once, but it was to Josh during the bar and Paxton was nowhere near him then. It could’ve been when Paxton saw Josh’s body and he saw the man, but I guess I’ll have to rewatch.. scratch that… I’m not going to rewatch it and just assume it is so…

Film causes wrong kind of horror in Slovakia – “It’s so sad,” said Alzbeta Melicharova, marketing head at Slovakia’s state tourist board. “The events in the film are so absurd. They have nothing to do with reality. We are actually one of central Europe’s safest places. It’s one of our selling points.” Scenes of teens locked in a dungeon, tortured with chainsaws and blowtorches and sold to sadists have shocked this tiny, mainly Catholic, nation that is trying to lure tourists away from the beaten paths that lead to Prague, Budapest and Vienna.

Watched The Legend of Zorro last night. IMDB users gave it a rating of 5.6. I don’t blame them. Movie wasn’t that great, but was fun and enjoyable. You can watch the trailer here. This sequel didn’t really live up to the original The Mask of Zorro, but I guess they’re trying to milk every penny from this franchise. I can’t for the next Batman Begins. I wonder if Katie Holmes is in it, since she’s pregnant.

Spoilers:

So this sequel continues and starts off where California is trying to join the Union (United States of America). Zorro had promised his wife once that happened, he’d quit. But Zorro was a bit hesitant to quit and asked for more time. They even have a son now, but the son doesn’t know his father is Zorro and thinks he’s just some money counting aristocrat.

Story develops and Zorro’s identity was found out by the Pinkertons (somewhat similar to Today’s FBI). Something happens and Zorro’s wife sends him divorce papers. Zorro tries to figure out why and meets the new Count. Story continues and it turns out the wife was an old crush of this Count and the Pinkertons believed that this Count has to do with something against the security of the United States. Apparently so, the Count has been importing in soap bars and converting it into nitroglycerin and was planning to help the confederates win the Civil War. The Pinkertons apparently had blackmailed Zorro’s wife to help them or else they’d reveal his identity.

Story goes on, and Zorro fights and Zorro wins, but with the help of his kid and wife. Happy Ending and Zorro continues to live on!

Just watched Oliver Twist last night. IMDB users give it a rating of 6.8. You can watch the trailer here. The movie was 2hrs long, but was actually quite fun. I’ve never read the book so I can’t tell you how closely it resembled the work of Charles Dickens, but it is directed by Roman Polanski (director of The Pianist and The Ninth Gate, etc.), so it can’t be that far off. Amazon.com is selling the DVD for $17.37 which will be released on Jan. 24, 2006.

Spoilers:

If you’ve read the book, there’s no point in reading this spoilers unless you intend to find the discrepancies, which I doubt you will since my spoilers aren’t really that detailed.

It starts off with an orphan and his cruel life and his chain of unlucky events. They never fed him enough and make him do boring work (although they legitify it by calling it a trade). When he unlucky gets chosen to be the one to ask the adults if they could give him some more food, he gets marked and they try to get rid of him, offering anyone to take him for for £5. Some chimney sweeping guy almost gets him, but Oliver begs the judge not to sign him off. I’m not really too sure why a judged needed to do it. Probably because the orphanage was owned by the government.

It’s funny how Oliver Twist got his name. Apparently the guy that names these orphans has a who list of names to use and he names them alphabetically. When Oliver Twist came, it was the letter T. He has names all the way to Z. I wonder what happens when he reaches Z. Does it start at A again?

He later gets sold to some coffin selling business owner. He was actually doing good here, but a bit slow. Some bully there mistreats him and calls his mother names. He gets into a fight and only Oliver Twist gets punished. So he runs away to London, 70 miles of walking. On the way there, he collapses due to starvation and a nice old lady takes him in and gives him some food. The old lady never shows up again, but I was hoping Oliver Twist would visit her once again at the end of the movie.

He reaches London and meets another boy name Dodger, who is part of gang of boys that steal stuff for a living. They’re led by a creepy old guy by the name of Fagin. Fagin teaches Oliver Twist the art of stealing and he picks up quickly and also eats and lives there for free. He tells Fagin he’s ready and he sends him off with Dodger and another boy. I’m not sure if Oliver Twist is totally innocent here. At this point, it really felt like he was willing to pick pocket. However, while the 2 other boys did the act, Oliver just watched. But he ran when they started chasing him and he gets caught.

The bookstore owner that saw the act vouches that Oliver Twist wasn’t part of it. However, Oliver had a high fever and the person who got robbed decided to take car of him. This man was actually pretty well off and decides implicitly to addopt the boy. I’m not sure if it was ever stated outloud.

Dogder reports that Oliver had been caught by the cops, and making sure Oliver doesn’t leak anything, they track him down. Oliver is living the good life, in a fancy house with tons of books and in fancy nice clothes. However, he gets kidnapped right in front of a ton of people. He is once again trapped in Fagin’s hands. What’s worse was that the old man had believed in Oliver wouldn’t steal from him and given him a task to return some books and a £5 note to the book store owner. The thieves took both the books and the money.

Oliver’s next task was to help this group rob the old man that had treated him so nicely. Oliver resists but they point a gun at him. They needed over to climb through a small window and unlocked the front door. He makes a ruckus and wakes up the family and somehow gets shot in the arm. The bad men take him away and decided to get rid of him. Nancy, Bill’s wife didn’t want to see Oliver get kill, so she finds this old man and tells him about Fagin (not her husband Bill though). Dodger was keeping tabs on her and finds out this and tells Bill and Fagin about this. Bill goes home and kills Nancy out of rage for betraying them.

Both Fagin and Bill suddenly becomes wanted men. However, they still had Oliver Twist as a barganing tool. They ending goes as you probably know it. Bill manages to slip and hang himself. Fagin gets caught and will be executed by hanging him in the public. I’m not sure what the rest of the boys became, but Oliver Twist seem to be living the good life from that point on.

Just saw Waiting… today. IMDB users give it a 7.0. You can watch the trailer here. Movie was pretty funny. It features that guy from Van Wilder. A lot of hot girls in this movie too. It actually wasn’t as good as I expected it to be, but I’m comparing it to Van Wilder, which is really a big mountain to overcome. You can preorder at Amazon.com for $20.

Spoilers:

The main storyline is about some kids who are waiters and waitresses at a grill and bar restaurant called Shenanigan. It’s basically about growing up and ending up nowhere and how life as a waiter is sometimes cruel and sometimes awesome. Ever think your waiter messes with your food? This movie shows it all. Tips are another big thing in this movie. So is inter-staff relationships.

Movie has tons of hot chicks and pretty gross tricks and plenty of insults all around.

One of the coolest thing in the movie is the game they invented where you try to get others to look at your schlong and if you catch them looking, you get to call them a fag and kick them in the butt. There’s a whole bunch of rules regarding what you can do and what you can’t and how many number of kicks you get to kick them in the butt depending on your position you were in when they looked at your schlong. They even have names for the positions like chicken leg, batman, goat, etc.

If you have time to waste, a definite recommendation.

Watched Dirty Deeds today. IMDB users give it a rating of 5.3. You can watch the trailer here. The movie was fun. Basically another American Pie clone. Somewhat better than many of the recent movies that have come out.

Spoilers:

It’s basically jocks against the rebels. It’s homecoming weekend, and one of the kids has reach his tolerance in dealing with the jocks and says he’ll do the Dirty Deeds. The Dirty Deeds is a list of 10 deeds one has to complete on the night before homecoming to prove himself. There were more rules such as only one person can do it per year and that if a senior wanted to do it, he had priority, etc etc. Anyway, the sister of that boy comes and asks Zach to get her brother out of this. Zach has a crush on this girl and decides to help her, but the only way to help save his brother face was by the rule where seniors had priority and he took up the 10 dirty deeds dare.

The 10 dirty deeds were pretty gross and crude and evil. The ones I can remember include:
» Drink beer in front of a cop.
» Punch the toughest guy in town.
» Put “special sauce” into a loaf of bread.
» Bring the gigantic leprechaun from the car lot to the school.
» Bring a corpse to school.
» Steal a car worth over $100,000.
» Steal some security gaurd’s fake leg.
» Find a previous Dirty Deeds champion
» Get a bra from a homecoming queen and have it signed.
» Ruin the school carnival.

I pretty much said the whole movie in the previous 10 lines, but the movie was fun by itself and then there’s the entire side story about how a freshman hosts a party in a house he claims is his, but turns out to be his neighbors. It was a funy movie. Great to watch if you have nothing better to do. I know, I know, I should catch up on all the blogging I’ve missed for the past few days.

Went to watch Fun With Dick and Jane yesterday with harrybons. IMDB users give it a rating of 5.7. You can watch the trailer here. At first, I wasn’t too sure what the movie was about. The trailer seem to say that Dick and Jane were getting rich from robbing people, but the story was completely different from what I imagined. Having rewatched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room earlier this week with Antegra, SueOn, and DNG, there were many similiarities with the Enron scandal. In fact, at the end of the movie, they had listed Enron, WorldCom, and several other companies which went bankrupt for financial fraud as contributors to the movie.

Spoilers:

The movie starts off with Dick (Jim Carrey) getting a promotion, shortly followed by the stock of the company plumetting. Frank was the CFO which basically mimicked Andrew Fastow from Enron. He was taking the blame and Sam, the CEO (basically Ken Lay) was pleading ignorance, but had secretly liquidated all his stocks before the fall of his company. You also learnt that the company had created a bunch of fake companies to take in the debt of the main company, just like what Enron did.

Dick and his wife plays the part of one of the employees who lost their job, their retirement savings and most of their assets because most of their investments were tied up in company stock and their house’s value dropped below what they owe the bank since there’s no employment in that area. People were desperately trying to find work, but no work was available. When a spot opened up, hundreds of employees would be lining up.

Times got so desperate, they had to pay their nanny with appliances (still not too sure why they kept the nanny) and they sold almost everything in their house. It was so bad, it got to the point where Dick had to welcome people into Walmart clone, fight among the illegal immigrants to get hard labor (as you see in the streets of LA), get deported, and finally robbing banks and local stores.

The movie itself had it’s funny moments, but I wouldn’t say the movie overall was that great. It was fun and worth the time though.

In the end, they were able to trick Sam into donating all his money into their employees who lost their jobs pension fund and everyone got a check.

Harrybons is actually up in Seattle for his Microsoft interview. Tonight, he treated me to Cheesecake Factory. Good Luck to him tomorrow!

Just watched The Insider with SueOn, Antegra, and DNG. IMDB users gave it a 7.9. You can view the trailer here. The movie was pretty interesting and dramatic, but was 2 hours and 40 minutes long. You can get the DVD from Amazon.com for only $10.99.

Jeffrey Wigand, Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Lowell Bergman

Spoilers:

The movie deals with a fired corporate vice president of a tobacco company. The story is actually based on true events, though they did say parts of the movie was exaggerated. Russell Crowe plays the part of Jeffrey Wigand, the fired executive and Al Pacino plays the part of Lowell Bergman, the producer of the show 60 minutes on CBS. Bergman got in contact with Wigand and finds out he was recently fired and was forced to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). However, Wigand just bought a new house and new car, and his daughter had asthma. The company gave Wigand and nice severance payment and medical support to keep his mouth shut. They even later threatened him that if he said anything, his family and him would both be in danger.

At this time, the tobacco company was a very powerful force you don’t want to deal with. Bergman continues to provoke Wigand to tell his story and promises that his story would be heard. However after Wigand gave up everything, losing his family because the wife could no longer stand the pressure and threats, having the state of Kentucky serve him to keep his mouth shut or else go to jail, in the end, he stepped out and talked. He did a whole piece on 60 minutes which was going to air the following weekend. However, corporate America gets involved. CBS got scared that the tobacco company would sue them and told them to not air the interview. Bergman fought to his end about how if 60 minutes was news or a corporate tool. He had promised Wigand that his story would be heard.

On the other side, the tobacco company was scooping up dirt about Wigand and sending it to Wall Street Journal, making him look like a liar. When WSJ was about to release an article about the validity of Wigand’s testimony, Bergman got in contact with a friend in WSJ and provided proof that all the information they received has only the surface and provided a more indepth research. In turn, the WSJ released an article about how the tobacco industry was doing a smear campaign on Wigand.

Later, the original interview was aired, but Bergman resigned stating that he couldn’t stand the fact he was forced into the corner like that. He could no longer have confidence in promising the sources he finds that their story would be told.

It was quite a touching story.

From Wikipedia:
In 1995, former Brown & Williamson (B&W) Vice President for Research & Development Jeffrey Wigand provided information to 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman that B&W had systematically hidden the health risks of their cigarettes. Furthermore, it was alleged that B&W had introduced foreign agents (fiberglass, ammonia, etc.) with the intent of enhancing the effect of nicotine. Bergman began to produce a piece based upon the information, but ran into opposition from Don Hewitt. Because of the hesitation from Hewitt, The Wall Street Journal instead broke Wigand’s story. The 60 Minutes piece was eventually aired with substantially altered content, and was missing some of the most damning evidence against B&W. The exposé of the incident was published in an article in Vanity Fair by Marie Brenner, entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much. The New York Times wrote that 60 Minutes and CBS had “betrayed the legacy of Edward R. Murrow.” The incident was turned into a seven-times Oscar-nominated feature film entitled The Insider, directed by Michael Mann and starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino.

Other stuff from that same Wikipedia link above that I found interesting:
In 1986, Don Hewitt greenlit a story concerning the Audi 5000 automobile, a popular German luxury car. The story concerned a number of incidents where the car purportedly accelerated without warning while parked, injuring or killing people. 60 Minutes was unable to duplicate this behavior, and so hired an outside consultant to modify the transmission to behave in this manner, and aired a story about it. The incident devastated Audi sales in the United States, which did not reach the same level for another fifteen years. The initial incidents which prompted the report were found by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Canada to have been attributable to operator error, where car owners had depressed the accelerator pedal instead of the brake pedal. CBS issued a partial retraction, without acknowledging the test results of involved government agencies. A rival to 60 Minutes, Dateline NBC, would be found guilty of similar tactics years later regarding fuel tank integrity on General Motors pickup trucks.