Two great movies. The 1957 original and the 40 year later remake.

In 2007, 12 Angry Men was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Only seen the 1957 film. But up there with one of the best movies i've ever seen.

How do you measiure the racial dimension? length?, volume?, density,?
Is that in imperial or metric?

eewwww! Preferably not!
Oh,.. you mean,..

Yes. I watched that one first.

myusernam said...

watched it. was pretty good. Watched the old one. When you say the new one 'subtly added the race dimension'? I dont get it. The old one was all about race too - the second last juror to fold was the racist one. It seemed (i skip watched the new one afterwards) was a carbon copy of the first.

Yes the screenplay and dialogue was ALMOST identical.

Re:-When you say the new one 'subtly added the race dimension'? I dont get it.

Come on mate. I have to spell it out for you don't I?

In the 1997 version there were 4 black guys, two latinos and one very Italian guy.

I watched both versions full.

You said (i skip watched the new one afterwards).

For such a great story and what I said in the original post:-

Two great movies. The 1957 original and the 40 year later remake.

In 2007, 12 Angry Men was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Skip watching either of them is just intellectual laziness.

However I must compliment you in that you did watch one of them completely and scanned the other.

That is 100 times the attention span that 90% of Seabreezers have.